Just re-discovered this video I did in my old apartment in Malmö, where I play a song that I've been working on for a while now..... well, anyway, the kitty said she liked it.... the bits she wasn't snoozing through.

Recently I swapped my Rode NT-1 mic for a friends Epiphone hollow body electric (thx Leo). It's particularly nice for bowing, since the bridge is raised and the soundboard is a little arched.

Been wanting to try out a modification similar to this acoustic reverb for an electric. (dig the '80 french ad style)

What I'm gonna do is shove lots of springs inside the Epiphone guitar, in order to create the same acoustic reverb effect. Acoustic reverb on an electric guitar... love the mismatch!
I still got a couple of piezo pickups, which will be wired to be the tone controls. So they will control the 'wet' balance of the spring reverb. The aim is of course the massivly, glacially soaked Sigur Ros sound. Alas, I think that just requires more talent (or an AMS-16, either one is good).

Will post pics of mod, whenever I get to it

I once had a bass with active pickups. A Washburn. One of those with that Buzz Feiten tuning system. Sold it to Haukur for cheap,... so that he'd join my band and play bass.
But I digress. The nice thing about this bass was the fact that you could play it by simply knocking on the wood. That would activate the strings enough to produce a rather pleasant overtone harmonic pad type sound. This was probably due in large part to the active pickups.

I miss that sound.... and I can't get it on my new Squier vintage modified J-bass (strangely enough, coz it's only half the price of the warwick). So I went swimming round the intertubes for a good active replacement for the J-bass. Of course that quickly became a no go, since sticking a battery compartment and preamp into a J-bass involves work on a router,... something which I have zero experience with.

Instead I found these pickups.... q-tuners based on neodymium magnets, which are quite powerful magnets. They have a much higher output and they reproduce a much fuller range of audio frequencies from the strings. Hopefully I'll be making chordal sub pads in no time.

Yes, I kept the old duncan neck pickup... coz I'm pervese that way. I like to combine the new with the old, shiney with the crusty, crap with the crystal. (and yes, the duncan now subjectively makes as much noise as an ancient neon filament!)