Hey,

Anyone know anything of this combo? It's a 80W/100W 1x12 combo, 2 channels with independent EQ's blahblahblah.
Heard some good shit on HarmCent and Guitar Review...

http://www.peavey.com/products/shop.../4/transtub.cfm

Anyway I'd get it quite cheap from an importer, but I haven't exactly found it anywhere, so I can't test it myself for some time. Any comments, is it worth digging into, or should I just forget it? It would mainly be a practice amp in my room, nothing major (replacing a GX15R) Maybe some small gigs. Neat distortion is what I'd like, cleans don't matter too much. Also I wouldn't like to use any pedals...

Other model I heard of was Transformer 112... (vs. Bandit?) Comments?

Thanks!

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I had a peavey bandit 112 for a while, got rid of it.

it's good for practising in your room and they're virtually unbreakable, loads of rehearsal places use them because of that...

I don't think they're super-amps or something but for home practise it's allright. I have no idea for how much they'de go for over there... you might want to consider looking for used stuff. *cough* engl straight 50 on ebay.de *cough*

I have a 80 watt peavey bandit and its ok. Like def said it's great for practicing.

would you guys say its the best practice s.s. amp? (one of the best?) im thinking about buying one for practice pretty soon.

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It gets the job done..

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I've been using one for about 3 years now, and it's awesome. Haven't played any shows with it, but i practice with my band and it's louder that my friend's 5150-2 cabinet. The distortion is great, got 2 different levels, Modern and High Gain being the best ones.

For the price and size i'd say it's one of the best out there. Of course it can't compete with your multi-thousand dollar head + stack set-ups, but it gets the job done and then some.

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Theirs no way a bandit is louder than a cranked 5150..

No fucking way at all

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I'd get it for about 250€ new... (Peavey site: retail 499$)

Yeah definately I'm checking out used ones constantly, but up here there ain't lots of anything! I mean, every good used amp is like a treasure... I wish we had eBay, well we have similars, but there small...

And I'm not too confident on buying used gear outside the country, it's not like ordering from Thomann you know...

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well for example,
a few months ago I found a used ORIGINAL Mars 2203 + 1960 cab for
666€ (lol)... well it sounded first like a killer deal, but then I found out that the condition was bad. it had just came back from a total repair. doesn't sound very promising... well, a 15+ year old amp, what can you expect... god, what a wreck.

the point is that we just don't have good deals/prices here. I wish we had ebay. the only stuff that's cheap around here are like MG Marshalls and shit.
well I found a Diezel VH4 (usage time: minutes) for 2500€! my gawd let's buy it

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he said cab, maybe he's using another top but ofcourse a 5150 is way louder.

I had no problems with buying from ebay, I picked the stuff I bought up myself though. Coming from Finland that must be a long drive. Sending amps and shit, mm. I wouldn't trust it either, especially not tube amps. but hell if you've got a drivers licence, I drove a couple of hours for my savage too.

by the way, that isnt a bad price on that diezel man.

http://www.smokeyamps.com/ <-- those dont count as a head

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But thanks everyone! The Bandit doen't seem like a bad amp...

Any other amps you'd suggest? Well tube combos are kinda too expensive, no point in spending so much €€€ on a combo. And what comes to stacks, don't need one. No point in having a 120W half-stack in my own room...
So again, what I'd want is good distortions (I play a Ltd with EMGs), enough power (at least 50W). And preferably in the up-to-650$ retailprice-range (about, doesn't matter too much, just somewhere near that).
Oh yeah, and I already stated that I can't really get my hands on any good used gear, too bad

Maybe other Peaveys, H&K, Marshall, Line 6, Crate, Roland etc? But what do you think?

Thanks, this forum RULZ

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maybe a cheaper tube combo? you know, the good tone is at tube amps...

ofcourse there are some allright ss amps too, H&K makes a lot of decent solid state's, I've played a bunch and they never let me down, I used one for about a year when I was just starting out years ago (in a practise room, a h&k tour reverb)

Marshall, don't even go there, their SS stuff is all shit. Line 6 are spaceships with loads of lights and effects but no tone. Roland, meh, they only have good cleans IMO, Peavey has a lot of good ss stuff, that has to be said, and at a decent price.
I don't know about Crate, I only played some of their shitty 15watters and the bv300. wasn't impressed with either of them.

Come to think of it, you might be able to get a 50w tube combo for that cash, here's the list of affordable tube amps.

Cheap Tube Amps

From ENGL:

$1000 - Screamer 50 combo

$800 - Thunder 50 combo

From Traynor:

$780 - YCV80Q Custom Valve 4x10 Combo

$560 - YCV20WR Custom Valve Combo

$620 - Custom Valve YCV40T 40 2x10 Combo with Celestions

$630 - YCV40WR Custom Valve 40 Combo

$580 - YCV40 Custom Valve Combo

$520 - YCV20 Custom Valve Combo with 12" Celestion

$740 - Custom Valve YCV80 2x12 Combo with Celestions

From Laney:

$700 - LC30-II 30W All-Tube Class A Combo with Reverb

$671 - VC30-112 30W 1x12 All-Tube Class A British Combo

$840 - VC30-212 30W 2x12 All-Tube Class A British Combo

From Peavy:

$980 - 5150® 212 2x12 60W Guitar Combo Amp

$500 - Classic 30 1x12 30W Guitar Combo Amp

$1000 - Triple XXX 112 1x12 Guitar Combo Amp

$770 - Classic 50/410

$500 - Delta Blues

From Fender: (Some go up to $200 above $1000.)

$290 - Pro Junior™ Combo

$580 - Hot Rod Deluxe

$1050 - ’65 Twin Reverb® Amp

$1190 - Twin Amp™ 100-Watt All-Tube Amp

$1155 - 59 Bassman

$1100 - ’65 Twin Custom 15

$400 - Blues Junior™ Combo

$735 - Hot Rod DeVille™ 212

$800 - ’65 Deluxe Reverb® Combo Amp

$700 - Hot Rod DeVille™ 410

From Marshall:

$900 - Marshall DSL 401 Combo

??? - Used DSL201 Combo (They are out of production)

From Pignose:

$200 - G40V Tube Amp

i just got a bandit yestery, sounds great for such i little thing. DEFINATLY kicks the shit out of the POS Crate gfx-30.... the worst amp ever made. im not joking. the gfx is the worst amp ever, im keeping it for that reason, so i can say i have the worst amp ever. god i hate it.

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Haha, see, I'm not alone in my crate-hating

of course your not..

Crates make alot of shit... ALOT, the few good amps they produce dont justify all the bullshit they've been calling amps for the past 10 years

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I just found out that I'd get Randall stuff quite cheap also... Now I hear Randall makes pretty badass metal-amps. A G2-series combo might be alright. I'll also check out what's the discounts on the MTS tubecombo series...

It's just that both the Peavey and the Randall are that distant, I can't really try em out just like that. That's why I'm asking help from you guys...
What do you think?

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the randall rh100g2 was pretty good for the bucks, thats a head, I don't know if I got the name right but a friend of mine has one in camo, its pretty darn heavy for an ss amp