What's bigger than an Elf?

[Stub Mandrel]

The TE Elf has built in compression and like most TE solid state heads sounds best with the gain well up. The compression light SHOULD be coming on. It ends up putting out as much power as a more highly rated amp as it controls transients via the compression rather than handling them with headroom.

 

If the is rotated into the last part of its range an overdrive effect is also applied.

 

You can easily compete with an uncompressed 500W amp through the same speaker cabs, and can set the gain to get a good clean sound, dirty or on the cudp so it's pretty clean and gets dirty as you dig in.

 

Very clever and much misunderstood.  The designers really knew what they were doing. People who think it's a glorified practice amp and complain about fan noise gave missed the point of the Elf.

 

It's as if it was designed specifically to spread the myth of Trace Elliot Watts

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, BassmanPaul said:

If I may point out that the physical position of the volume control has no bearing on the power the amp id putting out. It may well be producing its maximum output at 2 on the scale. All depends on how hot the input signal is.

 

 

Not quite true of the Elf because of the complex compression/overdrive behaviour I just described.

[stewblack]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The TE Elf has built in compression and like most TE solid state heads sounds best with the gain well up. The compression light SHOULD be coming on. It ends up putting out as much power as a more highly rated amp as it controls transients via the compression rather than handling them with headroom.

 

If the is rotated into the last part of its range an overdrive effect is also applied.

 

You can easily compete with an uncompressed 500W amp through the same speaker cabs, and can set the gain to get a good clean sound, dirty or on the cudp so it's pretty clean and gets dirty as you dig in.

 

Very clever and much misunderstood.  The designers really knew what they were doing. People who think it's a glorified practice amp and complain about fan noise gave missed the point of the Elf.

 

It's as if it was designed specifically to spread the myth of Trace Elliot Watts

Yep. It's a beast. I had a brain fart and went ampless into the void last week. Second gig was in a field first in a large pub. 

The Elf popped out of my cables bag and saved both days. It's a brilliant piece of kit 

[JoeEvans]

How about adding an Elf 1x10 combo? Then you can do small gigs with just the combo, medium gigs with the head and cab, bigger gigs with both, and huge gigs using just the Elf amp as a preamp into the PA?

[BillyBass]

I sold my Elf and have often regretted doing so.

 

I used to use it as a rehearsal amp when I played in a studio with no bass head, just an Orange 4x10.  I gigged it a few times through a Barefaced Super Compact, but only when we played a certain pub in Watford that was so small  the guitarist used to prop his combo on top of my Super compact and my GK Legacy didn't fit.

 

They get nice and warm when pushed.

[neepheid]

10 minutes ago, BillyBass said:

I sold my Elf and have often regretted doing so.

 

Easily solved...

[BassAdder60]

I think into a 4ohm cab they sound incredible and loud enough for a loud band, 

A word of warning as being so light they can easily move on top of a cab.

Put a rubber mat down on top of cab to save pulling it off or amp walk