Is This a Sustaniac?

[SabbathFan0220]

How are the swells at 0:21 being played? Is it a Sustaniac pickup?

[Great_Kazoo]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

I'm guessing it's a Sustainer--here's a clip of someone with a Fernandes Native
guitar doing some similar stuff:

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

Thanks, Great Kazoo, that looks like the one.

This has got me considering a Warmoth build with either a Fernandez Sustainer or a Sustainiac...

[Chickenwings]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

hes not using one here...but check out an ebow....that can do those sounds and more with ease (actually thats what was used on with or without you as well as black hole sun).

http://www.ebow.com/home.php

[astrozombie]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

hes not using one here...but check out an ebow....that can do those sounds and more with ease (actually thats what was used on with or without you as well as black hole sun).

http://www.ebow.com/home.php

I ****IN NEED ONE RIGHT NOW THEN

ive been wondering how the hell he did that.

now, on the Radiohead track.. its hard to say, they each have their fair share of effects pedals. I detect a delay pedal with some light reverb. I often use my giga delay and digital reverb in this fashion and end up with that kind of infinite sound.

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

Yay for ebows.

They're pretty fun to mess around with. I think you'd really dig it, AZ.

[Chickenwings]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

yeh ebows are rad...pretty limited in some ways, but so full of old skool analog 70s goodness! If you spend some time working with them you can do all sorts of rad stuff.

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

Nice, thanks guys. I'll have to find an EBow to try.

[Great_Kazoo]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

Hey SabbathFan0220, all this talk about the eBow reminded me of this old song,
mostly at the beginning and end:

[astrozombie]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

He's using a sustainer in the radiohead clip, you can see the sustainer pickup in the neck position.

I thought it looked like an aftermarket thing, I think I was confused with this:

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Is This a Sustaniac?

That intro hit the spot, Great Kazoo. I'm getting more into the textural/ambient stuff and I think I need a need a tool to achieve infinite sustain, either the pickup or the EBow.

AZ, that Sustainiac pickup is the same idea. The Fernandez Sustainer (stock on some Fernandez guitars) and the Sustainiac are competing technologies that do the same trick. Jackson has a guitar out now with a stock Sustainiac pickup:


http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...r-w-sustainiac