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I really appreciate your reviews because I’ve found that the sound reflects what I hear at home when I’ve purchased equipment you have demoed. I’m not saying other reviewers are dishonest, but some have their cabinet mic’d in another room, playing at volumes that are clearly not practical anywhere else than on stage or in a studio (why are they isolating their cabinet if it’s not being played super loud?) and being processed with gating, compression and reverb to the point that makes it sound more like a recording than a person playing in their living room. Your set up, despite using really nice amps and guitars, translate well to what I hear at home. Thank you for keeping it simple resisting the temptation to get too over produced.

I still have my original Silvertone 1484 from 1966.

I had a 1484 Twin Twelve piggyback amp in the late 60's. It was paired with a 1961 Epiphone Coronet. Sadly, my parents sold then both when I went off to college, I guess to pay my tuition. What I would give to have both of those back, if nothing more than for the nostalgia.

Anything that sounds like it’s self-destructing is ultra cool. I’m a high gain fan, but these tones are REALLY juicy.

A good friend had one in the 60s and my band used it for two guitars and a mike when I was in middle school. One thing is that the amp had no gain control. Brings back so many memories.

Absolutely love, love,love this pedal.

Excellent playing!

Whoa. That is freakishly accurate

Not that anyone asked but Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies played a Silvertone with his mid 60s Eko Condor

Damn! When you cranked the gain and switched to the bridge on that '54 - shoo-wee that was a sweet, sweet sound!

This pedal shines when I plug it into the effects return of of my carvin v3 combo. Its just like the sears model, but at pretty much any volume. Handles effects really well too

Saw this on insta and I just had to find the full video 🤘🏼

i love this guys energy

Man, why not put the tremolo in it. Great sounding, but missed the mark not putting the trem in it.

Loved the demo, thanks! I haven’t seen a player yet who doesn’t like this pedal. Might have to invest.

Way back in 1990 I bought a 1484 Silver tone twin 12 head for $20 at a consignment shop. Channel one didnt work. I was new to tube amps so I plugged in the wrong speaker and blew the output transformer. Fast forward to 2 years ago I found a cabinet w irig speakers on C L for $400 so I decided to buy a repro transformer and put the amp back together with new tubes. The old ones being lone gone lost. The amp sounds awesome. Total 60s garage rock.

Waiting for comparison videos with this and JHS Twin Twelve (which I already own). Feels like the difference isn't huge.

That GT man!

My first amp and loved it !

With the gain pushed, it has an almost "fuzz" nastiness. Am I wrong? That sounds so velcro/broken. What a great little detail I haven't heard on other emulations. I heard it most on the Ozark and P90 sections.

Very delicious tones.

Cool t-shirt John, least said about the jeans the better though 😉

I need to run this into the main power amp inputs on my JC-120.

Awesome job as always man! Lotta dynamics in that tone....badass pedal and I wonder how it compares to the JHS twin twelve pedal....both amp in a box versions of the old silvertones...very unique vibe and I'd love to play thru one🤘😁🎸🎶

When running an amp in a box into the front of an amp, which amp dominates?

Not sure this is a dumb question but could u used this in studio use? Let’s say to run a mix through to enhance the bottom end just Alil bit ?

Hey John that sounds cool with your baritone. Does that baritone have a b-bender? Sounds good- thanks

can a company like eastwood not buy them out and reissue the amps for real?!?!?!

Im surprised one of the big brands hasn't bought the silovertone name and reintroduced it, like they did with magnatone and supro etc. there cant be many "cool" old brand names left to rehash

Amazing review as always, sadly an amp like that is very difficult to recreate, Dano/silvertone engineers seems accidentally across kindy accidentally trying to save up production costs with an amp that sound so unique with a quirky tiny output trannie, baxandall eq and cathodyne phase inverter with an unusual tube, just a very weird design in comparison to the typical classic amps designs and instead or just copying a classic (think marshall copy fender bassman) they just end up with a quite unique weird amp that it’s straight tone just bark in such a way when cranked that nothing else, this pedal don’t even come close but at least they tried with the enclosure 😂, maybe the baxandall eq is there but emulate the cathodyne 6CG7 raunchily falling apart smashing that buzz on some 6l6 pair smashing a poor tiny output transformer driving sole jensens and the sag of a double coil voltage doubler power trannie… not really even close to what a cheap parts putting together point to point a unique monster, even clone amps kit companies didn’t even put attention to the small filtering cap can creating a loose boomy spongy dynamics that only the real thing have, if jackson would put cavernous reverb and sweet trem as the original would at least worth the money and get bit closer

I had one and it only had volume , bass , treble , no gain my first amp till I blow it up lol.

That is… chewy!

To some degree we're hearing a silverface fender. Its cool, but youre stacking preamps. If you go into a power amp and crank it...

Prettay, prettay, prettay groovy.

The term "transparent overdrive" is widely misunderstood; it has always simply meant that the guitar's clean signal is blended in with the overdriven signal in the pedal (a design feature - and sonic signature - made particularly famous by the Klon Centaur). The overdrive, thus, in such a set-up, acts akin to a transparency (or "transparent overlay), of the type commonly used on overhead machines in classrooms once upon a time (before computers largely replaced them). Somehow unable to derive the term's obvious meaning (despite Klon, who ostensibly coined the term, publicizing this aspect of its pedal in all of its advertizing), pedal-video makers on RU-vid racked their brains trying to puzzle out what "transparent" could mean with regard to overdrive - eventually settling by consensus (as well as nere parroting of one another) on the idea that it must mean the thing doesn't "change the tone of one's amp" (an obvious impossibility, incidentally) and spread this myth far and wide so that it has become "received wisdom," unchallenged and incoherent dogma recited even by esteemed pedal-makers and other so-called experts.

For a second, I thought Billy Bob Thorton finally found some musical talent.

Does anyone know why I keep seeing fantastic pro players wear there guitar straps the wrong way round. You can see the pad only just fits on the shoulder ?

🤘👍🏿

*what* is that white guitar? i need one

Sounds like jack white

..well what would happen if you plugged that 1484 peddle into a 1484 amplifier?🤷

So JHS stopped making the Twin Twelve pedal a while ago... And now we have this. Okay. So maybe this was an undiscussed reason why JHS stpped making the Twin Twelve pedal. Hmm. One wonders.

Not like the original, which had a big sounding spring reverb tank that was great. You could get that surfer sound if you turned it up & like a Fender when the reverb is turned down. This is just an overdrive pedal.

in my neck of the woods you can knab a real living breathing 1484 head for $300-$400, this is frickin’ silliness

It’s all gear sales, and cheap amps. Dude, get 2 full stacks with 2 100 watt heads. You don’t need pedals.

sounds lifeless

Too much breakup , 4 me , sounds like a silverstone amp 💩