peavey bandit 112

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I am thinking about getting a getting a peavey bandit 112 and trading in my marshall mg50 dfx. the marshall jsut isnt a good heavy metal amp. and its solid state My biggest influences are alexi laiho from children of bodom and mike padgett from bullet for my valentine. i am an amatuer guitarist so give me crap if i sound like an idiot or not know wat im talking about. lol. is this a good amp for metal( like bfmv and cob). the amp is used and its 50 watts. will i need to replace the tubes? Its a tube right? Whats the difference between tube and transtube. PS i play an epi sg

PSS Dont get mad cuz ive asked similar questions

... and how do i convince my dad who doesnt no a lot about music to let me trade this in wen i just got it for christmas
thanx and sry for all the questions
 
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peavey bandit is not a tube amp but simulates tube amp sounds using it's transtube technology. it's a solid state amp just like the MG. it's not even a metal amp.

EDIT: you have an RP350 right? learn how to tweak that mfx pedal to get the sound you are after. i also have an MG50 together with a Zoom processor and i get good metal tones out of it. learn how to properly use the eq of your pedal.
 
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I'd like a peavey bandit (the newer ones). Would last a long time, loud, nice sound. The mgs aren't that bad. Go by your ears, not so much what you read.
 
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What Cayle said. I'll tell you the same hing I told Spule85 (look up his posts)

That MG 50 is a decent enough clean amp with some volume. I'd go with the Peavey Bandit, however, and I believe it is 85 or more watts. It's a serious gig-worthy amp, with a lot of range and flexibility if you just know how to set he knobs. Transtube is pretty good sounding. I can set up anything from Wind Cries Mary to Fade to Black and more with one of those. Still, no reason to get rid of the Marshall yet.

Next - that RP-350 has a bajillion distortion/eq combos settings etc. built into it. Learn how to tweek it for great sounds. One of the guitar rags (Guitar One maybe?) puts settings in every month. The key is to NOT over do it. Even cheap multi's these days can craft some really awesome sounds.

Just set the Marshall for a solid clean sound Bass 7, Mid 4 Treble 5 to 8 (wherever you need it) and work through the RP. Anyway, work the knobs until you get a pretty flat/even response across the board when clean.

Patience grasshopper - when you can satch the pick from Paul Gilbert's drill, you will be ready to abandon your current setup.

And advice from an old man: Keep the amp for at least a year. Go tell the old man thanks for getting it after you have worked on your tone and chops for a month and figure out how to get some good sounds out of it. Then after a year, you can get something else when your skills are up, etc. You can then say I really liked that amp for quite a while, but my tastes style are changing. I'm looking for a different tone. He'll be ok with it then. And pay for the next amp yourself!

You might check the Digitech site or elsewhere on the web for an RP user's group. They probably have some awesome sound formula/patch settings for exactly what you want.
 
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Hard to argue with Dr. Bob. Wise words.


The Bandit is a :cool3: amp, though, despite being solidstate.

I sold a 112S to help fund a Celtic Franklin. The Bandit had some good sounds, though.
 
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i have to agree to what Aceman said. i've had my MG for over 2 years now and i still have no problems with it. i have the clean channel with Gain about 1/4, bass at about 7, mid on 5 and treble on 6. stick with what you have until you get better and be more serious about music.
 
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aceman hit it on the nose(especially the processor into a clean setting and learning to tweak yer stuff parts:fing2:). but i think the problem is that you're lookin' for gear that will get you recorded tones from mostly studio albums, which is for the most part very hard to do on a budget, imo.
 
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super rad ska said:
you're lookin' for gear that will get you recorded tones from mostly studio albums, which is for the most part very hard to do on a budget, imo.
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No it's not! That one of the things the lower end of multi-fx are designed to do! You need to edit, because the things are originally programmed to be totally over the top to demonstrate what they can do when played in a GC, but still.

I had the following just NAILED (and programmed/preset!) using a Boss ME-8 (back in the day) without modelling or any of that into a Peavey Studio Pro Transtube:
VH I, 5150
Metallica Ride The Lightning, Black album
Ratt Invasion
Kiss ALIVE,ALIVE II, No make up era
Poison
Dokken Early
Zeppelin
Def Lep Hysteria, Pyromania
Judas priest, Screamin/Defenders
Maiden Number/Piece of Mind
Stevie Ray Texas Flood
AC/DC Back in Black
Hendrix Are you experienced
Journey Escape
 
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Aceman said:
No it's not! That one of the things the lower end of multi-fx are designed to do! You need to edit, because the things are originally programmed to be totally over the top to demonstrate what they can do when played in a GC, but still.
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I concur. If we're talking bedroom volume, and you spend some time tweaking, most mulit-fx units can do really sweet stuff.
 
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I would say that the I like the Bandit much more than the MG series, and you can find used Bandits just about anywhere for great prices. The Mutli-FX changes that equation a bit because with a little patience and listening, you should be able to cop a lot of the sounds you hear with your current setup.

If it was just guitar to amp with a stomp box or two, I would get the Bandit in a heart beat.
 
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I've had my bandit 112 for about 5 years and I love it. Its still my go to amp even after I got my valveking. I dont usually use any pedals, But I am thinking about a multi fx unit soon. Btw, bandit + valveking = priceless!
 
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I snagged a mid 90's Peavey Bandit 112 from a pawn shop back in nov for $60 and I play it more than my Crate 212 Palimino, the clean channel and reverb are the best I've heard on a solid state amp. Now if I could just find my Fender twin reverb, lol
 
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I dont have a 350 so I cant try them, but when I used my RP200 a lot, I went to the sound community on digitech site and could always find a preset that got me really close to the sound I wanted. I would have to tweak a little for my amp.
start here
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_product_start.asp?productid=228

try this patch for cob
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_patch.asp?productid=228&patch_id=11463

bullet
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_patch.asp?productid=228&patch_id=12926
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_patch.asp?productid=228&patch_id=12928
 
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I had forgotten about the reverb! One of my favorites ever was in the 112S I had.

I sold it to ranger1bn75inf, though.
 
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I would stick with the marshall, the a bandit 112 (transtube opf course) and a 50 dfx are pretty much on par with each other. Of course they sound a bit different, but neither is really going to get you where you want to go in the end so it doesn´t make much sense IMO to change...
 
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