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[DSBass]

Does anyone have any links to liveclips/soundclips where the bassplayer is playing on TE. It would be nice to hear other basists playing TE.

I´m also wondering if anyone have any cool info about my TE-head. I play an older AH500X. All info about this amp would be cool to have.

Best regards
Daniel Skilberg from Sweden.

 

[markkoelsch]

Does anyone have any links to liveclips/soundclips where the bassplayer is playing on TE. It would be nice to hear other basists playing TE.

I´m also wondering if anyone have any cool info about my TE-head. I play an older AH500X. All info about this amp would be cool to have.

Best regards
Daniel Skilberg from Sweden.

I have no video, but if you look up Tony Levin and video's of him I think you will be covered. I know he used TE for a long time, and may well still us them. I have a TE GP11 preamp in my rig, and it is really well designed...frankly, I think it was a bit ahead of it's time.

I played through an AH500 one time, and it rocked from what I remember. Enjoy it.

Mark

 

[gr8fulhiker]

Check out Jimmy Weider's Project Percolator on the Live Music Archive website. His bass player is fantastic and plays a Modulus Q6 through a full TE stack. Sorry I can't post a link right now - I'm at work and the site is blocked. The Project Percolator web site has pictures and may have some video too. These guys are amazing. Here's a link to thier site:

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[smeet]

No links, but I have a mid-80s AH500x, and it is an awesome amp.

My one beef with it is that the eq toggle switch keeps going bad...

 

[Robster22]

Here ya go...The great Nathan East with "Fourplay" playing "101Eastbound"
Seen here using his BBNE Signature sixer through a TE amp and speakers, with the nice clean sound that they're known for

 

[4-string]

Mark King was a long time TE user as well.

 

[Zildjian106]

I just picked up a newer AH500 the 7 band one and it is a fantastic head. The only thing is its not as loud as my Mesa Mpulse...time to ditch that and buy some big ass cabs!

 

[murphy]

YEAH!!! Level42
I was at that concert in Wembley!

ooo I'm so old!

 

[quickervicar]

More Mark King (scooped Trace slap tone):

 

[4-string]

You were?! Damn.

I've seen them several times since, but I remember watching that video back in the '80s. Over and over again... Now I have it on DVD, signed by Mark King.

 

[20db pad]

Doug Wimbish has been a TE guy for a long time (with a short SWR departure):

 

[Jimbob Jones]

The bassist in my brothers band uses a TE VA350:

All the recordings use the same amp.

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[Kelly Lee]

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden uses (used?) Trace amps. Here is a link to a list of current users on the Trace website: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Here is a .pdf manual for the AH500X: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

 

[Darkstrike]

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden uses (used?) Trace amps.

Trace heads and Marshall cabs, it used to be, I dunno if he changed heads recently.

 

[username n/a]

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden uses (used?) Trace amps. Here is a link to a list of current users on the Trace website: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Here is a .pdf manual for the AH500X: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Steve used a Trace pre in the early-mid 90s.

 

[username n/a]

Trace heads and Marshall cabs, it used to be, I dunno if he changed heads recently.

Now he uses a custom pre-amp modeled after the HiWatt 200 preamp.

 

[b.bandit]

Here is a clip of me playing through a small Trace head at a battle of the bands. About a year and a half ago. I am in the first band.

I have a Trace Elliot AH-300 series 6 12 band myself.

 

[sockdeluxe_mike]

I didn't know Patrick Dalheimer used a Trace Elliot V-Series head on Lakini's Juice?? Always secretly wondered how the hell he got the distortion on that song, but that's true of most Live songs as well as the guitar player...amazing songs but tones on some of their albums are ALWAYS underrated as well...

 

[hasbeen]

a few other artists that used Trace in the early 90's-
Greg Lake
John Entwhistle
Geddy Lee

Perhaps there are some old YouTubes with them.

 

[quickervicar]

I didn't know Patrick Dalheimer used a Trace Elliot V-Series head on Lakini's Juice?? Always secretly wondered how the hell he got the distortion on that song, but that's true of most Live songs as well as the guitar player...amazing songs but tones on some of their albums are ALWAYS underrated as well...

IIRC, Patrick used the V-Type heads and an MXR Distortion + pedal on that song. While he was pleased with how the mix turned out, he was thinking that the distortion would "take up a different space than it did." (forgive me if I misquote. I haven't read that article for almost 10 years)

Chad used primarily Diaz heads on that album.

Two monster Trace users that really impressed me with their live shows were Mark Harmon of the 77s and Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes. Both had hugely squashed signals with tons of compression, but a huge tone came out of their stacks because of it. Tight & punchy with crisp highs.