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Cmon Paul kick some butt, show us some non US sanitised nice aggressive edgy phat Trace -. shake the room geez.

I've recently test driven the Amp 2 & 3. Holy Bjesus the thee is astonishingly loud and arse kickingly deep. I wound up the bass boost and thought the bugger was going to have my leg off. Two was amazing but three......... its tiny. It has some kind of German noise tardis inside with an 8X10 2KW Mesa rig inside. I truly cannot express how punchy, warm and musical it sounded. Blown away.

A friend of mine's dad (a Marconi Electronic Engineer) designed the microprocessor MP11 graphic with MIDI for Trace eons ago when they were in Witham, Essex. We must be going back well over 25 years. I remember thinking how damned smart it was with endless presets and shaping options. When they did this it was pretty revolutionary but even then they weren't exactly pushing the boat out when it came to design investment. The product is still out there but not many sold I don't think. Trace seem to have been a bit of a one trick pony when it came to design. You can have any amp so long as it has a graphic! eq.

Its odd, I have a TE rig 1215 combo and 15 ext in great nick and I think I would be pressed to give them away.IMHO they are in a fashion dip, like 60's p basses in the disco era. I have a feeling that those with a clean headless graphite status and a matching status rig in years to come will be in the money. You know when you paid an arm and a leg for something and can't give it away - well that isn't because they were crap - its because the young boys who used to own them are like me old boys with iffy backs. I have a feeling that as we fade into history someone is going to be looking for 'That' sound and like buying a museum piece Ampeg, nobody will care about it being ply, mdf, sliders or heavy as a house. They will remember what we forgot - just how good they were. .

I bought a 5 string with walnut top from another BC'er a few weeks ago. I lacked that little bit of mwah so shimmed the neck and thee it was. Huge deep chocolaty bass frequencies, thump at the low end and perfect understated mwah up the neck. I know there are other makers out there but this hits the spot for me. You know when an instrument is really good because you improve with it. It makes you play better This is a sound I have been looking for a long time, and the RA has been fantastic from the moment I picked I up. I know they are not cheap even 2n hand, but all I can say is that mine is the dogs. I am a happy with it in its own way as my 65 P. I think it is a modern classic.