Gizmo Sound?

Anyone have an idea how to make a sound of a Gizmo?
Or where to find such settings?

I love that sound of this old thing, that I think Lol Creme of 10cc once invented.

 

Try the guitar synthesizer.

 

I meant an Ebow

Thanks for the tip. I will try that.
But I think I was wrong. What I meant was the sound of an ebow.

 

Some fuzz (not tubish distortion) and a dash of Pitch pedal perhaps (detune). Set up a split: this sound should contain some clean sound (with strong compression) and some buzz. You also need to apply auto fade-in, if you don't want to use the volume pedal all the time. I'd reather use this to vary the split mix slightly. An E-bow can sound like many things, and to mimic it is hard wark even when you play; why not just buy one instead? It's 100€ or so I think, and a unique cool device...
Now, the Gizmo is also cool in its own way - but perhaps more as a concept? I'm old enough to remember the buzz(!) when it was released; it promised 'infinite' guitar. What it was is six rotating shafts with a kind of stiff brush on them acting as a sort of plectrum. You play by lowering the shaft onto each string, while you hold typically barré chords. You got a polyphonic 'orchestral' sound with a definite metallic ring to it, and I never heard much of all the 'fantastic varieties' it promised. The motor & shaft assembly was held above the strings in a housing like on some models of the Fender Jazz bass and also the Rickenbacker bass. It looked - and was - really clumsy, and of course in the way of ordinary playing. Did they ever sell more than ten units? It sounds cool on some 10CC recordings, but...

 

I wrote a great infinite sustain patch I'll find it and post it here later. basicly it was like 8 tubescreamers and some clever compression and noise gating.

 

Hi brad62, I didn't know about this Gizmo thingy, but if you want infinite sustain I cannot recommend Fernandes' sustainer pickups enough. They don't get into your playing at all, and are way, way more practical than an e-bow. Don't expect anything spectacular sound-wise (they're adequate at best) but when you need tons of sustain, it's your best bet IMHO. Give it a try!

 

Give a listen to Michael Brook; the MASTER of the 'sustainer' guitar! His 'Cobalt Blue' album from some years ago is one of my favourite guitar albums overall. In addition to his charactersistic ringing / athmospheric drones, mr. Brook uses loops and delays to great effect (yeah!) too. Thankfully he's a much more aggressive player than the new age'ish drool you might expect ...;-) He has done quite a few things for Peter Gabriel's Realworld label as producer and musician too (in fact Nusrat Fateh Ali Khans internatinal best seller). Some great sustainer guitar stuff in there too.