I bought the Jack White amp
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- I was lucky to find a Sears Silvertone 1483 amp for a fairly good price recently. It has become one of my favorite amps in my studio, and here are some sounds for you!
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0:56 Sounds
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I have a 1484. I purchased the head for $20 25 years ago from a consignment shop. About a month later I blew the output transformer. Fast forward 25 years I found an all original cabinet near mint for $300 I ordered an output transformer and retubed it. I'm into it for about $450 total because I did the work myself And it sounds amazing. I changed the resistors on input 2 of both channels to 56K film resistors just do have a different flavor and it is noticeable but not in a bad way.
Wow, what a find! That thing sounds amazing.
It does!
Wow, that has a very satisfying crunch to it, great stuff.
This was my first real tube amp as a teenager. You REALLY want those original cabinets. They are loaded with Jensen P12R alnico magnet speakers (same as the famous Fender Tweed Bassmans had), and are a huge part of the sound of old Silvertones.
cool, I always keep an eye open for those
Bassman was P10Rs, but yeah... :-)
The 1483’s 15” speaker is the same Jensen from the Vibroverb. Gorgeous speaker in a crappy cabinet.
@@petedavis7970 I stand corrected. Original Silvertones cabs have the 12" of that speaker.
@@markjamesmason The original Tweed Fender Bassman from '52 had a customized Jensen P15N that was unfortunately prone to blowing out. So they went with the 4x10" in '54 or 55.
wow, love the sound!!!
wow! that sound is so good!
really cool sounds!
Someone’s already mentioned it, but I’ll second it. Old amps almost always need the capacitors changed out. It’s a pretty simple job. Doesn’t take anyway anything from the amp, but will get the voltages to where they are supposed to be. You mentioned taking into a tech. Pretty sure it’s what they will recommend.
Sounds soooooo good!!
Sick tones, man!
I have that exact same amp but with the cab and all original tubes, speaker, and circuitry. I had to replace one of the knobs and the pilot light but everything is as it would be back in 1965!
There were two of them on the stage at Third Man Records in Detroit a couple months ago. Love those things
amazing tone
Most common repair on something like this: a capacitor job. The electrolytic caps (the bigger ones) are most prone to aging, allowing a lot of hum/hiss in. They may want to swap out some tubes, too, but make them return the old ones if you swap any (if they are still ok you could always swap them back in a pinch). Power tubes definitely wear out.
i have a '65 1484 complete with cabinet, they're not very loud in general (though plenty good to gig with, but not as loud as my fender bassmans) it breaks up with a nice dirty tone at around 12 o clock as well, really cool amps! edit: saw a user on this comment section mention daisy chaining the two channels together, and woahhh, there’s no going back!!
Sounds amazing
Sounds beautiful
i didn't expect this amp to sound so good
It must’ve been cooking loud in that room! Great sounds with and without the fuzz. Such a nice natural break up.
It’s not too loud actually! It’s only 23 watts 🤌🏻
Sounds surprisingly good 👍
Sweet! Bring on the Silvertones, baby! 😎
💪🏻
Sounds fantastic!!!
indeed, it does!
This man is living my dream
Used one of these bad boys when recording with my band earlier this year. Also captured it with my NeuralDSP Quad Cortex. Loved it - originally the studio had an Acme Silvertone 1484 that we used last time around and it was out for repair this time so we were left with the OG sears amp.
Sounds great 👍
Sounds great
sounds great
Great sound 👍
Thank you 😋
Brilliant tone
Thanks, I agree!
I had a '62 Silvertone guitar with its original case that had a little 5 watt tube amp built into it. The guitar was ok, but that little amp sounded awesome!
those were the best!
Had…. The keyword
@@dontlookmeinmyeyeswhenudan5241 I bought it at a flea market for $125 and sold it on ebay for $600. I knew what it was and what I was going to do with it the moment I saw it.
I played a Silvertone Twin Twelve in high school. Used the cabinet for years afterward with various heads.
Sears Sivertone! My brother used to have one back in the late 60’s / early 70’s!
Cool rig! I have owned and sold a bunch of pawn shop specials! I have had cheap amps that sounded AMAZING for a spell, and then need major restoration. Sometimes the restoration restores the thing you loved about the sound, sometimes it kills it?
Amps that are REALLY old and not well made to begin with, often need a lot of TLC? My ‘63 Fender Vibro Champ coming to mind 😑
I have come to rely on getting an amp that is versatile, and reliable (…whatever that means to you), and that can be taken into a different soundscapes with pedals. If I had a studio space, I would probably have a dozen or so Wallflowers? ;)
Regardless, 😎 nice head!
What a great rough tone
I love it 😍
sound great.
That little sneak of stiff upper lip is one of the closest sounding tones to that sound. wow. So similar
Man, I gotta get one of these. I snagged a Silvertone 1484 some years back on a Jack White bender and even through an attenuator, it's hard to hit breakup without outrageous volume.
Oh really? I'd still want to get a 1484 as well. But the 1483 breaks up at a very nice volume.
@@LivingroomGearDemos It doesn't help that the only 4-ohm cabinet I had available was a 4x12, but yes, surprisingly slow to hit breakup.
The only thing that stopped me from buying one recently.Not a big attenuator fan.Got a great local shop that specializes in vintage amps.
Cool overdrive when cranked.
Bought one at a garage sale with matching cab for $30 about 10 years ago. Still in original box, had been opened, probably taken out for a short time and then repacked.
Google ruins everything, now everyone “ I kNo Wut I haz...” gimme $450 for this MIM Strat 92 “ relic”
Wow! I have one I bought as a teenager in the 70s. It had been used a lot then. To find one in the original box is a bit like finding the holy grail. It outlasted Sears! (I wish Sears and Radio Shack were still around.)
@@daniellarson3068Radioshack even had a competitor 50 years ago named Lafayette, some of their amps and reverb units are still floating around on the used market
I hope you went back after testing it and gave those people a few more dollars 😂
@@infn8loopmusic I tried to give them more. They were satisfied with the amount. Sometimes people just want the stuff gone.
Quite the score I must say
yeahs!
Very nice
so. much. crunch. 🔥🎸
Awesomeness
thanks!
Nice tone and riffage!
Was that a bit of Stiff Upper Lip hidden in there??? Great sound! I think Beck uses something similar, maybe the twin twelve.
indeed!
Magic 🪄
Immediately reminds me of the Stripes albums. Sounds great. I'm jealous.
I know this is gonna sound trolly and edgemaster-esque, but if you thought his tone sounded like white stripes J.White tone, you're not familiar with the white stripes. I know, I know. That statement is absurdly speculative, but you can't get an amp simply made by the same company as ONE of the amps White uses, slap some fuzz on it and expect it to sound like white stripes. This guy sounds more like josh homme/stoner rock tone to me. Am I wrong for that? No?
@@chraffis Bro, I said it reminded me of those albums. I didn't say it was a perfect 1:1 recreation of Jack White's tone.
@@chraffis zzzz
@@agustinalejandrogerosa7069
Yes! That's exactly how a fuzz pedal sounds! Thank you for taking an active, positive interest in my post.
Don't be jealous
Proverbs 14:30; "A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones."
SUPER cool amp. Slighty hurt you didn't play any white stripes riffs 😢 Great find and great video!
Check my latest video on Jack White’s guitar sound. I use it there
I'd love an IR of that cab
for gods sake it souns amazing
Sounds great. Not far off early Led Zep tones.
Wow dude that sounds fuckin killer. Brad the guitologist would love to see that
What's the lick from 3.23 onwards from? Seems familar but cannot place what its from.
What guitar are you using?
Definitely try the second channel as well. Channel 1 is much darker and bassier, while Channel 2 seems better suited to guitar. You can then daisy chain the second input of Channel 2 into the first input of Channel 1 if you want more gain and a little more beef. I like Channel 2 volume at 3 o'clock, with treble at about 2 o'clock and bass around 10 o'clock. I might add in some Channel 1 sparingly, volume at maybe 10-11 o'clock, tone controls at noon. If you run it into an old speaker with less scratchy highs, you can really pulverize the front end with a clean boost and get some gnarly garage-y sustain...
Hey! Yeah, I have tried that. But at the time of filming this I could only get the first input of channel 1 to work... Weirdly enough, channel 2 is usually the more quiet one and more cooperative in general. Now it looks like all inputs/channels are pretty tired, and I need to take this to a tech.
wow, never knew you could daisy chain the inputs together, definitely gotta give it a try!
the inputs daisy chained sound amazing!! thanks for the idea
Stupid question: I have the same amp and I wonder how to use the second channel? Is it just for another config? Let me know, many thanks!
So whats the difference between these and the 1484's, just the power amp/wattage or something?
rock and roll boys
You know you’re onto something groovy when you are getting a “vintage synth” type Sound out of the neck pick up…
Damn 🙌
Man that thing sounds ridiculously thick & juicy!
YESSSS
How can someone gives a thumbs down for this?! I will never understand it.. The history behind it, the place, the effort.. I will never understand people. Kudos to you man for everything about it and thanks for been inspirational! 🔥🤟
That groove at 3:44.....
I agree. Love that bit.
Did you have to crank it to get it to distort?
Nice. What is it about old amps and guitars that is so appealing to us as guitarists?
I think it’s somewhat placebo at times for sure. This has a cool
Sound but if a new amp came out sounding like this no one would think it was great.
I think most of the time newer Marshall’s and replicas sound advice good as old plexis . There are videos of dudes with their plexis it really isn’t Blowing any new studio plexi tone out of the water.
Old Gibson’s aren’t way better sounding than newer Ones. I think its people naturally romanticize things.
What knob tone settings did you have it on?
Bass almost all the way down, treble at one o clock.
Thanks to gear heads like this, these Sears amp are now really expensive. I can't believe these Sears amps made it all the way to Europe now, just 10 years ago you could only find them at garage sales and ebay in the USA. Jack bought this amp and his vintage gear when it was cheap, his philosophy back in 1999 was that all those douche gear heads during the 90s were playing their expensive shiny Marshall stacked amps, they all had the same sound. He bought gear that gave him an original sound, so different than all the dorks who bought the latest expensive models of everything. It's not about the gear you have or collect, buy a cheap guitar and amp and do an original sound. Many of the blues greats of the 60s who had an original sound used guitars and amps out of the Sears or Fingerhut catalog, nothing stopped them from making music. Pity on the gear heads who make everything expensive, both vintage and new, they never create anything truly that is truly original sounding.
Ooh compare it with a jhs twin 13 v2. The same circuits with jfets instead of tubes.
Peter Buck from REM used (uses?) one of these as well
What speakers are in your barefaced cab @living room gear demos
G12M-65 Creambacks! Best speakers out there
i have 4 of these amps..havent paid more than $50 for any of them...i love them...i have the cabinets and they are ok
oh, nice!
what pedals are you getting that fuzz sound from around 3:50 ???
Fjord Fuzz Embla
Awesome breakup
That one is a different model than Jack's, I lucked into a junk unit of his model (1484) some time back and I still need to refurb it. Might even need a new transformer, which means it might never sound as good as yours does.
If it makes you feel better pretty much all of Jacks transformers have been replaced too.
What kind of guitar is that?
Wow, what is this killer riff at 3:16 ? It's from a song or improvised ? Great stuff as usual man
hey charlie, thanks! It's just something I made for the video. Cheers!
Thank God it doesn't sound as it looks!! IT SOUNDS AMAZING, GREAT PURCHASE
Ahah I think it looks amazing!
@@LivingroomGearDemos Same! Old Silvertone's look beatiful in my eyes, they just have some special feeling on them
is that fano guitar? gibson non-reverse firebird design?
yup, fano px6!
Who makes that non reverse firebird copy you’re playing?
Fano PX6
Sounds Great. What guitar is that?
Fano PX6
@@LivingroomGearDemos thanks
Check out the Jackson Audio Silvertone pedal
What microphone are you using in the cab?
Beyerdynamic M160
3:16 ...groovy jam,my guy🤟
thanks!
@@LivingroomGearDemos
Well...they're all groovy jams! But that one jam had me wanting to play, and I was at work,lol!😆
@@LivingroomGearDemos
...is that a riff you made up or something? Its been in my head ever since I heard it,lol! So after work I came home and figured it out, I love that lil' riff😁
@@wesleyalan9179 Came here to ask about this riff also, really caught my ear. Also the one at 3:43
@@bradsucks
Isn't it sick!😆
Its very easy to play, I figured it out ...its in drop D 👍
What tunings are you using for the video?
Standard E and drop D
Where do I get the Barefaced cabs?
From their website. There's link in the description of this video!
What does it sound like with an overdrive?
Check this: ruclips.net/video/73ge6rBVIPA/видео.html
What guitar is that
what guitar is that ?
What guitar is that?
Fano PX6
What pedal was that?
Does high gain really mean distortion and clipping, That is not tone
yep, nice tone...
Any pedal that can replicate this sound?
JHS Twin Twelve
I think I got you beat. Last year I traded a Squier jazzmaster for a mint 1484 Twin Twelve.
oh man, congrats!
Try swapping out the filter and bandpass Caps 😉😉👍👍
Are there any kits out there for these models?
What kind of guitar is that mate?
Fano PX6
I had one in the 70's
Is it a widow maker like all the old amps I own?l
I believe it has the death cap. Two prong plug. I have one that I've had for many many years and do believe this will be the year to repair it. Happy New Year!
@@daniellarson3068 keep them shoes on just in case! haha.. happy new year!