Peavey Bandit 112S

20001 Bandit. Two channel solid state Transtube amp. The clean channel has a Vintage and Modern voicing which offer plenty of versatility and tones. The clean on this amp is amazing! The Lead channel has three voicings, high gain, modern, and vintage, and all three are very nice and offer plenty of variety. The reverb on this amp is very nice. The amp has a resonance switch - tight & loose which add a lot also...amazing! The amp also has a T-dynamics nob to change the dynamic character of the amp, it acts like tube compression. The cab is open back and the speaker is quite nice. The amp is decent size for a 112 but fairly light - 43 lbs I believe.

I am using a Dean Evo with 11's and I am getting great tones. I went back and forth between this and a Marshall AVT which is also nice but this amp won me over. I can't get over how good the clean channel is on this amp! It was one of the deciding factors over the AVT. While I liked the AVT's distortion, I found I only liked the amp with the scoop switch engaged...but with the Bandit I can get some great tones for metal to blues. The blues tones on the Vintage voicing with my neck pickup is great. And the rock and metal tones available from the super thick and high channels are great. It just sounds so articulate and defined. I am amazed at how good this amp sounds when playing lead....it just blew my socks off. For the first time I actually enjoyed playing lead through a solid state amp. That alone was worth the price of admition. Another thing that won me over is the power....I had the AVT150 combo (100 watts) but this amp cranks..I can't get it over post gain 4 and since it is open back, you can't escape the sound which is nice when playing without a PA. I do however think that the Peavy 112sx closed back extension cab will make this one heck of a tone package. I can't wait to get one. The T-dynamics make a big difference...it really tightens up as you lower the T-D's and the Resonance switch is also helpfull...really changes the feel and tone. It really does sound great. Retains clarity when cranked and again the power is there.

Not sure other than the fact that I had a Bandit many years ago and never had a problem, plus this thing seems rock solid.

I have great luck with Peavy as far as getting a response to all of my questions.

I love this amp and can't beleive that anyone would not like this amp when you consider the tone, variety, and price of this amp. I only jam with friends but hope to gig in the future with this amp and an extension cab. My only other choice is if I decide to trade it for the Peavy Revolution for the extra channel.

1999 Bandit 112,...bunch of knobs like all the others, and a few that dont sound like they do much of anything. 2 channels, clean and annoying.

This amp has some seriously bad harmonic overtone that made my ears bleed and gut wrench, either because of the speaker or the attempt at making a psuedo tube amp, i dont know but my older bandit was by far the better amp.(circa 1995)

Peavey was always reliable.

dunno

20 years of playing and I dont like this amp.
This did not sound anything like a tube amp. Nor like a good transistor amp.
Its fun for plugging in little radio shack speakers and cranking the volume all the way up. if you're lucky you might get a light show!
Buy a real tube amp, even a used '74 ampeg V4 will sound better.
3 times as heavy though :-)

2001 Redline Peavey Bandit, more versitile than any amp I've ever owned. Only a modelling amp would have more features. Amp has two channels with channel switching footjack which also switches effects loop off and on. No headphone jack. It has everything I need. I'm using every feature on it and still learning them! I use the amp at home, will jam with it, record and gig. More power than I'll ever need. The amp has a Sherfield speaker in and is solid state with tube emulating technology known as Transtube. The manual is one of the best written and informative I've ever seen. I actually learned how to use the effects loop on an amp correctly from this manual. Which is an important point or your effects will suck the tone out of the amp. Hook cable from send to effects input then a cable from the output on effects box to effects return on the amp. You can turn the effects off and on with the footswitch and there is a button on the back of the amp that controls the effects level. I run mine pushed in for maximum effects level.

I'm using an Epiphone Casino which has two single coil pickup and when used together become humbucking. I play mainly old rock music but play blues, country, some disco and heavy metal including Hendrix and AC/DC. This amp truly does it all. Amp is very quiet. There is an amp power control so you can turn the amps power down to play at bedroom volume or at gigs to 100 watts of power through an extended cab if you use that feature. The amp has a vintage/modern switch that actually changes the tone of the amp. It has three gain selections on a switch on the second channel, including high gain. Why would anyone need any more heavy metal distortion or gain? Wow! The amp is clean like a fender with good pronounced bass tone, especially on the modern and loose speaker option. The amp does have a switch that change the speaker tone from tight to loose--like an old tube amp. Amp stays clean. The manual tells you how to set the channels for the cleanest sound, for blues, for dirty blues, metal, distortion, high gain. I like using my Digitech RP 100 throught the effects loop and switching between channels that way I can get a clean Blackface tone on channel one and a metal sounding blackface on channel two. Again, wow! The distortion will go over the top in my opinion.

No tubes to replace and it has a 5 year warranty. No problems so far. Don't know how to answer this, but I've never had a Peavey product to break down. Why not a 10 for so far so good throughout the years.

They have a website and will answer questions. Information is given on dealers and repair sites. I live in Mississippi where Peavey is located. Warranty is 5 years. Again, no problems.

Been playing 25 years and have owned too much to list. Currently own an Epiphone Casino, Sears box guitar, Applause box guitar, Digitech RP 100, old Japanese electric guitar, Rogue A/E 300 guitar, Morley alligator volume pedal and two Fender Champ amps from the 70's. If it were stolen I'd have to wait a while to replace but I would buy it again. I love all of the extra features, the big speaker, the excellent tone. After breaking in the speaker good it really does come very close to a tube--close enough for me and the gain channel is better than most tube amps. I sold a one year old Delta Blues 210 to buy this amp. Does that tell you something. No, I'm not crazy, the amp is just that good. I compared it to Marshalls and Fender, especially the Fender Deluxe 90. There was no real comparison. The Peavey stood out as superior. I chose this one because of it's reputation, good ratings, which it deserves, and it wonderful clean and metal sounds. It's beautiful looks are worth mention as well. The effects loop system on this amp really have me excited. I've owned lots of great amps and overall I can truly say this is the one. No, it doesn't sound as good as my Champs run in stereo, but factoring everything else in together with it's very close to tube sound it's the winner in it's price range hands down. I guess an earphone jack would come in handy but I can use the earphone jack on my Digitech RP 100 for that. I'd like to say that after extensive study and research I settled on this amp. If you buy one be sure to break the speaker in good before making a judgement on it and read the owner's manual. Learn everything about it and you will appreciate this amp. If you are buying in the $400 range, cheaper or higher depending on location, you can't do better than the Redline Bandit. Don't settle for cheap tube amp with far less features. This amp is an Ace in the hole!

mine is just like any other, I am not going to waste your time.

I use a 50s classic stratocaster with pickup settings 2 and 4
It seems to work fine with my style, my style is a blues/rock mix
the distortion is a bit harsh for what i need.

Reliability?? It is a peavey!!

I have been playing for about 4 years. I play mostly in a church setting. if stolen I whould find the guy who stole it and .........
It is a great amp for the money, but my next amp will be a all tube half stack.

This amp has very good features. 2 years went by before i even had to buy a pedal, cause it took at least 1 year to figure out everything this amp could do. overall this amp is great feature wise, it has a great thrash button to turn your distortion to a new level, although i still havent found the real meaning of the resonance button, i know it makes it sound better.

i found out like a couple other peolpe probably have that it doesnt work good with the single coil pickups like say in strats. but it still gets the job done. when i plug in my epiphone s.g. i can tell that the amp gives it that extra heavy metal approach to it and kicks the ass out of just about any 400-500 $ amp you can get

i have no worries about this amp, i wouldnt think of a backup unless i just wanted to use it through the external speaker. but i can rely on this thing for gigs, for rehersals and for recording it does wonders, and i dont have very many neglects except for the excessive hissing wich you will find in just about any $500 amp out there.

since i was 5 years old ive been dealing with peavey, i got my first guitar when i was 5 never played very much but now i do, and it is still reliable. and peavey has given me tons of support and after doing tons of business with them i have no complaints.

i've had it for about 2 years now and i have a bunch of gear but the main things that come in handy effects wise is my vox wah-pedal, and my digitech processor. but depending on the kind of music you play you might not even need a pedal. if i had it stolen i would most likely buy the amp again. my favorite thing about this amp is the footswitch that comes with it cause it turns it from clean to lead obviously but then it has an effects button to and that shuts off any other effects you might have running through the effects loop whit i think is really handy. one thing i do hate however is i cant get it to get the heavy metal distortion almost fuzz but more like metallica songs or megadeth.

There's a lot of great features : fx loop, accutronic reverb, two lead modes(normal and thrash) With the 112sx bottom it cost me around 950$ (Canadian...63 cents US :-)...>The only lack is that there is no headphone jack .......bull shit.........

It really kicks ass....it sound the real best when playing AC/DC stuff. This amp is isn't build for extreme low rumble but mid range is like ........houba houba............Try a boss metal zone (MT-2) with it and give me news-----> dimarzio12@hotmail.com

I use it every single day for 3 years now. The pot didn't even crackle. I had a couple of stage performance and lot of real loud jam (volume aroud 5 or 6) with friends and let me say.......it's real tuff

I never had any problem with it but you know, like, actually, we're talking about PEAVEY....

Maybe not the best, but for me , it is a very special amp. Like I Will always remenber my fisrt car (Dodge Colt 200E), I,ll always remember my first big amp.......

It can play any styles. Got a clean and lead channels. Effects loop, 85 watts, Trastube. I practsie wiv it, in a medium size venue, on volume 3, real nice tone and volume. I use an extension cab for more power sumtimes. Its got the footswitch, reverb. I use all the features. I put me own wheels on it for easy transportation. Great stuff!

I play grunge mainly, perfect sound, wiv a Strat and a flanger. Feeds back which is kool and controlable. Can be brutal or mellow. AMAZING!

OMG!!! ITS A TANK!!!!!!!! never broke, use it everyday!

dunno

id buy it again. Just need me own cab for it now, cuz i lend cabs at teh moment. Best amp for money EVER!

Its a 98. I play Deftones, Finger 11 etc. type music and i think its pretty damn good sounding. it could use A BETTER FRICKIN SPEAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU CANT TURN MINE PAST 3 CUZ IT'LL FART WHEN YOU PLAM MUTE AND ALL THAT THATS BULSHITT!!!!!

BUT IT DOES SOUND AWESOME AT LOWER LEVELS!!

EH NOT BAD

WHOMEVER I TALKED TO TOLD ME THAT THE SPKRS ARE RATED AT 100w... WRONG.. BUDDY IS A DIPSHIT CUZ IT SAYS IN THE BROCHURE FOR THE 112SX CABINET IS RATED AT 75 WATTS (same spkr 12"Sheffield 1230)

THE AMP IS 80watts you DUMBASS!!

its good except for the bum spkr and the stupid-ass of a tech!!

I'm not exactly sure what year this amp was made, but it's a 112S made before they came up with the 'Transtube' circuitry. It has a teal line on the face and i believe these are sometimes referred to as 'tealfaces'.
It's fairly versatile for a solid-state amp of it's price. It has plenty of different sounds. I've used it to come up with thrash metal sounds, punk sounds, grunge sounds, clean sounds, and crank up the spring reverb to emulate some of that Dick Dale surf sound.

It's got independent channels with their own eq, plus extra sound-shaping switches on top of that. It has an effects loop send and return, input jack straight to the power amp (great feature), preamp output (another great feature), and footswitch jack (which works fine). No headphone output. Bummer.
I use this amp in my house, for recording stuff, in my rehearsal space, it has been used at gigs for a bass and as an improvised bass amp, it doesn't sound half bad. It's got 80 loud watts pushing a 12" Sheffield speaker (Peavey's version of a Celestion I'm guessing).

I plug my BC Rich Warlock, Squier Stratocaster, '75 Fender Musicmaster bass, and a Perea Black Sunshine (a homemade guitar) into it. I can get a great to decent sound out of all of them. As before, it suits a variety of styles. Has never been noisy. Others claim the distortion is terrible, but it sounds great to me. In fact, I've had friends come over and hear the tone and start tweaking knobs on their gear trying to emulate it. The Clean channel always stays clean in my experience. The distortion is brutal enough for my thrash and punk tastes. Obviously you can't get a warm tube sound out of a solid-state amp. Not even the Transtubes are going to do that. No solid-state will EVER sound like a tube amp. Get over it. If you want tube sound, why the hell are you buying solid-state?

This amp has been given hell. I've stood on the amp, jumped off the amp, kicked the amp, legdropped the amp, flying-elbowed the amp, shoved the amp, slammed a guitar into the amp, dropped the amp several times (once it rolled a complete rotation) and not even the spring reverb has ever gone out. This amp is solid as a tank. The combined efforts of Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Undertaker, and the Rock could not destroy this amp. Dis beotch be tuff. Lay the smackdown all you want, this amp is never down for the count. As a matter of fact, one time I had it beneath a window that got left open during a storm. The amp got soaked completely with water and after it dried out for a week, it was working perfectly fine again.

Never dealt with the customer service, although the Peavey factory is a few hours from my house so i suppose I could drive down there and raise hell if nothing else.

I've been playing for 7 years and had the amp for about 5. I've never needed another amp for my guitar needs. Then again I'm also not recording the White Album or embarking on a world tour, so your needs obviously may vary from mine. If it were stolen, I'd unleash some demons to torment the punk that took it from me. I'd definitely buy another Peavey for the sheer reliability. I don't really hate anything about this amp. There is very little I dislike about this amp. I've tried various other solid-state amps priced similarly and i like my Peavey better. I've tried Fender, Crate, Brownsville, and some not worth mentioning. I like Peavey better. I just wish it had a headphone output and perhaps an external speaker output.

I'd like to share your money.

2 Channels, 3-band EQ on each, some crazy tone shaping switches, reverb, and tube emulation circuitry. Not great, not bad.

It sounds pretty damn good clean. The distortion sucks, but that's what my Fuzz Factory is for. The reverb won't hold with a Fender, but it's nice and full sounding. It's good as a basic clean amp, especially for the price. Plus, it keeps me from lugging around my Sovtek Mig-50 and a 4x12.

It's never given me any trouble, and it's been banged areound and moved A LOT.

Never talked to Peavey.

Been playing 3 years, use a '66 Fender Mustang into a bunch of boutique analog pedals into this Bandit and a Sovtek Mig-50. I love the basic sound of the thing...I play 95% originals, but I can nail that Joey Santiago sound for the covers I DO play, which obviously are primarily Pixies. It's great for the price.