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I had the 250, 400 and 600 smx. They were great. More character built in compared to S6 for better or worse. I liked the valve blend and dual band compressor.

Thanks bro you saved my life

What was mark king's Trace Elliot amp and speaker model and setup?

Thank you so much you saved me alot of money

it does sound good but the valves inside are not kt88..anyway would you do a proper sampling of the amp by microphoning the amp.also i m a vintage influenced bassist, where are you located. i m in London uk

Hey! Thanks so much Paul, I just moved into a friends sublet and the windows were locked with no key. This was super easy to achieve.

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Hi Paul, I find your videos about Trace Elliot very interesting and like them very much, thanks for them. I like the brand Trace Elliot very much as a ( 77 years old already) experienced bassguitar player. In 1997 i had my first Trace 300 Watt combo to be completed with an additional cabinet 4X10. Lateron in 2006 i replaced the combo for the AH 500 7 new amp head , which I've been using it since. For larger venues I take my 4x10 together with a 1x 15 cabinet. Trace Elliot for me proves to be very reilable.

Ciao Paul, the most probable reason why you haven't seen Series6 AH600X in catalogs is that it overlapped with early GP12 AH600SMX - of which I own one, assembled in October '92, I am not 100% sure if my unit is pre- or already production - which is as well a good-sounding beast. My Series6 is a single channel AH300, which I of course like as well. However, the power amp boards between the late Series 6 and the early SMX seem to be interchangeable, if not the same based on manufacture date, but the positioning definitely isn't. Clive obviously has changed airflow between the Series 6 and the SMX for the better (lateral instead of dorsal) and therefore positioning and connecting of the boards is completely different.

Hi Paul just found your channel I'm a 2nd Year Music and Sound Recording student, on my course we also do Electronics! This summer I found a Trace Elliot Series 6 GP7 discarded with some trash on the side of the road (at 5am on my way back from a games night). We took it back and its pretty functional! Obviously very dusty, there was lots of crackling on the pot too so I'm planning on taking it apart, hopefully give it a good cleaning, TH-cam has been very helpful with videos such as these. Was wondering if you have any words of advice, or suggestions for mods, I'm very new to this but I'm hoping to learn a lot and hopefully not kill it!

Hi Paul, I have a GP7 sm 300W with a 4x10 red stripe and I love it since I saw it in a shop in the 90'. Now a question, maybe you can help, what kind of fuse is in, just under the power entry, back the amp?

Just picked up the WL-60 very happy with the set up

I have ah300-7 gp7

Paul, ive a 1996 GP12 SMX AH250. Its been used mainly as a pampered home amp or emergency backup. I began to get an issue with the main power leads to the circuit board. The fan would fire up but nothing else. Most amp "engineers" would jiggle the connection and give it a dose of switch cleaner and smile as I drove away. It was the sat at home in what were not ideal situations (damp) It now pops when I apply stand-by. The longer use the bigger the pop. I've read a resistor between the standby switch will cure it I just dont have a circuit diagram. If you know anything on this and could enlighten me I would be extremely grateful. I realise it's not possible or viable to reply to every comment and/or query. Hope you can help in anyway. Mark

Brilliant! Even all the way from Canada 🇨🇦.. Your idea to search and show the Reverb was truly Brilliant. You happen to own my dream bass, (P+J Aerodyne) and now I've got a good idea of what I'm dealing with to find one, at a good price. I noticed on Fenders website (Christmas 2023) there were limited stocks of New Aerodynes for half price! No such deal at the moment! Do you want to sell yours?

No it's not haha bad design doesn't work in all guitars and if works makes a humbing noise

Great video. I was given the 130 model in the combo because of that buzz that was intermittent when I slapped it. I opened it up by sliding it out. I believe the common ground from the front control panel. Preamp circuitry, power stage and output transformer are all joined by bolting to the chassis, which was corroded. I solved the problem by unbolting all the components, cleaning and wire brushing the mounts and the amplifier sounds clean. My opinion about the combo is it sucks. No matter how nice the preamp is, the 15 inch speaker is in too small of a box. The frequency rolloff is much higher than the fundamental of the E string and forget about the B string of a five string bass. I played the amplifier through my acme bottom and it sounds fantastic. Problem with this amp is it has only 130 watts, not enough headroom for modern smaller but less efficient cabinets. I think I might take the power amp out and replace it with a 800 watt class D amp. A proper driver, 12 or 10 inch, can be put into the combo and extend the low frequency. Horror story: I fried out my GenzBenz amp with a loose circuit board in a bass guitar that fed 4 volts into the input. Before I isolated the problem, I fried an Ampeg SVT pro! I've never burned out an amplifier in 45 years, two in one week. I've slid the Trace Elliott amp out of the combo, hooked it up to my 2-10 and it sounds wonderful. I've repaired the bass that fried the amps, but I will temporarily use it plugged into a vox headphone amp till I know it's repaired. I might try to plug the line out of the Trace Elliott into a power amp to see how that sounds. This amp sounds just as transparent as my GenzBenz or Ampeg. I've had a Peavey amp that was rugged but sounded colored.

FINALLY! Glad i found this video, my windows can once again be opened. Thanks :)

Omg thankyou so much for this video I finally have my window open 😂 now to work out how to do the sliding window locks. I lost all my window keys and theyre all locked haha

Hi where can I get this replacement and how much ect thanks George

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A brilliant record.. I bought my copy of New Rose in November 1976, mainly because my local shop didn't have "Anarchy In The UK" in stock, and they were - I think - the only two British punk singles that were available at the time.

Paul, I have a GP12 500. built in UK in 1999. I believe that was the last year they were made in the UK. It is an absolute beast and I've just had it repaired by a tech. After which, it fried and blew up the previous speaker I had for it. A vintage Electro Voice 15". I was devastated, because it had just been repaired after being idle for about 7 years. My band mate is a wiz with amps and I should have given it to him in the first place. He replaced one speaker output connector, a thermostat and re glued the input wire plug to the board to stop it disconnecting. With no speaker left, I grabbed a Peavy VB-410 800w cab and it is a beast. I am so happy with the sound this thing has, and it's sound versatility. I'm back in love with it, you can't beat it. On the oscilloscope it STARTS at 500w, and each stage switched in only adds wattage, so the eq, valve-pre, compression all increases the wattage, unless I dial cut into the eq stage, which is how I now grab a shape, for safety. After all that, yes, I have a different model, and I have only ever seen one other, and it was for sale on eBay.

Hey Paul, I'm over in NZ and have a British made GP 1210H which has been great but just recently it seems to lose a bit of volume and bottom end all of a sudden after an hour or so of use. I've never replaced the tube, do you think that may be my issue?

You are spot on thank you for the insight

Thank you so much. This was very helpful

I still wonder…what if you doubled-down and ran say…a pair of Elf combo’s along with extension cabs’ …if that wouldn’t fill the niche for a full-out stage volume rig?

Thanks Paul 🤙 im seriously considering purchasing this amp for touring. Ive had a knock off VST plug in of this amp. I loved it.

Thank you for this video. I do have a Trace Elliot 1215 SMX (comboà; it makes a noise when I use the standby button. Any idea of why, or what I should check? best regards!

Hope you don't mind me contacting you. I have the AH400SMX amp where the UV lamp cct has been butchered by a previous owner. The cct is wrong, so the lamp cannot work. I will rewire the cct to TE schematic, but no-one can tell me where to tap into 110v ac to power the cct. The TE schematic does not have colour codes or any other ID for me to find 110v. I have a good pic of the Transformer, & wondered if you could possibly ID the 110v cables. (Great amp, but a real shame if the UV doesn't work) Thanks pete.

Thanks for the video, you saved me by breaking everything apart haha

The GP12SMX is my favorite amp overall! So clean and vibrant sounding amp. The low band compressor and the ability to cut 30hz cleans up the low B string exponentially. No speaker flubblegarble. (flubblegarble - the sound a speaker makes right before it overextends the voicecoil thus rendering the speaker useless- flubblegarble)

I managed to get one of these in metallic red. Absolute BEAST of a bass. definitely gonna try and get a hold of an SBV-550 or SBV-800MF next... Maybe in the distant future attempt to get one of the exceedingly rare SBV-J2 basses as well... but they go for stupid money owing to them being a limited 100 unit run so that's not super likely - Although number 39/100 is up for sale on eBay at the moment... To say that it's tempting to try is an understatement. Oh, on the manufacturing years - if I recall they were produced for 6 years - 2000 to 2006. The serial numbers can be a tiny bit confusing though because Yamaha recycle their serials once every 10 years. The serial on mine is QP18069 Q implies 1990 or 2000 P is the month September 18 - the day of production 069 - is the batch number form that day. So my bass would be 18th September 2000, number 69 (nice) off the line on that day.

Love the song, love the video. Thanks

I was there, happy times, I remember you borrowing some of my records so you could sit and work out the lyrics for some of these covers 😁😁😁

Do you hear a difference between Solid State and Valve?

Interesting story - I would love to see more of it. Especially because the Trace Elliot company was an absolute legend in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, you can't find much information about the brand and the products on the net today. I myself played an AH500 in the 80s (the one with the black light tube). Recently I bought another Trace, an AH500-12 GP12, serial number TO66/190/29 in top condition. It's basically the same preamp as in your video, but with small graphical differences in the front layout. I wish there was an overview of all Trace amps on the web.... (btw. I love the Scraper demos - great stuff....)

Great sounding amps playing through mine yesterday! Still good by today’s standards and more heft imo than similar rated modern amps !

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I’m looking to get the Transit B as a rig replacement. I can bring my own 1000W monitor to any gig, so I hope that would eliminate complaints from sound techs 😊

Thank you 🙏

I have one of these too. The original pickup died so I replaced it with a Nordstrand NP4. The new pickup is a little too modern sounding for me so I'm looking for a replacement. The neck feels amazing though. My dad bought for $50 in 1996. Everytime I play it out I get offers for it. It was my first bass and my dad gave it to me when I was 12 so there is no way I could let it go.

Hello Paul, I have a GP12 250 watt RMS amp, but I only use it as a preamp at my home studio. I can replace it by bying a GP12 SMX Pre-amp or a GP 12 XV Pre-amp. I look forward to your advice. All best, Geert (Belgium)..

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i bought mine new back in the 80s and it still sounds great

Hi. I bought a GP7SM 130 combo used from 94. I did a re-cap on it and it sounds great! but the fuse that came with it it's a 3A rated fuse and in the back of the amp it's writen 1A for 230V (i'm in Europe btw). I noticed that your amp says 3A for 230V, so should it be fine with a 3A fuse or should i put a 1A on it? Thanks for the video! Cheers!

Can you plz post a link, as to where you got your Trace Tshirt from plz👍🏻😊

Hi paul, may I ask what type of screwdriver should I buy to open this window?

Thank you so much!! I was so upset because my children removed the keys from our half ou4 windows after locking them. I'm in a rental and it's so hot. This video just solved my problem until I can replace the locks ❤❤❤

Thank you! you're a life saver