Trace Elliot Super Tramp

Not sure of the year older model for sure The amp is quite versatile to a point No metal here with out pedals but great cleans and nice blues/ acdc type tones in the drive section I wish the drive section had more punch but I hooked up a 10 band eq and wow! it made all the difference It also gives the highs more clarity as the trace is a bit bottom heavy
I use it on my gigs For blues or classic rock no pedals just the footswitch eq wa and tuner For country gigs I ad a screaming blues and a compressor for the Nashville overdrive thing Although solid state this is a great amp nice clean and one of the sweetest od channels of any amp I have played tube or not not a ton of features but how many do you really need?

I use my strat mostly jeff beck noiseless pickups It suits my style very well jazz/blues with some classic rock Its not noisy at all although there is some hiss on the od channel with the eq The clean is very nice halfway and its quite loud and full the ist od is nice and smooth the 2nd more saturated with a nice boost which I keep on all the time nice verb not a fender but has its own personality

so far so good I usually have a small combo in the trunk but thats just guitar player paranoia

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been playing over 30 years if I lost this I would get another no doubt about it I love how simple it is and the great sounds with no pedals at all Separate master vol on clean and od would be nice If I could have the ultimate trace I would have 3 channels with separate eq for each one but for an inexpensive solid state amp it really holds its own against the bigger boutique models very impressive and it looks cool too

This is a solid state combo. 80 watts thru a Celestion G12T-60 speaker. It's a two channel amp, with two drive modes and a boost in the drive section. All operated by footswich. Also equiped with Reverb, effectsloop and master prescense and volume. This amp uses FET technology for it's tube like response. These amps were build between 1994 en 1996 and is finished in Britisch Racing Green Tolex. Mine was build in 1996. Nothing fancy on this amp. The only problem is the fact that the drive switch is small en mounted between the gain and bass knobb in the drive section. I don't understand why they did that. The sound difference between the two drive modes are huge. They should have made it footswitchable.

I mainly use a strat or a es 335 copy. I play in a blues/ rock style.
This amp has a rich clean sound. Very tube like. The amp is very responsive and compliments my guitars. Also the drive section has that tube feeling. Nothing fizzy here, but nice, full tones. It won't do metal, but has enough gain for most styles. The eq section works very well on both channels. The first drive mode gives you a crunchy blues sound, I know you will like. The second one has more gain, a bit warmer and more sustain. Think Gary More...

I have noticed this little combo has a lot of bass responce for a single 12 inch speaker. Cheap humbuckers will sound muddy. It's loud as hell and doesn't get thin sounding on higher volume levels.

Although no tubes, it sounds realy good. I won't be surprised if people think I am playing an all tube amp. Also because it looks beautiful and vintage with the green tolex.

I have used it without a backup. No problem. Why would you ever use a back-up amp by the way? Only reason I can think of is bad tubes. I don't use tubes..haha..
I bought this amp second hand in mint condition. So there was no wear and tear and the pots sounded clean, no crackle..I have opened it up and it looks realy well made, good components, good soldering and isolation. I don't think I will ever have any problems with this amp as long as I don't start abusing it by smashing guitars in to it.

I've written a couple of e-mails to trace elliot, asking for some more info. They responded within a day, but could not help me a lot, because this is such a rare model. It's very hard to find anything on this amp on the internet. The model after this is fitted with a tube in the pre- amp and much more popular, but doesn't sound as good. The manual for this amp is easy downloadable from the TE website. I don't think I will be needing TE a lot, because I don't think it will break down.

I've been playing for 20 years now. I played in a couple of different bands and will be using the supertramp as my main gigging amp. I don't have to much gear, because I just don't use it. I use just a Cry Baby and a Tube Screamer copy. I don't need anything more to get my sound just right.
I would definately buy it again, if I can find one.
I was first looking for a sessionette 75, but then I found this one. I'm glad I did. this one has more options and sounds a bit warmer.

The only thing it lacks is a footswitchable drive switch, but perhaps in the future I will try to change that myself.

Until now I realy like this amp. It gives me all the sounds I need, very responsive. The sound breaks up nicely. I think I have found the amp I will spend the rest of my life with...

This is an 85 watt,1995 model which I have owned since new.No valves,all solid state.It has a clean channel with bass,mid ,treble and level controls.The gain channel has gain 1&2 settings with it's own bass,mid & treble controls.The amp also has a prescence control and reverb and a footswitch that operates either reverb or boost for solo's.The amp has a celestion vintage 30 speaker and is finished in British racing green.

Firstly let me say that I have bought and sold valve amps while I have owned this amp and have not once considered selling this little baby.The clean channel may not quite have the sparkle of an old Fender but it is better than a marshal's and many other valve models.The personality of the guitar is well preserved and the sound is rounded and full.The gain channels are even better.Gain 1 gives a great set of classic rock tones with great dynamics and with intelligent use of the sensitive mid control you can dial up a fierce sound without it ever being harsh.Gain 2 adds another preamp stage and takes you into more of a gary moore sustain.Compared to ANY valve amp I have put this next to it is VERY quiet.

I've owned this amp since 1995 and while I have had problems with valve related amps(transformers,caps.tubes)this amp has been absolutely bulletproof.Not one problem in over 12 years of solid use.

The warranty was 12 months. I've never needed to contact Trace.So I could'nt say.

I have'nt tried the 2 speaker version of this amp but this is a better sounding amp than the model that followed with the 12ax7 preamp valve.This is a great amp period and far and away the best solid state I've heard.Excellent tones,quiet operating,well built,whats not to like? If you can find one get one.

I think think mine was one of the earlier models with the black knobs. I think early nineties.
2 Ch. 2 gain w/boost & verb. All foot switchable.
I use this amp in an original rock and roll band (indie at times) I plug straight in to the amp after a Peterson tuner, and can get an unlimited amount of sounds with gobs of power in any room or on any stage. I don't really need any other features, but I do use nearly every knob on the thing while playing, and I change the sounds up to four times a song depending on what the song requires.

This amp can go from the smoothest clean chimey full rythm to the nastiest rageing dirty crunch monster at the drop of a hat. It can do Mark Knofler leads or country twang. The clean channel sounds so lush that you swear it was a tube amp (no tubes in this one though I opened it up)The gain channel is awesome. I can get the thing to sound like a synth with no peddles at all. Both channels could use a little more high end though, I often run it with the highs boosted to three o'clock. I play a 79 gretsch TK-300 (solidbody) a 73 Sekova lawsuit era SG copy, and A 63 Hohnor Prinze w/first issue Joe Bardon "danny Gatton" humbckers straight in to the Amp. The Gretsch can do fuzzy punk rock and clash style chops, also dark jazzy crap or funkey rythm chord work. The SG can just shred the crap out of you or do lussshyy jam band leads. Jerry Garcia to Jack White. The Prinz can do anything it freaking wants to. The pickups are wired to be pole switchable so think of a tone, any tone!

Got the thing for $60 because the verb wasn't working (wierd machanical buzz). I had a hunch after listening to it, so I bought it and sure enough when I got it home all I had to do was pop one of the springs in the tank back on to the hook. Presto......$60 amp that has more charm then Santa Clause. I play out every single weekend with no backup, and I smashed the post off the reverb control.*****sadness**** (found the knob thank god) I ordered a replacement solder-in pot from http://www.britishaudioservice.com/ So once that is here it will rock some more shows I'm sure.

Never dealt with them
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for all your trace/vox/marshall needs, these people rule!! I don't even work for them, I just found them when looking for a replacement pot for the trace.

I have been playing for 15 years now and currently play lead guitar for The Codes out of philadelphia. If this amp was stolen I would be forced to break some kneecaps. I prefer this amp to my Peavey classic 50 4X10, Ampeg Reverbarocket II, Vox VC60 VST, Peavey Bandit 112 Scorpion, and Univox b13n.
There is one of these in the local guitar shop going for $375 and I almost bought it for no good reason. I went in and was like "that is the best amp you have in this entire place". The dude was like what do you mean and then he played it for real and freaked out at how great it was. They just made sure it worked and set it in the back. Now they have it in the sealed off booth for people checking out guitars!

Features are all pretty basic really, but useful. It has one and a half channels Clean/Gain/Gain Boost all of which are footswicthable through a two button footswitch as well as footswitchable reverb, and volume boost which is useful. This is a working amp it's real simple but it works really well. It has one ecc83 tube in the preamp on the gain channel which gives it a slightly more "natural" tone, hardly fender but beats a marshall valvestate any day. it has an effects loop that I've never used and an external speaker jack. I use it for rehearsals and gigging, I drive it hard but it can keep up just fine, I imagine you'd get more power driving a cabinet but I haven't tried it yet. I give it ten for features because the footswitchable volume and gain boost are so simple but sooo goddam useful... why don't they put these on every amp?

I use it with an Esp ec-50 and an old japanese Squire affinity strat. I play old school punk mostly (Clash, Ramones, Damned, Stooges) it's mostly powerchords and the odd pentatonic riff. The amp sounds good, damn good for this stuff. you can crank the gain up and get a good classic rock sound and a reasonable metal sound for say Metallica stuff. But it doesn't do the new fangled nu-metal vomit. the clean sound is reasonable but not remarkable, I find it lacks high end. I like to play a bit of rockabilly every now and then, but the lack of twang frustrates me. It does have plenty of headroom though. Overall the amp is extremely versatile, but not highly specialised.

The reverb tank had come loose when I got it, so I've had to gaff tape it back in place. If the preamp volume is set to less than five, then it has a tendency to cut out... no idea why. I gig without a backup all the time because I can't afford a backup. It feels solid though. happily throw it around, jump on it, throw my guitar at it, hardly think it'll break. time will tell if the inner workings can hold up.

Never dealt with them.

I've been playing for a couple of years, this is my first real amp. I really like the simplicity and the usefulness of the footswitchable gain/boost, reverb, and volume boost. The sound frustrates me when I want to play rockabilly, and you'd have the same problem with jazz or purist's blues. If it were stolen or lost I'd go straight to the fender tube amps, no questions asked. This amp is a really good workhorse, simple, versatile, compact. I'd reccomend it if you were in a cover band doing classic rock, or garage or punk or what ever. It beats the similarly priced Marshalls and Fenders hands down. This is a GOOD amp for your money.

Made in 1997,this little monster delivers all the sounds I need. Over 25 years of playing, I've used Marshals, Fender,Vox AC30 and other bits and pieces and to my ears this beats them all.
Two channel valve pre-amp (1x12AX7) with a solid state power amp, the tone controls are treble, mid and bass on both channels. There is also a gain AND a gain boost function for channel 2, ideal for switching from rhythm (clean on ch 1, dirty on ch 2) to a screaming super saturated lead sound. Plus swichable reverb plus an effects loop PLUS a seperate boost level so you can have a pre-set volume increase for lead solos, either clean or dirty.

I use Profile Strats with Seymour Duncan Fat Strats in the bridge position and stock pick-ups in the middle and neck. I've had Fender strats and a '68 Gibson SG for years but brand names do NOT contribute to what your ears hear. The Supertramp gives my guitars a range of sounds from an amazing clean Fender Twin shimmer to an SRV boogie to a Joe Satriani no holds barred lead. At all volumes too, from practising at home to playing out live. The Gain Boost function is a bit noisy but the clean channel is a quiet as a graveyard at all volumes

No problems as yet with the amp but I was unable to find a suitable footswitch (the amp was found in a hock shop and didn't have one with it) so I ended up building one. A metal box, $40 worth of switches, LEDs, stero jacks and cable later and I have a 4-button remote on the floor; 1/Clean-Crunch 2/Crunch-Lead 3/Reverb 4/Volume Boost.

I have heard they are now owned by Gibson but there is a Trace Elliot Authorised serviceman here who I deal with.

If it was nicked or lost, I would DEFINITELY buy another IF I could find one. I was originally looking at a Marhall AVT100 when I spotted this amp. Compared side by side, there is no competition tone-wise (even though the Marshall has the bonus of built in effects).

To be honest I haven't had much experience with guitar equipment (I am only 15) but I have been playing for about 5 years now and from what I can tell this amp doesn't have that any features really... Compared to most modern Marshalls etc it doesnt have all the digital effects etc but to be honest I think thats a good thing. The model SuperTrame that I have (which is now rather old) just has the two channels (Clean and Overdrive) with a boost function for the second overdrive channel. It does have reverb however which gives it a bit of a nicer sound. For the type of music I play (alternative/progressive etc) the clean is perfect while I use a Zoom FX Pedal for overdrive, running for the Tramps effects loops, which sounds excellent to me and perfect for what I want! Overall there are not hundards of features but the ones it has are fantastic!

I use it with a 2004 Fender USA Strat and together on the clean it sounds amazing, can be both crisp and smooth, the amp on clean can pretty much cover any style you like. The overdrive channel is perfect for Brit Rock but not for anything a bit more metal, like I said I use a Zoom FX pedal to get these tones which sounds great. The clean is still perfect at near full volume, when compared to my mates Marshall 250DFX on clean it destroys it! Overall beautiful clean, for me its own overdrive is a bit limited for the music I play but get a good overdrive/distortion pedal and it sounds amazing!

I bought this amp secondhand and the date on the bottom is 1996 meaning that it is nearly 10 years old, in the time i've had it (about 4 years now)I have never had one problem. The overdrive channel did seem to be intermitent but that has seemed to have stopped now (saying that i dont use the second channel that much...) To be honest though this amp seems to be built like a tank and I completely rely on it for gigs, which is more than I can say for my mates marshall which clean channel has stopped working after only 3 years!

I've never had to deal with customer support because its never had a problem.

It has never broken, it sounds amazing and is just great for the price I bought it! I have heard that the newer ones (mine is a bit old now) arent as good but i'm still sure they are pretty great! Would recomend buying one to any body, its the best solidstate clean sounding amp i've ever played!

ALl the normal stuff. 2 channel switching with boost. Mine has a Celestion Vintage 30. I think some of the newer ones came with cheaper silver series speakers but I am not sure.

I only use this as a practice amp at my home. All my "higher end" amps are at my rehearsal space. I am not a big fan of solid state amps but this is by far the best I have heard yet. It is very clear and warm. I have tried the Marshall Valvestate and I gotta tell you, that one of the worst sounding amps I have ever heard. This Trace blows it away.

Very reliable

Never had to deal with them

It's not like this amp is the world to me since I just use it to mess around with at home but I would definately by another one as a practice amp. I would not gig with it unless I had to.

very versitile a use it for everything

i play a jackson js2 dinky that guitar and the trace simply melt my ears when playing on clean the distortion absolutely kills if you mix it with a distortion pedal which is great as i play rock and metal

this broke a few weeks back and i have uncovered a great mystery the T500 slow blow fuse if the amp keeps fading off get this fuse VERY FEW OTHERS WILL WORK apart from that never let me down

trace have been bought out by gibson which makes it solid to get any partS arghhh...

i cant believe i got this amp for the prier i did would happily pay 5 times as much if it were stolen

My amp was very lightly used (the speaker was not broken in yet) My Trace Super Tramp is a '96 as far as I know. 80W Butt-kicker with a single 12. Only complaint for features is no "ext speaker" jack. I installed a 1/4" jack in the chassis to add a 4 x 12 when needed and use a short pigtail to connect the 12" in the combo...cost: $4. The Super has no problem pushing a 4 x 12, I can keep up with my bandmates JCM900 pretty well. I give it an 8 for lack of proper ext jack...seriously, who needs 80W to push a single 12?

I like most blues-metal and hard rock music (think AC/DC, Metallica, Green Day, Offspring, Jet, Puddle of Mudd, Linkin Park). I play an Ibanez SZ with a SD Pearly gates on the bridge and a Jazz in the neck. For drop-tunings, I have a Schecter S-1 with a SD Invader on the bridge and a SD Trembucker on the neck.
First off...the cleans on this thing are freakin' HUGE!!! Especially through a Zinky 4 x 12 w/Medusas and V30's. You get a really sweet "pop" from the pick, then the string takes over and you hear it sing!
Now..for the Distorted channel. I hated it at first, because I never could get the sound I needed. Now it drives 4 12's, and the sound is right there! I needed the cab to really "open it up". Don't forget...it is still a Brit amp, you won't see Pantera or Slipknot thrashing a Trace. The tone is warm with screaming little harmonics and you can still get a convincing "chug" with the mids cut and the master cranked.
It IS a little noisy with the gain past 7, kind of a "your amp is on" reminder...like the older Kustom's had.

No tubes = reliability. It only stopped working once, and that was when it melted the solder on the input jack in the cab...no the amp's fault. It's been a tank, but I still brink the Kustom Studio 50W head with me (have yet to need it).

No warranty. I only buy used gear. It's all analog, so if I break it I can open it up and fix it. (try that with 24 bit DFX digital crap)

I have played off-and-on for 15 years. I also have a Kustom Studio 2 Valve head, a Zinky 4 x 12 Cab, a Behringer 4 x 12 cab, and effects pedals that never get used. If stolen, I would buy two more. The day I bought it, I took MY guitar to the music store and plugged in to every amp they had. I passed up Marshalls, Fenders, Rolands (for sure), even an Orange...to get this little combo.
The funniest thing is carrying it into a club. All the roadie wannabees and armchair rockers look at this little green combo and snicker. I carry in the cab and hook it all up, then do a "sound check" with a couple of power chords and a nasty pentatonic run that carries me from the nut to the 22'nd fret. The look of surprise, followed by "damn, kid, turn that thing down".