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Mine it's from 1997.
Besides the amount of time since it was produced, the amp still rock's. The clean channel sounds very clear, and the Bright swith gives you a boost on high frequencies. The Lead channel gives you a little trouble on the begining, because it tends to get fuzzy above the 5 gain, that can be fixed turning on the Gain Switch. For the metal players (like me) having a thrash switch is awesome, it changes the equalization completly, with a boost on low and high, and taking of medium.
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That was actually a really thorough and good review of a mediocre and run-of-the-mill beginner's amp. Awesome work.
Thank's, I heard people complaining about the bandit, most of them is beacause the speakers. The one I use still have the Sheffield 1230, and was made on USA.
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I am not going to award peavey any accolades for making quality amps at any price point, however you gave this little student model the only through review I've read of it. The bandit circuit has been around a long time. I remember seeing them as a kid in the 80s (along with the peavey TNT bass amps) before crate started to take over the cheap transistor amp market. Now its all about line6 spiders for students. I dunno. None of it sounds good, the line6 amps are trying to achieve too much.
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@jimmarchi1 this is genuinely one of the most arrogant and stuck up things I've read about any piece of gear ever.
@diego_nicoleti great review!
@gorillamac , wow, you broutht back an 8 years old review to my email, thanks haha. I still have the BANDIT hahaha, this thing is almost indestructable as a Nokia phone, we are deteriorating and the amp still playing
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I am not a tube snob. There are many fantastic sounding solid state amps. Most of them are just as bulletproof as the peavey stuff from their through hole component era (current ones are smd at this price point and that's a service nightmare). Heck, I own 2 solid state amps. Theyare compact, reliable and sound great doing the things they're good at and don't try to do a lot more. I grew up around a lot of bandits and other 'transtube' peavey amps. Hartley added a lot of features for the buck and they won't break if you run them over with the band van. In general they don't do anything for me. Or a lot of people. If you like the bandit then rock a bandit. That said there's an 80s peavey stereo chorus amp that is probably still in production that is a fantastic sounding amplifier and can put a jc120 to shame so peavey can knock it outta the park with a handful of ICs. I'm just not giving them any awards... and the new versions of these amps (like the amp pictured versus the 80s version) are no longer as reliable or easily serviceable which defeats the whole peavey thing; amplifiers on the cheap that will never break. If you want to hear arrogance and snobbery I can ramp it up way harder.
Mine is in yellow.
The ibanez edge bridge is beautiful, not one of the best on keeping in tune thow.
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Like mine. Until I changed the trem block for a FU-Tone. Never had that happen again!
Best I've ever had!
Such an amazing guitar, mine is the model with the groover tuners. The EMG 707 is a beast, it has a lot of gain but can keep it clean if you need. The scale lenght fits just perfect and the extra-jumbo frets makes a feel of a scaloped fretboard so you don't need to put a lot of effort on the notes.