Vintage Sears 5XL Silvertone 1420 Guitar Tube Amp

Silvertone 1420 (Sears 5XL)

At first glance the Sears 5XL guitar amp would be easy to disrespect, even considering it’s legacy in the line of original Danelectro/Silvertone guitars and amplifiers. And why not, it’s a Sears, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. 

DOD FX10 BiFET Preamp

[This is an update to an earlier post. Since then we have done some more testing of this unit with different instruments and amplifiers.] I was looking for a good analog pedal to overdrive my tube amp without loosing that “great Gretsch sound” of my Electromatic. The DOD FX10 was Read more…