With a EQ pedal in the loop and maybe a “green-type” of boost up front, HG-70’s are a lot of fun.
That blows
Give it a spin. Mine showed up kinda beat up, and wasn't working well. I let Rider1260 do some work on it and it was ok. Working well, I just didn't really dig it. I leant it to Sergio to have some fun with. When I met him to get it back I put it in the bed of my truck. I hauled 4 guitars inside the house from the back seat of the truck, and forgot about the amp in the bed. It rained, hard, over night. Now it's taking up space at my storage locker.
That sucks. I was looking forward to your impression on the Bandit. I really hope you find another one soon.
Exactly. The Mrs thinks I should let her turn it into a planter.Whoopsi.
One just popped up on marketplace around here, but I don't think he ships
Hopefully. I think you'll like it once you get your hands on a properly working one. On my silver stripe Peavey Express which is very similar to the Bandit I have a Boss GT-1 that I run into the clean channel that sounds really great. Lately I've been 3 cabling using the gain channel from Peavey sending the signal to the GT-1 to use effects in stomp box mode (mostly delay, chorus and eq) and returning into the fx loop. I've ordered a Tubescreamer to stick in the front of this set up and see if I can get a bit more gain using this 3 cable method.
There are like 3 head units and 2 or 3 combos available, but my problem is I dont want another amp, I have 2 and really only need 1. What I need is a good pedal.platform, as my GT-6 already does the amp and cab modelling. Trading what I have for a Headrush 12" cab wouldnt be a square deal IMO. I'll probably stay with what I have unless Sonzera pops up local that I can trade for.
i had one of these for about a decade between the late 90s and 2007 or so. I loved it, thought it had great tone and a killer reverb. The high end with gain was kind of modest, maybe not the best for modern metal tones but otherwise it had a nice range and I thought the way the channel switch lit up different colors for different settings was pretty slick when it first came out. If I didn't have to sell it to pay a mortgage payment, I'd still have it and I'm considering getting another. The one I had was a present and because nobody knew anything about these amps, it sat around for years looking cool and got heavily discounted. I'd recommend trying one if possible but if you aren't looking for heavily distorted tone or have a good fuzz boxy thing, I loved it. Soudned a lot like some proper tube amps, just a little less colored sound (some coloration thoguh as Paul and his engineers did a great job of emulating some of the tube warmth and such. it's something like a late 80s design so it might seem primitive). I still would like another. maybe its main flaw is that it can't seem to decide what to sound like. Not bad, not flat and lifeless sounding like most SS amps at the time, just didn't have enough of its own flavor. I got the impression that it was designed to be able to do a passable job at many sounds, the manual even had various knob diagrams for things like classic, british, maybe california, etc that got fairly close to some name brand sounds. Overall, worth a shot but if you can't find tones that make you happy it might not work out. I would get one with something higher gain or a multiFX box connected to it is I saw it cheap enough, but maybe that's partially nostalgic?
Nice!
