I know...another Peavey Bandit thread...

Cool!
Sometimes the reverb transducer wires (in the reverb tank) come unsoldered due to vibration.
Perhaps that’s all that’s wrong.
It’s an easy fix.
Congratulations and good luck!

 

The clean channel on Bandits is tailor made for use with modelers. It's really good with the Tech21 SansAmp and Character pedals (and their Chinese made clones), floor units like DigiTech and Zoom and rack units like Line6. This can give you a lot of versatility.

Another thing is that it sounds good at both high and low volume so you can use it for reasonably quiet practice as well as gig volumes.

 

+1 fixed one over the weekend, a touch of solder and it's BIA, some times it also helps to clean up the RCA connectors, and I have had one where the connection at the board was loose..(be careful if you go inside one hand in your pocket, use a chop stick to try and wiggle the connector)

 

Yep, my Boss GT-1 goes into the power amp in. It handles the amo sims really well!

Congratulations!

 

Yes, congrats. I don't mind another Peavey Bandit thread at all. In fact, I hope I get to post one myself someday soon. I've had a bunch of Peavey amps, sold or gave away some, but meant to always have my Bandit 65. Sadly, it was stolen. I've been checking locally (Craig's List & pawn shops) as well as ebay, but so far, no luck.

And + 2 on looking into repairing that reverb tank. Or maybe replacing it. I'd take the real spring reverb on a Bandit over a pedal any day.

 

Congratulations on a great amp!

 

Good amps. Congrats!

 

This weekend I took apart my beloved Silver Stripe w/a Shefield speaker and re soldered all the posts on the 1/4” board mounted jacks. Played her long and hard tonite.
I also got a Teal stripe with a scorpion speaker. Love them both.
I may even splurge on a new one one day just to have different eras

 

Last year I looked up a replacement tank for a Peavey Pacer. Seems like it was less than $20. I would imagine it's a similar tank on the Bandit.
(I never ordered it. I decided to do something else with the cabinet. The Pacer had other issues, too.)

 

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I have the older Solo 65 Bandit ... reverb was out when I got that one. I swapped tanks with my more modern 112 and the tank worked fine. I bought new op-amps (458(?) or something, been a year or more) and swapped those out because they are attached with sockets (easy to swap) and sometimes a cause for similar problems. Op-amps were all ok. While I was in there I tried swapping with the 215s(?) or whatever the other popular mod is as some heard big changes and I found there was slight to no change so I put the originals back. These op-amps were something like five for a dollar. So anyway, mine has a deeper reverb issue. Otherwise works great.



"common culprits:

• Bad driver and/or recovery stages, on the Peavey Bandit, these are both handled by one dual-opamp IC
• Broken cables or cable jack connections
• Bad or corroded footswitch jack (some Bandits have a FS jack, others don't)
• Broken pickup/pickup wires inside the reverb tank"

Replace "IC DG211CJ or NJU211D, it controls the voltage going to the reverb tank"


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What is the advantage of setting the equalizer knobs to 7 versus turning up the volume?

 

Bandit's are like the Solid State Deluxe Reverb. They are a good size for practices and gigs, they are common and usually sound good. I have an '80's Backstage Plus which is the little brother with a ten inch speaker. I use it all the time.

Happy New Amp Day!

 

Start with all the tones at 12:00 then do "subtle" tweaks to taste... I find most Peavey amps to be this way. Of course, I always plug in the same guitars so YMMV.