My Silvertone returned from the Dr recently, she's been down South a while getting some new innards. Capn Juan did a fairly major overhaul, I just this morning finished a detail & reassembly job.
What a cool little amp, new Weber speaker, she looks darned near new & sounds better'n before, It's sitting on my desktop, speaker's about 18 inches from my ear, power on, volume about 6, with the Starfire plugged in & turned up; quiet as a mouse till ya touch the strings on the Starfire. It's not totally silent at idle but it's way quieter than I ever figured, pots are silent.
It's got some magic, Starfire has an amazing range of tones thru the little beggar. Originally I thought I'd regret not having a trem or reverb, probly be nice to have, but she seems to have a goodly amount of warble built right in, maybe it's the Starfire doing that, verra cool combo at any rate. Bigsby does 60's rock & roll twangeroo thru the Silvertone that'll knock your socks off. Didn't have much time with it turned up to 10, pretty darned loud, but you can turn it up to 7 - 8 or so & get a good taste of what it'll do without permanent hearing damage. Played around with distortion a bit, Starfire being a hollowbody it's pretty easy to get things rolling, sort of like driving a baby Marshall with training wheels, I found two distinct distortion tones so far, just the ticket.
Including the initial price I paid in Arlington the total investment is a little less than a good price on a used Blues Jr. Way more cooler, weighs next to nothing, pretty sure it'll qualify as carry on at the airlines, for sure it'll fit inside a medium size suitcase. Only one like it on my block & guaranteed Smitty's gonna eat it up come Monday's lesson, she has two inputs & I'll be quite surprised if he doesn't ask to plug in his PRS.
Couldn't be more pleased with the result, Thankyou CJ, I owe you a jug, name your poison.
What a cool little amp, new Weber speaker, she looks darned near new & sounds better'n before, It's sitting on my desktop, speaker's about 18 inches from my ear, power on, volume about 6, with the Starfire plugged in & turned up; quiet as a mouse till ya touch the strings on the Starfire. It's not totally silent at idle but it's way quieter than I ever figured, pots are silent.
It's got some magic, Starfire has an amazing range of tones thru the little beggar. Originally I thought I'd regret not having a trem or reverb, probly be nice to have, but she seems to have a goodly amount of warble built right in, maybe it's the Starfire doing that, verra cool combo at any rate. Bigsby does 60's rock & roll twangeroo thru the Silvertone that'll knock your socks off. Didn't have much time with it turned up to 10, pretty darned loud, but you can turn it up to 7 - 8 or so & get a good taste of what it'll do without permanent hearing damage. Played around with distortion a bit, Starfire being a hollowbody it's pretty easy to get things rolling, sort of like driving a baby Marshall with training wheels, I found two distinct distortion tones so far, just the ticket.
Including the initial price I paid in Arlington the total investment is a little less than a good price on a used Blues Jr. Way more cooler, weighs next to nothing, pretty sure it'll qualify as carry on at the airlines, for sure it'll fit inside a medium size suitcase. Only one like it on my block & guaranteed Smitty's gonna eat it up come Monday's lesson, she has two inputs & I'll be quite surprised if he doesn't ask to plug in his PRS.
Couldn't be more pleased with the result, Thankyou CJ, I owe you a jug, name your poison.