Peavey Forum

Pappy B wrote: ↑

Tue May 30, 2023 5:36 pm

With the current world econnemy I wouldn't hold my breath. But it would be great.

I tend to keep my expectations low. It makes it a lot easier to be pleasantly surprised. But I figured someone had to put the idea out there.

It’s all pretty much in the title. Small pedalboard fly rigs are the big thing right now, so why not wrap the Transtube tech around a class D power section and put it in a stompbox? I would buy one.

Last night I A/B’d my Bandit and my Marshall JMP 50. The Bandit really stood up to the Marshall! What an impressive little amp, and the Sheffield 1230 speaker sounds great! I played the Marshall attenuated by a Tone King Ironman II through a 2x12 fitted with Celestion Heritage 55Hz G12H-30 speakers....

I finally got a chance to turn up the Bandit to high volume. Wow! It really does compress and thicken nicely! I was playing on the clean channel, and got a gorgeous edge of breakup tone. I’m super impressed. Buying this Peavey was definitely the right choice. I also have an old SS Marshall 5215, and...

Ah, yeah the electrolytics. There are a lot in there, mostly 22uF and the big filter caps. I know they’ll need replacing soon, but I’m trying not to worry about it right now.

Those small .022 caps are quite often the 1st ones to get leaky or just plain fail. Any more when I get an amp I replace them even if the amp appears to be okay. I had never heard that before about .022uF caps. Are you talking about that value among all types of capacitors? Or just for the little y...

Addendum: I removed the clipping diode network from the emitter of Q21, and instead replaced diode CR9 (which is next to R40) with a germanium diode. This does the same thing but with fewer components. I also added an anti-parallel 1N4148 in the same position, which helps smooth the distortion a tad...

This is tough, because the Transtube amps were designed to give a sound that was contemporary, ie they sounded like the music the kids were into at the time. It’s a fairly “modern” sounding amp. You have crystal clear clean, and modern gain tones. I’m not saying it’s impossible to mod it to sound mo...

Yeah, I have the Sheffield 1230 in it, and it’s a great sounding speaker! I have no impulse to replace it. Is it really rated high enough to handle the 80 watts the Bandit puts out?

That’s a fair criticism. If not for the JFETs, I’d say the mods to the normal lead mode were relatively simple. I had more trouble getting the high gain mode to behave as I prefer, though. I don’t think of it as a rebuild because didn’t have much to do as far as rewiring the amp. The signal flow is ...

Of course. I use PAF style humbuckers, and I think the Bandit clean is plenty clear. Maybe not spanky Fender bright, but it’s a really nice clean.

And I’m thrilled with the sound and feel of this amp. Don’t get me wrong, the stock Bandit is nice. Also, I didn’t really change the character of the amp. I just rounded off the last little bit of transistor fuzziness, beefed up the normal lead mode, tightened up the high gain mode, and added more c...

One thing I learned about the Bandit is that some treble gets rolled off on the clean channel if your lead channel pre gain is maxed. There’s a 470p coupling cap to the lead circuit, and the wiper of the pre gain pot is switched to ground when you’re on the clean channel, so you get a 470p cap to gr...

I thought about buying an Envoy instead, mainly because I don’t have any amps with a 10” speaker. But I liked that the Bandit has the dynamics and presence controls, and they’re easier to find. The presence control is important to me, because I tend to crank it on all of my tube amps (though I never...

A question while I’m here: Is the reverb tank in a silver stripe Bandit normally loose in the bottom of the cabinet? Every other amp I’ve ever had with reverb had the reverb tank screwed down, but this one isn’t. I didn’t see any holes for screws in the vinyl bag or in the bottom of the cabinet, but...