The Dallas Tuxedo 1959 is a Dallas boost pedal. Close alternatives include the Dallas Tuxedo Treble Booster and the Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster. It pairs well with the Dumble Steel String Singer and the Fender Prosonic.

Dallas Tuxedo 1959

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The Dallas Tuxedo was a British-made valve-driven boost and treble booster unit from the late 1950s, part of the small wave of early standalone gain devices that predated the fuzz and overdrive pedal boom of the mid-1960s. Units like the Tuxedo were built to push an already-driven amplifier harder or add treble emphasis for lead work, functioning more like an outboard preamp stage than a modern stompbox. Dallas would later become closely associated with the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face.

What stands out

  • “the dallas tuxedo was a british-made valve-driven boost and treble booster unit from the late 1950s”

    — from the listing

  • “• [Use] Historically significant as one of the UK's third commercially produced solid electric guitars; primarily a collector's instrument today”

    — from the community notes

  • “Units like the Tuxedo were built to push an already-driven amplifier harder or add treble emphasis for lead work, functioning more like an outboard preamp stage than a modern stompbox”

    — from the listing

  • “• [Con] Vintage instruments of this age require specialist setup and significant restoration work to be reliably playable”

    — from the community notes

  • “[Pros] ✓ One-piece solid mahogany body delivers a surprisingly resonant tone for a budget-era British instrument from 1959 ✓ Historically significant as one of the UK's first commercially produced solid electric guitars — designed by Dick S…”

    — from the reviews

Trade-offs

  • “early solid-body british electric character”

    — from the community notes

  • “part of the small wave of early standalone gain devices that predated the fuzz and overdrive pedal boom of the mid-1960s”

    — from the listing

  • “slightly thin single-coil tone typical of late-1950s uk construction”

    — from the community notes

  • british
  • treble booster
  • stage
  • treble
  • lead
  • electronic
  • fuzz face

Genres the Dallas Tuxedo 1959 is commonly used in

  • Electronic
  • Blues Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Classic Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Doom Metal
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.

Amps that pair well with the Dallas Tuxedo 1959

Dumble Steel String Singer

Dumble

24% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → smooth)

Run Dumble Steel String Singer after it and the bright edge settles into something more smooth

Comes later in the signal chain

Fender Prosonic

amplifier

24% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → warm)

Fender Prosonic's warm balances out the bright tone

Comes later in the signal chain

Hiwatt Park P18LH 'Little 45' Handwired18W

Hiwatt

tonal match
$4300via Reverb

Comes later in the signal chain

Run Hiwatt Park P18LH 'Little 45' Handwired18W after it and the bright edge settles into something more warm

Orange BT1000H Terror Bass 1000-Watt Bass Amp

Orange

tonal match

Comes later in the signal chain

Orange BT1000H Terror Bass 1000-Watt Bass Amp leans warm right where the bright tone needs it

Orange Terror Bass

Orange

tonal match
$754.36via Reverb

Comes later in the signal chain

Orange Terror Bass leans warm right where the bright tone needs it

Orange Little Bass Thing

Orange

tonal match
$683.03via Reverb

Comes later in the signal chain

Run Orange Little Bass Thing after it and the bright edge settles into something more warm

Gibson GA-50

Gibson

tonal match

Comes later in the signal chain

Where this leans bright, Gibson GA-50 answers back warm

Victory Amplifiers V50 The Earl

amplifier

tonal match

Comes later in the signal chain

Victory Amplifiers V50 The Earl's warm balances out the bright tone

Pedals that stack with the Dallas Tuxedo 1959

Wampler Nirvana Chorus

Wampler

21% match
$159via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Put Wampler Nirvana Chorus after Dallas Tuxedo 1959 in the signal chain, clear of Dallas Tuxedo 1959's own gain stage

Comes later in the signal chain

Ashdown Velvet Compressor

Ashdown

17% match
$243.31via Reverb

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → smooth)

What Ashdown Velvet Compressor brings here leans toward compressed — that's worth building a pairing around

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Catalinbread SFT

Catalinbread

16% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → warm)

Catalinbread SFT's warm balances out the bright tone

Comes later in the signal chain

Caroline Guitar Company Icarus

Caroline Guitar Company

16% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → warm)

Caroline Guitar Company Icarus's warm balances out the bright tone

Comes later in the signal chain

Suhr Discovery

Suhr

14% match
$579.53via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Put Suhr Discovery after Dallas Tuxedo 1959 in the signal chain, clear of Dallas Tuxedo 1959's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

Keeley Magnetic Echo

Keeley

13% match

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Keeley Magnetic Echo after Dallas Tuxedo 1959 in the signal chain, clear of Dallas Tuxedo 1959's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

Dunlop Blue Hippo Optical Tremolo

Dunlop

tonal match

Comes later in the signal chain

Run Dunlop Blue Hippo Optical Tremolo after it and the bright edge settles into something more warm

SolidGoldFX Commodore Breaker Overdrive

Solidgoldfx

tonal match
$152.15via Reverb

Comes later in the signal chain

SolidGoldFX Commodore Breaker Overdrive leans smooth right where the bright tone needs it

Alternativessee all similar tone character →

Dallas Tuxedo Treble Booster

pedal

63% similarity

Shared character: use, treble, bright

Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster

Dallas

57% similarity

Shared character: 1960s, treble, bright

Catalinbread Silver Kiss MK2 2007 Reissue

Catalinbread

57% similarity

Shared character: treble, lead

Catalinbread Silver Kiss Reissue

Catalinbread

56% similarity
$209.61via Reverb

Shared character: treble, bright, lead

Suhr Brighton Treble Booster

Suhr

56% similarity
$149via Reverb

Shared character: treble, bright, lead

ThorpyFX Wopr

ThorpyFX

56% similarity

Shared character: treble, bright, fuzz

Colorsound Power Boost

Colorsound

54% similarity

Shared character: 1960s, treble, bright

Death By Audio Thee Treble

Death By Audio

54% similarity
$219.46via Reverb

Shared character: treble, bright, fuzz

Díaz Texas Ranger

Diaz

52% similarity

Shared character: treble, bright, middle

Colorsound Overdriver

pedal

52% similarity

Shared character: treble, fuzz

Catalinbread Naga Viper MkII

Catalinbread

52% similarity
$140.71via Reverb

Shared character: treble, fuzz

Vox VTB-1 Treble Booster

Vox

51% similarity
$135.48via Reverb

Shared character: treble, bright

See all alternatives to the Dallas Tuxedo 1959 (cheaper + boutique) →

Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the Dallas Tuxedo 1959?+

The closest matches in character are the Dallas Tuxedo Treble Booster, the Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster, the Catalinbread Silver Kiss MK2 2007 Reissue.

What pairs well with the Dallas Tuxedo 1959?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Dumble Steel String Singer, Fender Prosonic, Hiwatt Park P18LH 'Little 45' Handwired18W — Run Dumble Steel String Singer after it and the bright edge settles into something more smooth.

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