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Originally Posted by LGOberean
Again, I appreciate all the info.
wildschwein, thanks for that informative post, and the pics. I thought about the Studio Pro, but I just wasn't sure about going with a single channel...Thanks for the tip about the Express. I've read more about the Bandit and the Envoy, haven't seen much on the Express, but a 12" speaker and 65 watts sounds good to me. I'll have to check that out.
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No worries; always happy to talk about Transtubes. I'm not sure about the older Studio Pros from the 80s but the Studio Pro 112 Transtube is actually a 2 channel amp; clean and od. It has quite a few tonal options; cleans are Fenderish and the dirt tones are Marshally; it's 65 watts and is freakin' loud - more than enough to gig with. There is plenty of distortion options on the od channel but you can back it all off and get a good bluesy grind with no problem - I use a dirt box on top of the dirt channel for blues rock stuff and a compressor on the clean channel for rockabilly and country sounds. It does have less power amp features than a Bandit Transtube and is in a slightly smaller and lighter cab, however it is electronically similar. But, as said above, you can't really go wrong with any of the Bandits; I haven't played all of those but everyone I've heard sounds good and they have a heap of volume on tap. As to the Envoy I'm pretty sure the Transtube ones are a 1 x 10 combo and are about 40 watts; but they would probably be loud enough for a coffee house setting; going by how loud the 65 watts is in the Studio Pro.