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Hello and welcome. My name's Kevin I like to party.

I absolutely love the Bandit. I've seen complaints about Bugera sometimes. Usually stuff about the build quality and saying they're somewhat junky, although Peavey is also made in China now or whatever so I dunno, I was more specifically referring to older Bandits. I bought an old silver-stripe transtube for 100 bucks from a Craigslist seller and it's a totally kickass amp. Also have a Duel 212 and a 6505+ and I love those too, but the Bandit is lightweight and easy to go lugging it around town, and it's loud as balls.

I absolutely adore my Xaviere XV-870 guitar. I had to do a bit of tweaking when it arrived just to basicall get the tremolo set up the way I wanted it and did the mod where I connected the bridge pickup to the tone control, but after that it's an extremely comfortable strat copy. Not quite as amazing as my late 90's Korean-made "Lyon by Washburn" that I modded to hell and back, but I think that one played so good because of the thinner neck measurements and just the metric-style measurements in general, I feel sad sometimes that I sold that thing, but it was beat up beyond repair...

When I was learning how to play my best friend had a tubescreamer and I decided pretty early that I wanted something more in-your-face, something intended to be more of an effect, so I stuck with distortion for so many years. I started off with the DS1 and then saved up to buy a metal zone and I got into the habit of always having 2 distortion pedals so that I could have multiple types of heavy tones, and then after I got out of high school and could work full time then I found a nice 80's small-box Rat and I decided to mostly stop using the DS1 because the Rat sounds nastier to my ears, and eventually somebody decided to sell me some of those crappy plastic Danelectro "sandwich" pedals and I got that red "pastrami" OD from that deal, and it seems okay but I never really loved it because I still don't like overdrive. Eventually I bought a Digitech Screamin' Blues OD and that thing basically sounds like the DS1 so I sold it and decided I would never buy an OD again.

Then I got curious and caved and bought one of those GFS "Twin Hi-Gain" pedals and that thing sounds like just another OD again and I just hate it so much.

And then I got that MXR Fullbore Metal and I love the noise gate on it and I decided the metal zone sucks and I was using the fullbore and the rat for a while. I set the Rat to be more muffled and was using the fullbore to have a lot of brightness and mids for a comparison.

And now after all of these years I decided to buy a fuzz because I have too many distortion pedals and it seemed like they all sound too similar and I wanted something to contrast the tone I get from the Rat so I watched a lot of video demos and finally bought a Moen Fuzz Moo and it's basically kind of like a big muff. So now my board has the Rat and the Moen on it and for now I'm pretty satisfied. Although I'm tempted to keep going with the fuzz pedals because I like that splatty gated fuzz factory sound a lot.

I had an opportunity to try out a Hofner (violin-shaped) bass many many years ago and it had a nice sound unplugged and also sounded fine when plugged in. Also made me feel like Paul McCartney, LOL. If you can find one with some F-holes on it then it might sound a bit louder unplugged. That Epiphone looks like a good deal.