The best guitar amp no-one knows about

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0:00 What amp?
0:48 How it sounds
01:28 Origins
01:59 The Jack White amp?
02:51 More sounds
03:11 Issue #1
03:33 Clean tone
03:57 SPONSOR
05:59 Issue #2
06:13 Bass sounds
06:45 Issue #3
07:27 The biggest issue
08:15 White Stripes tones
08:33 Final thoughts
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[@Duncanlinc]

Helix calls it a Mail Order Twin so that's the best description i've heard on it

[@BubbleWrapPerson]

That’s what that is! Thank you!

[@HH-oh8nt]

I'm with you - but till the reissue try the Jackson Audio Silvertone Twin Twelve 1484 Pedal - it is soo beautifully made and i love it - i dont have the direct comparison but it's my new favourite to spice up my fender Reverb with Jack and Dan sounds!

[@SilverbackOrangutan71]

Always sounds amazing

[@nicholaspoppin296]

so... Jack White actually uses the 1485 which is highly different from the 1484. its more wattage and has a 6x10 cabinet. It also has way more gain on tap and headroom which is what gave Jack a lot of his signature sound :)

[@goranmarinic2923]

Excellent tone indeed!

[@TheHuckleberrythin]

The 1485 is the Jack White amp . The preamp and transformers are the same as the 1484. The 1485 has more output and was paired with a 6x10 Jensen loaded cabinet. The reverb and tremolo are great. Especially the reverb nothing on the market like it.

[@CenterThePendulum]

Great description, I have it.

[@crankshaft383]

Awesome video. I've wanted one of those silvertone AIAB pedals, but have the Supro drive pedal and everyone says that's close. You might consider checking out the Supro and Harmony amps too-both vintage and reissue. Went down the rabbit hole on reverb and a lot of cool ST amps. The 1482 looked cool (low watt 1×12?) I've been getting into the goldfoil/Hershey bar pickup sound as well, specifically Silvertone 1420 guitars. The whole vintage era of Silvertone, Danalectro, Supro, Harmony, Valco, National, etc. Is a world unto itself.

[@angrygoldfish]

That sounded awesome. Brownface era was my favourite Fender era as well. I really want to get a Line 6 Helix now just so I can test out their version of the Silvertone amp without spending a fortune on an old and potentially unreliable amp.

[@618recordingco.5]

Mojo Tone made one a few years back in a Marshall style head as a kit, I believe for Jason White of Green Day, but you could buy the kits for around $800.

[@obdmpod]

I really enjoy your detailed observations on equipment and guitar tones. I like the "dirty" noisey guitar sounds.

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

Thank you very much!

[@CircusHerse]

Duribility was not an issue with mine. Had the original cab with mine and played it out for 10 years as my main amp. Only the second owner and it had the original tubes. But I would definitely recommend re-cabbing.

[@SeeMick1]

We didn't answer the most important question: DOES IT QOTSA!?!?!

[@PistottiAmps]

I’m in. Challenge accepted. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll let you know when it’s ready

[@jan9]

Sounds very good :) I know you said you did not take speakers in account, but… Do a EVM12/Celestion/Fane or something, would be interesting to hear.

[@sjb454]

Great video. You should get commission cause you made me buy one😂. Can’t wait till it hits my door. Thanks for sharing.

[@BassRacerx]

weird that your only demo on the bass was all the way up at the 10-12th fret area .... would have been good to hear some lower notes.

[@billyghostal]

About 10 years ago I was doing a gig using a Harmony Rocket into a Silvertone vintage amp, and the mic was some old elvis looking thing running into a 1964 bogner for all the vintage drip...and...welp...i shocked my face to high heaven, lips first. haha be careful that you dont electrocute yourselves using old gear!

[@mmkelectrics]

I have a 1483. An awesome little hidden gem if ya ask me. If you find one, buy it. You won’t regret it. Great video, thank you.

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

Yes, indeed, awesome little amp!

[@PooNinja]

How you like those barefaced cabs? I’ve only seen them online but im very interested in hearing one in person.

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

I love mine! My goto cab for about 4 years now

[@PooNinja]

@@LivingroomGearDemos thanks. They seem cool as do the folks who make them.

[@thenonebadh]

I checked the schematics briefly. The preamp section looks really different from a bassman(6g6), especially in the eq-section. For a reissue someone should implement a switch for chathode-bias(1483 - 23W) to fixed-bias(1484 - 60W as advertised in the sears catalog) - that should solve the problem with the headroom. I guess someone pointed it out before me, but Jack White used the 1485. This amp has 4x6L6GC's and is more in Twin-territory(output-wise).

[@artshaw7079]

I found it! ACME instruments, Jesse Quitslund in Seattle Washington. Saying temporarily closed right now, but maybe the guy is currently touring at the moment. Good luck

[@thenonebadh]

@@artshaw7079 looks promising. He can surely implement a Bias-Switch. Eirik here you go :)

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

Thanks! So cathode bias (1483) vs fixed bias (1484) is the biggest difference between the two models?

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

good find! A 1484 though. I've seen some others do that one as well.

[@thenonebadh]

@@LivingroomGearDemos Sry i was a lil bit to fast with my jugdment. The EQ in the 1484 is an Baxandall. The one in the 1483 is some really quirky stuff. Besides that the 1484 is silicon rectified and the 1483 should have a 5y3gt as a rectifier-tube which changes the response of the amp. I would guess the 1484 and 1485 sound more similiar to each other and the 1483 is the odd one. But hard to guess i never played a silvertone amp.

[@litos_mendes]

Didnt mastodon used this on cleans and on the aquarium concert?

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

Just checked some photos, and looks like Brent used a 1484 or 1485. The bigger ones

[@Atttuner]

That’s a great dirt sound

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

🤝

[@johnz6808]

DUDE I have 2 of these with the twin twelve cab NEVER have found a better clean tone But damn can it do anything

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

It's extremely good, actually. How is it with the twin twelve cab?

[@johnz6808]

More pop/clean I'll stick with the twin 12, but it can push a Marshall 1960A or B if you want to go hard. I ran it in stereo paired with an H&K GM40 for live stuff for awhile and it hilariously overpowered the Kettner

[@npinero1]

I would buy the reissue, it sounds stellar. With a spring reverb it would be amazing.

[@johnz6808]

Correction, I have two 1484s

[@YeatzeeGuitar]

Yeah these are built terribly, working on one on my channel right now if you want to see what they look like on the inside.

[@goldotom]

I ask Silvertone to reissue the 1448 on every of their IG posts, they like the comments so maybe... Plus they did a pedal to kind of recreate this amp. Let's hope

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

Did Silvertone make a pedal of the 1484?

[@tusharkakshapati7610]

@@LivingroomGearDemosmaybe he’s talking about the Jackson audio one?

[@LivingroomGearDemos]

@@tusharkakshapati7610 right! Is that licensed from Silvertone?

[@goldotom]

Typed too fast, Jackson audio did the Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve pedal. I think it is licensed because there is the Silvertone logo on it @@LivingroomGearDemos

[@goldotom]

@@LivingroomGearDemos sorry went too fast to answer. Yes I meant the Jackson audio pedal, they use the silvertone logo so I guess it's licensed. I have a little feeling they will bring back the 1484 amp

[@ofir_likes_beer]

I have 2 Best clean tone. EVER.

[@johnz6808]

Samesies

[@Kodduh]

Greta van fleet riff lol