This gadget turns your guitar into a VIOLIN

[xtraspicychkn]

The Halo 2 theme from Steve Vai is my favorite use of a sustainer.

[efim_]

The amount of things you can do! And the expression you can get from it❤!

[BambiDextrous]

That used to be called an E-Bow, and it was invented by one of the members of 10CC in the late'70s.

[VladimirBrown]

Dude! You just sent me back to the 90s! I remember every Guitar Player mag had an ad for these things... so nostalgic.

[iggynub]

Robert Fripp has one in his gold top tokai for all the Frippatronics he does. Sounds divine.

[charlienew]

Purple rain is definitely dope song on this 🎸🎸

[parkedcar]

Can’t believe he played the first note to I feel fine by the Beatles

[ToDeEm]

Guthrie Govans solo on Steven Wilson's Drive Home is my favourite application of this thing.

[MainelyW]

This was the secret to Peter Steeles bass sound. When they make one for bass the Type O Negative cover bands will inherently improve.

[tomvesely]

Guthrie Govan played the solo on Steven Wilson's Drive Home on a sustainiac guitar, apparently

[le_th_]

Oooh, so pretty! For a split second I thought you were about to break into Purple Rain...and then you went full theremin lol

[Snaily]

Being able to simulate guitar feedback like that at low volume would be revolutionary for those of us who only get to play in a flat and don't want to piss off neighbours.

[JJay]

Phil Collen from Def Leppard has had this in his guitar for decades. I think what is in his is called the Hard Driver.

[WeyounSix]

It’s nice to see attempts at innovation again

[osca_da_grouch]

Sustainiacs are extremely cool to play with. They’re best known for their use by Matt Bellamy (how I discovered them), Steve Vai, Synyster Gates and many more. Almost all my guitars have one in them

[munichray]

Matt Bellamy has a sustaniac on his MB series, with a built in harmoniser which sounds INSANE!

[Glaedrein]

Peter putting this on his bass for type o negative was so cool. Loved his sound

[enriquedelima]

You can actually build this yourself by replacing the pickup rods with a higher magnetic permeability material and connecting the windings to an alternating current source, with a frequency that is digitally modulated to be an integer division of the frequency picked up by the other pickup. We did this for fun at my university, very fun!

Edit: if digital modulation isn't your thing, you can use a frequency divider and power amplifier to feed part of the pickup output back into the sustaniac to drive it, now you've built an oscillator, cool!

[BecaSchmitt]

I love it! Learned it thru looking up the Firth of Fifth guitar solo, Steve Hackett uses it, sounds perfect, a held note for almost 8 seconds and ends up with a bend.

[carpediemarts]

Old news. Love to hear you play something unique with it.