Epiphone Futura

This all tube amp was made in the early to mid 60's. It is 50 watts? and has 4 10" speakers. It takes 2 6L6GC's in the power section and 1 12AU7A, 3 6E47's, and 1 6FQ7 in the preamp section. It also has an OA2. Mine has a 1/4" jack connecting the speakers (pretty cool, as you could play into a cabinet) and they are wired at 8 ohms. It has two channels (non-footswitchable); one for strictly clean, the other with reverb and tremolo(footswitchable). The knobs include loudness (volume), bass, treble on channel one and loudness, bass, treble, reverb, tremolo depth and tremolo frequency. Both channels have presence switches. My rating is five because it's very simplistic.

This amp was made to play cleans. The original alnico speakers break up incredibly at high volumes (past 6). This amp doesn't take very well to heavy distortion. It does fine with lower distortion settings. Honestly, this amp should just play cleans. I play a Fender Stratocaster through it and the stock neck pickup sounds full, warm ...just beautiful. This amp would be good for anything clean...no heavy music. It's only noisy with really crappy guitars. This is a perfect studio amp for recording cleans. clean clean clean...i'm going to give it a 9 for the cleans.

Its vintage, so you probably want a backup. The amp has never broken down on me in the 3 years i've had it.

never dealt with epiphone.

I've been playing 15 years. If it were stolen or lost I would want another for recording clean guitars. and last but not least, im giving it a 7 for being good with CLEAN sounds.