please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . june 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message trace elliot industry audio equipment founded 1979 parent peavey electronics europe ltd website http www.traceelliot.com trace elliot is a united kingdom based bass amplification manufacturer and has a sub brand trace acoustic for acoustic instruments . contents 1 history 2 notable products past and present 3 references 4 external links history edit in 1979 a music shop in romford essex uk called soundwave was building and hiring out pa systems to local musicians . it soon became apparent that some of this equipment was not being used simply as pa but instead was being used by bass players who for so long had to put up with under powered amplification that was often merely a guitar amplifier with a modified tone circuit . the soundwave owner fred friedlein and staff which included alan morgan sales and stuart watson design engineer realised the potential market and developed a range of products that incorporated mosfet output stages driving large cabinets including 15 drivers and also the world s first bass dedicated 4 x 10 cabinet now an industry standard for all bass amp lines . there were several features which made this product unique the gp11 pre amp featured 11 graphic eq bands which were very broad bands overlapping each other thereby enabling massive amounts of frequency cut or boost when adjacent bands were boosted or cut . secondly the frequency bands were spaced closer together towards the bass end allowing even more variation for bass guitarists to alter their sound like no other amp had previously allowed . added to this were mosfet poweramps of 250 or 500 watts and the option of bi amplified systems where bass and upper frequencies are filtered before being separately amplified and fed to dedicated high frequency and low frequency speaker cabinets . trace elliot as the brand came to be called gained a reputation for themselves ; rumor has it that early users were john paul jones of led zeppelin and brian helicopter of punk band the shapes . mark king of level 42 was also an early adopter of the brand . 1 the company now dedicated to manufacturing moved to new premises in witham essex in 1985 to satisfy the growing demand . in late 1986 stuart watson technical director and designer of the trace elliot range up to the mark 5 series left the company . that same year fred friedlein then sole owner of trace elliot employed the services of freelance electronics designer clive button . in 1989 trace elliot introduced the trace acoustic range of acoustic amplifiers also designed by clive button and the company moved again this time to maldon essex . in 1992 the company was bought by kaman which had previously handled the brand s us distribution . kaman downsized their music division in 1997 and sold the company to a trio of trace elliot directors who took ownership of a brand with nearly 200 staff on a 110 000 square foot 10 000 m2 site ; they focused on exploiting the north american market and in 1998 sold the company to the gibson guitar corporation . 2 however in january 2002 the factory was closed and all staff were made redundant . gibson then moved the production of a few particular products they wanted to continue with to various locations in the united states . in april 2005 it was announced that peavey electronics acquired the north american distribution rights to the trace elliot brand . 3 notable products past and present edit gp11 pre amplifier very collectable unit combined with various power amp models produced in the 1980s . 1048h successor to the world s first dedicated 4 x 10 bass cabinet . ah1000 12 fully featured bass head with 12 band eq valve drive dual band compression and many other features . trace acoustic range . numerous models for amplifying acoustic instruments . gp12smx bass preamp 12 band eq bass pre amp . the basis for the preamp in all the smx series . v type v6 300 w all valve head . used by many britpop bands in the 90s . v type v8 400 w all valve head with overdrive and compression on board . velocette 1990s era 15 w valve powered guitar combos ; several variants basis for the gibson goldtone range . references edit product line summary . mahogany . 2006 . archived from the original on 2007 02 07 . retrieved 2007 06 16 . . pro audio company names mysterious initials what they mean . rane corporation . 2007 02 15 . retrieved 2007 06 16 . gibson labs amp academy session 3 . gibson labs . retrieved 2006 06 16 . peavey expands to distribute trace elliot in north america external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trace elliot & oldid 736891135 categories guitar amplifier manufacturersmusical instrument manufacturing companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles needing additional references from january 2010all articles needing additional referencesarticles with a promotional tone from june 2012all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa ol edit links this page was last modified on 30 august 2016 at 14 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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