NAD: Noone told me Trace Elliot is cool as heck

[friendship]

My main guitar amp is discontinued Trace Elliot. I wanted to learn more about it so I had emailed the company asking for information and the next day they sent me a pdf of the manual and a full schematic! p fucking cool imo

[doommeow]

My main guitar amp is discontinued Trace Elliot. I wanted to learn more about it so I had emailed the company asking for information and the next day they sent me a pdf of the manual and a full schematic! p fucking cool imo

Which model?

I had the Gibson GA-15rv for a while - basically a rebranded late model Trace. Loved that amp, desert island clean sustain feedback machine.

Sold it.

[phantasmagorovich]

We had one in the rehearsal space that our bassist would use every once in a blue moon. I frigging loved the sound. Such a nice round rumble, reminded me of a Reggae sort of sound. Lovely.

I did not tell you? Basically the only thing I know about bass amps is that I love Trace Elliott.

[DarkAxel]

haha nice

arrived today, tested it with the flats. Damn that EQ is powerful. I really dig it, was a great purchase for sure. Now i'll just have the bass refretted and all is good

[friendship]

My main guitar amp is discontinued Trace Elliot. I wanted to learn more about it so I had emailed the company asking for information and the next day they sent me a pdf of the manual and a full schematic! p fucking cool imo

Which model?

I had the Gibson GA-15rv for a while - basically a rebranded late model Trace. Loved that amp, desert island clean sustain feedback machine.

Sold it.

Yup, it was the Velocette, what the Goldtones were based on. Mine was the 10" model, but I'd love to try the RV model, it has a 12" right? Did you use the reverb on it much? I think there's also a single-ended model but I've never seen one online.

[doommeow]

My main guitar amp is discontinued Trace Elliot. I wanted to learn more about it so I had emailed the company asking for information and the next day they sent me a pdf of the manual and a full schematic! p fucking cool imo

Which model?

I had the Gibson GA-15rv for a while - basically a rebranded late model Trace. Loved that amp, desert island clean sustain feedback machine.

Sold it.

Yup, it was the Velocette, what the Goldtones were based on. Mine was the 10" model, but I'd love to try the RV model, it has a 12" right? Did you use the reverb on it much? I think there's also a single-ended model but I've never seen one online.

TBH, it was a decade ago and I didn't have it long but I do remember liking the reverb.

Was there a single ended Velocette? I know there was the modern Gibson GA-5, on the market more or less the same time as the rest of the Trace made/designed Gibson GA-x series. The GA-5 was single ended, and a great little amp. Basically a gainy tweed circuit, similar to a 5F1. Were popular for awhile after MF/GC/etc blew them out for $299.

[friendship]

TBH, it was a decade ago and I didn't have it long but I do remember liking the reverb.

Was there a single ended Velocette? I know there was the modern Gibson GA-5, on the market more or less the same time as the rest of the Trace made/designed Gibson GA-x series. The GA-5 was single ended, and a great little amp. Basically a gainy tweed circuit, similar to a 5F1. Were popular for awhile after MF/GC/etc blew them out for $299.

Yeah looks like it was called the Velocette SE. It's too bad they're so hard to come by, I'd love to try some of the other models sometime, your description of the GA-5 sounds awesome.