Peavey Amps for Jazz

[entresz]

I had one in the past, with a scorpion speaker - excellent amp. It there's a nuclear apocalipse, all that will be left will be cockroaches and bandit 65s, they are indestructable.

Yours must be the same as mine - I've got the Scorpion speaker too.
I've pulled mine apart once to replace the filter caps and was really impressed by how nicely put together it was.

[entresz]

I actually prefer Peaveys that are pre-transtube; I found I didn't' like the later amps as much as the older ones. I mainly play clean...The distortion on the old amps isn't great, I think the transtube amps are better in that regard.

The Bandit was great at my big band gig. I use an acoustic archtop for most of the rhythm parts, but we did a few charts that were a bit more contemporary (a couple Buddy Rich arrangements) which called for an electric sound. It sounded beautiful - big round sounding mid-range, nice tight sounding low end and smooth highs. I had the Junior Barnyard preamp on too, so that adds a bit of compression, but doesn't drastically change the actual tone of the amp.