Trace Elliot Launches the Transit B Preamp Pedal for Bass

[TalkBass]

MERIDIAN, MS — Portable, practical, professional: These are the qualities that define the new Trace Elliot® Transit™ B Bass Guitar Preamp Pedal. As more players turn to convenient, lightweight and travel-ready gear, Trace Elliot answers the need with these self-contained rigs that function brilliantly regardless of location or venue. The player simply takes their Transit B with them anywhere they go, and feeds their tone directly to the front of house mix.

The Transit B Bass Guitar Preamp Pedal is a professional-grade preamp for bass guitarists. It offers 5-band EQ and its own unique features, including Pre-Shape with Passive/Active controls; Drive with Overdrive blends; Equalization with Pre-Comp and Post-Comp; dual-band Compression; and Mute/Tune.

In addition, the Transit B features a clean signal path with simple controls that make it easy to achieve an awesome bass tone. It also has studio-quality D.I. Pre and Post XLR outputs (with ground lift) to ensure that the same tone the player gets on stage is the same tone in the house mix. The Transit B has striking backlit controls with distinctive colors. Using the backlit knobs for the tuner is a novel tool, since the entire width of the front panel becomes the tuning scale.

The Transit B comes with an embroidered nylon carry bag. The owner’s manual CD-ROM includes the REAPER™ DAW software and Peavey® ReValver® amp modeling software. A Union Jack sticker is included as a reminder of Trace Elliot’s U.K. roots. The units will launch at the 2017 NAMM Show, Jan. 19-22 in Anaheim, Calif. To learn more about Trace Elliot, visit www.TraceElliot.com.

MSRP $399.99 USD

 

[chuck3]

That looks very interesting. Any TB'er out there tried it yet?

 

[BrBss]

Looking forward to hearing some sound clips!

 

[BaltBass5]

Looks promising!

 

[chuck3]

Would like to see the manual. In all, this looks like the package, though.

Edit: Found it ....http://www.traceelliot.com/resources/transit-b-om.pdf

This looks very good to me.

 

[superheavyfunk]

This might finally have everything I've been looking for. Can't wait to hear this thing in action!

 

[NoiseNinja]

That's a pretty nice pre amp.

As owning and loving a Trace Elliot myself, if I would ever need a pre amp, this might be the one I'd invest in.

Also all analog, unlike their new class D micro amp ELF.

 

[GMC]

The more I look at this, the more I like what I'm seeing. It's the perfect floor board. Nice and colour divided, clear and bright. Everything can be dialled in as switchable presets. I like the way the tuner uses the glowie knobs to measure the +/_ cents for tuning....that's nice. Ah! A mute switch...sadly missing on a lot of amps these days. I'd like to see what the drive circuit is like. Does it have a DI and a send / return loop?

 

[amgeex]

The more I look at this, the more I like what I'm seeing. It's the perfect floor board. Nice and colour divided, clear and bright. Everything can be dialled in as switchable presets. I like the way the tuner uses the glowie knobs to measure the +/_ cents for tuning....that's nice. Ah! A mute switch...sadly missing on a lot of amps these days. I'd like to see what the drive circuit is like. Does it have a DI and a send / return loop?

As far as I can tell, no effects loop (send/return), but it does have a pre and post DI.

 

[tabooze24]

Going over the manual is says the 5-band rotary eq is semi-parametric. However, it seems that the frequency centers are fixed. So, how is the eq section semi-parametric?

I know the pre-shape button shifts everything around, so is that how they are claiming "semi-parametric?"

 

[onosson]

Going over the manual is says the 5-band rotary eq is semi-parametric. However, it seems that the frequency centers are fixed. So, how is the eq section semi-parametric?

I know the pre-shape button shifts everything around, so is that how they are claiming "semi-parametric?"

I think here it means "has more than 3 knobs"

 

[Diztortion]

I was hoping to check out this thing's capabilities. Looks pretty sweet, have always had a soft spot for TE. Can't find a link on the tube though, anyone got one?

 

[superheavyfunk]

Going over the manual is says the 5-band rotary eq is semi-parametric. However, it seems that the frequency centers are fixed. So, how is the eq section semi-parametric?

I know the pre-shape button shifts everything around, so is that how they are claiming "semi-parametric?"

Where'd you see the manual? I was looking around and couldn't find it.

 

[onosson]

Where'd you see the manual? I was looking around and couldn't find it.

A link is posted just above in the thread ^

 

[amgeex]

Where'd you see the manual? I was looking around and couldn't find it.

It is linked a few posts above

 

[superheavyfunk]

It is linked a few posts above

yeah, i saw that. Onosson just above you pointed the edit out to me. thanks though

 

[amgeex]

yeah, i saw that. Onosson just above you pointed the edit out to me. thanks though

Sorry if I sounded rude, I hadn't refreshed in a while and thought no one had replied :d

 

[superheavyfunk]

Sorry if I sounded rude, I hadn't refreshed in a while and thought no one had replied :d

Not at all, dude. My bad if my reply came across rudely. It's nothing but bass and love over here! <3

 

[dinoadventures]

Going over the manual is says the 5-band rotary eq is semi-parametric. However, it seems that the frequency centers are fixed. So, how is the eq section semi-parametric?

I know the pre-shape button shifts everything around, so is that how they are claiming "semi-parametric?"

"Alternative facts"

 

[tabooze24]

I think here it means "has more than 3 knobs"

Semi-parametric means that the frequency center of a particular tone stack can be changed with the Q factor constant. Fully parametric means that the Q factor (width of frequency around a particular frequency center) can be changed.