Castledine Stingray demo (Druids of Stonehenge cover)

[HorseyBoy]

Posted in the Castledine thread but figured I'd cross-post here.
Cover of an old Druids of Stonehenge ode to amphetamine dealing. Recorded into Garageband with a Superscope mic running into an Apogee Jam. Rhythm guitar is an SG Jr with Stingray into a clean Vox AC4TV. Fuzz is backed off and the volume on the guitar is rolled back to clean it up. Lead guitar is a Firebird (neck pup) into the Stingray and the same Vox. Fuzz and guitar volume are on full fuzzy goodness. No other effects or anything else - just the Stingray into the amp.
Skip to around 3 minutes in if you just want to hear the guitars:-)



Will try to do a "proper" demo if I get the time but this should show off the sound and versatility of the pedal. Clean up is amazingly good. Fuzz sounds lovely. What more could a man want?

[chankgeez]

Those last 45 seconds.

[John Lyons]

Nice work Sir. I likes it.

[HorseyBoy]

^ Why, thank you, kind sir. I'm a big fan of your work, too.
PS I actually used the mic placement tips on the Basic Audio page when I was recording the guitars.

[Doc Holliday]

Horsey- you know you have that battery saving switch... Is there any difference in tone having it first inline but turned off via the switch? Was thinking if you did a set of like 6 songs but used fuzz on say .. 2 of them could you switch it of via pot to save battery and play the rest of the set with no effect on tone? I know the battery's tend to last pretty long but still..

[HorseyBoy]

^ Was playing around with it today and I turned it on and off at the switch a few times and noticed absolutely no difference in tone. Not even a click when I turned it off and on. Works exactly as I hoped it would.
I also put a Castledine wah in front of it today and it sounded really lovely when I backed off on the fuzz a little. Some beautiful tones in this thing. Should have another demo coming soon.

[Doc Holliday]

Great! Good to know cheers!

[jetofuj]

Those last 45 seconds.

Yep, that is rather sexy lead tone

[HorseyBoy]

Those last 45 seconds.

Yep, that is rather sexy lead tone

Thanks, man. It's all in the fingers
Actually it's probably 4% fingers, 96% pedal

[HorseyBoy]

I've had a few days with the Stingray now so here's another demo of the Castledine Stingray (the song is mine) recorded into Garageband with a Superscope mic running into an Apogee Jam. All guitars (four tracks) use the Stingray running into a Vox AC4TV amp. I changed the tone setting on the amp but it doesn't really do much on the AC4 so the differences in sound come from the pedal and guitar volume settings.
Right rhythm track uses a Firebird (both pups, neck pup volume rolled off a little). Left rhythm track uses an SG Jr.
Left single note track uses a Greco Strat (neck pup). Right lead break uses the bridge pup of the same Greco Strat (because I didn't want to tune another guitar) with a Castledine Standard Wah in front of the Stingray.



I also did a mix without vocals for those who like nothin' but guitars