So, I just picked this thing up. It's a Crown "Guitar Amp", as it says on the faceplate, and it sounds way awesome. It's got a beautiful warm, rich tone, with a nice tremolo and cool metallic spring verb/echo. There are two EL84s, two 12AX7s, and two 6V6s. There's a bypass switch but no ground switch. The panel, from left to right, has three 1/4" inputs, Treble, Bass, Volume, 1/4" jacks for Tremolo and Echo respectively, Speed, Depth, Echo, Power switch, and indicator light.
However, there are no indications as to where or when it came from, outside of some of the caps having some Japanese going on. I'm pretty positive it has nothing to do with Crown power amps. My guess is Japan, 1968, but that's based on pretty much nothing.
Less relevantly but more interestingly, though, I can tell you that Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders lived in Tucson for awhile, and before he moved, he unloaded 50 or so of his apparently countless guitar amps in various states of repair at Chicago Music in downtown Tucson, and this was one of 'em. Chicago's the kind of place that's got piles of stuff everywhere, and if they know you, they'll let you mess with it- as in, take it apart and work on it- before you buy it. So I did just that with this amp, and it's shaped up to be quite a little gem!
But, like I said, what the hell is it?
