Alamo Embassy

mine has a tone and vol chick knobs. with three unmarked inputs.
perhapes it has been altered over the years. no tremolo of foot switch and it could use one. but after the epiphone valve jrs. who wants anything more than a volume?! I love the simplicity. it gets a nine cause I would like a line out.

awesome. is it chicago blues? I am in chicago and I think that it is more of a texas blues sound. it has a dirty grity growl. I have upgraded tubes in it. The salesman said it was handwired. It is class a. I told him that it wasn't a boutque amp and that it was like a Harmony or Sears brand but I was wrong in the final anaysis. It is a rare find and secret. it has an alincino speaker.

it is from the '60s and it has several new parts. But it looks like it has been through a lot of kicking around and cigarettes. It works for me.

no longer made.

this amp is a secret. I everything that the positive reviews say about the sound and tone is true. one time I went to the dollar store and bought some pipe unclogger that when I got home unclogged the bathtub drain in two seconds. and one time I spent $10 on Draino and had to buy another bottle to get anything done. the Almo Embassy is a humbling amp experience.

3 inputs, vol, tone, speed, intensity, footswitch for tremelo, on/off switch. Not sure of the year all i know if my grandfather played on it. Its not too versital, but boy does it crank out the blues, i have lately used a spliter to drive both this and my other amp which i heavily distort and get a cool modern/vintage paradox kinda tone, which i think sounds great, but what do i know im just a kid. Its a good little tube amp and its great for recording, i use it live but i need to use a mic.

Very nice bell like cleans, especially with my aria vintage hollow body, but my other s/s/s, h/s/s, h/h guitars sound great too. I found the need to employ a type of slave system to get the real tone i wanted out of it, as horrible as it is to use a piece of crap bass amp to overdrive this thing, the result is increadibly pleasing, great for getting a richie blackmore tone, but i can tweak the eq to make it sound like an old princton. I use a Crate MXB10 practice bass amp, i know im cringing too, i run my guitar through that with the eq typically set at bass 4, mid 6, treb 6 and crank the level all the way up, then i run a pedal jog from the speaker out to the imput of my alamo with the vol at about 1 1/4 and tone at 12 oclock, its plenty lound due to the power running into it from the bass amp, then micing that to get a great live sound, or recording for that matter, i also run a mic into it for my blues harps and that also sounds amazing.

Its a little unreliable, vol control is a little sticky so it isnt too responcive and occasionally gets real scratchy, but nothing a little matainace wont fix

Well ive been playing for 5 years, and i am very very picky about my tone, ive played on other old tube amps and just wasnt satisfied, its in my line up of gear i use regularly, so if that doesnt say it i dont know what does...

Straight ahead lil rocker, does the blues thang very well.
Volume, tone, and speed and depth for tremelo. 3 input jacks.
Had this guy many years now, got to that age where it was needing a tune-up, modded the jacks to Hi med and lo, were all same, as stock. Now, better able to adjust between humbucker and single coil guitars.
A real 60's baby, no line-out, channel switching, fx loop, just straight ahead tone. W/ the particle board cab, and the 10" speaker- Mine has Alamo sticker on it, not the deepest sounding amp, but really kicks, especially for greasy slide, or nasty harp. Record w/ it often, have gigged w/ it in low volume settings, and w/ a Shure 57 micking it thru the p.a. It's tube, baby, class A. Cleans up nicely w/ vol control roll off via guitar pot. it'd be nice to have reverb built in, but, that's what outboard reverbs were built for ;)

I play anything from Les Paul w/ Pearly Gates p/u to an early run Danelectro, to a JT-30 mic thru it. After working on it, it's no noisier than other well maintained tube amps. Not a lot of tonal variation, kinda one trick, but do it ever dance to that tune!!!!
It's a little rattier distorted than say a simular age Fender Princeton or a Gibson Les Paul amp, exactally WHY I like it!
Not a "Metal" sounding amp, very Bluesy

I re-tubed it, reconed speaker, modded the jacks for Hi, Med, Lo, were all same level. Held up pretty good for its age, and knoing the amp, it had the sh*t played out of it before I got it. definatly would put a 3 prong cord on it if I was using it playing out regularly. As w/ all tube amps, or anything mechanical, maintainence is necessaryu, never went down on Me when I pushed it, and I play it hot.

The origional company is probably long gone, past date for warrentee work anyway. These aren't real common, had to do some research to find schematic, couple of the tubes are hard to locate- i.e. tremelo circuit tube.

Over 35 years of playing, owned vintage tweeds, brown, blackface Fender amps, Victoria, Supro, Silvertone, Mesa/Boogie... been thru a lot of gear over the years. Sounds good no matter what guitar I use from high end Les Paul to Airline/Supro/Dano cheapies. If I found another, I'd buy it asap. Love the nasty Chicago Blues tone when it's cranking. A few things like speaker out to run into a bigger cab, standby, would make it more gig usable, but thtas what I use the (see above) other amps for.

front pannel:
speed, intensity, footswitch input, instrument one, instrument two, volume, tone, fuse, on/off, red light

I think its 55w

I have used several guitars through this amp. But primarily a schecter c-1 elite.

This is a very retro style amp. It has wonderful bell like cleans with the neck pick-up. The tremelo is also probably the coolest i've ever heard. Think Rumble! Works quite well with a slide as well.

Not very loud for jamming with a drummer, but lound enough to practice, or record with!

Turn the sucker up to ten and it breaks up nicely. Responds well to the volume knobs on my guitar as well. cleans up nicely.

Its built faily well, but its not really a super high quality amp. Seems to be made out of partical board. Part of the covering is also coming off the bottom back of the cab as well. I've never changed the tubes, but I also dont gig with it regualarly, or play it more than a few times a week. If you had a nice PA, and a EQ pedal for this baby, you could prob mike it and perform quite well. Esp for blues/slide, cleaner stuff.

I think the company is now defucnt! I doubt any warrenty exists as i bought it used with a guitar a while ago.

i have been playing for 10 years now at least. I have played several solid state amps and a few nice tubes as well. I would say this thing is pretty sweet. It would be cool if i had the footswitch, and it had more of an EQ.

If it were lost or stolen i doubt id find another one, but id be sad...

I think this baby could be GOLD in the right hands in the right studio. Its just one of those orriginal kinda sounds. For the total of 200 for a les paul hollowbody style guitar and this amplifier was a steal! I wish my little brother took better care of that guitar as well.... anyways vintage amps are cool!

My Alamo Embassy has Speed and Intensity knobs above the Remote Switch Jack Input; 3 Instrument Jack Inputs marked 110-115 volt 60 cycle a.c. 55 watts; Volume and Tone control knobs, on-off switch and a red lite. There are 2 Jack Inputs around back of the unit - no clue what they are for. There's a handle on top for carrying. I don't know squat about this other than it's mine for 3 years, bought it dirt cheap, it's a tube amp and I'd never part with it. I've gone through nearly 20 guitars, but this Amp will never leave me. I love it.

I run my Guitar of the Month through a reliable Zoom GFX-707 Guitar Effects Processor to the Alamo. You name it, every cheap-ass electric out there seems to have passed thru my hands, and the Amp sounds fine. My guitars are cheap, I'm a terrible player, but I like it. Using the Zoom I can make any crazy noises or sound effects or simulations I want. I prefer to use the Processor as a Tuner, then run on Bypass and just dig that funky little amp. My house is tiny so I never go above 6. I play basic rock and blues, both very badly. Still, I love it, and i love the sound the Alamo puts out. Best damn thing I ever got off eBay.

Run right since I bought it very used. I've never played a gig. The amp gives me no trouble and has never broke down, Praise God.

I'm told his fine Texas Company stopped playing me-too amp builder a long time ago.

Been playing 3 years.I repair 7 restore electric solidbodys for fun and profit so a butt-load of them go through my hands, and every one of them gets played and abused via the Alamo Embassy. If my amp disappeared I would be maniacally pissed and do terrible things with a dinner fork and a bottle of paint remover. I'd want to replace it with an identical if I could. I love that it was cheap and that it's so funky - its just a humble cheap-ass little blues amp that takes me through highs and lows of life. I can't compare it to other Amps, I've only owned three, and when I got this bad boy it was love baby love. That's all.

60's practice/recording combo, solid state preamp with 6v6 tube output. Simple Vol/Tone knobs ( 1 each ) One channel with fuse holder
on front panel.

I use a double humbucker bridge/ single coil neck guitar for versatility. The amp has reasonable volume ( 10-15W ?) and a warm tube sound but I don't get as much treble out of it as I'd like for
rhythm use. The little sucker breaks up nicely starting at about 7 and
when cranked, is crunchy enough for anything but metal. It's quiet at full vol and is worthy of hot-rodding a little (and a better speaker).

it's been cookin for 40 years- Id call that dependable.

Alamo is long gone but it's simple enough for any competent tech to
give it the love and affection it deserves.

been playing since this amp was made and it's a little sweety.

has tremolo controls, vol. trebele, bass, 0n and Off. Very simple amp. It gives me a good sound with my strat or tele. I really haven't tried humbuckers yet. It is a great practice amp which sounds fabulously "fendery" and handles full volume without over saturating or over distorting. It had a Tung Sol rectifier tube and an old Westinghouse 6V6 in it. I figure those are the original tubes and alsos that the speaker is original since it has no name identification information on it at all. The pre-amp circuit is solid state and it does not at all sound that way. If you listen to it blindfolded you would never think you were hearing chips in the preamp section. It sounds that alive.

Im using mostly single coils as noted above and they sound very good. I play many styles but especially blues, blues rock ala Robin Trower, pop, classic rock. When I put my little $25.00 ibanez soundtank TS5 and my $20.00 used DOD FX80 compressor on it, it just boils. It sounds so big for a small amp and I sound so good for a change. I just love the thing.

I've only had it for a couple of weeks but it hasn't broken down yet. A couple more hours and I can stop holding my breath.

Call info and ask them for anything "Alamo" in San Antonio and you get a frickin' security guard or the info desk. These guys folded the amp business in the 60's.

Im going to invest a little in it with a nicer speaker and some new grill cloth and knobs. Other than that it doesn't seem to need much.Shit I sold an old MXR Blue Box that I hadn't used in twenty years and took that $100.00 and bought this Alamo amp and an old Epiphone Pacemaker amp in very, very good condition also so this has to be the best bargain I've had since I bought a Tokai Strat copy for $125.00 10 years ago.