Kalamazoo Model Two

My amp is very versatile. It can accomodate the many different playing styles. Sublime sounds excellent when pouring out of the 10" speaker. When you turn the amp up really loud you get that nice vintage distortion sound. My amp has three channels, Volume, Tremolo, Tone. I wish the amp had some distortion on it. With the addition of a Zoom 505 effects pedal it has excellent sounds. This amp has great sound in a small bedroom.

I use this amp with an Fender Squire. It has coil pickups

I can depend on it to hum after I turn iton

10 excelent

The Model two is avery simple anp. It only has three nobs, one for volume, one for tremelo, and one for tone which, when turned, activates the amp.

The tremelo on this puppy is massive. I love it. Its got the classic rock sound. It deon't have distortion, but hey that's what stomp-boxes are for.

I just got this amp, so I haved had the chance to terorize it.

Kalamazoo does not contine to make amps, which is a bummer.

I probably paid a bit to much for it, but the sound is so beutifull it's worth it.

This is a bargain basement amp built by one of the subsidiaries of Gibson a l-o-n-g time ago. It has a 10" speaker and is roughly the side of a Fender Champ. It uses an EL-84 as a power tube, a 6X4 for a rectifier, and a 12AX7 as the preamp tube. It has controls for volume, tone, and tremolo (that's right it's got a trem!). Volume and Trem knobs double as the on-off switches. Very cheesy build (the chassis is a piece of bent-sheet metal. It's very low output. The other review mentions 10w but I doubt that's accurate. My champ has more output and this sucker is just using a single EL-84. I guess about 4 watts.

Surprisingly good. Amp breaks up smoothly and works well with both single coils and humbuckers. Interacts pretty well with pedals. The amp is pretty quiet considering it's age but it sounded horrendous when I first got it. After replacing the electrolytic caps and a couple noisy resistors it runs fine. The tremolo is rather subdued compared to other amps but it can get pretty funky. It also makes things noisier.

This amp has very few parts so you've got little to worry about. However it's not built ruggedly. It's not giggable since it's so low output but it would hold up well to general use.

Kalamazoo is long gone. My amp has a schematic inside and since it's only got a few parts it's an easy DIYer job. However, the filter caps are in a multi-cap configuration that uses some odd values so finding exact replacement parts isn't going to be easy.

I think these amps are a great deal if you can find one for a good price. They're especially great for low volume practice. I'm eventually going to turn my amp into a head and use it to drive a 2x12 cab which ought to be interesting....

Very Sparse - Volume, Tremolo and Tone controls. 10 watts all tube with point to point wiring. This amp is probably over 30 years old. I added an extension speaker out jack and a pre amp out with adjustable gain.

I am using a 76 strat with Fralin pickups and a 60's Mustang with two EMG-S and DiMarzio humbucker. I play mainly blues with this amp. I retubed it with Groove tubes: 2 12AX7r's, 1 EL84s and tracked down a rectifier tube replacement. I also replaced the no name 10 inch speaker with a Celestion Vintage 10. All of this reworking changed the tone from a muddy mess to a pretty good sounding amp. It has a nice full bass sound with pleasing natural distortion at low volumes. It runs fairly quiet and is basically a one sound amp. Not much clean overhead given that it is only ten watts. This is a great practice amp though especially if you have kids sleeping upstairs.

I have slammed the front end of this amp with a few distortion boxes and it has survived the punishment. I think the tubes I just replaced were the originals. I have had this amp for 20 years and it has been in the shop twice for minor repairs (capacitor blew up once, loose connection the other time) and upgrades. Not loud enough for full band gig.

Kalamazoo products were sold through (and probably produced by) Gibson many years ago. I contacted their customer relations department and they were nice enough to give me the name of an outfit in Texas that had an original rectifier tube replacement. This shop's name was Craig's Music, 123 Dallas Avenue, Weatherford, Texas 76086-3235. They were nice over the phone too.

Since I reworked this amp it is pretty nice sounding. The neat thing about it is it's all tube, point to point wiring and weighs in at only 18 lbs. This amp is perfect for getting together with one of your guitar playing buddies at a low volume jam. You need a nice distortion pedal to get any variation of sound out of it though. I use an Ibanez Tube King and this amp can get knarly tones and feedback at low volumes. It would be nice if it had reverb but obviously this little amp was built to be a one trick pony. If you can find one and are willing to sink $100 bucks or so into a rework this amp might be for you. If it got stolen I would be bummed. I am sure there are other amps out there in this wattage that would also fill the bill though.