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Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:17 pm
by greatmutah
nightflameauto wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 3:22 pm
zozobra wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:37 am Because it'll sound terrible with an hm2 :lol:
You know, if they came packed with an IR of that rat-awful speaker in the teal stripe combos, they could make a killing with the Swedish chainsaw brigade for direct recording. :hmm: Granted, direct may sound just about the same anyway. :cop:

Peavey to release IR packs of Sheffield and Scorpion speakers next hahaha

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:33 pm
by ElDirtySanchez
I do have some IR's that are peavey 5150 cab with sheffields

Looks like someone actually did make a pedal based on the bandit years back


Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:58 pm
by nightflameauto
ElDirtySanchez wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:33 pm I do have some IR's that are peavey 5150 cab with sheffields

Looks like someone actually did make a pedal based on the bandit years back

I'm trying to remember a time that a used Bandit cost more than a pedal....

Nope. Drawing a blank.

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:58 pm
by Ry Manchu
nightflameauto wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:20 pm Bandits aren't terrible,
I think this was Peavey's original marketing point. In Mississippi-speak, it was followed by: "they're cheap, they're not too big or heavy, they take a beating and hold my beer while I jump this with my dirtbike."

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:06 pm
by heath
My son still has my old Bandit Solo 65 that I bought used for $90 a year or two into playing. It has been through it over the years. It quite literally fell out of the back of my pickup truck at highway speeds in 2000. It actually sounded better afterward as the reverb started working again. It sounded like dog turd for the most part but it was what I had. I have given away twice and it keeps finding its way home. I eventually threw an old Celestion Seventy-80 speaker in it and was astonished when it sounded 100x better. The old scorpion speakers were just horrible. Kind of makes me want to put a greenback or G12H30 in it to see how it sounds.

A friend of mine had the teal stripe and the transtube silver trimmed version and I have been able to get them to sound pretty close to my rockmaster with similar settings and the gain about 1 o'clock. My favorite Bandit though was the red stripe from the early 2000s. It sounded really good for what it was.

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:18 pm
by Spaced Out Ace
Very short clips of a few of them. Appears they are running into a "Peavey Musician," which I guess is a new amp with two "channels." The pedals appear to be run into the second "channel," which according to the rep, is line level and more or less plugging straight into the power amp with I believe a volume knob.

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 5:52 am
by nightflameauto
heath wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:06 pm My son still has my old Bandit Solo 65 that I bought used for $90 a year or two into playing. It has been through it over the years. It quite literally fell out of the back of my pickup truck at highway speeds in 2000. It actually sounded better afterward as the reverb started working again. It sounded like dog turd for the most part but it was what I had. I have given away twice and it keeps finding its way home. I eventually threw an old Celestion Seventy-80 speaker in it and was astonished when it sounded 100x better. The old scorpion speakers were just horrible. Kind of makes me want to put a greenback or G12H30 in it to see how it sounds.

A friend of mine had the teal stripe and the transtube silver trimmed version and I have been able to get them to sound pretty close to my rockmaster with similar settings and the gain about 1 o'clock. My favorite Bandit though was the red stripe from the early 2000s. It sounded really good for what it was.
I still use my Pro Studio 112 Red Stripe, the Bandit's baby brudder, quite a bit. It's got a Swamp Thang in it. The original speaker sounded like assholes being filtered through a hi-pass around 5k.

That video makes the pedal sound OK, but in all honesty, all the pedals sounded about the same through my living room speakers. :idk:

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:27 pm
by broslinger
ElDirtySanchez wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:01 pm I do like that they made them look similar to the amps, but I have never heard anyone say "man I wish there was a pedal that sounded like a peavey bandit"
Someone on hcaf used to call it a shitdit.

Then, someone else was like, “shouldn’t it be a ‘banshit’?”

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:35 pm
by JSutter
I like the silver stripes. I never played the teal version this pedal is based on.
VTM and Rockmaster are great amps.

Re: Uh, Peavey Pedals? Interesting...

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:04 pm
by Spaced Out Ace
JSutter wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:35 pm ...Rockmaster are great amps.
Amp head or preamp?