[LRS] 1980's Peavey Bandit 65 Solid State Profiles - Free - Now With 4x12 Cabinet!

In the spirit of nostalgia please see the attached group of profiles of a 1980's Peavey Bandit 65 Solo Series solid state amp.

Ok, so this is a solid state open back 1x12 combo amp, now you know what to expect

One that maybe a few of us played years ago, like coming up on 40???

Here is a link to some history on it:

http://bee.mif.pg.gda.pl/ciast…Peavey_Bandit_History.pdf

Love or hate, bring your thoughts or experiences with this amp and maybe I will do some more profiles of it.

Sincerely,
LiveReadySound

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Quote from CJGOMEZ

Thanks a lot. I owned one for a while. Never loved it, though.

There is a lot to not love about the amp yet a few things that can be appreciated.

These are for sure worth trying with a Tele

Quote from 808illest

Whoa, yup, that brings me back lol.

That's the idea

Quote from gitarretyp

I haven't had a chance to check out these profiles, but Johan got some pretty great tones out of a Bandit here The Original Peavey Bandit!? 1981 Solo Series Bandit Of course, the best tone IMO was through the G12M25 loaded 4x12.

Indeed, I will most likely post some with decent cabinet also.

Quote from Ibot39

Not tried the profiles yet, but I will for sure. Thanks!!

Some of the transitor combos of the past had really nice clean channels, that took pedals quite well. H&K Attax, Peavey Bandit, Marshall Master Reverb 30... we used those amps back in the days with distortion pedals to lay down some "nice" death and black metal riffing. Memories flashing through my mind...

I remember the days of my Boss Metalzone (which I still have) into solid state amps. Hmm, did I really think it sounded good? We can see if I was confused with a profile of that. Soon

Quote from JohnnyJ71

Awesome profiles. Thank you so much for getting them to me. I checked this morning and now I have access do download from the forums. Thanks again for allowing me to experience some of the tone from my youth!!!

Welcome Johnny! Glad you got the login issues straightened out.

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Quote from Monkey_Man

Thank you, Tim!

The keyboardist in the band I threw high school away for used it for his stage monitoring (of keys) and at rehearsal. He played a DX7, Prophet 5, JX3P and a D-50 through it.
My only complaint was that he was always too-loud.

Welcome Monkey. I haven't done a clean tone yet but I will. I do think that will be the star of the amp. Especially with a couple tricks.

Quote from Ibot39

@deadpan Believe it or not: I got much praise about my guitar tone back in the days using a Boss Metal Zone (all knobs around 12 o'clock i think) into my H&K Attax 80 Combo. After owning tube amps, the solid state amp still stayed in the rehearsal room for a few years - when quieter level was needed.

Regularly (not joking!) visitors did not believe they are listening to the Metal Zone / Attax combo - they thougt it was the Mesa Rectifier or something else!

Haha, I used to praise my MT-2. Note that was about 30 years ago (please let me have my excuses )

There will be some Metal Zone madness to come

In another thread here in the free section I ran the MT-2 straight into my Tweed Deluxe.

Will do, first, see the first post for a couple clean.

Just added it a few minutes ago.

Quote from aorsongmachine

Thanks a lot !

Very welcome @aorsongmachine

Quote from tommyguitar

I love my bandit

With the right guitar they can sound really good.

Let me know what you think of the profiles.