NAD -- see anything green?

[Rich]

After far too long (getting on for 20 years, in fact), I'm a Trace Elliot owner again. I've been really happy with my Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.2, and the 6.0 before it, but when I was looking back through my feedback thread I realised I'd been using the Shuttles since October 2009. Time for a change.

I'd been intrigued by the new Trace TE-1200 since its release. Everything I'd read led me to believe that it had Trace DNA flowing through it, and with the old GP12SMX still being my favourite preamp ever I hoped perhaps this would get me somewhere close. My redundancy payout meant that suddenly I could afford it, so I said 'sod it' and pulled the trigger. Thomann's price was by far the cheapest anywhere online, so I gave them my money. And yesterday, the nice DHL man left it on my doorstep without ringing the doorbell 🙄 it's a bloody good job I was in.

Anyway -- I was unnerved when I picked the box up, as it weighed a ton. On opening it all up, I soon found out that this was down to the supplied 4-way footswitch, which actually weighs more than the amp  it's still in the box now, as I'll probably never use it. 

I've finally today got round to plumbing it into my rack case and damn it looks good in there.

 

 

If there's one thing I really dislike aesthetically, it's those huge green words on the rack ears. They just look tacky and will have to go. I will just cover them up with insul tape until I've decided it's a keeper, at which point I'll either t-cut them off or spray them black.

Tomorrow, it's time to fire it up and see how much of my garage I can destroy. 😈

 

 

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Rich

[BassmanPaul]

Nice Peavey amp you have there!

 

Edited 12 hours ago by BassmanPaul