Post by John on Jan 22, 2012 13:23:05 GMT
Here is my latest amp. It's a 1996 Trace Elliot Super Tramp Twin. It's the all solid state model, covered in green tolex that they produced before adding in a tube to the pre-amp.
In the back are a couple of Celestion G12L-60's. These were custom made for Trace Elliot. I know that these amps also came with vintage 30's, but I am not sure about when these were introduced.
The amp itself has two channels, one 'clean' and one overdriven. On the overdriven channel, there is also a boost available, and two different overdrive options, 'vintage' and 'modern'.
Both channels have a gain control, bass, mid, treble and level controls, with channel two also having the boost control. There is a master volume control, a reverb control and presence control for all channels. Around the back are sockets or a dual latching footswitch to control the channel select and boost, and another for a single latching footswitch to control the reverb.
Starting with channel 1. With the gain turned right down, the amp produces a lovely clean sound with barely any break-up happening. Ideal for jazz. The tone manages to be bright whilst still maintaining lovely warm mid-tones good bass response as well. Cranking the gain up gives a great raunchy blues sound which is nice and easy to control. Picking away gently maintains the clean sound, but digging in a bit will allow the sound to break up nicely. At it's highest gain setting, this channel will give you a lovely warm fuzz sound. Great for playing in the style of cream or other 60's heavy blues style bands.
On channel two, with the switch to vintage mode, there is a wide range of tones available, starting off pretty much where we left channel one, with a low gain setting giving a nice warm valve sounding fuzz tone. Cranking up the gain just builds on this further, all the while maintaining that valve sound. Flipping over to the 'modern' setting gives a more scooped higher gain sound with a real edge to the tone. It's a lot more biting, and once you get up to the dusty end of the fretboard it really starts to sing to you and makes pinch harmonics a doddle to play!
Reverb on the amp is provided by a 3 spring beltone tray in the back. I find I am happy to use this and no other external effects. It's a great, natural sounding reverb unit.
I love this amp. If you didn't know it was all solid state, you wouldn't guess until you looked round the back. I have played plenty of good quality valve amplifiers, and whilst they are nice, I would still come back to my British Racing Green Trace Elliot Super Tramp any day! You get all the tone without any of the hassle. This is a great british sounding amplifier that gives you an amazing bang for buck ratio!
In the back are a couple of Celestion G12L-60's. These were custom made for Trace Elliot. I know that these amps also came with vintage 30's, but I am not sure about when these were introduced.
The amp itself has two channels, one 'clean' and one overdriven. On the overdriven channel, there is also a boost available, and two different overdrive options, 'vintage' and 'modern'.
Both channels have a gain control, bass, mid, treble and level controls, with channel two also having the boost control. There is a master volume control, a reverb control and presence control for all channels. Around the back are sockets or a dual latching footswitch to control the channel select and boost, and another for a single latching footswitch to control the reverb.
Starting with channel 1. With the gain turned right down, the amp produces a lovely clean sound with barely any break-up happening. Ideal for jazz. The tone manages to be bright whilst still maintaining lovely warm mid-tones good bass response as well. Cranking the gain up gives a great raunchy blues sound which is nice and easy to control. Picking away gently maintains the clean sound, but digging in a bit will allow the sound to break up nicely. At it's highest gain setting, this channel will give you a lovely warm fuzz sound. Great for playing in the style of cream or other 60's heavy blues style bands.
On channel two, with the switch to vintage mode, there is a wide range of tones available, starting off pretty much where we left channel one, with a low gain setting giving a nice warm valve sounding fuzz tone. Cranking up the gain just builds on this further, all the while maintaining that valve sound. Flipping over to the 'modern' setting gives a more scooped higher gain sound with a real edge to the tone. It's a lot more biting, and once you get up to the dusty end of the fretboard it really starts to sing to you and makes pinch harmonics a doddle to play!
Reverb on the amp is provided by a 3 spring beltone tray in the back. I find I am happy to use this and no other external effects. It's a great, natural sounding reverb unit.
I love this amp. If you didn't know it was all solid state, you wouldn't guess until you looked round the back. I have played plenty of good quality valve amplifiers, and whilst they are nice, I would still come back to my British Racing Green Trace Elliot Super Tramp any day! You get all the tone without any of the hassle. This is a great british sounding amplifier that gives you an amazing bang for buck ratio!
