Trace Elliot - Rescue & Restore (and bargain finds)

[SimonK]

7 hours ago, Hypo199 said:

I bagged it....had to take a punt on this as I've coveted TE gear since I was a kid in a band who longed after the decent stuff, but had to make do and mend with whatever we could find in house clearance sales. 

 

Well done - I considered for about 30 seconds driving up to Sheffield but it would have been an eight hour round trip for me. Let us know if it works!

[Downunderwonder]

Don't even turn it on if those connections are still where they are in that photo. Putting an output up an output is bad news.

[SimonK]

1 hour ago, Downunderwonder said:

Don't even turn it on if those connections are still where they are in that photo. Putting an output up an output is bad news.

 

Yes it does seem to be a rooky error, although hopefully won't fry the preamp if there is no signal (or power spike when it turns on!). I've found another picture of the back panel and they definitely do seem to be speaker out jacks. Question is of course whether anyone in the music shop (or before) may have done something stupid...

 

 

Edited Thursday at 11:04 by SimonK

[Rosie C]

 

I've been thinking about this example today - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/227002618439  I don't know much about Trace Elliot amps other than I have had a long-held ambition for a big Marshall cabinet in my practice space and this has morphed to a big TE cabinet in my practice space. i.e. I buy it, get some friends to help manoeuvre it into place then it stays there until we move house.

 

My partner's a drummer and has recently got into electronic drum pads, so the plan would be to use it for that as well. 

 

It's not really in need of restoration - the fabric's a bit scuffed on the top, but otherwise it looks quite tidy.

 

 

[SimonK]

1 hour ago, Rosie C said:

 

I've been thinking about this example today - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/227002618439  I don't know much about Trace Elliot amps other than I have had a long-held ambition for a big Marshall cabinet in my practice space and this has morphed to a big TE cabinet in my practice space. i.e. I buy it, get some friends to help manoeuvre it into place then it stays there until we move house.

 

My partner's a drummer and has recently got into electronic drum pads, so the plan would be to use it for that as well. 

 

It's not really in need of restoration - the fabric's a bit scuffed on the top, but otherwise it looks quite tidy.

 

 

 

Would it make me sound like a cork sniffer if I said that this was from after they sold out to Peavey... thus said I do have a couple cabs from this era, but very much prefer the older amps. 

[Rosie C]

42 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

Would it make me sound like a cork sniffer if I said that this was from after they sold out to Peavey... thus said I do have a couple cabs from this era, but very much prefer the older amps. 

No, this is useful information - thanks!