Amp: Filmosound 179. Part number 14027. Serial number 141854

Tubes: 6v6 (2), 6SL7 (2), 5Y3 GT (1). All new tubes.

15 watts (as far as I could tell from research. It's not shown on the amp itself)

8 Ohms output



Guys- this thing is the coolest. It's the amp head out of an old Bell and Howell film projector (1949). These make GREAT guitar amps. I had an amp guy do the conversion/mod. Totally cleaned up and running great. Killer, unique overdrive. There's a channel (marked "microphone input") and master volume (knob on far left). Treble and bass tone controls. It does have a 60cycle hum to it, similar to that of single coil pickups. I only notice it when I stop playing. Very low hum at lower volumes, increases a bit when you turn it up to max. But holy smokes, is the OD unique and frickin' cool. Put the channel and master volumes at 12 O'clock for a really nice crunchy tone that cleans up great with soft picking or lowering of the guitar volume. The conversion + the original B & H projector cost more than I'm asking here, but I need room for something else! Happy hunting folks. Message me with any questions.

I've posted a 10 minute track of screwing around on a Strat. I plugged the amp into a small open back cabinet with a 12 inch speaker (cab from a Victoria 20112). I started out with full channel gain and master almost at 10. Throughout the 10 minutes I progressively back off the channel gain and the master volume, ending up at about 9 o'clock on each. I also use the Bridge, neck and in "cluck" setting on pickups. I had the tone knobs at 12 o'clock until the last minute or so. You can hear when I start changing them around. I go extremes on both bass and treble, and then turn the channel and master back up to full again. This recording is without any effects or compression. The compression you hear on the high gain is the AMP ITSELF! I hope you can suffer through my playing for ten minutes to hear a bunch of tones on the amp.













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