Subj : E-bow
To   : Neall Mercado
From : Thomas Richter
Date : Fri Apr 06 2001 05:33 pm

Hello Neall!

06 Apr 01 01:24, Neall Mercado wrote to Sven Petersen:

 NM> By the way, I wonder how those tubes attached to the microphone and
 NM> connected into the guitar function?  I think it was called "talk box,"
 NM> used by Richie Sambora in the song "Living on the Prayer" and "It's My

The active talk-boxes (about DM 700.00 in Germany) work with the guitars 
line-signal, amplifying it and driving a small speaker with high pressure 
output to which the tube is connected. The tube ends near a normal microphone 
and the mouth is used for building up resonants on different frequencies 
depending on how wide you open it. This is then amplified using the microphone 
and a pa. I can remember that there are cheaper talk-boxes (about DM 300.00) 
which are passive, using part of the speaker-output, but I'm not sure if they 
work that good, never tested this types, the first type is very cool. Tried it 
but it was to much money for doing "living on a prayer" with original effects 
so i used my old CryBaby. Does nearly the same if you have time to modify the 
frequency-range (and cheaper by the way...)

Take care,
Thomas

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