Starling Dodd
By onezero on February 15, 2026 11:44 pm
This week I'd had the thought of doing a very sparse, Feldman-inspired piece, and very quickly tried some barre chords out under the sparse guitar that transformed the piece into instrumental power pop. Whoops.
Guitar: home-built Res-O-Glas, which probably could use a touch of truss-rod loosening: a couple of these notes (7th and 9th frets, 3rd and 4th strings) are getting a little buzzy. I have three tracks: one for neck pickup, one for bridge, and one for both. All of them are going through the JHS Colourbox 10. This guitar has Lace Alumitone P90s, and is semi-hollow, so there's a particular sonic profile going on, especially when it's direct. It sounds a bit better through the Colourbox. There's the usual touch of convolution reverb send and eq/compression on the mix.
The title comes from the elevation of Starling Dodd in the Lake District, which has an elevation of 633 m. Apparently it's a bit hidden, so not much visited.
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hope your set goes well!