Peavey Bandito

[Toxophilite]

The other day I bought an early 80s Peavey Bandit..To be completely honest I bought it as it had  a JBL K120 in it that I wanted for another amp. I have an irrational dislike of Peavey stemming from the late 80s....


I put this stupidly efficient 1960s Utah speaker into it (looks exactly like a jensen c12N) to sell it  but decided to try it out the other day for kicks


Damned if it isn't very fine sounding, I would say beautiful and very very loud. (I'm looking for pristine cleans)
So much so that I would happily forsake one of my little tube amps and use it in it's place
However it doesn't have tremelo, which I use. I know i can get a pedal
BUUUT would it be possible to build a tremelo into one of these amps??
Has anyone ever tried that?
THanks

[PRR]

Hating Peavey *is* irrational. Their stuff is rugged and sounds good.

> possible to build a tremolo into one

Hide a trem-pedal inside?

You "can" do anything. First figure out the scope of the problem. A peek at the plans would be a good start. Since "Bandit" ("Bandito"???) seems to be a marketing name rather than any specific design, better figure out just what you got.

IAC, good score on the -120.

[Toxophilite]

It's the second Generation early 80s bandit, 50 watts has channel switching and spring reverb.(I was just being silly calling it a bandito)
Something about the aesthetic/logo and the association with hair metal bands at that time turned me off I guess. I cared more about such distinctions when I was younger. Also though the amps are undeniable well built...they're not terribly pleasing looking but you can't hear how 'functional' it looks.  I was quite pleased with how it sounds. I'm going to give it a workout in rehearsal and see how it holds up.
Who knows, maybe I'll put the JBL back in but that UTAH sounds quite nice in there and is lighter, better than it did in my single channel deluxe build.
I'm beginning to think the main advantage of a tube amp is for breakup and distortion which I don't use them for anyway. Oh yeah and all those little glowing tubes.
I have the original manual for the Peavey so I'm going to see if it has a schematic in it
For $120 I think it was a decent deal, The JBL is almost worth that much alone.

[jazbo8]

No more Peavey bashing please.   I got a Supreme 100W head, and was pleasantly surprised how I liked the Trans-Tube sound - like all the vintage Peavey's, it is built like a tank and impossible to destroy.

[Toxophilite]

In this day and age "trans-tube" is a very curious choice of name 

[Toxophilite]

Another thing I've realized over time is that a fair amount of my guitar's sound (old gretschs,1964s) comes from the preamp of the Roland tape echo they run through before hitting the amp/. So I'm essentially preamping with solid state anyway.

[shooter]

impossible to destroy

That's how I got "roped" into this addiction, my son's classic 50 caught fire while playing, took me 3 months and more time/money than the amp was worth, 12+ builds later.... it's all Peaveys fault

[Toxophilite]

"impossible to destroy"...that''s not unlike what they said about the titanic, though I don't think you could call a Peavey 'unsinkable'

However the particle board Baffle on my bandit has crumble away around one of the screw anchors or T bolt or whatever they are, I'll probably have to chisel it out and laminate a pice of plywood in..I hate %$&^ particle board

I kind of wish an amp of mine would catch fire live, pretty damn cool!

I have seen smoke coming out of a studio moniter...