Peavey Bandit

[James Freeman]

When your tube amp explodes and your modeler bricks, Peavey Bandit will save your neck.
Everyone has one.

Playthrough:



Gut shots:

 

[DrewJD82]

We had one in the band room at high school, whenever I didn’t want to bring my own amp in I’d play through that. I used to put my DS-1 in front of it and got a pretty decent tone with it, enough to bust out Metallica riffs until the band instructor would come in and bitch me out.

 

[JiveTurkey]

That's awesome. The Bandit can get pretty darn heavy through the right cab and with some good pickups. It might have been everywhere but I think it was severely underrated overall.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

After pops sold his good gear to fund our home appliances, he had enough money left over for a Bandit and a Squier. They were my first electric adventure!

 

[Whizzinby]

Pretty sure the Peavey Bandit combo was everyone’s first amp when I was growing up.

 

[Bob Zaod]

When your tube amp explodes and your modeler bricks, Peavey Bandit will save your neck.
Everyone has one.

I need to do that to mine but me and power tools are a bad combination. Luckily I know a handyman that will do it for me for like 20 bucks.

 

[JiveTurkey]

This thread makes me want a Peavey Bandit head. The cheapskate goldilocks in me is strong

 

[James Freeman]

Go for Peavey XXL head, it's the same thing but better in every way.
There are few on Reverb right now that are very fairly priced.
IIRC @DrewJD82 had one for years.

edit:
PS.
Peavey TransTube are by no means anywhere close to a tube amp sound like any modern modeler can do.
They sounds like a good 90's solid state amp, which is exactly what they are.

 

[Bob Zaod]

Go for Peavey XXL head, it's the same thing but better in every way.
There are few on Reverb right now that are very fairly priced.
IIRC @DrewJD82 had one for years.

I agree it's the exact same as a TT bandit. I think the silver stripe series if I am correct. Which in itself is a fantastic amp.

 

[James Freeman]

I think the XXL is already part of the Red Stripe era.
Same sound really, different skin.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I think the XXL is already part of the Red Stripe era.
Same sound really, different skin.

What if I just like the aesthetic of the hacked up red stripe?

 

[TubeStack]

Pretty sure the Peavey Bandit combo was everyone’s first amp when I was growing up.

Mine was a Gorilla (see username and pic). :)

 

[the swede]

My was peavey that looked like a tweed 1x10 combo or something. It had distortion! I was really proud about it. Learned my first guitar chords with it, it was all rage against the machine

 

[Bob Zaod]

Mine was a Gorilla (see username and pic). :)

The G-10 or whatever it was called was definitely one of the first amps I had. I am pretty sure my very first amplifier was one of those Crate amps that actually looked like a wooden crate.

 

[Fireproof]

I remember having a Peavy Bandit but I believe it was a teal stripe.

 

[Bruce]

My first amp was a peavey stereo chorus 2x12. I got it home from Sam Ash 48th street in NYC on the subway in 1990. Played my first gigs with that amp. Heart goes out to Peavey.
I hear prisoners used to build their amps in some kind of early release program but I can’t confirm that.

 

[Iron1]

My first was a Peavey Butcher. Don't think I've ever run through a Bandit...

 

[jimmy Biter]

love this amp, bought it as a combo, turned it into a head

 

[JiveTurkey]

Why am I gassing for one of these now

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I remember having a Peavy Bandit but I believe it was a teal stripe.

Mine was too, with a V30