The Solo Series Bandit 112 was made in Meridian MS USA. Vintage Peavey Bandit 112 80 Watts RMS 8 Ohms Guitar Amplifier 12" Speaker Your purchases help youth music programs get the gear they need to make music. Year. During this time Peavey attempted to adopt a new company logo, and moved away from their traditional “pointy” logo. 5A-12345 would indicate 1975 7A-123456 would indicate 1977. ( Log Out /  The Transtube Series Bandit 112 was made in Meridian MS USA and came stock with the Sheffield 1230 speaker. 1980s. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Black. Bandit® 112 Guitar Combo Amp At the 1995 NAMM show thousands of players, media and dealers crammed into a small demo room inside the Peavey exhibit, one after another, where our engineers set up a blind A/B comparison between their new invention and a real tube amp. Due to a color scheme incorporating a red stripe across the front of the amplifier, many people refer to the Transtube Series II Bandit as the “Redstripe Bandit”. Second, the speaker in the Chinese version is either unlabelled, or is labelled “Blue Marvel”, a Peavey code for speakers made outside of Peavey and then rebranded as Peavey. The Solo Series Bandit 112 was made in Meridian MS USA. Peavey Bandit 112 Features: 80 watts (rms) into 8 ohms 100 watts (rms) into 4 ohms (w/external speaker) 12" Sheffield speaker High and Low gain inputs TransTube tube emulation circuitry Footswitchable clean and lead channels (footswitch not included) 3-band passive EQ on each channel 3-position EQ/Gain Voicing switch on each channel The Solo Series Bandit was made in Meridian MS USA and came equipped with Peavey’s proprietary guitar speaker, the Scorpion. Many of the innovations that would later be branded as “Transtube” were included in the Solo Series Bandit 112, but the name “Transtube” had not been adopted yet. It came equipped from the factory with a 12″ guitar speaker made for Peavey by Eminence. This simulated output runs independently of the amp’s internal speaker, allowing silent recording. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peavey_Electronics#Bandit_series_guitar_amplifiers. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 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The Gunsmoke Bandit was made in Meridian Mississippi USA and had a power rating of 50 watts RMS. In the mid-nineties, the Bandit was used to introduce Peavey’s proprietary TransTube circuitry, a solid-state technology aimed at emulating the sound of tube amplifiers. ( Log Out /  The earliest model Bandits had a power rating of 50 watts RMS into an 8 ohm speaker. Made In. Transtube Series II Bandit 112 Made in China. One of the more popular variations is known as the “Teal Stripe” or “Blue Stripe” Bandit due to a blue horizontal stripe below the control panel. For example, a two digit prefix such as 6A followed by five or six numerals would indicate a 70’s product (“A” is for amp, “E” is for enclosure), and the prefix indicates the year. ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. (2006-current) The current version of the Bandit is made in China. The Bandit 75 was made in Meridian MS USA and came equipped with Peavey’s proprietary guitar speaker, the Scorpion. Central to the Transtube concept is a patented “power brake” that allows the user to control the amount of power required for dynamic range compression from the power amp, from 100% all the way down to 10%, thus enabling the amplifier to acheive power amp compression without running at full volume. $225.00 +$122.30 shipping. The Bandit amp series are solid-state combo guitar amplifier. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. All of the USA Redstripe Bandits shipped from the factory with US made Sheffield 1230 speakers. (1981-1983) The Solo Series Bandit soon followed the Gunsmoke Bandit and incorporated a variety of improvements, most notably a much improved sound. The Bandit 65 was made in Meridian MS USA and came equipped with Peavey’s proprietary guitar speaker, the Scorpion. Notably, it was also the first Bandit to have an external speaker jack, allowing external speakers to be run instead of or in parallel with the internal speaker. (1989-1995) The Solo Series Bandit 112 introduced many new features, the most notable being an increase in power to 80 watts RMS and a choice between Peavey’s Scorpion speaker and Peavey’s newly introduced Sheffield speaker. Amplificador solid state muito potente, equipado com alto-falante Scorpion. It is the first Bandit to incorporate a “simulated output” for recording purposes. Another obvious difference is that all Chinese Redstripe Bandits have the “pointy logo”, while most – but not all – of the USA Redstripe Bandits shipped with Block Logos.