This is a fairly obscure solid-state guitar amplifier from New Zealand - I don’t know exactly when it was made, but it does scream the 1970s. I bought it for $50 a few years back and have been using it as my test amp in the workshop/garage - it has been misbehaving a little lately, so I bought a Vox Pathfinder 15R as a replacement.
I haven't been able to track down a schematic, so this morning I pulled it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong - there was quite a bit of corrosion, and some insects have been using it as a home at some stage (not uncommon in Australia for an old amp). I gave the board a clean, and there was also a broken stabilising spring in the reverb tank, which I repaired.
It's rated at 25w, and it's not very loud. Single 12" speaker of an unknown brand - not sure if it's original. Controls for volume, bass, middle & treble, tremolo and reverb. It does have a really nice tremolo and combined with the reverb it can do a pretty cool vintage-sounding clean tone.
JANSEN TR25 SOLID-STATE GUITAR AMPLIFIER
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