2:07 CORRECTION: The Tube Screamer is not an asymmetrical clipping device. The article I attached gets that wrong and led me astray. The OD-1 had asymmetrical clipping. Sorry for the confusion.

I was the Amp Product Manager at Peavey when we developed the Transtube silver stripe lineup. When I first started in '92, James Brown, Peavey's amp designer, who had just come off of designing the 5150 amps, wanted to see if I had the "ear" to work with him on the Transtube amps. He had me play through a pile of solid state and tube amps and tell him what I heard. He was looking to see if I could pick up on the essential after-thump or resonance from a tube amp- that "suck-in" of the low end after you hit it hard. His ear was and is amazing. He hears stuff no on else I know can hear. He's currently the amp designer at Fender for the 5150 line of amps. BTW, an industrial designer at Peavey back then, Bob Hopkins and I developed the silver stripe cosmetics that debuted with the Trans Tube line. I wish I had video of all the fights and shouting matches we went through as Hartley was rightly concerned that changing up the look from the old chicken head logo and wide aluminum vertical slates on the front would make his amps look too much like everyone else's.

This was the first Bandit that I was fortunate enough to work on. We basically took the Silver Stripe and took about 10dB of noise out of the preamp. We also made it as homely as possible on purpose. It was the last American made Bandit and it was the first amp that I got an award for at NAMM with James Brown, Ronnie Goss, and Mark Hays.

I've had my Script logo Bandit since 2000, and it lives comfortably with all of its tube amp roommates in my collection.

Peavey made great gear and people always just piled on them. Made in USA, affordabel, great tone , and people just beat the heck out of them. Love Peavey USA!

2:07 The Tube Screamer had/has symmetrical soft-clipping. It was the Boss OD-1 (and later SD-1) that had asymmetrical clipping.

In the late 90’s I had some financial trouble & had to sell my Marshall half stack. After I got my finances straightened out, I needed to buy a new amp, but my funds were limited. I went to my local shop & tried out a bunch of combos, but the tube ones were too expensive. They asked me to try the new Peavy Bandit. My first amp was a Peavey solid state & I knew the distortion in it sucked, & a former band mate had an older Peavey Bandit, & the distortion sounded bad on his too. But I tried this new Transtube amp & couldn’t believe it! The distortion sounded great! It sounded just like tubes! So I bought it, & it became my gigging workhorse for years! I even bought the Transtube Supreme half stack. I’ve moved on to different amps over the years, but my son still has my Bandit. Best solid state amp I’ve ever had. I think they were the first to really nail down proper tube tone in a solid state amp!

I have a silver stripe bandit I got for my 21st birthday in 2001. Won't ever part with it as I love it to bits. I dig the clean channel in particular. The sound is precisely what I want. Add a nice chorus and I'm in heaven.

I just bought one of these again, a few months ago. They are a great bang for the buck. Put an EQ in the FX loop and you can really dial in pretty much anything

My buddy got one of these when we were kids learning to play, eventually when we became young adults he gave it to me because it was just sitting in his mom's basement collecting dust since he stopped playing years back. I started using it in a band I was in and she was gigged around for a couple years. I let the singer/guitar player use it and when we parted ways I actually forgot he had it still. Fast forward like probably 10-12 years we reconnected and he tells me he still has it and pulls it out from waaay in the back of his closet and says it's broken. So I take it home give it a good clean and fiddled around a bit and she fired right up. I still use it to this day and it sounds Flippin awesome! Looks pretty beat up but the tone is wicked

I had a Peavey Musician amp from ‘81, a decent ss head and very loud. It had the phaser built in. The other guitarist in our band had a Peavey Mace with six power tubes. The Musician kept up with that amp.

People that say the distortion on this amp is bad don't know how to dial it in. You need to turn the presence and treble down, push some mids and use less gain than you think you need.
Then turn the T. Dynamics down to around 10-30% to get that tube feel.

Peavey pour la vie!En moins d'un an, j'ai acheté 2 amplis Peavey !Le premier est SPECIAL112 et un Bandit 112 Red Stripe qui sont tout les deux en parfait état ! Merci à ces guitaristes d'avoir prit soin de ces deux amplis!😊

There are two amps that Peavey produced that are the "best".  The first was the "Peavey Classic Tweed 20" from the 1990's.  Not the version with the control panel in the front of the amp.  The model I'm talking about had the controls on top of the amp.    The other amp was an all tube power amp called "The Classic 60/60".  It was two channels, mono and was powered by four 6L6 power tubes.  I used a Marshall 9000 Series preamp, which was solid state.  If you're looking for that "brown sound" or that high gain 5150 sound without the 5150 prices, this is the rig for you.  Good luck finding the components.  They're a bit scarce these days.

The 1980s Peavey Renown is one of the best rock amps ever made.

Lead with modern gain at 25 sounds really good.

I remember in the late 70's, early 80's in the town I lived in, all the town bands had Peavey Renown amps...it was a 212 combo amp, it sounded great for it's time, it was loud, and could cut through a live drummer and a loud bass player...bass players had this 15" speaker amp with a Peavey "Black Widow" speaker in it...they were all reliable...didn't know anyone that had one fail on them, even though it probably happened to someone out there. I'm not hearing anything in this video that I'd say "no way; I'd never make it through a gig with that..."...Thanks for the video, man. I hope you and yours are doing great!

Great sounding amp.  I’d play it anywhere.  I’ve been gigging through modeling amps for years and no one’s ever come up to me and said they could tell I wasn’t using a tube amp.  People are listening to the music, not the amp!

I've had this red stripe model and a USA made silver stripe also. Both were/are very nice amps. I sold both and replaced them with a Fender hotrod deluxe and a Catalyst 60 which I replaced with the Catalyst 100 watt, love the 100 watt amp! Anyone with the bandit series amps has a gem!
Thanks for the video!

My Silver Stripe Bandit is on par with any of my small tube amps 5-15 watts ,and it’s indestructible and the price can’t be beat ! Takes pedals very well and is loud AF . Tube amp snobs won’t admit how good those old Bandits are but I know better so It’s all good ! Thanks Peavey and all associated with them !