Castledine Electronics

CASTLEDINE ELECTRONICS: Magical Mystery Box

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Since I’ve been on a slight Beatles related run lately, I thought I should tackle the Castledine Electronics Magical Mystery Box.   This is Stu Casteldine’s version of the Brilliant channel from a Vox Conqueror guitar amp.  Castledine included a gain recovery section at the end and the transistor-based distortion switching has been removed.  I ran … Read more

Castledine Electronics The Wizard

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From the source: The Wizard is a new distortion pedal, inspired by Tony Iommi’s guitar sound on the early Black Sabbath albums. It is well known that he used a modified Rangemaster to drive his amps, so the same principle was used for The Wizard. The first gain stage is essentially a Rangemaster, using a … Read more