| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
Have any of you ever heard of Almo amps?
The amp is from one of my co-worker. I have not seen it jet, but
he tells me is 25 watts (but he does not think so). May be is more
like 10 watts. It may have a 6 or 8 inch speaker and it is about
15 years old. Any ideas as to what is worth?
Why am I asking? Because I want to get it for Michael, my 5 year
old son, so he could let me play on my amp.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 782.1 | Remember the Alamo | AQUA::ROST | Now Sally is a happy girl | Tue Aug 16 1988 18:29 | 7 |
The name might be Alamo. Just another compnay building cheap practice
amps. What's it worth?
$25 or less.
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| 782.2 | RICKS::CALCAGNI | Tue Aug 16 1988 18:39 | 7 | ||
I think Alamo was a small guitar/amp company located somewhere in
Southwestern United States (N.M. maybe?). Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
collects Alamo guitars; he claims they play great. I've also seen
Alamo amps listed in some "vintage" dealer price lists. Might be
a cool little amp; I'd check it out.
/rick
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| 782.3 | Still in production? | FTMUDG::HENDERSON | Wed Aug 17 1988 01:17 | 8 | |
Are these amps still being made? I was under the impression
that Alamo amps were no longer in production. I too have seen them
listed as vintage amps but I cannot remember the circa of the ones
listed. I believe they had 15 and 30 watt models.
If anyone has more information on these puppies, please post
it.
DonH
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| 782.4 | I'm an Alamo Owner | GLASS::ALLBERY | Jim | Sun Aug 13 1989 21:49 | 34 |
Its been a year since the base note was entered, but if anyone
still cares, here's a little more info on Alamo amps...
I bought an Alamo "Jet" about 15 years ago -- my first guitar
amp -- and I still have it, although it spends most of the time in
the closet. I picked it up at a place that was liquidating the
stock of a music store that had gone out of business. It was
presumably un-used, but could have already been a few years old.
A small combo amp, it has a single 12-inch speaker. Its a tube
amp, using a 6V6 as the tube in the power amp circuitry (I believe
this is basically a half-power version of the 6L6, and was also used
in some of the smaller Fender amps, i.e. Champ and Princeton). The
controls are pretty basic-- volume, tone, reverb and tremolo (speed
and intensity). It was made in the USA, and included a 1/4" stereo
jack for a footswitch to turn on and off the reverb and tremolo.
I would estimate the power output to be in the 12-15 watt range.
In terms of sound, I have always liked this amp, but perhaps
my opinion is somewhat shaded by nostalgia. It has a nice warm
sound, and disorts nicely when cranked. Drawbacks are that it's
a little noisey, and the 12" speaker is a pretty cheap one.
Every once in a while, I get the urge to do my Link Wray or
my Ventures imitations, so I dig it out and turn up the tremolo.
An intertaining piece of trivia: A few years ago, the reverb
unit ceased to function, so I pulled out the reverb tank to see if I
could find anything wrong with it. On the inside side of the tank
was a sticker that said something to the effect of:
"This electronic product was assembled by beautiful women
under controlled atmospheric conditions in Madison, Wisconsin."
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