Wednesday, 12 September 2007 - 4:07 PM EDT

Aloha,

I just got my guitars out of the closet after several years of not playing. I also bought one of the Bandit 65's in the late 1980's.

I was wondering if you had any suggestions for settings to get decent sounds out of it? I just tried plugging straight in, and also with my RP100 in the effects loop, and I can get a few OK sounds with the RP100, but any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.

 Rob from Honolulu 

Sunday, 16 September 2007 - 8:08 PM EDT

Hi Rob.

Sorry it took me a few days to get around to answering your question.

My typical formula for plugging into the Bandit with a modeler is to use the clean channel with little or no reverb and with a slight mid-boost. I plug directly in and don't use the effects loop. I do sometimes put my EchoFX in the effects loop but that's all. I don't like the modelers through it.

This setup has worked well with the SansAmp, Korg, and VAmp. I haven't really given my new DigiTech RP-350 much of a test with it yet since I don't have a good practice area right now. 

I think one of the keys is to treat the amp like a PA and adjust it that way.  

 - Frank

Friday, 23 November 2007 - 3:13 PM EST

I've had a couple of these amps---  

1) BETTER than a tube amp for acoustic guitar-- I bought mine originally for my nylon string, but works well with steel string as well. Reason? Tubes mess with natural EQ, so solid state is absolutely the way to go.

This has a 12" speaker, which you need to cover the low frequencies, no way around this, smaller speakers lose that nice low end and subharmonics. I even added a small piezo tweeter with an on/off switch.

2) Excellent for KEYBOARDS--, in fact, much quieter and flexible than my Peavey Keyboard amp. (piezo helpful for anything than electric piano type sounds however).

 An excellent way to use is to use the distortion channel, with just a hair of gain/distortion-  this little bit of dirt really brings life into a Wurli or Rhodes type sound.

3) For electric guitar, same advice as above-- you can crank the gain, but it's very 80's sounding-- yeah, buzzy--  there's a place for this, but not all the time. Just a bit of gain/distortion is nice. You don't get that tube vibe, but for certain things, its fine, and for jazz. 

4) For acoustic guitar, use the clean channel--- its hard to beat. 

Wednesday, 18 February 2009 - 1:42 PM EST

how the hell do i get the screen off the front! 

 thanks a ton 

Axel

Thursday, 4 February 2010 - 10:53 PM EST

Hi, could you please tell me how much you want for the bandit amp? Thanks!

Saturday, 14 May 2011 - 2:12 AM EDT

It is held on with velcro. You ust need to get a couple small flat head screwdrivers and gently pry on the top or bottom at the same time. Once it's loose it comes off really easy.

Sunday, 29 May 2011 - 12:52 PM EDT

speaker cannot handle the amps volume .