Vintage Silvertone sounding so fine!

[Riffraff]

I love my 1482! My other amps are starting to get a little dusty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgISAZ4PeI

[Chuck H]

Sounds great. Love the way the top end rings hard but not harsh. Very cool.

Have you tried the amps natural OD sound yet? And, what speaker is loaded in that amp?

[cminor9]

Hey you're the guy who found the one in the box, that we all told to sell it.

Sounds great, man. Glad you did what wanted to do and kept it instead of what guys on the interwebs advised. I see why you love that thing. Great tone!

Did you replace the caps or anything, or is it still stock?

[Riffraff]

I cranked her up and jumpered channels too. It's a little dark on it's own but is really nice with an EQ pedal with the higher frequencies ajusted up a touch. Most of the tim I run it with a clean boost and an EQ. I used both sides of a Route 66 set claen boost > OD on the clip. I love the way this amp overdrives.

[Riffraff]

Hey you're the guy who found the one in the box, that we all told to sell it.

Sounds great, man. Glad you did what wanted to do and kept it instead of what guys on the interwebs advised. I see why you love that thing. Great tone!

Yeah, how could I sell it? It sounds too damn good. I would be looking for it's replacement for the rest of my life. It's a keeper, the museum can go find there own.

[cminor9]

I think it'd be real interesting if you could find a well used and serviced one from the same era and play it. You have effectively found a time capsule. There's a lot of, um, science you could be performing.

[Riffraff]

I would love to find a totally beat one and build a little blues breaker style cab for it with a good quality speaker. A cab and speaker upgrade supposedly do wonders for these amps. This one isn't getting touched.

[Rhodesplyr]

I looked up the schematic--interesting. It's the only amp I've ever seen that 1) uses a 6X4 rectifier tube for a power amp output stage and 2) uses a 6AU6 as a tremolo oscillator. The latter sounds like a good idea. The former sounds like it would take about all a 6X4 can deliver, but it probably provides much of the sag and compression you get.

[Chuck H]

Speaker?

[Riffraff]

The speaker is the original Fisher.

[Chuck H]

Fisher!?!

Huh...

Well it souds good. I know that there was only so much in the way of speaker tech at the time. Old Magnavox speakers and such sound good for guitar also. But I've never seen a Fisher speaker in a guitar amp. I haven't dealt with any Silvertone amps though.

Is it one of those "round alnico plug in a three sided steel box" types?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just looked at one of your other threads with the pics. It is a round alnico plug type.

[Riffraff]

I was surprised about that too because I didn't know Fisher ever made instrument speakers but apparently they did, at least for Danelectro back in the '60s.

[Regis]

I was surprised about that too because I didn't know Fisher ever made instrument speakers but apparently they did, at least for Danelectro back in the '60s.

I doubt if it was specifically made to be an "instrument" speaker. It was probably just a good buy that helped to make a price point. Those Fishers sound like crap IMHO. They were probably used in a lot of sixties console stereos as well.

If you put a Jensen or a Weber or something similar you'll really be amazed at the sound of that amp.

[Chuck H]

If you put a Jensen or a Weber or something similar you'll really be amazed at the sound of that amp.

Possibly. The clip sounds pretty good. Maybe just the right speaker for that particular amp. I never discount happy accidents. But on another note (pun intended), a different speaker will allow the RR to preserve the original. If a different speaker happens to sound better too then it's a win all around.

[g1]

I looked up the schematic--interesting. It's the only amp I've ever seen that 1) uses a 6X4 rectifier tube for a power amp output stage

Did you mean push-pull output stage? Like you, I've only ever seen them with low power single ended (Beltone comes to mind).