2wheeler Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 (edited) Oldschool Trace Elliott 15" combo, no tweeter. I don't know that much about the origins. It is a GP11 put together with a very good driver. It's not as loud or as portable as modern kit but the tone is amazing and the 11 band EQ is famous already, I don't need to say anything about it. Oh go on then just about every setting sounds good but you still have great control to shape the sound. Would be perfect for a studio or a recording player, or gigs where phat tones are more important than anything else. Sound samples to follow. [Edited to remove references to valves after it was pointed out that it doesn't have any! ] Edited March 30, 2014 by 2wheeler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytoad Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Has this got valves then or tranny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Transistors surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratman Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Yes, transistors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheeler Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 Oops. Ignorance showing. Warm tone, age and weight made me think it was valve-based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightSix Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Is this the model with the slightly sloping front...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheeler Posted March 30, 2014 Author Share Posted March 30, 2014 Yes. When I went to make the recording, I discovered that there is a fault. Low E to D make a woolly, farty sound. I will let this fall down the llistings and either bump it when fixed or relist, unfixed, with a completely honest description of the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstriper Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I had the same combo and I still have the amp - I took it out and made a case for it. It's a great amp and the speaker was a Fane, which gave a huge deep tone. Mine developed a similar fault that you describe and the solution was very simple. The fuse on the back is secured by a screw fitting next to the power input socket - this screw had worked slightly loose and just needed tightening to solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheeler Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 Thanks redstriper, there is, indeed, absolutely nothing wrong with this after all. In fact, it is so good I just kept it for another good few months. However, I am now definitely upgrading and a Barefaced Big Baby 2 is on its way. My wife is now desperate to see the back of this sizeable combo. [url="https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-merriam/sets/trace-elliot-15-combo-sound"]Here are a couple of sound clips[/url]. The upright is a Golden Strad with very new Obligatos using a Fishman Full Circle pickup into a Fishman B2 preamp. The electric is a StingRay with d'Addario flatwounds. All settings everywhere completely flat. There is substantial background noise because[list=1] [*]the amp is [i]not[/i] super-silent and I had to do the recording at very low volume, so that the noise is more apparent [*]I used my phone for the recording [/list] I'll take offers. I got the amp when I had a budget of £300 for a combo and couldn't accept the tone quality of anything I could get new for that price. I was very happy indeed with what I got and I very much hope that the next owner will have a similar experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheeler Posted September 10, 2014 Author Share Posted September 10, 2014 Here's a link to the tread via which I got this combo [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/70563-trace-gear"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/70563-trace-gear[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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