Alamo Futura

I believe this amp was made in the mid-late 60's. 1-12" Jensen Alnico spkr. 5
AX7's, 2 6V6's and a 5Y3 plus a couple of rectifiers. 4 inputs. 2 clean volume and tone knobs, 1 with volume, reverb and the sweetest tremelo w/ speed and intensity knobs. (Think Pops Staples.) Reverb foot switch jack. Never used it.

I just found this online at: http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=89

"New names in the ?65 combo line included the No. 2567, now called the Futura, with reverb and tremolo. This had eight tubes, four inputs, two channels ? one with reverb and tremolo, volume, tone, 12" speaker, 15 watts, and a price of $199.50." Jim Lansing speaker option quite a bit extra.

Play mostly blues, groove oriented stuff, some lap steel. Great for those tones. Good dirt and as I said gorgeous tremelo.

This amp had problems when I bought it. After replacing capacitors, tubes, etc., it still starts crackling and making a ton of noise whenever, and I end up having to do $100 worth of work to it every time I use it for recording. (fortunatey not that often.)

Amazingly loud for such low wattage, enough for small gigs.

Use with various Strats, old Silvertone hollowbody and vintage Dan Electro Convertible. Moderately quiet until the noise starts. Then cuts in and out. Been repaired several times by several "experts" and after a few months it gets noisey again. Yes, the clean channel distorts great at high volumes:>) but it's very sweet.

This amp has never worked reliably... see above. But I can't part with it because nobody makes a tremelo like this. It's an amplitude variable tremelo like the Magnatone.

n/a since Alamo is long gone.

Playing 35 yrs. Other amp is Semour Duncan 50-40 or something. Great AC 30 sound, and so clean I use it for acoustic gigs. Also Peavy Classic 30

Probably wouldn't seek this out again, but I'm a sucker for old Magnatone's, etc. And it probably compares to that in reliability.

I believe this amp was made in the mid-late 60's. 1-12" Jensen Alnico spkr. 5
AX7's, 2 6V6's and a 5Y3 plus a couple of rectifiers. 4 inputs. 2 clean volume and tone knobs, 1 with volume, reverb and the sweetest tremelo w/ speed and intensity knobs. (Think Pops Staples.) Reverb foot switch jack. Never used it.

Play mostly blues, groove oriented stuff, some lap steel. Great for those tones. Good dirt and as I said gorgeous tremelo.

This amp had problems when I bought it. After replacing capacitors, tubes, etc., it still starts crackling and making a ton of noise whenever, and I end up having to do $100 worth of work to it every time I use it for recording. (fortunatey not that often.)

Amazingly loud for such low wattage, enough for small gigs.

Use with various Strats, old Silvertone hollowbody and vintage Dan Electro Convertible. Moderately quiet until the noise starts. Then cuts in and out. Been repaired several times by several "experts" and after a few months it gets noisey again. Yes, the clean channel distorts great at high volumes:>) but it's very sweet.

This amp has never worked reliably... see above. But I can't part with it because nobody makes a tremelo like this.

n/a since Alamo is long gone.

Playing 35 yrs. Other amp is Semour Duncan 50-40 or something. Great AC 30 sound, and so clean I use it for acoustic gigs. Also Peavy Classic 30

Probably wouldn't seek this out again, but I'm a sucker for old Magnavox's, etc. And it probably compares to that in reliability.

don't know the year exactly 71-74? it has the same controls as the fender deluxe reverb. has a push pull switch on the vibrodo channel. it has 2 12 inch speakers that i had to replace due to i found this amp in the old high school band room and had years of neglect. has 3 tubes. 2 7868's and the standard pre amp tube.

this is a pure blues amplifer. i play many types of guitars, strats tele's and pauls. my 52 tele sounds super fantastic. the les paul custom gives it that super dude tube distortion sound your looking for. on the other hand, if i plug in my boss distortion pedal something wrong happens. it sounds like poo for all my guitars. i like to play heavy metal once in a while. plus its a loud amp yet a little hard to manage like the fender hot rod deville like i previously had.

i recieved it broken. short in the wiring but like i said it was badly neglected. it had a 2 inch whole in one of the speakers. i added two emenince speakers and its much better. i had it professionally fixed so now its a prime amp again.

the company is long gone. luckly its not too hard to work on for me or a pro.

i've been playing for years. i've had a twin reverb, deluxe reverb, and a few solid states. it blows the solid states away but almost hits the fender mark. since it was given to me, i can't complain(i lost the other two amps in a devorce). now that is restored i'm not sure if i want to sell it due to i love playing heavy distorted heavy metal, but i will give it a while. its not that bad of an amp. the fender products just spoiled me:) if you come across one of these and the price is right, get it. its not super but it is fun.

tube amp two 6v6s,solid state rectiffire, two chanels 4 , 2 tone controlls inputs,trem/rev, footswitch,12"cst speaker,about 12watts,this amp has been good for me,have done some tube and cap changes,with different affects on sound.wish it had better tone eq. but some things you just can't get.it dose have a speaker out let jack for ext/speaker.

i have played ,stat's les paul,lotus,fender bullet,tel's thru this amp.start seem best suited for this amp.rick 325 sounds good to,i try to play blues,amp sounds good with brown base ge 6v6s in it.it's clean all the way up till it's dimed.with nos ge6v6gta's in it it breaks up early abuot 5 or 6 on vol.and breaks up all the way till dimed with out much increase in volume.this is not a shread amp ,not a fender or a vox.it dose with a little coasting put out a usable bluse tone,loud enough for you to get a devorice over.i like the way it sounds ,almost a delux sound in clean mod. reverb goes from good to deep hall and then some.tremolo can be slowed way down .it has a wide range of sound's .ccr to kenny wayen sound? any way it aint heavey about 20pounds.and you could do way worst.a seven only because it could have had better tone set up and overdrive chanel would have helped.

i have depened on this baby for years,and will for may years to come.

no way to tell

this amp is not perfect,i'd like to see what it sounds like with silver bell weber installed.i've been try'n to play about 30 years or so,and i have had many amps thru the years.for blues i think you can't go wrong with one of these babys, sence teeds have had such a increase i price over the last 10 years or so. with a little tweaking this amp can make music like any of it's high priced ,over rated counter parts in teed.i buy all i can find.

Versatile? Uh, Alamo was a little amp manufacturer circa mid 60's until early 70's in San Antonio Texas. This particular tube amp has two 6V6 output tubes for a total output power of about 30 wrms. The pos speaker it came with died a long time ago and I replaced it with a 12" celestion in its open-backed cabinet. I also used it for bass, not guitar. This amp is good for one sound only, the sound of a highly over-driven Marshall bass amp at a MUCH lower volume level then the original. Very little low bass, like all other tube amps. But the nastiest mid-range you've ever heard - I can do Tony Iommi lead and Geezer bass (Black Sabbath) with just a bass and a EH Big Muff Pi (american)... Gets loud too, especially when driven by a Bigg Muff. I have used this amp playing bass with bands and also solo loop machine work, all on stage. I have also played it in competition with modern amps and I could still hear it.

Major fuzz bass w/feedback

I have depended on it every time I turned it on for the last 14+ years, but I think I finally belw it abiut 3 months ago - it could have been the filter caps and it could have been the tubes - guess it is time to find out eh?

Yeah right. What company? What is a warranty? You been gone since 1975 right?

Good srevice for the last 14 years including a bunch of loud gigs...