OVERDRIVE- NUX XTC Overdrive ... a Bogner-in-a-Box ??? ....$50 ?

 NUX XTC OVERDRIVE 

$50.00 USD

NUX has brought out a line of 'Re-issued pedals. I believe

it came out in 2010. They have the Steel String Stinger

which is a Dumble. It looks like the one Vertex brought out a few years ago so I am a bit wary of it at the moment.

The Plexi Crunch looks cool. We will see and hear it next week. The Recto Distortion is a take on the MESA  Rectrofier that should follow after the Plexi.

The XTC is a take on the hot channel of the Bogner Ecstasy 100 watt head. 

About the best a designer can do within the limited constraints of designing a pedal to a budget is to get mids to resonate at the amps frequency. 

On the whole pedals duplicating a real amp are more impressionistic than accurate. there are exceptions but they are not cheap.

CONCLUSION

Well it does a nice wall of sound thing and the overtones are rich without any buzz in the highs. The low end has nice nasty growl. The overall sound is a bit course but WTF

at $50. I have heard the Bogner pedals and I  can not fault their tone. 

I Even own a ATM B1 which is Bogner-in-Box that is killer.

Bottom line ...not a convincing Bogner. BIG BUT ...it  has a good Brit sound of it's own going on.

Good enough for me!

HEADS UP

If you are looking for a serious Bogner sound on a budget a good choice is the 

AMT Legend B1. I got one on sale for $80.00 USD. they have been around 

for years so you might find one used.

FUZZ- SPIRAL ELECTRIC Brute Fuzz ...DOD/DigiTech designer Tom Cram's revenge !!!!

 SPIRAL ELECTRIC BRUTE FUZZ 

$250.00 USD

A couple of years ago DOD/Digitech fired pretty much all their staff and killed off most of the pedals.I believe ol' Tom had been there for years. It could not have been pleasant. Still the good news is that Tom can make the pedals he wants & how he wants with his own company. He has few dirt pedals all unique & original. 

I have to say though that he has out done himself with this one!

Conclusion

This Fuzz has it all, aggression, balz with a fat sound that borders on the out of control but never is! Look out word. Tom is back!!!!

OVERDRIVE- T-REX Moller 2 ....revist a classic

$245.00 USD

 T-REX MOLLER 2 DRIVE  

When is a Tube Screamer not a Tube screamer ???

every pedal company on the planet makes one. In fact one

famous pedal designer said that if a new company makes one that passes the 'smell test'  the buyers will feel confident to risk buying other pedals from that maker.

The original Moller 2 was designed for Danish guitarist Knud Moller.

That was well over a decade ago because v.2 is already 11 years old.

You would be forgiven for not recognizing a ts sound from this pedal. LOL Even guys like me that hate the ts have a few. Why do I hate them? Well they use am OpAmp to create their sound that creates symmetrical distortion. A real tube amp uses asymmetrical distortion. To me this creates an artificial sound going into my Plexi. 

BUT....

The ones I do use are really borderline Fuzz boxes. This

can be done with clipping diodes added to the mix. A Fuzz is a  square wave distortion which is meant to sound artificial. Unlike a ts which makes my tone 'cloudy' ...a Fuzz it takes over the entire sound. Or perhaps look at it this way. If a tube amp is a white sound  ...then a Fuzz is a black sound. A ts is a white sound with ugly stains on it. LOL

CONCLUSION

Anything that has been around since Noah marched two of them off the Arc deserves a listen.

OVERDRIVE- DIGITECH Grunge Distortion (discontinued) ...a great pedal with the wrong name :-(

 DIGITECH GRUNGE DISTORTION 

When Grunge hit thanx to Nirvana it was an overnight success

$35.00 USD ?
used

.

The band watch to see how its success would be with more than a little apprehension. They were thinking a few hundred sales from a recording not an avalanche. 

Grunge came out of need for young players to be able to simply play basic Rock music without the need for big Hair, virtuosity and expensive equipment. Everything about it was small time. A few bad clubs to play with weeks 

between gigs for a few dollars or free.The amp of choice was virtually 'whatever' driven by a used Fuzz pedal.

The idea of a good dirt pedal for any genre is not new. The big 

problem was simply if you can make authentic Grunge sounds with

an old Fuzz pedal thru your cheap amp then WTF.

So who would buy this pedal? Simple..if you were a kid going to school, living at home with zero experience of playing clubs with strippers and junkies and drunks this was perfect.

A pedal that is half Fuzz and half OD is not new. If this pedal was called the 

Digitech DM-1 Distortion with a plain violet paint job it

would be a 'cool old' Metal pedal! The guy that designed it 

did a great service for the Doom, Sludge, Stoner King and

Drone crowd ...but Grunge?

CONCLUSION

It is getting close to that borderline where it is so uncool it's cool.

This the time when real Collectors use their ears and grab up these 

pedals.

The pedal is not unlike a lot of Fuzz pedals where if you are going to dime the gain it will give you more sludge than extra gain. It's best sounds are virtually on zero. The sustain even on zeo goes on forever. It has more low end than your speakers want to take and more high than your ears can. You will never say "I wish it had more.... " LOL

 

REVERB- FLAMMA FS02 Reverb ...a game changer? Yes ...but not in sound but value

FLAMMA FS02 REVERB

$70.00 USD

A new company creeping along under the radar 

Well newer at any rate, lol. they are owned by Mooer. Thety are giving us a product that one could argue is a take on the Neunaber Immerse. You get quantity algorithms and a pro build.

The layout is less confusing and the cosmetics are arguable even better. The sound is mildly different but still in the ball park.

CONCLUSION

Absolutely nothing dumbed down. The spec the build quality. 

The game changer is the price. 

You get a $230.00 USD pedal for $70.00 USD.

Totally KILLER product for a song.

Flamma do a delay for the same $70.00 USD price or you you can get a delay & reverb in pedal

in one box with alas less algorithms but for only $100.00 USD.

I can not see how that in a few years how most of the smaller players that focus on digital products will survive unless they make everything off shore. 

XSONIC AIRSTEP

This product is the beginning of the end of most current types of digital hardware.

I am not going into any detail because to tell you everything this switcher can switch and even handshake between would take pages and pages and pages of typing!!!

They have a site that already has done that and there are a few videos etc.

My point is that at this very moment there is virtually nothing in digital processing of effects that can not be done ...or if indeed has been done via software. 

If it is done and put in a companies proprietary hardware they have by very expensive metal switching boxes with the software in the box you are soon left with an outdated box because the 

hardware is outdated. You buy the box for upwards to $2000.00 USD and 2 years later it worth virtual zip!

CUT TO THE CHASE

The point is we are only a couple of years away from using a smartphone and a box like this from

replacing everything that is not an analog pedal.

$280.00 USD

FUZZ- UNDER THE RADAR ...some of the very best for the very least!

 THE TRUTH IS NOT FUZZY

The first few years in the 60's the Fuzz went from a novelty and near gimmick effect to a must have pedal thanx to the Brits with a Fuzz fed into a Marshall Stack.

The thing is in this day and age we expect to pay a fair bit of coin for our Smartphones so if we see a Fuzz at $300.00 USD or more we think it pricey but not insane!!!

Now read this carefully .....Those magic antique Fuzz pedals from the 60's usually had between 7 to 10 parts on their circuit board! Yes I know the price and value are two different things. I am the first in line to over pay for any pedal if I love it.

THEREFORE THE OBVIOUS

My point is simple it is possible to build a killer Fuzz cheap and therefore possible to sell 

a killer Fuzz at a very reasonable price

THE NOT SO OBVIOUS.

A Fuzz is all about getting creative with basic square wave distortion. 

It is not like a modern Overdrive trying to clone what is happening to make a pedal sound 

exactly like a specific amp like a Marshall Plexi or JCM 800 where it may take up to 12 stages 

of cascading gain to keep the tone accurate because we want all that extra sustain without 

F.ing up the sound. This needs months of R&D and dozens of parts.

...this pic is f@cking annoying!!!

BASIC NEED TO KNOW

The first Fuzz pedals used germanium transistors. By letting the first overdrive the second etc. created their sound. Why germanium transistors? Because it was the only choice readily available and used for all consumer applications. By the 70's along came the new improved Silicon transistors followed near the end of the decade with Op-Amp chips.

Germanium transistors 

...sound damn cool but they are notoriously unreliable. They can leak then die. When pushed too hard they send the signal backwards into the incoming signal causing an extreme break up. This breakup creates spitting sputtering and eventually drop outs either sporadically or permanently by causing overheating. Last but not least anything but your guitar put straight into them and the sound either gets destroyed or the whole fuzz takes a F. off pill! If a big effort is made to control this it can be used musically. On the other hand try playing EVH's Eruption with a crude germanium Fuzz just ain't gonna happen!!! LOL 

Silicon transistors 

...only downside is they do not sound like germanium. Do they sound worse? 

Totally subjective??? 

With a little creative design messing with the BIAS you can add spit and sputter 

back into the circuit and do a deceptive fake of a germanium circuit.

A really easy way to tell that the pedal is using silicon transistors is when the pedal does nothing what so ever to pizz you off ...count on it having silicon transistors.

OpAmp chips

...the first use of an OpAmp for dirt was the Pro-Co Rat pedal followed by the Tube Screamer just a few months later. It is now been concluded that these designs are the first Overdrive designs and not Fuzz circuits. The Rat was marketed as a Fuzz since there wasn't any new category to label it with. The King of dirt at the time was the Big Muff  but they lost a lot of sales to the Rat so they simply brought out a new Big Muff Version 4 which is now referred to as the OpAmp Big Muff. So it begs the question to be asked "When is a Muff not a Muff but a Rat." :-)

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PRO BUT CHEAP FUZZ PEDALS

MOSKY BC108 FUZZ

A clone of the  classic Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face pedal 

used by Hendrix in all it's forms including it's last 

model with a BC108 silicon transistor. The original 

had 2 knobs . The pedal did squat if you did not 

dime the volume so Mosky just eliminated it.

$25.00 USD

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BEHRINGER SUPER FUZZ FS300

Plastic junk? The switch is ...the casing takes a lot of effort

to smash up. Yes throw it in box where mic stands are tossed on

top of it at break down after a gig and it might soon go bye bye.

BIG BUT...zip wrong with the circuit board or parts. It is a clone 

of a Boss FC-2 Hyper Fuzz which is a Boss take on the 

original octave Fuzz a Shin-ei Super Fuzz.

$30.00 USD

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ROWIN FRENZY FUZZ

A rebranded Joyo Ironman JF320 Purple storm. A brilliant take on 

using all the every cool Brit Fuzz pedal sounds from the 60's and 

melting into one tiny, tiny nano pedal. 

An idea which should have totally failed. 

BUT!!!! ....WTF they pulled it off.

Definitely killer!

$30.00 USD

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MOEN FUZZ MOO

Once upon a time long, long ago there was no such thing as  

Chinese companies making cheap copies of pedals from the West

to be sold right back to the West. ...BIG BUT! With a population in 

China in the billions ... billions Get that in your head ..billions!!! 

There was a market for a made in China pedal company to sell 

to Chinese rock guitarists.

So up popped Moen who did what most new companies did in the 

West. Have a peak in the boxes that are out there. Shake your 

head and say."We can do better than that!" So they brought out 

the Moo out even before the word vegetation was the only 

politically correct description of your diet.

The Fuzz Moo is it's own thing. Not strangely different but it's own thing.

It is roughly Big Muffish but only because the Muff was the first silicon

Fuzz ever made. It has a lot more mids with a breadth to the sound.

$40.00 USD

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ELECTRO-HARMONIX 

OpAmp BIG MUFF

This is a pedal that at one time EH wanted to just forget! It is the critics 

favorite of Fuzz pedals to sh@t on!!! Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins 

put it on the map. Even that was an accident because he bought it used

thinking all Big Muffs were the same pedal. He did not know version 4

was anything different.

The bottom line it is a killer sounding pedal. If it had NOT called it the 

Big Muff I think it would have over time been a MUST have fuzz. 

The pedal in the pic is a reissue. But as luck would have it 

the differences between it and the original are less than consequential

so even Ol' Billy uses one. Add to that there are several gourmet alternatives

that are expensive and DO NOT sound as good. Stomp Under Foot has re-released their Pumpkin Pi it is at least as good but it's $190.00 USD!

At $80 it is a bit pricey for this roundup but it is unusually such great value for money.

$80.00 USD

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CONCLUSION

All these pedals I own, or have owned and are totally Pro. 

How Pro? 

My former band Tallis opened for Rush. 

Geddy came to our dressing room to praise the band 

before Rush went on. These pedals would have cut it for

that gig.

FUZZ- ELECTRO HARMONIX OpAmp Big Muff ...surprisingly excellent!!!

  ELECTRO HARMONIX OP-AMP BIG MUFF 

Often called the Billy Corgan Big Muff or the Smashing Pumpkins 

$80.00 USD

Muff because ol' Billy put this pedal on the map. He bought a used one at a time when a young new player simply thought a Muff is Muff Is Muff In other words if the day he bought it he was offered a used Rams Head he would have taken it instead. Billie finds the new one to be every bit as good. High praise for a reissue!

Still one asks what's the big deal? 

Well this is the only Muff that didn't use Silicon Transistors for the dirt. The first pedal to use an OpAmp was the ProCo Rat and only months later the Tube Screamer. 

Transistor Muffs have a less dense sound than an OpAmp. The transistors do give you at their best more breadth and dare I say warmth. The OpAmp is raw dense and with a lead weight for a low end! Very very, nasty ...but in the best possible way.

CONCLUSION

I had a listen to all the gourmet clones out there. They were nice enough in different ways. I did not feel they were better..they had all polished a few edges off of the nastiness. One had a fatter bass but the none had that lead weight balzy punch in the lows. I feel that punch is half the sound. In short ...damn impressive and at $80 the price is damn good.

Yep! I ordered one!

HANDS ON

After a few hours playing thru it and a lot of fun I can say it lives up 

to it's fame. It is fat, thick, endless sustain and several sweet spots. 

You move the EQ to roughly where you want and there is a sweet 

pot just a tiny tweak up or down. It is just a tiny resonant point. Love it! 

The lows are heavy and thick and tight and do not vanish when you 

push the tone into the highs. 

My only quibble is that I was expecting a bit more punch on the lows. 

It could be my amp as a Plexi can often round off any sound because 

it does not have the headroom. You trade off headroom for sustain.

FUZZ- TEFI Gege Germanium Fuzz ...classic meets modern with impressive results!

 TEFI GEGE GERMANIUM FUZZ 

$255.00 USD

An Italian company that has been around since 2007. They 

do modern uptakes on classic designs. Which means NOS 

transistors married to modern high end parts. Having plenty of both replica remakes and totally modern pedals I can safely say when done well this is a winning formula!

The layout is straight forward with volume, tone and gain. One switches between a classic Fuzz Face type sound and another adds some very controlled sputter by adjusting the BIAS. A second switch punches in mids and lows to really fatten it up.

CONCLUSION

Well for a start TEFI have their usual fun graphics which I quite like. I can not fault it. It is a great sounding germanium 

Fuzz. Noticeably free of the nasal sound of many really big sellers.

My only beef is it is bit pricey. Lately most  companies have been listing any dirt pedal for $200.00 USD.

FUZZ- ONE CONTROL Rocket Grey Fuzz ...from Jan. NAMM ...Was it worth the wait?

$320.00 US

 ONE CONTROL ROCKET GREY FUZZ 

So you took one look at it and said WTF. lol

So did I. The shape has minimal function and is truly made worse because it could have been made at least so ugly it was cool. lol At least it isn't as big as it appears.

It is yet another of Bjorn Juhl's gems. Yes it does sound good. A good old fashion octave Fuzz but with modern design to get rid of any excess sputter or drop out. He even tighten it up. Two controls one for fuzz another for level.

You can switch on the octave effect by the second foot switch.

CONCLUSION

The Fuzz has really great creamy sound. Kick on the Octave and it holds together great. No dropouts with lots of growl. It lacks any serious sustain. I would have like to see an OD put in with it to give you that sustain. BUT! The tone is excellent. It doesn't look like a rocket? They should have called it the flying turd!!!

Well if you buy it and hate it you can easily turn it into a gaming controller.

Could this me the much anticipated MkII  ???

GUITAR- ...semi-acoustic/hollow body electric ...good enough to gig with ...$150.00 USD

  BAD CAT SH-330 

Who doesn't want a semi acoustic? I have one. At the gig they are much better than struggling with all the hassles of an acoustic for a few tunes. You do not have problems with mics of contact Piezo PU's feedback problems. You do not need a monitor or worse still buying a second amp. I was using a Martin but I switched and I do not miss the Martin one tiny bit. I infact look forward to the few tunes I use it on.

OK I am sure the the Bad Cat is not what you had in mind. LOL On Sale right now for $150.00 USD even at the regular price of  $170.00 USD it is a steal!

BUT THINK ABOUT IT?

This is at the very least a semi-pro guitar!

The body is African Mahogany ...same mahogany used by PRS. The neck is Canadian hardrock maple with rosewood or maple fretboard. You get hardware easily as good as a Fender MIM. The PU's are Wilkinson Korean made by Artec who make the Duncans that come on 95% of all imports. The binding is cool ...I can not think of a semi without imagining one without it. The fit and finish are pro and you get a lot of choice of colors. Yes I know ..no sunburst but you can not cherry pick wood grains at this price and veneers up the price with both the veneer and a lot more labor costs.

FUZZ-HAUNTED LABS Scorched Earth ...definitely a contender!

$170.00 USD

 HAUNTED LABS SCORCHED EARTH FUZZ 

A basic Fuzz is a simple thing and can have as few as 7 parts or need to circuit boards stacked just to fit everything on. Ether way you can get some really impressive sounds or alternatively junk. lol

I was hardly a Fuzz junkie when I started reviewing and when I found out the 7 parts thing I realized some guys who just learn to solder were big on ego but not so big skills!

Over time I discovered a few gems ...and got hooked. Lately

I have been buying about one a month :-)

This one is the work of Christopher Cozort. Other than I know it is a silicon Fuzz I know little else. 

It is mix of old tech transistors with modern tech that that allows for cleaning up things like excess sputter to nasty drop outs or even failure.

It is definitely aimed a the Doom, Sludge. Drone and Stoner

guys!    

CONCLUSION

Sounds good on the video? Fat with a nice long sustain but

you can add lots of rasp and grunt for leads. 

OVERDRIVE- GROUND CONTROL AUDIO Locust Distortion

 GROUND CONTROL LOCUST DISTORTION 

$180.00 USD

A small Canadian company that has been around for a few years that make several pedals that are mostly boosters and OD's. Much of which is just outside the box. Familiar and usable but with some real personalty. This is an old school hard clipper. A silicon transistor OD. It takes the classic Fuzz thing into OD territory. The Rat is the most famous of this kind of pedal. The layout is very simple with a volume, tone and gain and a switch for two voices. One takes you into a Stoner, Sludge, Doom and Drone territory. The other is more about classic screaming in your face highs.

CONCLUSION

You either like it or not. This pedal is not a tweakers delight.You get a growling fat but sluggish Metal genres or

you can push it into near Fuzz like break up.

OCTAVE PEDAL- BOSS OC-5 ...NEW! is this the one to beat???

 BOSS OC-5 OCTAVE PEDAL 

It has all the usual features. The one new thing is the 'Range'

control 

$130.00 USD

knob that lets allows you to do things like put a lower octave on the bass strings but leave the higher strings alone. A great idea. If you are finger picking or flat picking you can get the effect of being accompanied by a bass player. I can see those doing a solo folk thing on an acoustic guitar.At first glance it looks same old.It has all the features you would

CONCLUSION

Not a lot to complain about ...even the price is reasonable. The only thing with all octave pedals is the octave part of the signal has a sound/tone that has a coloration you will love, like or even hate. The E-H Micro Pod has been the winner for years ...you know it has been years as the name seems nuts when it is 4 times as big as what the industry labels as a Micro pedal. Not even E-H can duplicate the sound as they now have a few choices that all boast of being the 'new improved' but sound like crap in comparison.

TECH N TONE RE-BOOT ....The very, very BEST of the BEST

 TECH N TONE 
TnT are located in London UK and is owned and operated by Fabio Pania. There only handful  of makers worldwide that not only have the skill to design and build a great dirt pedal but the 'ears' to really listen and the perception to know when they captured 'tone' to perfection.
Fabio can take what appears as an ordinary pedal like hundreds of others and turn a modest sounding amp into that of a $6000.00 plus gourmet amp's sound.
TnT seem to have a modest selection with only 3 pedals but unlike any company out there they are the best of the best!
I was was very reluctant to even at first try the Pappa Boost. I had bought many only to sell them again soon after. Several of these boost pedals all had golden reputations of being the best. Pedals by Wampler and Xotic to name just two of the Kings of boost. I was stunned at the total killer transformation of my sound and I was not even using it to increase the input level. I am only using like a savory spice on an already great meal! 
The Momma Drive is a low to medium gain pedal that makes not just one but several of Vemeram sound like junk . I sure you already know Vemuram pedals are twice the price of a TechNTone. It is easy to get 3 tones from it that are so distinct that you would swear there are 3 pedals in the box.
Then we come to my favourite pedal ever the Turbo Nonna. If I boasted how great it is it would sound like the worst BS hype you ever read in your life.  I have reviewed over 1400 pedals and more than half are dirt pedals. I have 70 I will never part with. If I lost them all I would order a Nonna before I even sat down to choose a few more pedals!

$140.00 USD

$180.00

$160.00

CONCLUSION
The pedals are a steal at these prices!
There are full reviews on all these pedals. Check them out.

REVERB- EVENTIDE Black Hole ....so new the paints wet!!

 EVENTIDE BLACK HOLE 

$280.00 USD

The  hot seller for ambient reverbs for Eventide has been the Space Reverb ambient style reverb but at a chilling $500.00 USD. So Eventide got smart and brought out the Black Hole which is named off the best sound on the Space Reverb!
I expect the Space Reverb is soon to R.I.P.

Makers like Strymon and Eventide have had to get their act together because they are using 10 year old tech that although it sounds amazing recent releases of new tech chips has made their stuff 2 generations old.
So 10 year old tech is now so cheap that just yesterday I got  a reverb/delay for $100.00 USD that has the same sound quality as good Strymon and Eventides current offerings because it has the same chips :-)

WHATS NEXT
The really interesting thing is ambience digital pedals only need to have 10 year old tech to sound killer. If killer costs $100 then what??? 
OK I imagine some of you are are thinking that 
the high end guys will make super pedals. 
I do not think so 
...because such pedals require spending too much time to
learn and players hate it. They did not spend years learning 
to play guitar to become a computer programmer! I think 
they will kill their pedal division and stick with their software
division.

CONCLUSION

You do get your moneys worth of bells and whistles. But they are seldom practical to use outside of recording and almost never in a band context. Add a frustrating learning curve to get the best out of the pedal.

On the other hand if you just need a great ...set it and forget it reverb ....with separate controls for the echo to make quick tweaks between tunes at the gig ...then buy the Flamma Ekoverb at $100.00 USD The sonic quality is as good and you don't need a manual :-)

FUZZ- STOMP UNDER FOOT Utility Muffin ...Frank Zappa's Fuzz :-)

$200.00 USD

 STOMP UNDER FOOT UTILITY MUFFIN 
During the 60's and 70's Frank created 'Franks Music' nothing was an object to be deleted from use as a vehicle for his creativity. It could be rock ...commercial Pop ...Jazz or even orchestral music using concepts from early 20th century 'Classical' music of Stromberg, DeBussy, Bartok, or Stavinsky.
He also turned to gear and was an early adopter of customizing pedals. 
In the late 70's he moded a Big Muff and now Stomp Under Foot has cloned it.
CONCLUSION
It isn't about getting something to express the guitar in a traditional way but about a sound where what you play takes a new role. 
Check out the second video. Frank often had bands that compartmentalize his music. This video captures the music he made when all that he was about is focused in a single individual style.

JIMI HENDRIX ....his first guitar ...the reissue is worth a look!!!

 SILVERTONE 1448 ...made by DANELECTRO 1962-1966 
This guitar was made by Danelectro and was sold by Sears under their brand ...Silvertone.
In '63 Sears added 1449 a 2 PU model with a 24 1/2" neck. The 1448 was aimed at kids with a 23 1/2" neck. Danelectro also made it as a '63 Dano version using their standard 25 1/2" neck and coke bottle headstock.
The Sears model was the bigger seller because of their multiple locations and catalogue shopping.
Dano's were sold by mom and Pop shops. In the 50's and 60's there weren't any chain music stores. Sears was the 'go to' for an electric guitar. Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot has a nice collection of them that he uses to record with.

Danelectro  63 Reissue
(Discontinued)

REISSUES

Silvertone 1449 '63 2015 Reissue
(Discontinued)
It is interesting to note that the reissue
is not a standard Dano with a plywood frame
covered with a masonite top and bottom  
It has a mahogany neck and body. It keeps the 
24 3/4" scale on the neck.
It has both the Gibson's scale and wood combination. 
Mod it with PAF and it sounds very much like an SG.

My heavily modified 
Silvertone reissue
with Jimi's fave a 64 Strat
PU at the neck
I also have a '59
PAF at the bridge both
using PU rings and covers
to keep with the 50's vibe.
It is just coincidence as I only
found today that Jimi played this guitar but I did
choose the Strat PU because Jimi's fave Strat
was a '64. He only used it for recording and the
only guitar he gave a F_ _k about!