NAD: Trace Elliot Super Tramp

[Dave Sloven]

I got this today in a trade for some stuff I had lying around in a drawer.

The PCB, pickups (490R/498T chome covered), tuners, bridge, and tailpiece from my 2011 SG Standard + the pickups (490R/490T black open coil), tuners, bridge and tailpiece from my 2007 SG Special.  Plus I threw in the hideous tarnished gold hardware from my 2006 Epiphone '58 Korina Explorer.

For all of that I got this.  A 1990s UK-made 80W Trace Elliot Super Tramp solid state combo amp with spring reverb and an English 4 ohm Celestion Vintage 30 speaker, with the factory two-button footswitch.


 

[gwEm]

congratulations on your new amp. i once played a valve trace elliot amp from that period and I also owned a 2x12 for quite some time. both sounded good and were build like tanks. i'm sure your Super Tramp will stand up to years of use and abuse. the question is - how does it sound?

Plus I threw in the hideous tarnished gold hardware from my 2006 Epiphone '58 Korina Explorer.

yes! that stuff is hideous.

[richard]

Congratulations. I remember that these amps were highly thought of at the time and Trace Elliott seemed to be on a roll with some name players endorsing their tube models. At one time every bass player I knew was using Trace Elliott. Didn't they sell out to Gibson ?

[Dave Sloven]

I think they did.

It's a nice amp but a bit too warm sounding for me, I might trade it later if someone offers me an old silver stripe Bandit for it.

[Plenum n Heather]

Very nice amp! Congrats!