[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:04:58 -0400 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:42:21 -0500 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_1 emulates the way an all-tube works, it doesn't actually work or sound like one.
Its worst feature is the speaker. Blue Marvel is a mediocre speaker and, given the price range, it doesn't worth replacing it. I must admit that, imagining how it would sound with a Celestion Greenback, this would be one of the best, if not the best, Solid States you can buy nowadays. However, we don't rate fantasies here, we rate actual equipment...
I also disagree it's a budget amp. It costs - at my music shop - just as much as Marshall Class 5, and the double of a Fender Champion. Both of these all-tubes blow it away in all respects.
POSTED: 10/28/2011 06:06am]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:06:50 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_2 POSTED: 10/28/2011 10:50am]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:50:13 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_3
But if you want something that emulates the tube sound on a budget the Marshall Lead Mosfet is supposed to be one of the best.

And I have a Peavey Supreme, which is basically the Bandit as an amp head. So if your problem with the Bandit is the speaker having a Supreme would overcome that if you had a decent cab.
POSTED: 10/28/2011 10:50am]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:50:54 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_4 A 9,3 for a SS amp is way too much.

Seems like someone never had the chance to play a real good SS amp...

Go play an ISP theta, you'll change your mind pretty quick.
POSTED: 10/28/2011 11:33am]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:33:44 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 10/28/2011 01:53pm]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:53:22 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_6 POSTED: 10/28/2011 08:45pm]]> Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:45:55 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_7 POSTED: 10/29/2011 11:53am]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:53:27 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_8 Please Peavey, give me a Bandit 120 watt stack....Posibly tube...
POSTED: 10/29/2011 01:24pm]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:24:05 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_9 shecter guy wrote:

I had an older version and it was a really solid amp. Cleans were amazing and it took pedals suprisingly well. Distortion was meh. Great for bluesy stuff but nowhere near high enough gain for metal. Great if you have a nice distortion pedal to throw in front of it though.


Play a guitar with emgs or blackouts through it bro, it rips. Pinches are a little grainy but hey, its heavy as balls
POSTED: 10/29/2011 01:25pm]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:25:49 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_10 Virrin666 wrote:

shecter guy wrote:

I had an older version and it was a really solid amp. Cleans were amazing and it took pedals suprisingly well. Distortion was meh. Great for bluesy stuff but nowhere near high enough gain for metal. Great if you have a nice distortion pedal to throw in front of it though.



Play a guitar with emgs or blackouts through it bro, it rips. Pinches are a little grainy but hey, its heavy as balls
Active pickups are meant to be played thru a full tube amp bro, they really do nothing special thru a ss.
POSTED: 10/29/2011 03:00pm]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:00:33 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_11 POSTED: 10/29/2011 03:01pm]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:01:11 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_12 Virrin666 wrote:

Ive had this amp for over 4 years and i cant get rid of it. im using a valveking stack for gigs now and It works astonishingly well for metal( i play in a metal band ( OF GREAT DESCENT))BUt the bandit can do it all, gigs and practice. It handles every thing ive thrown at it. I have a pod hd 500, a pod xt live, A Digitech HMM, a Digitech DM, a Mxr Fullbore metal distortion, a digitech distortion factory, a digitech bad monkey, a bbe sonic stomp, and an 80's Ibanez Tube screamer, and they ALL sound great through this amp in multiple settings. But I STILL cant get over this amps tone. No matter which one of my 13 guitars i run through it they all sound good Maybe its just a preference idk. But my only wish is that theyd make an actual head for better cabbing, I.E. Half/Full stack.
Please Peavey, give me a Bandit 120 watt stack....Posibly tube...
This is the dumbest thing ive ever heard and peavey basically did make it a tube amp ala the peavey butcher.
POSTED: 10/29/2011 03:03pm]]> Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:03:42 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/peavey/bandit_112/index.html#u_13 PatrickChampoux wrote:

A 9,3 for a SS amp is way too much.


Seems like someone never had the chance to play a real good SS amp...

Go play an ISP theta, you'll change your mind pretty quick.

My fellow, I've had a Vox Pathfinder 15 for 11 years. It was a very good practice amp. One of the best available today, IMHO. But I wouldn't rate it a 9,3. Because, if I do so, then I'll have to rate a HiWatt Custom Combo a 39,3. That's the difference between them, in terms of sound, dynamics, distortion.
And I've also tested the Bandit when I tried to replace my Vox, hoping I can still make it without paying too much. No, I didn't find any SS amp to replace the Vox: I had to go for a more expensive all-tube. SSs have vastly improved in the last two decades, but still don't have the warmth and the natural clipping of an all-tube. Still the headroom isn't large enough.
Not to mention the Blue Marvel bad joke. I didn't reffer to ANY SS amp here, I was truly disappointed by this one. And the speaker is its weakest point, as for most Peaveys, including expensive all-tubes. I bet it would sound much better with a Celestion or Eminence speaker.
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