Which peavey bandit is best

Those pictures bring me back to the old days. I've never owned one but I remember in the 90's going into music stores and trying guitar after guitar through that amp. That amp was at every music store in town. I had a Marshall half stack but in the 90's but I was considering buying one of these and leaving at my drummers house for rehearsals.

Mine is a teal-stripe version and the last of the US-made models with the Scorpion speaker. It sounds good, it's plenty loud enough 80W and is as solid as a rock and as dependable as the day it left Meridian. Don't know if you have a few that you are looking at, but mine still sounds, and looks great other than a few minor cosmetics, nicks or scratches, etc. I have the matching 1X12 cab. Apartment is too small for this amp. Message me if interested.

The Special and Revolution are also great SS amps as well but not as common. Which version of Peavey Bandit? Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Sandvich Posted February 5, Posted February 5, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Vespertine Posted February 5, Author Members.

After that model, they went downhill, but they may have gotten better again later on. Spike Li Posted February 5, I have a Red Stripe model, but have also tried out the latest model. LedZep Posted February 5, The new bandits can't do a Marshall impression? Virgman Posted February 5, Get the cheapest Bandit you can. Well, for a while They were kind of their own sound.

A great pedal platform, if I remember. The Transtube ones can actually get some really great "tube amp kinds of tones all by themselves Messages 11, Messages 7, I'd probably vote for the USA made Transtubes - teal stripe or red stripe. Clean only, I'd probably go for a pre-transtube version. From what I could tell, the XXX looked like it shared some of the same "models" for lack of a better word as this Bandit, so I thought it would be like having a more flexible head version of the red stripe.

Unfortunately, the XXX I tried out a while back was Really, the only downside of this one is the size and weight. But it rocks, so what the heck I have the red stripe USA version also.

That amp is full of good suprises! Oh, I started a previous thread that had a poll of "pre vs post transtube Peavey" - lots more opinions there. Messages 8, IMHO the best is the teal stripe Bandits, they edge out the transtubes by a small amount. One reason is the teal Bandits have transtube power amps, the preamps are op amp based though. The transtube Bandits have a discrete preamp and more controls on the power amp, and are a bit more versatile, but sound a bit colored and harsh in the mids to me.

The teal Bandit is very smooth sounding if set correctly. What about the most latest bandit offering? JasonElGato Member. Messages 1, Red Stripe Transtube Bandits sound embarrassingly good. Now I need to hear a Teal Stripe version Derelict Member. Read up on it. I think it's something you would use, especially playing clean. I read a funny story about session ace Dean Parks.

He'd crank the mids on his and find the nastiest most obnoxious frequency he could. That's where he'd put his dip. Last edited: Jul 3, Telecastoff1 , JayFreddy , Mike Eskimo and 1 other person like this. Age: 70 Posts: 1, I played through a Peavy Transtube version Bandit for a while and quite liked it.

I thought it sounded really good for a solid state amp. It can cover a lot of territory. I swapped it to a guy for a late 70's Silverface Twin Reverb because the opportunity presented itself and not because I was tired of the amp. Shane Diiorio loves Bandits and has quite a few videos comparing various models of Bandits to other amps and to other Bandits. Posts: 6, Telecastoff1 likes this. Age: 68 Posts: 2, Posts: 12, Posts: 10, And I've listened to all the youtube videos on all the in-between-stripes and the back and forth.

You're going to use it for the Clean Channel with pedals. Rarely will you use the gain side other than maybe light gain to sprinkle over the top of your pedals. Any of the Bandits will do what you want. How to use the T-dynamics. Age: 58 Posts: 8, Everyone's gonna tell you to get the model that they have. Pretty sure all the ones from the '80s and '90s are good amps, as are a lot of the other Peavey amps from that era.