The Trace Elliot V-type Club!!

[quickervicar]

I do hate to say it, but I've started gigging with an Elf.. Not a V series on every level, but a lot easier to move, and the DI is exceptional.

Does the Elf actually sound like a Trace (V or SMX)?

 

[BlushResponse]

Does the Elf actually sound like a Trace (V or SMX)?

I hear the Transit B does a pretty faithful reproduction of the Trace sound.

 

[tombowlus]

I hear the Transit B does a pretty faithful reproduction of the Trace sound.

IME/IMHO, this is the case. The ELF does have a generally "Trace-like" sound but more so along the lines of the V-types, maybe. The Transit-B, on the other hand, is rather SMX-like, to my ears.

 

[Rnb4003]

My british brothers

 

[Rnb4003]

View attachment 2760302 My british brothers

This amp was gigs with M People and Neneh Cherry

 

[Bigbri]

This amp was gigs with M People and Neneh Cherry

Impeccable taste. How does that Marshall compare to the V6? I'll guess that it has alot more distortion ability. My v6 doesn't produce much distortion no matter how high the gain is set.

 

[RobinG]

IME/IMHO, this is the case. The ELF does have a generally "Trace-like" sound but more so along the lines of the V-types, maybe. The Transit-B, on the other hand, is rather SMX-like, to my ears.

Yes, The Elf does have the TE sound. Like any TE amp, you need to find it's sweet spot. It is very dynamic! That is what sold me on the Elf as a main gigging amp.

I LOVE my V6, but the weight/ get in, get it in and out for a 1 hour set leans to the Elf. And the Elf does the job.

Robin

 

[disssa]

IME/IMHO, this is the case. The ELF does have a generally "Trace-like" sound but more so along the lines of the V-types, maybe. The Transit-B, on the other hand, is rather SMX-like, to my ears.

I can confirm that. The Invalid Link Removed sounds more like the older transistor Trace heads and is not comparable to the V-Types. I can´t compare to the ELF, because this one is not available in Germany yet...

 

[El Negro Gato]

My 1995 Trace Elliot V4 V-Type bass guitar amplifier.. .......

 

[El Negro Gato]

Circuit Board

 

[El Negro Gato]

Furnished with four 12AX7//ECC83 Tung-Sol preamplifier valve tubes and four Apex JJ 6550 power valve tubes?

 

[Microbass]

My 1995 Trace Elliot V4 V-Type bass guitar amplifier.. .......View attachment 2765938

That looks damn fine... Ive never seen a Mark 1 V-Type tolexed! Has this been recovered? What's the difference in a 6550 and KT88 (which I thought all the TE valve amps used?)

 

[El Negro Gato]

Power transformer & Trace Elliot sticker

 

[El Negro Gato]

Round wound bass guitar strings with a pick and 6550 power valve tubes amplifier gain grunt !

Tuesday night 27th&T street finger style flat wound bass guitar strings funk.

 

[El Negro Gato]

That looks damn fine... Ive never seen a Mark 1 V-Type tolexed! Has this been recovered? What's the difference in a 6550 and KT88 (which I thought all the TE valve amps used?)

6550 valve power tubes = Corvette KT88 valve power tubes= Jaguar?

 

[Tim1]

That looks damn fine... Ive never seen a Mark 1 V-Type tolexed! Has this been recovered? What's the difference in a 6550 and KT88 (which I thought all the TE valve amps used?)

My Mark 1 V-type is also tolexed just like the one in the pic. Unfortunately it is roadworn and in nowhere near as good condition.

 

[Microbass]

6550 valve power tubes = Corvette KT88 valve power tubes= Jaguar?

Can’t say I follow....

 

[El Negro Gato]

My Mark 1 V-type is also tolexed just like the one in the pic. Unfortunately it is roadworn and in nowhere near as good condition.

Traded in a used EarthQuaker Devices V2 Hummingbird Tremolo pedal and my Trace Elliot V-Type Hybird 5001 300 bass guitar amplifier "Fast and Bulbous"!

 

[amper]

That looks damn fine... Ive never seen a Mark 1 V-Type tolexed! Has this been recovered? What's the difference in a 6550 and KT88 (which I thought all the TE valve amps used?)

That is the original British Racing Green vinyl. I used to own two of these. I sometimes wonder if the people who bought them ever joined this thread. In fact, that could very well be one I sold in that picture! I have heard that only about 400 of the original V-Type heads were made, and clearly not all of them got the vinyl, since later units got dogfur.

The KT88 is about as different from a 6550 as a KT66 is from a 6L6GC. The KT series is slightly better, but not by an incredible amount.

 

[amper]

Here is something very interesting. This is the stock matching cabinet for the v-4, 6, 8. Mine and most likely everybody else's has a 2,4 ohm switch on the back. This cabinet is labelled at 8ohms. They couldn't possibly have intended for everybody to have to carry around two 4x12+horn bass cabinets. The only thing I can think of is this is a v-4 and is the only one that will take an 8 ohm or 4 ohm. No 2 ohm on the v4. Strange.

What's that you were saying? This is the cover of the 1995 Trace Elliot Catalogue: