I think the cioks does come with cables for doubling. My next step is trying to upgrade the patch cables, I’m sure that’s a factor.

Honestly, it strikes me more as a DS-1 variant. I’ve tried a few other pedals from this line since this video and their Galactic Groove is a really good take on a Rat.

I have heard that the US made Redstripes are the pinnacle of solid state peavey, but it is the redstripe era where they switched to China. I’m really on the lookout for a deal on a US made Redstripe Bandit, then my collection will be complete.

@@Chucksguitargeekery you heard bad info listen for yourself to determine instead of repeating hype

This is a style of overdrive that most will use with a dirty amp. For my intro jams I tend to find a sound as I would actually use a pedal in the real world. Then through the video I try to cover how it sounds into amps from clean to heavy.

I improvise, but there’s only but so many notes in a scale, I try not to rip anything off but I’m sure it happens 🤷‍♂️

I guess you just haven’t had the blues, glad things are looking up for ya 🤷‍♂️

@@Chucksguitargeekery yeah I got one of them centavos it works pretty good

I have one of these. I like it for what it is… but I’ve had a LOT of internet “experts” tell me it’s based on a Tubescreamer circuit, not a BD-2. I have a couple of real TS pedals, and this doesn’t strike me as exactly one of them either. I would have thought that if it were a TS, the company would have made it green and put Tube or Scream in the name somewhere… like the thousands of other cheap TS knockoffs out there. Either way, it’s an OK drive pedal, I dig the bass boost setting, and it saves me from bringing an old and fragile TS-10 or TS-5 out of the house.

Right on, it’s kind of its own thing, but I think it’s more in the vein of a TS than a bluesdriver. Maybe a bluesbreaker, but I haven’t played one of those.

Which Celestion do you have? I’ve been toying with changing out the Sheffield in my silver stripe, but not sure which direction to go that can handle the 80 watts.

I will say if you find one, the stock speaker (Oxford in the 20 watt) leaves a lot to be desired. I’m using an Impulse Response with the line out in this one, but I swapped in a Scorpion speaker that in the room makes a big difference.

@@Chucksguitargeekery​​⁠Hey, awesome tip! Thanks a lot! I’m in search for Peaveys, do you have any more tips which ones to look for. Thx bro!

A lot of times people will think old Peavey’s don’t work and have them listed dirt cheap, but it’s just a dirty effects loop. Putting a simple jumper cable in the effects loop can make it work again.

Since this video I have changed the pickups, but stuck with budget friendly. I can’t bring myself to put pickups in a guitar they are more expensive than the guitar lol.

The way I use it is send the line out (1/4” unbalanced) to the radar. Then that can go to FOH (it won’t affect the sound of the amp). I like the 1x12” kitty, sm57 mic, and I like having the power amp sim on too (it just makes everything sound sweeter 🤷‍♂️). What’s important is the high and low pass on the parametric EQ.

@Chucksguitargeekery Is there any advantage to using the balanced line out with the XLR? Or are there any applications where you would need to use that output?

There’s no benefit going to the radar, plus you’d have to get an adapter too. In theory, the XLR would be used to go straight to FOH, but it sounds awful on its own.

True. And if you had typed 13:00 you would have created a clickable link. Just sayin'