It cuts through the mix nicely, and is very sensitive to how you dial in the amp or pedal EQ. In fact, I can see why this fits so nicely in Cage The Elephants musical style, it fills a ton of space and brings a punchy body despite no apparent mid-heavy quality. Overdriven tones retain such a nice sparkle, giving them a bit more dimension than you might expect for a guitar associated with alternative and garage rock. Country, Indie, even Jazz music are all within the realm of possibility here. My criticism of the last Silvertone was that it felt very narrow in the scope of sounds it could cover, and I don’t really feel that applies to this reissue at all. It actually feels a fair bit more versatile than I anticipated, and that was an impressive discovery for me.
It surprisingly even approaching Telecaster-like performance when plugged into a Vox-voiced amp simulator. Even clean, the fingerpicked tones filled out nicely and had a real twang to them. Lipstick pickups on a non-Danelectro guitar? Silvertone makes a mean lipstick pickup that sounds glassy, bright, and surprisingly rich. Your eyes are always drawn to the unique paddle headstock that features all the sealed, die-cast tuners on the top side that creates a very painful looking break angle out of the nut. This C-shaped neck features 21 frets, pearl dot inlays, and a very interesting through-body bridge. Like the 1478, the Model 1449 features a Mahogany body with a bolt-on Mahogany neck and Rosewood fretboard.
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The lipstick pickups are controlled via a 3-way pickup selector plus the aforementioned stacked control knobs.
And this is a very Danelectro-adjacent guitar, even though I actually have no idea if this Silvertone predated the Danelectro company at all. Featuring dual lipstick pickups, you might recognize the stacked tone and control knobs, which are a Danelectro calling card. It really come on my radar thanks to Beck and Cage The Elephant’s Brad Shultz who both heavily used these guitars in the Alt-rock scene I grew up in. The Silvertone 1449 may be best known as the guitar that came with the amp-in-case purchased from old Sears catalogs back in the day. Cost: $399.00 from, ,, or check out Sweetwater!
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