Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - The different 'stripes' of Peavey TransTubes?

Will Chen · July 6th, 2009, 04:00 PM

I just picked up a scratch and dent newest generation Bandit for $210 from AMS. There're 2 on ebay under $200 (including shipping). I've long been a fan of the Bandit and finally pulled the trigger. While the red stripe series has a presence control the newer line has a footswitchable boost so it comes down to your personal needs as a player. As I'm very useed to having a boost with my Trademark 60, I opted for the boost over the presence control. They do indeed sound a bit different from each other, but not so much that one is signifficantly better than the other in my opinion.

A fabulous feature of these amps is the extremely natural compression and breakup you get when you crank the clean channel (use the attenuator to avoid hearing loss!). Just superb and better than almost any of the affordable tube amps on the market. Plus you get the higher gain channel when you need full gain.

There have been several other amps besides the Bandit and Envoy series containing the Transtube design including the TransFex and the Transtube 100 EFX series (kinda the predecessor of the Vypyr) which included the transtube preamp and power amp coupled to a digital effects processor and the Wiggy.

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Will Chen Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Plano, TX Age: 35 Posts: 230	I just picked up a scratch and dent newest generation Bandit for $210 from AMS. There're 2 on ebay under $200 (including shipping). I've long been a fan of the Bandit and finally pulled the trigger. While the red stripe series has a presence control the newer line has a footswitchable boost so it comes down to your personal needs as a player. As I'm very useed to having a boost with my Trademark 60, I opted for the boost over the presence control. They do indeed sound a bit different from each other, but not so much that one is signifficantly better than the other in my opinion. A fabulous feature of these amps is the extremely natural compression and breakup you get when you crank the clean channel (use the attenuator to avoid hearing loss!). Just superb and better than almost any of the affordable tube amps on the market. Plus you get the higher gain channel when you need full gain. There have been several other amps besides the Bandit and Envoy series containing the Transtube design including the TransFex and the Transtube 100 EFX series (kinda the predecessor of the Vypyr) which included the transtube preamp and power amp coupled to a digital effects processor and the Wiggy. Last edited by Will Chen; July 6th, 2009 at 05:22 PM.