Club Silvertone

I've owned a '50s Model 1392 Silvertone for 20-plus years. Tremolo still works great. A fabulous little amp for a Tele.

I've got a great 1482.

This pic is from the web but it's the same amp.
http://www.silvertoneworld.com/amplifiers/1472_82/1482g.jpg

There's my 1482 behind my Les Paul's headstock:



http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/AshCaster/My%20Amps/Group%20Shots/groupshot309.jpg



Real cool gutbucket blues tones (Elmore James style). More primitive and dark than my 5E3. Great for lo-fi garage rock too. I put a jack on the back for the 8 ohm tap their OT has (but they never used) and plug it into my iso-cab for recording or a 2x12" with Celestion Blues for louder jamming.

My little brother, the pawnshop employee, hooked me up with this 1484 Twin Twelve today.
All original down to the tubes and footswitch.
I'm going to replace the electrolytics and power cord, try to get the trem working, and swap the built-in speaker cable for a jack.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/wildricechris/IMG_0532.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/wildricechris/IMG_0533.jpg

i'm in....

here's my '62 1482....it came with a 10" on the stock 1/8" paper/fibreboard baffle, so i replaced it with a Jensen 12" mounted on a 7-ply Birch baffleboard...
it sounds great paired up with one of my Archtops....

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/maestrovert/62Silvertone1482resized.jpg

Somewhat modded 1472 as it has a preamp line out and a Eminence 8 ohm heavier wattage speaker instead of the origional 4 ohm one. Also set up with a plate with jacks on it going to the speaker to use as a speaker cab and jacksfor the OT for 4 and8 ohm loads. Oh and a new pine case too slightly deeper to accomodate a heavier speaker.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/jh45gun/Silvertoneampfrontview.jpg

Man I wish I could still play. I had a mid 60's 1481 that was ok. Good harp amp at about 5 watts. But my big regret was letting go my 1483. A bass amp actually but at around 15 watts it wasn't much of one. But what a guitar amp. 6L6's 5y3 rect and a couple of 12ax7's through a C15P Jensen. Great blues tone. Ran it through a 4-10 cab sometimes. Bit like a bear. Miss that "Silvy":sad:

I still hope to find a 1482 someday,I know they are out there.Had a Twin Twelve once,shoulda kept it.
Nice amps guys!

1484 vids..

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Yes, Nat Daniel build some great sounding amps. He started in the 40's developed alot of designs that other people took credit for since he did'nt patent everything. All pretty simple circuits, and cheaply made cabinets, but great tone. Kinda like buying an old Chevy Nova, then souping it up,, with some mods they are great amps.
I think you should call this Danelectro Club. He made amps for other people like sears silvertone, airline, and pioneer, But they were all Danos.

You can see my 1483 in my signiture. I have it hooked up to a 2x12 G & K cab but the original 15" Jensen still works great! Mine was built in 65' and is rated somewhere around 22-24 watts. I've had it since 70'. I took it into the shop about 2 months ago for it's first tune up after 44 years and the original tubes are still going strong. Just needed some capacitors/resistors and a little TLC. It still has all the original gear except a 3 prong cord was installed when I took it in. Wouldn't sell/trade it for anything.

Mine's the baby brother of the ones posted so far. It's a 1965 1481 and what a little screamer it is!!

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/march68/Silvertone-1.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/march68/Silvertone-2.jpg

I think this thread should be locked. 1482s are the WORST amp ever made. If you see one in a pawn shop of thrift store, just walk on by so I can buy it


I didn't just say that last part out loud, did I?

I have a Silvertone 5XL model 1020 , it runs about 4 watts of tube driven goodness . I bought her for $30 at a guitar show years back and did a recap job . It's a one trick pony but it's great at that .


http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/P1010699.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/markothefish/1420h.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/markothefish/1420catlisting.jpg

Yes, Nat Daniel build some great sounding amps. He started in the 40's developed alot of designs that other people took credit for since he did'nt patent everything. All pretty simple circuits, and cheaply made cabinets, but great tone. Kinda like buying an old Chevy Nova, then souping it up,, with some mods they are great amps.
I think you should call this Danelectro Club. He made amps for other people like sears silvertone, airline, and pioneer, But they were all Danos.

I had heard that some of the Silvertone Amps were based on Fender Blackface/Tweed schematics.....this makes me think it might have been the other way around. The tone of my 1x15 1483 sounds very similiar to a 4x10 59' Fender Bassman....only richer. I genuinely prefer the sound of the Silvertone over the classic Fender.....at least compared to the re-issue that I played at GC, (and that could be it.....mine still has the original RCA 6L6s and 12AX7's in it and I think the Fender re-issue may not be the same beast as the original.)

New to the Silvertone Club. Will take a picture of my "new" 1484. By all means, Wild Rice, get that trem fixed.

Anybody say how nice they sound with a Tele? Almost a tad of compression built in.

By all means, Wild Rice, get that trem fixed.

I fixed it and posted a pair of videos! :razz:

Although it really needs a thorough servicing, which I need to find the time to do.

Very nice sound. I assume you made the guitars?

My Twin Twelve isn't very clean looking, but it has an incredible tone with my '52. I'm getting a little crackling at higher volumes, probably need to reseat the tubes after transporting home. The trem works great and is really cool. Never heard good things about the reverb, and it doesn't work anyway, so I may not even mess with it.

Yes, one in '98 and the other in '05.

I got this 1964 1482 a couple weeks ago. It is original. It has a square soundhole. Someone told me that was to improve sound. Doesn't seem right to me.

Sitting here tonight in the sunroom while a line of heavy thunderstorms comes pounding through North Texas. Wind, rain, chain lightening -- it all goes perfect with my '52RI set on the full neck p/up (I have learned here that there is no tone control with switch full forward) and plugged into my 1957 Silvertone 1331. Nothing fancy, no reverb, no tremmy, not very loud (knobs are between 8 and 9), maybe 4 watts total. Just an abundance of warm tone. This amp brings a lot of subtlties from this guitar, and for the life of me a can't keep my hands off of it and will likely experience a time-loss event at some point.

Tony Joe White is the main target tonight (found the "right" progression via youtube). Yes, Rainy Night in Georgia and he's using a strat, but I ain't got no fancy strat. I'm a tele-trainee with a backup tube amp. He says it's raining all over the world, so Texas would count, right?

I can't go toe-to-toe with Tony Joe White, but I got the root down pretty quickly, then on to some melody lines. I probably owe him some lesson money now, so don't no one tell him.

Polk Salad for tomorrow.

I'm keeping the Silvertone 1331 until it electrocutes me or one of my grandkids. Am I in?

Sitting here tonight in the sunroom while a line of heavy thunderstorms comes pounding through North Texas. Wind, rain, chain lightening -- it all goes perfect with my '52RI set on the full neck p/up (I have learned here that there is no tone control with switch full forward) and plugged into my 1957 Silvertone 1331. Nothing fancy, no reverb, no tremmy, not very loud (knobs are between 8 and 9), maybe 4 watts total. Just an abundance of warm tone. This amp brings a lot of subtlties from this guitar, and for the life of me a can't keep my hands off of it and will likely experience a time-loss event at some point.

Tony Joe White is the main target tonight (found the "right" progression via youtube). Yes, Rainy Night in Georgia and he's using a strat, but I ain't got no fancy strat. I'm a tele-trainee with a backup tube amp. He says it's raining all over the world, so Texas would count, right?

I can't go toe-to-toe with Tony Joe White, but I got the root down pretty quickly, then on to some melody lines. I probably owe him some lesson money now, so don't no one tell him.

Polk Salad for tomorrow.

I'm keeping the Silvertone 1331 until it electrocutes me or one of my grandkids. Am I in?

Hell yeah, you're in!

Dang, Chile, that's almost a song itself. Let's see if I'm smart enough to post a picture. Haven't plugged any other amp in since I got the 1484 a few weeks back.


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I have an original 1965 model silvertone 1488 electric guitar that looks and sounds as good as the day it was bought, for $129 from Sears Roebuck, and a 1482 amp that was bought at the same time, still play them quite a bit. This is the only pic I have of the guitar, the red one, and cant find a pic of the amp yet.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n148/jwj4856/IM000419.jpg

Anyone playing a 1483 bass amp with their tele? On paper it looks like it would be a killer guitar amp.

I miss my old 1484. Sold it back in th 90's to fund my first Fender amp. Thanks for posting pics.

Used to make fun of one of the other guitar players in the band back in the day. He with his Sears cabinet and head and me with my Super. He'd be the one laughin' today.

Here's the '57 1331 I was on about. Finally figured out the photo phunction, in a manner of speaking. All except that focusing part...

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt223/chileseason/DSC00453-1.jpg

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt223/chileseason/DSC00460.jpg

About 4 watts, so it will lose a pp contest. but sounds great and it's usually fine for jamming. It's about my age, and looks like me as well.

I have a 1483 which i believe was a bass amp, but failed miserably...i run it thru an avatar cab with a celestion g1230h (or something like that)

http://www.birddogbobby.com/images/BA006-01.jpg

i love it!

Cool Club guys! I dig Silvertone guitars and amps.I was born in 1953 so I grew up waiting for the new the Sears Catalog to come out every year.

I used to have a Silvertone 1451 amp(below) but I sold it a couple of years ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/f156cc24-1-1.jpg

Yesterday I bought another 1451 amp that was on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230389943545) I only have one amp and I thought it would be nice to have another one in my bedroom.

I used to have a Silvertone 1448 amp in the case guitar and I think Danelectro used the same amp circuit for that model.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/100_1203.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/100_1199.jpg

...given it's a Danelectro,it still looks like some of the other Silvertone piggy-back style amps...I've never seen a Silvertone version of the single 12' DM-25,has anyone???...

...I've a couple of them,and when they're cranked,they have a great crunchy sound...very recordable,almost like a BF Deluxe...

The twin twelve 1474 combo Silvertone was my first real amp. Pawned it years ago (1970's) (facepalm). I've seen one since, all beat up. If I see another one I just might pick it up for old time's sake.

Here's a Silvertone site in case some haven't seen it. Cool:
http://silvertoneworld.net/amps_60s.html

I just missed the Silvertone that Jack White plays (6-10") for $75 on CL.Someone beat me to it.

Cool Club guys! I dig Silvertone guitars and amps.I was born in 1953 so I grew up waiting for the new the Sears Catalog to come out every year.

I used to have a Silvertone 1451 amp(below) but I sold it a couple of years ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/f156cc24-1-1.jpg

Yesterday I bought another 1451 amp that was on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230389943545) I only have one amp and I thought it would be nice to have another one in my bedroom.

I used to have a Silvertone 1448 amp in the case guitar and I think Danelectro used the same amp circuit for that model.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/100_1203.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/fuzztone65/Silvertone/100_1199.jpg

Seeing the "1448" sure brought back memories. Two friends of mine had those when I was in grade school and I thought those were the coolest things ever made. They also sounded great.

I have a Silvertone 5XL model 1020 , it runs about 4 watts of tube driven goodness . I bought her for $30 at a guitar show years back and did a recap job . It's a one trick pony but it's great at that .


http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/P1010699.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/markothefish/1420h.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/markothefish/1420catlisting.jpg

I have a 5XL just like that.

Keep in mind that these are extremely dangerous amps. They don't use a power transformer and should only be used with an isolation transformer, preferably permanently installed!

I have a 1391 (looks just like the 1451 pictured above) that I picked up last year - it wasn't working and in the process of repairing it I converted the circuit to add another gain stage with 12AX7 in place of the 6AU6. The circuit is now more like Champ, but using all of the Silvertone components. Once I fired it up I was blown away by the tone of the flimsy 8" alnico speaker.

Hello Everyone. I'm new to this thread. I just wanted to say that My Guitar career started off at age five. When I first laid my eyes upon my Fathers Danelectro Pro 1 , And Danelectro Cadet Amplifier. Of course I didn't know Anything about these things at the time other than it was a guitar, and it was absolutely The COOLEST thing I had ever seen.
Forty years later I still play, and I still feel that connection and inspiration that I experienced that day. Dad passed away several years ago. And the guitar and amp are now mine. I have them mounted on the wall in my basement studio. I see them every day, And I play the guitar from time to time. The Amp needs a complete rebuild and is no longer safe to use. But they both hold a very dear place in my heart.
I also have a 1484 head that I used many times over the years with several bands. I've used it to push single twelves, 4x12's, and 1x15 cabinets. It needs recapped these days. But it was always a great sounding head with plenty of punch.

Sold my 1484, but it came to life with new caps.

My little brother, the pawnshop employee, hooked me up with this 1484 Twin Twelve today.
All original down to the tubes and footswitch.
I'm going to replace the electrolytics and power cord, try to get the trem working, and swap the built-in speaker cable for a jack.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/wildricechris/IMG_0532.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/wildricechris/IMG_0533.jpg


Dang, that is sweet! Awesome. Enjoy it.

Dang, that is sweet! Awesome. Enjoy it.

Sold it to fund my "new" 1937 Gibson L-7. :mrgreen:

I want to join this club some day when I find a 1481. . .haven't seen one around for awhile though. .

Had a 1484 years ago while in my first band. Sounded great but I couldn't wait to get enough $$ for a real amp like a Twin or Marshall. One time we were playing an it died. Smoke was coming out the back. I got a Twin an never looked back.
Sure wish I had that 1484 now. It sounded great. I keep seeing them. Saw Jack White on TV today playing some fest in England. He was going through two of those. Saw LeAnn Rymes on Letterman a while ago. Her guy had one too. Among other things, that thing could nail the Ronnie Wood Faces sound.
Also had a little 1/2 tweed-1/2 fake alligator skin little tweed type no name amp that I found out later was a Silvertone. That was a dream for recording, especially for slide.

Besides my 5Xl, I have this 1966 1482 (and 1963 1420 guitar). They're both all original and sound and play great!
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpics/10467/Silvertone_002.jpg

To be honest, one of the things I loved about Silvertone amps was that had this reverse snob appeal thing going for them. Jack White effectively killed that off by making them fashionable (as well as driving prices up).

I remember drooling over the pages of those Sears catalogs when they would come in and have owned a few Silvertone amps, starting with a guitar and amp in case, down through the decades and still keep a 1484 Twin around the house.

For me the key to getting the best sound possible out of the Twin Twelve is to run the guitar into the second channel and use a jumper cable between the first and second channels - something a friend who owned a Vox showed me back in the early 1970s.

I joined a while back with my 1483, but i just scored a 1484 on c-list for $400 with matching cab and original speakers! i'll post pics soon!

I rebuilt the cab for my 1432 out of pine. Added a handle from a Webcor recorder. Sweet sounding.
http://harmony.demont.net/myharmonies/Jaybird/Silvertone_1432.jpg

I have a 60's 1465 transitor amp, with the 6 10" jensen speakers. It is great for tele playing. I have rebuilt the speaker cabs ( I now have two with three speakers in each) built out of ash. sounds great, but sometimes I do pick up police radios.

Jaybird that is a sweet looking cabinet!! Did you use solid pine? and did you do finger joints. I'd love to know more about that handiwork. . .it has a really groovy classic look. .

lareplus.....Thanks...I used solid pine for the cabinet. The joits are not fingerjoints, however they are screwed, glues and reinforced with inside 1x1 blocks. I used dowels cut in half to achieve the rounded top and bottom fronts. It is sprayed with a number of coats metalic paint.

looks really excellent! where did you find that classic grill cloth, that is perfect for the look of the cabinet. . .really looks like something out of the 50s!

the 1481 and its Airline twin brother version, a couple 1482's, a 1954 model 1340, a 1957 model 1394 and yesterday got a really nice 1965 model 1482.
Needs filter caps at least.

looks really excellent! where did you find that classic grill cloth, that is perfect for the look of the cabinet. . .really looks like something out of the 50s!

lareplus...That is the original grillcloth. It was rather ratty looking, so I painted it .

My SilverStack!

Guitars--->Vox wah->H.B.E.->Double Muff->DD-3 (which has 2 outputs)-one goes into the 1484 (w/ original cab and Jensens), the other goes into the EHX Wiggler->Bad Monkey->Boss SD1 into the 1483 with a 1x12 cab with a Celestion g12h30.

It sounds huge. Love it!

Found this 1484 in the trash about 13 years ago. Just got it back from my cousin, who has had it for most of that time. Still needs a cap job, 3 prong cord, T.L.C.. Still sounds great, loads of sustain. My "Sympathy For The Devil" amp. No one near me to do any work on it. Reno is closest, I called Bizarre Guitar, but the longtime amp tech died, and they don't do anymore amp work.
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Found this 1484 in the trash about 13 years ago. Just got it back from my cousin, who has had it for most of that time. Still needs a cap job, 3 prong cord, T.L.C.. Still sounds great, loads of sustain. My "Sympathy For The Devil" amp. No one near me to do any work on it. Reno is closest, I called Bizarre Guitar, but the longtime amp tech died, and they don't do anymore amp work.
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/medium/pics_592.jpg

May need a road trip to get the 1484 a little TLC. Fortunate up here that lots of tube amp people are around and are familiar with the Silvertones. Also nice thing about the Silvertones is they usually don't need much work. After some resistors, capacitors, caps and a three prong my 1483 was good to go with the original RCA tubes working fine. Is the 1484 a 60 watt amp? I found out the 1483 is rated at 22 watts. I originally thought is was more than that.

When I wanted to learn to play the guitar, my step dad gave me this guitar. It is a 1966 Silvertone H 1454L, that he bought at the local Sears store. I hated this guitar and always dreamed of a "real" guitar. But the adults loved this guitar and gave so many complements, that I never got rid of it. All these years later, I am so glad I've kept it.

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/536/medium/Silvertone_1.jpg

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/536/medium/Silvertone_2.jpg

Regarding the Silvertone 1471 model, does anyone know what tube line-up the amp has?

Well ya'll inspired me and I have had my 1484 Twin Twelve resurrected. Back from the dead and ready to party.

Regarding the Silvertone 1471 model, does anyone know what tube line-up the amp has?


6V6GT, 12AX7, 6X4

http://www.schematicheaven.com/bargainbin/silvertone_1471.pdf

Finally got mine! Makes some rude noises occasionally, will have to go though it. But sounds good overall.

Here's a Dano DM-25 that a friend left with me to store.Hadn't worked in many years and sat in the shed for several years more.Had it fixed up and it has that cheap-chic sound nailed.

A '66-ish 1482 and a '55-ish 1333.

-Scott

My baby - Ive cleaned 'er up a bit since this picture was taken. 52184

Just brought home a 1481.

The little sucker is so loud and the tone... wow.

It murders my Champ RI with a Jensen MOD speaker. No comparison at all. The Champ sounds like it's going to explode when cranked (great clean tones, though), but this old amp with a nasty cardboard-like cabinet is tone heaven for me, cranked or clean!

Now i have to learn how to swap out the 2 prong cord with a 3 prong one, and get rid of the death cap (if any). Or maybe get someone to do it for me. Any advice from fellow 1481 owners out there?

So I just bought a 1965 Silvertone 1485 with the original cab - all six of the speakers are the original Jensens. It's a beast and a great amp. The bass BOOMS and sustains for days. I guess I was expecting a little more break up. I have the volume at 10 and, while it's crunchy, it's not that crunchy. Is this how it goes or might something be wrong?

Question #2 is: I paid 400 for it, 550 after shipping. Was this a fair price? What is the 1485 worth?

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Nice. Isn't this one of the amps Jack White uses? I quite fancy getting my hands on one of the small ones they made, the 1482.

Maybe Club Silvertone is dead...

Not completely. If you love the amp, i would say the price doesn't matter (within reason). Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I was lookin up my 1482 today and found somebody payin nearly 300 for a 1481 with the square face. I would also say that once that thing gets hot it should give you some more growl, but thats true of most or all tube amps from what I've heard. If it sounds neutered somethin might be wrong. All my opinion, by no means an expert.
Now back to why I'm here in the first place (not an expert). Said 1482 is makin a wa wa sound like you hear in your head when your drunk, (When I'm not drunk) and also the tremelo doesn't seem to be workin quite right. Maybe I just didn't let it heat up enough to burn off the cobwebs? I've done a little research, but after openin her up I'm a little intimidated. Is this something I can troubleshoot and fix, or should I see a doctor? Also, should I add a three prong plug? Would it be better to mod it into a head and just build a new cabinet? Should I go back to just listening to music?
I've had her for a few years now, and only recently got into the electrics and gear habit and realized, "Hey, I got a tube amp thats pretty sweet" and I was like "pretty yeah!" Now I can't live with out it in some form.
And one more log for the fire, have any of you guysgals had to find the foot switch for your 1482s? How hard was that?

Glad to meet ya.

So I just bought a 1965 Silvertone 1485 with the original cab - all six of the speakers are the original Jensens. It's a beast and a great amp. The bass BOOMS and sustains for days. I guess I was expecting a little more break up. I have the volume at 10 and, while it's crunchy, it's not that crunchy. Is this how it goes or might something be wrong?

Question #2 is: I paid 400 for it, 550 after shipping. Was this a fair price? What is the 1485 worth?

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Here's a link in a recent CL add in Portland:

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/msg/1942672985.html

Dunno if they are worth that much but that's the only one I have seen as of late. 120 watts!....and apparently this is the one that Jack White uses. I'm surprised you can dial it to ten without bringing down walls. May need to have a tube amp tech check it over. Great amp though.

Silvertone 1474 Twin Twelve
Got it in a yard sale in 1991 for $35 :shock:
Just got it back from my amp tech. This thing rocks :lol:
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Am I the only one with a 1481?

Try to spot it in this pic...

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_JIygYbq08Cw/TGsLEiADUrI/AAAAAAAADj4/z8VXl3JrKIQ/s912/000_0317.JPG

I have a small batch of Silvertones: A 1484 that's my main gigging amp, a 1464 that lives in the rehearsal space, and a 1484 head that is currently in need of repair. I also have an unloaded 1465 cabinet (the 6x10 one) in my basement, waiting for the day I have an unexpected windfall and can buy 6 10" Jensens...) I'd love to pick up some of the smaller amps. The rhythm guitarist in my band also uses a 1484 head (through a 2x10 cab) and another guy we play with occasionally also has a 1484. I think we all bought 'em in the early-mid 90s when you could pick them up for less than a hundred bucks. Freakin' Jack White...:cool:


The main 1484, from a session circa 2001:
http://toxicbag.com/evil/images/gtramp.jpg

Only took about 16 months to finally get around to posting pics of the Model 1392. Dime it and it's like a rawer, darker Deluxe...yowza!

My camera's broken at the moment, so no pics, but I've been rocking a 1483 for years. It's in rough shape, but it sounds amazing. Especially with a Tele!

I have 3 1484 Twin Twelves, all with original Jensens and one with original tubes. They all sound great and there's nothing like rolling one out to a gig with a LP Special, an Echoplex and a Fender outboard reverb tank!! Jump the #2 input of the vibrato channel into #1 input of the normal channel for more grind--or use an A/B/Both pedal into both #1 inputs and use the "Both" for a boost/gain pedal. Changing V1 w/a 5751 is a nice tonal change-gets a smoother, earlier breakup.

Found this 1484 in the trash about 13 years ago. Just got it back from my cousin, who has had it for most of that time. Still needs a cap job, 3 prong cord, T.L.C.. Still sounds great, loads of sustain. My "Sympathy For The Devil" amp. No one near me to do any work on it. Reno is closest, I called Bizarre Guitar, but the longtime amp tech died, and they don't do anymore amp work.
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/medium/pics_592.jpg

Contact Skip Simmons amp repair over in Californny!

I'm in with a 1483 I just traded for. Having worked on this amp years ago, I knew how good it sounded. The rear baffle is missing so I'll have to make one. One 5881 was bad; other than that everything checks out good. I replaced all electrolytics except the can. I'm having trouble finding a 1" diameter replacement. I might have to mickey mouse something.

I'm in with a 1483 I just traded for. Having worked on this amp years ago, I knew how good it sounded. The rear baffle is missing so I'll have to make one. One 5881 was bad; other than that everything checks out good. I replaced all electrolytics except the can. I'm having trouble finding a 1" diameter replacement. I might have to mickey mouse something.

An amp tech up here said the only mod he would make to the 1483 is to replace the baffle so this may back handedly be a good thing. I also still have the original tubes. I kept mine as is except to replace the AC cord with a 3 prong and also added a 2x12 cab to plug into it. I also run a "Blonde" tech-21 pedal in front of it which makes this Fender sounding amp even sound more Fendery.

I've been working on the 1483 the last few days. I added a 50μF/50V bypass cap to the 6L6's 270Ω cathode resistor. I made a new back cover and left the rear ported like the original. I had already installed a speaker jack when I worked on this amp before. I found it sounds better with the speaker choke hooked up. I'm running some old USA made #7 Groove Tube 6L6's that are strong and punchy. The phase inverter tube tested a bit weak so I have an order in with Antique Electronics for a clear top RCA.
Televised, I agree this is a Fendery sounding amp. The amp is loud and sweet, with very little hum, so I'm thinking there is still some life left in the filter cap can. I'm satisfied with the trade I made.

Silvertone 4707 6 watt bass/organ amp I bought for 80.00. I turned it into a "Tweed Vibrochamp". Has the old school pitch shifting vibrato. Very retro with the legs attached, like something from the old Dick Van Dyke show.

Basically, reworked the preamp section with 100k plate loads and 1500 cathode resistors and added 25uf/50v bypass caps. Replaced coupling caps for guitar and removed a cap on the power tube that sent all higher freqs. to the control grid. Replaced the original 12 inch speaker with a used Weber vintage series alnico I found cheap on CL.

It had "0" gain when I started and you could barely here anything but the low "E" string before I started. Now it screams midrangey tweed!!!

Amazing the tone you can get out of these things and who would of thunk that these old Sears amps can still make their mark. I get a kick out of the looks I get from people when they see the amp and then the looks I get from the same people when they hear the amp after I power on.
Good luck "InyoTim" & "alnicopu" on your continued Silvertone quest!

An amp tech up here said the only mod he would make to the 1483 is to replace the baffle
I had a bit of a rattle, so I decided to check the tightness of the speaker nuts. This was about the only thing I hadn't checked out. One stud was pulled right out of the particle board baffle. The rest were loose and the particle board was bulged out at every speaker stud so that the gasket wasn't sealing. I pulled the baffle and made a new one out of 3/4" ply. I barely got the old baffle out; now the new thicker one won't go back in. I'm still trying to figure out what to do.

Here is the best sounding of my Twin Twelves, all original and a monster!
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It's a 1963 and I got it from an old man in Purcellville, VA for $100 in 1993.

Here is the best sounding of my Twin Twelves, all original and a monster!
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It's a 1963 and I got it from an old man in Purcellville, VA for $100 in 1993.

Fantastic! I bought both of mine in the mid-90s as well, for about that same money. How did you determine it was a '63?

The man still had the receipt! I lost it a few years ago when my garage got hit by a tree.

Joined the Silvertone club this week. I was given a 1484 Twin Twelve by a friend. It needs a recap but sounds very nice. Even came with the original foot switch. The only thing that is not original are the tubes and two capacitors inside the head.

Just took it for a quick spin and it sounds very nice with my Epi Dot. Tomorrow, the Tele! :cool:

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nice!

Guitar Denter has one for "only" $1099. Silvertone Twin Twelve 1484 (http://www.guitarcenter.com/In-Store-Used-VINTAGE-SILVERTONE-TWIN-TWELVE-1484-2X12-PIGGYBACK-234-7-5-063010-105864356-i1581578.gc)

I just purchased a 1471 that i hope to record with. I am planning on adding new tubes and caps, but also an external speaker in an iso cab (It's still a little too much when it's turned up). What kind of speaker should I get. I was looking at a Weber, bit they don't make a 12'' 4 ohm.

I believe all (or nearly all) Weber speakers are available in 4 ohms. I know I own two (12" California and 8" P8Q (now renamed 8A125)).

Just checked, the Signature series are not.

I'd be looking at a 12A125A with that amp if you're set on a 12".

Thanks for the tip on Webers. I only looked for them via music gear sites and didn't see the complete line of speakers they have. Both the 12A125a and the 12A125-O look appealing. In fact, they come in 3.2 ohms which is the exact spec on the amp.

Also,I was thinking a 12'' would be the best sounding, but if you have another opinion I would like to hear it. The amp has an 8'' in it that sounds pretty good. I could go with an 8'' or 10'' in the iso cab.

The 8A125 in my '56 Princeton is one of the best speakers I've played. I got a 10A125 for my '64 Princeton, and it is fantastic as well. The 12A125A is the closest 12" to those two, but I have not heard one. I was not particularly thrilled by the 12A100T and 12A150A, which I have owned.

Picked this pair up recently,on the cheap,under $400 for both. Fantastic tone from the Danelectro DM10,nicest trem of all my amps. Probably would have cost more if it said Silvertone on it.Go figure.

Add this to the list! An all original 1482 from 1965! The original Silvertone tubes tested strong...needless to say I am pumped!

Done a couple of these now....just converted it to 240V, changed the caps and input jacks everything else is stock even the tubes, run it through a 1960 P12Q....beautiful!!!

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Got a RiffRaff tdprier showing off a new, and I mean new, 1482 over at Amp Central. Still got the original box. It's sweet.

He should be heading this way.

This summer I was on the hunt for a Deluxe Reverb. I was searching Craigslist night & day hoping to see one come up. My persistance paid off, one morning I came across a listing for a Silvertone 1482. Lucky for me it was listed in the electronics section so it was missed by all the vintage amp hounds. It seemed to be basically the same thing that I was looking for so I contacted the seller. He told me he had found it while cleaning out the home of a relative that had passed away. He said it was in a spare bedroom that was used as a storage area. He said he grabbed a box thinking he could use it to pack and found the amp inside it. I told him I was very interested and would be by in the morning to see it. What I found when I got there was even more than I hoped for.

This is the box he was talking about.

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How often do you see a vintage piece of equipment in it's original packaging? I never have up until this point. Tube, baffle board and speaker date codes all confirm it to be a '65. The amp looks like new. I have to keep reminding myself it's 46 years old.

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Point to point wired......

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....with pride, I wonder where "JB" is today.

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Fresh Silvertone labeled RCAs throughout

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It sounds just as good as it looks too. Here are some clips of it.

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The amp basically sat in it's original box for the last 46 years. It's definitely not something you find very often. The TV style box is so different and cool looking and the amp sounds amazing. It's the perfect little backseat jam amp. It's dead quiet and as punchy and alive sounding as a brand new amp.

You're my new tone hero.

Luckily, I also have a Silvertone (1481). Sweet little machines...

Done a couple of these now....just converted it to 240V, changed the caps and input jacks everything else is stock even the tubes, run it through a 1960 P12Q....beautiful!!!

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That is just so cool it makes me want to look for a beater to rebuild. I bet it sounds fantastic through a nice solid cab too. Well done!

1481, 1482, and 1483 here.

Kicking it country

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Classic rock growl

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Cool club. Great pics. Played a 1482 at a blues jam a few years ago that belonged to Mathew Stubbs and was knocked out by the sound. Been on the lookout of a clean one since. Super fine tone, sweet vintage looks and very light for their size.
Swang on,

Good to see the Club back on the front page. It's a special group, we are.

Good to see the Club back on the front page. It's a special group, we are.

Well, YOU are special, you know?

Back on the top of the page with a little edge of break up

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Bumped back to the top of the page with some tremolo tone.

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Silvertone 1484 Twin twelve. All original except for the output jack that was added. Reverb and tremelo work great. It was missing the tolex, the faceplate was spraypainted a copper color so I had to strip it down to bare metal. Missing 3 knobs, plays like a dream! Its a 1963(first year). Here are some after and before shots....

Channels jumpered and boosted for raw tweed grind, listen to those RCAs sing!

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Did you ever pull the covers off your 12ax7's to see what they were? There were lots of variety in these amps ..

Alright Riff, I'm startin' to hate you. Seriously, nice sound with the Strat, but have you ever been to SilverTelly Heaven?

I've got a diamond-hole 1482 from the mid-sixties that a neighbor of mine was throwing away as trash, no joke. I happened to be walking by and he gave it to me on the spot. It was basically untouched for decades - it had been his dad's, and he inherited it, but never learned to play, so it really was a true "closet classic." I've made dozens of pickers here very jealous.

I imported a '64 1482 from the US ; it's in mint condition, nothing's been replaced
I just added a 3 prong power cord after I been electrocuted for a whole gig...!

I love the tremolo but I'm working on adding a reverb unit on the 1482 since I got this old '63 reverb preamp
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by the way, where is the Conrad club?! those ES-335 copies (aka Bruno Conqueror) sound so great with this amp!

I just got delivery on my Mini Mass and put it to use. I bought it because I wanted to try a little experiment slaving my 1482 through a small rack powering a 212 cab. It sounds amazing just like I knew it would! This little amp rules and can now pull big amp duty. It's running wet/dry/wet in this clip.

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WOW! What memories. My very first rig was a Silvertone Twin Twelve (mod 1484) that I bought used in 1968 for $50 and a cheapo Teisco (sort of a Strat copy) guitar that I ordered from the Speigel catalog AND a REAL Dallas Arbiter fuzz. I hated the guitar but loved that amp and the sounds that I could make with it. At 13 or 14 years old I was blowing people away doing Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner. I remember that you could turn the bass all the way up and the treble all the way down with the reverb maxxed on that amp and the bass all the way up and treble all the way down on the guitar and maxx out the fuzz and it would sound exactly like a "Sitar". Man, what days those were. I sold that amp in 1981 still in perfect condition and working order-that had to be among the stupidist things that I had ever done. I wish I could still join your club, but I no longer qualify, but I'd like to thank all of you for the memories. -Jim

Here's my 1336. Don't see these very much if ever. Think I've seen two others on the net. I got

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this one at a local shop. It's a '56 and sounds Awsome! I had both orig speakers re paper'd but one blew out again so I have a 1952 Jensen on the left.

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Cool 1336! I've never seen one in person. On paper it looks like an amazing amp. What's it like? Man, I'd love to get a chance to play through one someday!

I spoted another 1482 on Craigslist on Memorial Day. I jumped on it first thing Tuesday morning. I'd been looking for a player that I don't have to worry about scuffing up or devalue by updating.

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It needs a little servicing which I'm looking forward to doing to hear how this amp responds. I made a little preservice video. It actually sounds pretty damn good already.

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Boy Howdy, I love Silvertone amps! Wish somebody would start making them again.

Why? There's two or three up every week on ebay....usually going for less than $300

I have three Silvertone amp in case models. A 1965 1457 I bought about 1969 or so. A 1963 1448 I bought in 1968 and a 1963 1449 I bought a few years ago.

The 1448 and 1457 are at a friends house as I may be selling them to him.

The 1449 is still here with me as I do not intend to sell it.

So no pics of the 1448 and 1457.

The 1449 however is..........

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The first amp I got as a young man in about 1964 was a 1482. So when I got into tube amp building/mods/repair in about 2000, I picked up an all original 1482. A few years later a good friend gave me a pretty abused 1482 with the back plate missing, an old console stereo speaker in it and someone had mis-wired the input where the volume was very low.

I decided not long after that I would leave the all original stock and mod the abused one to add what might be more modern improvements that might have occured had the 1482 would have stayed in production. So the mods I did was as follows:

1-Added Standby Switch
2-Mic channel--wired as a Fender 5E3 Deluxe tone stack and also added a switchable 25uf/25V cathode bypass cap
3-Instrument channel---Added switchable bypass caps on a DPDT center off
switch for a 25uf/25V and a 50uf/25V and center off is back to stock 1482. Also added a DPDT center off for two seperate Negative Feedback loops with center off being back to stock 1482.
3-Built and installed a 3/8" plywood speaker baffle using original grill cloth and installed 12" Weber speaker special made by Weber for the 1482 owners on the now gone Vintage Silvertone Forum. The output trasformer output was re-wired to use the 8 Ohm tap.
4-Built an open back 1/2" Plywood backplate for a brighter sound and also allows storage of cord and stuff in back off amp.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12623503@N04/sets/72157601870694620/

Attached is a link to photos of the modded amp if you would like to see it. Platefire

That sounds like my story because I'm following that same road right now. My mint '65 is stock as the day it left the factory floor and the '67 I just picked up is getting the full treatment.

I just compled phase I of my planned service upgrades to my '67.


2-conductor cord updated to a 3-conductor grounded cord (death cap gone).
New 3/8" birch baffle board
Replaced stock speaker with '74 CTS alnico
Installed 4 & 8 ohm jacks for easy extension cab/attenuator connection

Looks largly the same, the mojo is still intact.

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New baffle board & speaker

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A closer look at the speaker ('74 CTS alnico from an old Sunn cab). It is the 12" version of the speakers everyone loves in thier Super Reverbs. The blanket is most definitely off. Between the speaker and the new baffle board it's hard to believe it's even the same amp, absolute night and day difference. It sounds like my '65 when I run it through an extension cab. I should have waited to mount the bracket to the jack plate/box until I knew where I was goint to mount it. I'll flip that around when I do the caps.

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I braided a little cable and installed 4 & 8 ohm jacks for easy extension cab/attenuator hook up. Yeah, my hook-up wire supply is down to some oddball colors.

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The amp sounds fantastic, it really does. I really can't wait to record some clips of it. It is actually really good clean all on it's own which was a surprise because my other one is kind of dark until you EQ it or boost it a little. I guess the stock speaker is to blame for most of that. It has nice sparkly modern country drive with just an EQ pedal and sweet singing lead tone when I kick in the boost. I rolled the volume down to 6 on my Strat and found my pocket....perfect edge of break up controlled by pick attack , roll up a little and go for a ride up the fretboard. It seems a good deal louder too with the inefficient Fisher speaker and flappy cardboard baffle board gone. I'm waiting on parts now to replace a questionable pot and electrolytics. Everything looked okay under the hood with the exception of a .47uf 200v cap that looks like it's starting to get a little leaky. I'm going to play the the hell out of this thing and don't want anything going nuclear so I will replace them all. My museum piece '65 is officially out of rotation. This one will do the heavy lifting from this point forward. The snot or DNA sample running down the chassis didn't come off with windex. I was trying not to go right to the simple green because I wanted to preserve the legends. Clearly I have to get more aggressive with that. :lol:

Hay cool RiffRaff

I would have never guessed someone was doing the same thing I am with two 1482's. Going over the items you've done made me realize I forgot to mention a several of mine---New three conductor cord, new filter caps, new coupeling caps, cathode resistors and plate resistors. Also I did away with the old inputs and installed new switch jacks fender style inputs. Talk about silent operation. My modded version surely has a more modern sound also. The mic channel with the 5E3 tone stack sound more fendery sounding than the stock 1482--that channel is especially great for darker sounding humbucker guitar---les paul, 335 & PRS.

I'm kind of a tele nut and love the sound of a bright tele through the original
1482 inst channel. That channel mellows out the tele where I can get that jimmy page original Led Zep album tone but I love country tones too and you can get that with a little less volume/less OD. Like you say, that original fisher speaker isn't efficent--a good speaker goes a long way of bringing the amp out. I also made covers for both of mine. On the original cover, I built a pocket on the back to tuck the cord in--on the original 1482 with original backplate they made it hard to stash your cord. I always hated poking the cord up around those tubes! Keep me posted on you latest changes! I can't think of anymore I want to do to mine except maybe installing some high end new power tubes. Right now I got mostly vintage tubes in both.

Way back in 1964 with my first 1482 long gone now, I experiance my first break up with my Monkey Wards guitar--didn't know what was going on then but now I realize it was a good thing--back then I thought of it as a cheap amp and longed for a fender that I considered a real amp. Attached is pix of the Airline guitar like I had then, it's long gone too. Har! Platefire

The first amp I got as a young man in about 1964 was a 1482. So when I got into tube amp building/mods/repair in about 2000, I picked up an all original 1482. A few years later a good friend gave me a pretty abused 1482 with the back plate missing, an old console stereo speaker in it and someone had mis-wired the input where the volume was very low.

I decided not long after that I would leave the all original stock and mod the abused one to add what might be more modern improvements that might have occured had the 1482 would have stayed in production. So the mods I did was as follows:

1-Added Standby Switch
2-Mic channel--wired as a Fender 5E3 Deluxe tone stack and also added a switchable 25uf/25V cathode bypass cap
3-Instrument channel---Added switchable bypass caps on a DPDT center off
switch for a 25uf/25V and a 50uf/25V and center off is back to stock 1482. Also added a DPDT center off for two seperate Negative Feedback loops with center off being back to stock 1482.
3-Built and installed a 3/8" plywood speaker baffle using original grill cloth and installed 12" Weber speaker special made by Weber for the 1482 owners on the now gone Vintage Silvertone Forum. The output trasformer output was re-wired to use the 8 Ohm tap.
4-Built an open back 1/2" Plywood backplate for a brighter sound and also allows storage of cord and stuff in back off amp.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12623503@N04/sets/72157601870694620/

Attached is a link to photos of the modded amp if you would like to see it. Platefire

I checked your linked photos - nice work!

Thanks, it was a labor of love. I even like the smell of those old vintage tubes burning on my 1482's. Smell's so sweet. Plate :cool:

That's too funny, I was just looking at the back of mine this morning thinking about putting a back panel on with a cut-out then I see your pic. You mods look very intersting. I like where you went with them. They would have been a little outside my skillset to attempt but then I found your schem, nice! Who knows, I may borrow a few in the future.

Well with my mods the key is they are all switchable so that when they are turned off your back to your original 1482 configuration. Whats made the 1482 so popular these days is its oringal grind which it does so well. So the NFB takes away gain to give you cleaner/brighter. The cathode bypass cap options give you more brightness & gain/compression. The 5E3 tweed tone stack brings in a level of brightness way beyond the standard 1482 tone. So you might imagine the sound going through the mic/bright channel, with the cathode bypass cap engaged plus one of the NFB loops engaged. That's as close the fender blackface clean you'll get out of 1482. These are nice little switch-a-roos that gives it more versatility but the beauty of the amp is in the original configuration with a great speaker bringing out the best of the old vintage circuit. You don't want to loose that, that's what the amps all about! Platefire

[QUOTE="Riffraff12571"]Cool 1336! I've never seen one in person. On paper it looks like an amazing amp. What's it like? Man, I'd love to get a chance to play through one someday!



I love it, rarely leaves the house though. I want to preserve it as best as I can. I just plug straight in and turn it up. I gig with an Emery Sound Superbaby.

That sounds like my story because I'm following that same road right now. My mint '65 is stock as the day it left the factory floor and the '67 I just picked up is getting the full treatment.

I just compled phase I of my planned service upgrades to my '67.


2-conductor cord updated to a 3-conductor grounded cord (death cap gone).
New 3/8" birch baffle board
Replaced stock speaker with '74 CTS alnico
Installed 4 & 8 ohm jacks for easy extension cab/attenuator connection

Looks largly the same, the mojo is still intact.

New baffle board & speaker

A closer look at the speaker ('74 CTS alnico from an old Sunn cab). It is the 12" version of the speakers everyone loves in thier Super Reverbs. The blanket is most definitely off. Between the speaker and the new baffle board it's hard to believe it's even the same amp, absolute night and day difference. It sounds like my '65 when I run it through an extension cab. I should have waited to mount the bracket to the jack plate/box until I knew where I was goint to mount it. I'll flip that around when I do the caps.

I braided a little cable and installed 4 & 8 ohm jacks for easy extension cab/attenuator hook up. Yeah, my hook-up wire supply is down to some oddball colors.

The amp sounds fantastic, it really does. I really can't wait to record some clips of it. It is actually really good clean all on it's own which was a surprise because my other one is kind of dark until you EQ it or boost it a little. I guess the stock speaker is to blame for most of that. It has nice sparkly modern country drive with just an EQ pedal and sweet singing lead tone when I kick in the boost. I rolled the volume down to 6 on my Strat and found my pocket....perfect edge of break up controlled by pick attack , roll up a little and go for a ride up the fretboard. It seems a good deal louder too with the inefficient Fisher speaker and flappy cardboard baffle board gone. I'm waiting on parts now to replace a questionable pot and electrolytics. Everything looked okay under the hood with the exception of a .47uf 200v cap that looks like it's starting to get a little leaky. I'm going to play the the hell out of this thing and don't want anything going nuclear so I will replace them all. My museum piece '65 is officially out of rotation. This one will do the heavy lifting from this point forward. The snot or DNA sample running down the chassis didn't come off with windex. I was trying not to go right to the simple green because I wanted to preserve the legends. Clearly I have to get more aggressive with that. :lol:

I had the same kind of mod made to mine:

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I just finished construction on a 212 cab to be used with my 1482s. I just need to decide on the covering & grill cloth. I tried it with the '67 1482 I picked up a few weeks ago. I haven't had a chance to do a reamping clip of it yet but expect that to be even better.

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Just set it up old school meets new and I'm absolutely amazed at how good it sounds. I really have to make a clip. The one above sounds like crap. It's like night and day in WDW. I made the cab 13" deep and I'm running it open back so it's got some serious thump. All speakers are '74 CTS alnicos from an old tuck-n-roll cab. I have to go back and pull the front baffle from the 1482 and spray it black so it doesn't show through the grill. It's It's fantastic with both my Strat and my Lester. The 1482 is a fantastic little grab & go jam amp and these additions make it perfectly usable in a band setting. Now it's time to select the tolex & grill cloth.

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My 1482 WDW rig

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I am getting ready to throw a replacement speaker in my 1957 Silvertone 1392 does anybody know does it need to be a 4 ohm speaker? Also has anyone tried out a 10" speaker in this model?
Many thanks!

"My cat can eat a whole watermelon."

I don't know the Ohms of a 1392 but a clue would be to use a multi meter to measure the Ohms on the original speaker. Just put the MM leads on the speaker wire connections and set it for Ohms. A range in the 2 to 5 Ohms would be 4 Ohms and in the range from 6 to 9 Ohms would be 8 Ohms.

I recently bought a Eminance Ragin Cajun speaker and just love it. A very full range speaker with a kick. I think you can get it in 4 or 8 Ohm. Platefire

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The clips sound great! Hard to believe that a 1482 there. Sounds pretty Marshally. Platefire

The pots were pretty bad in my last 1482 so I pulled the chassis and gave them a cleaning then fired it up and made a clip. It's another keeper (aren't they all :lol:). I jumpered channels and stuck an Echo Park delay between them. It starts with a Les Paul Standard > SD1 > M108EQ then I switch out the Lester wth an Ash Deluxe Strat and the SD1 with a Route 66 pedal. It's damn nice either way. I love these amps. :mrgreen:

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Sounds really good and full. Another thing we have in common is the route 66 pedal. That's my main distortion pedal. You must use your LP for all the driven stuff and the strat for the clean---from last two clips. My LP is an Epiphone Studio white. I'm kinda a tele fan. Love the way a tele sounds through my original 1482---the darkness mellows the tele out. Gives it the Led Zepplin 1 tone. Your latest 1482 is another good one. Platefire

I prefer my Strat with these amps. The overdriven lead tone with my Strat through a 1482 is excellent. I'm gasing for a Tele though and that will most likely be my next gear purchase. :mrgreen: My Les Paul is much nicer through this amp than my '65 thanks to the speaker and baffleboard change. I find in their stock form they get a touch flubby when driven hard with a Les Paul....not much, just a bit. That isn't an issue at all with this one now, its great with both.

To be honest I use to hate teles in my younger years. A musician friend bass player has an all original 69 tele and kept encouraging me to play it, so one day I did. Something about that ax got a hold on me and I played it for several years. I got concerned that I was going to wear his vintage ax out and also begin to realize how much it was worth. I decided to get my own tele and eventually got a 2003 Highway One. I later picked up an affinity squire tele special BSB on a trade, did some mods to it. Both play great!

Kenny still encourages me to play his 69 but I renig, need to play my own now! Platefire

Just snagged my second all original 1484....the cool thing is its the same year, 1965, as my main gigging 1484....Has original cab and sounds nice...just dropped it off with Bruce at Mission Amps for techs tune up....Bruce was kind enough to inform me that the original speaker and tubes alone are worth more than the 185.00 I paid for it...Super stoked to hear it after Bruce works his Magic...

1449 2 pickup amp-in-case model with black/white color scheme.

Pictures please!

Now I'm lovin' the Lester

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Pictures please!

the pics of my 1449 are on page 3.

I would like to see pics of simplemusican's 1449 as well. I dig the 2 pup silvertone/danos.

Mine is spot-on with the previously posted pics. I also have the original footswitch and tubes (silvertone branded RCA). As a side note, what is the main culprit for the notoriously high action on these. I'd like to play mine more, but playing a guitar in need of a setup as badly as this one is reminds me of what driving a 4 cylinder equipped corvette might be like. I can't complain too much though it was free.

Here's something you 1483 owners might try. The 1483 has a choke in parallel with the speaker. I think this was done so a cheaper low watt speaker could be used and not be blown by cranking the amp and playing at full volume. The speaker/choke combo has an impedance of 4 ohms. I yanked the choke and installed a 4 ohm C15N Jensen 50 watt speaker. At the same time I swapped out the 3/16" Masonite baffle board for a 1/2" plywood one. For a little reverb I added a Hall of Fame pedal. This old amp has really come alive now. Don't believe the bad things you've read about the Italian made Jensens. If I can judge by the one I just bought, the new ones are fine.

Got a pawn shop Model 1333 for like $60 back in '94. Kendrick installed a 10" Black Frame in it...lotta gritty tones. But I think the Kendrick is an 8 ohm speaker, & I believe the 1333 OT is 4 ohms...I guess no problems. Great with single coils. My LSL Tele kills with it...vibrato channel doesn't work, Kendrick couldn't figure it out (??)...oh well nice amp otherwise.

Jim

Reviving this thread to show off my new Silvertone 1481. Found it on CL about a month ago and picked it up for $50! Doing some work to get her back up and running, but here are a few pics.

Putting in a new speaker and baffle this weekend (originals were torn and water damaged respectively). Keeping the square cutout in the replacement :)

I just got one this weekend too. All orignial except the knobs and sounding great!

The only one I found is not correct. Anyone have one?