The company Trace Elliot is a manufacturer of

The enterprise belongs beside SWR, Ampeg, Gallien & Krueger and Warwick to the large names in the business.

Registration number is and was the specific "trace Elliot green". The front shines with the old amplifiers green, if it is illuminated with black light (for this specially tubes were integrated, which the inscription brings to the Phophorisieren). With the following series it is an electrical effect, with which elements were brought into the color, which shone with small tension. In the new series there is green LEDs, which bring the front to shining.

Trace Elliot stands since more jeher for the typically British sound. This is not HiFi well-behaved pure and polished as e.g. as the typical SWR or Gallien & Krueger sound. A trace Elliot plant sounds always a little dirty and rockig. Typically for trace Elliot is also the graphic Equalizer, finally was trace Elliot one of the first amplifier companies the these introduced. Originally 11 frequency bands could be worked on by sliding controls, end of the 80's on 12 volumes were rigged. In the 90's parallel to the 12-Band series still another amplifier row with 7-Band Equalizer was presented.

Beside bass amplifiers one manufactured also amplifiers for e and acoustic guitars. The exhibited a high quality, sold themselves however rather badly, since the company the image of a bass amplifier manufacturer attached too much. The acoustic guitar amplifiers of trace Elliot rank however this very day among the best ones on the market.

After trace Elliot had created it into the 80ern and 90ern for the dream of many bassists, not least owing to prominent bassists such as Marks King, came the company Ende of the 90's into difficulties and at Gibson was sold. The amplifier program resumed before at the beginning of 2003 production was completely stopped.

After 2003 in the trace Elliot work amplifiers for orange were manufactured, which in the meantime also to Gibson belong. Bought the rights at the name trace Elliot thereupon Peavey and presented a completely revised amplifier series to 2005. These new amplifiers will have shining automatic controller, the typical 12-Band Equalizer and even the boxes again in England built, still green will become further equipped with Celestionspeakern.

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