Bandit 65 Review

It features a 12" Scorpion speaker, preamp output and power output for patching various accessories. Special low, mid and high passive EQ circuitry and special presence active circuitry.

Features:	8
Sound:	8
Reliability:	10
Impression:	8
Overall rating:	8.5
Users rating:	7.1
Comments:	11

Reviewed by: unregistered, on may 16, 2005

Price paid: $ 109.8

Purchased from: Friend

Features: There isn't much to this amp. Volume, treble (high), bass (low), middle, presence and reverb. Two channels, effects loop, extenal output and footswitch to change channel and turn efect on/off. // 8

Sound: The sound of this amp isn't brilliant but isn't by far bad. I don't use the amps distortion (lead channel) as this is a very bad overdrive! I used a Zoom 505 with a BC Rich when I used the amp. The clean is ok but the best part of the sound is how loud it goes! It goes way past 65, the amp kicked my mates Marshal AVT 100 watt up the ass! I never giged with the amp past 3 and I palyed at many big venues! // 8

Reliability & Durability: This amp I got for £60 as it had 3 owners before me! It has been around for like 20 years now and is still goin strong. The only thing changed is a volume knob. // 10

Impression: The amp is true Peavey quality and very loud! My Vox AD50VT is much more advanced but this amp done the job. Overall a very good buy and money well spent! // 8

Comments

[awesomegear16]

Does it switch from clean to dirty?

[breaknahabit]

i thnk it does, but its not really distorted... you no? its has GAIN but no distortion (i didnt thnk there was a difference :P)

[WrathOscuro]

The overdrive on this amp is absolutely useless..sounds like farts. The cleans are okay though. It's decent for what it is as long as you're playing clean or with stomp boxes.

[jeffo46]

This amp isn't footswitchable as far as distortion goes,but if you're into Blues or Country,then this amp is for you.

[krumpeld]

WrathOscuro wrote:

The overdrive on this amp is absolutely useless..sounds like farts. The cleans are okay though. It's decent for what it is as long as you're playing clean or with stomp boxes.

very true. i've had this amp for a few years and i've always felt kinda let down about how it never allows for you to get a very sharp sound using the lead channel, it just seems to cut out a lot of the high-end. the clean channel sounds great though.

[strat7993]

jeffo46 wrote:

This amp isn't footswitchable as far as distortion goes,but if you're into Blues or Country,then this amp is for you.

dude ya it is look on the back it even says footswitch
and it pretty go just no way to get good distortion with out a pedal

[jeffo46]

All the footswitch on the back does,is give the amp signal a boost.I should know Strat7993,I used yo own one.I bought it brand new back in 1978.

[lazyscales]

Actually, yes this amp is "footswitchable" for distortion, you were probably using it incorrectly.
The first three knobs on the amp are for the dirty channel, the single lone white volume knob near the middle is for the clean channel, the foot switch has 2 switches, 1 switches from dirty to clean channel, not a boost, it actually switches channels, and the other switch turns the reverb on and off. I'd offer up a screenshot, but I lost the footswitch pedal for the amp.
However, as already stated, the overdrive on this amp blows, and I'm not too sure if its just my amp, or all of them, but this thing is so incredibly mid heavy. Most of the pots have trouble now, and I can't find replacements, however some contact cleaner helped a lot.

[butcherer]

Peavey made the 65 for 2 years (85-87), and moved on. Not their finest gear, unless you like an unusable overdrive. Very loud, very ugly. I figure they must have either canned the design guy, or sent him back to the mail room.

[konradlp100]

I think this amp is very good to play it on clean channel. I agree in 100% with opinion that prebuilt drive is useless. If you want to play something stronger you must buy some stomp box. It also have a spring reverb but in my amp it is broken so i use digital reverb. At least I think it's very good amp for very low price.

[TCD_J4L]

Sounds good to me clean, sounds even better with my MT-2 pumping into it. Great amp to me though... Hell of a lot better than the G-DEC I had...