BETTER than 99% of Affordable Amps!

[@intheblues]

Bandit or Studio Pro? Red Stripe or Silver Stripe? 😎 I gave this amp to a mate of mine and he's digging it! Find some used deals here 🛒 Reverb - reverb.partnerlinks.io/peavey-studio-pro-112 🛒 Guitar Center - guitar-center.pxf.io/9gxvNY 🛒 eBay - ebay.us/VdcpYd (affiliate links)

[@tara1950]

I had the privilege of getting to play thru a red stripe bandit last year at Easter and by may I was having my hernia fixed ...... Great amp but heavy weight-wise !!!!! ..... OK if you've got road crew I guess. It was as heavy as the Mesa Mark 1 Boogies that I used to use live. I would have like a pair for live instead of the Mesas ... a lot less maintenance tube wise for sure.

[@mikepj1025]

Bandit Red Stripe all day every day. They are getting harder to find

[@gwenkerviel2344]

how much peavey pay you to do this review?

[@jplew138]

Red stripe Bandit by a nose...

[@michaelevans3852]

I'm curious if you find much difference between the USA made ones and the ones from China.

[@RodVonLongrod]

Peavey TransTube amps are a great example of solid state done right. These amps sound really good and are a great buy on the used market. If you find one of the Studio Pro amps or a Bandit go ahead and grab it. They are great amps.

[@jerryhorton5708]

Couldn’t agree more. I used Peavey Bandits for years. Great tone and reliable as heck. Terrific bang for the buck.

[@louieplaysguitar]

My Studio Pro 112 has been with me since 2005. Takes classic and modern pedals really well, it's great for home and studio practice.

[@jamalabdul2009]

Seeing you with this Peavey is just as iconic as your Tele! Peavey has had a long history of making great musical instruments and it’s amazing that this solid state amp still has the goods!😎😎😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@davidfreiboth1360]

You have to be one of the few content creators to give Peavey a fair shake (pardon the Yank slang). Many in the blues/rock world consider Peavey totally un-cool. I, for one, appreceate you committment to objective assessments regardless of the logo.

[@ApeMan-j2v]

Right on, there's 2 Peaveys at my house.

[@tres311]

Anyone that started playing guitar in the 90s as a child, probably started on a 5watt peavey…and possibly a sammick lol

[@RTVLD]

i still have that Samick :)

[@stephenhanlin2388]

@@RTVLDGood guitars. I started w one. Had a really cool Mako that was painted like the Ride the Lightning album. Best was an 80’s Charvel. That was a players ace!!

[@sjazzp]

I started playing in the 90’s but I was grown up at that time, however my first amp was a Peavey 😆👍

[@TR-uw2sp]

Yup sammick and a silver stripe bandit. Still have the bandit.

[@jplew138]

Truth 😊

[@jplew138]

This and the red stripe Bandit have maybe one of the best clean sounds EVER.

[@chusssMusic]

Sounds great. Thanks for this demo.

[@nellayema2455]

It's good to see you playing a Peavey again on the channel. Over the decades, Peavey has made so much good stuff that seems to be underrated/under appreciated.

[@erichold1984]

I found a Peavey Studio Pro 112 Red Stripe for $140 locally then i watched your review about it . Really good amp ! Thanks for steering me in the right direction !

[@seanmccann2513]

Great sounding amp. I was even more impressed with its performance when you mentioned it is 30 years old. Peavey really made some impressive gear.

[@petg12340]

Brilliant amps, I love my Peavey Bandit. Closest feel to a valve amp of any solid state by a mile

[@armoredsaint6639]

My first amp was a Peavey bandit 65. Followed shortly there after by the stereo chorus 130! I love the saturation knob for the distortion and cool spring reverb!

[@imgonnagetbanned]

I've got three (3!!!) red stripe Bandits kicking around... I keep one in my basement, one that moves around, and one in the trunk of my car, for any "just in case" moments. I bought my first after watching your first Bandit video, it must have been over a decade ago now! Still incredible amps, and still hold their own to my boutique amps (I have two Carr amps and a Morgan, and have had several others!). And for anyone who is wondering, I have two Chinese made red stripes, and one USA made one, and they are identical. No issues with any of them!

[@grahamnunn8998]

Great sounding amp, I owned a few Peavey amps over the years including two different Bandits, a Deuce (hybrid) and Classic 30. Always a great brand but they were one of the first to get truly great solid state tones.

[@jasondorsey7110]

Truely good solid state tone is still not as common as it should be, peavey makes it look easy

[@StevenSimpson-it5mv]

I worked at a music store from mid 90s to 2010s. We were a peavey dealer and sold the crap out of their equipment. How? We always had customers A/B whatever they came into the store with what they thought they wanted with a peavey piece of gear. The studio pro was my favorite SS amp. I've owned a Classic 30 and Windsor Half Stack (the plexi killer). Currently have a Delta Blues w15" speaker. Absolute monster. I had a chance to visit the Peavey operations in Mississippi back in '99. They routinely hosted dealers for week long training seminars. Learned tons of Pro Audio skills there. Always loved Peavey. Best USA made gear for the buck.

[@Emas4646]

Awesome! Please do a basic lesson on how you improvise the blues. Your playing is outstanding. 👍🏻🎸

[@davidmahoherrezuelo]

For years i'm gigging with one of these...and now i play with Bandit Red Stripe, a Envoy Red Stripe and a Renown with 2 Scorpions and made in USA. Watch out with Peaveys Specials, 130 and Bandit 65...very cheaps but GREAT amps. Thanks for the video, Shane and salutes from Spain.

[@RTVLD]

Man, this was like the Katana of every garage-gigging teen in the mid Nineties :) I think nowadays there are loads of better options, and a part of the glamour is the nostalgia, but its undeniable these were (and still are) great amps! I still keep a look out for decent deal on a Red Stripe USA ...

[@twlowe19]

ha, go back a decade and the Peavey Bandit had that role. I had one and it was frankly terrible...but I fortunately I didn't know it at the time, ha!

[@stephenhanlin2388]

More options on amps now but this blows the Katana out of the water along with all the other modern SS amps

[@stephenhanlin2388]

@@twlowe19Why was it terrible? What was the difference between yours & the older ones?

[@benlogan430]

Bandit red stripe, Bandit 65 and the Studio pro 112 are great amps period. Their only problem was they over saturated the market and people got bored and wanted something different.

[@twlowe19]

@@stephenhanlin2388 mine was an older one 1983-4 Bandit SS 60W. Proof that you could be loud and still sound like an AM radio! Don't have fond memories of it. Still, memories are tricky things, it'd be fun to find and play one now to see what differences 35 years makes. Never played the one featured in this video, it might be great.

[@siriusamplification]

I would have loved getting my hands on this amp, my first amp which I still have with me, was a teal stripe bandit... had to unfortunately convert it into a 3 channel plexi because of a music shop repair gone wrong, was my first tube amp build though 😂😂

[@yohanonshine4664]

I still use this model I bought in the late 80's wired to a 4x4 cab glad to see its latest version have fun !

[@michaelevans3852]

Just scored a Bandit red stripe for $130 in li j e new condition. Never would have even looked at it but for your videos. Thanks!

[@javiercojoba]

Yep, we all started with Peavey! We were happy and didn't know it.

[@tomasjones3755]

I have a Red Studio Pro. Think I paid $150, 5-6 yrs ago. Love it. Lots of amps have come and gone, but the Peavey is the only solid state amp that remains

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

I used to play a Peavey Bandit 112 and it was also incredible! I really liked the track btw, amazing job on the audio production and all guitar tones and the playing were on point 👍🏼

[@howarddavis6802]

Paper pie plate, on a stir stick, helps a lot with the harshness of the peavey speakers. Big improvement, especially when going for a JCM 800 tone.

[@JBM_71]

Watched this and all your other red stripe Peavey videos, then went and grabbed a Chinese Red Stripe Bandit 112 today, for £40 British pounds. (I needed something as my son has my Hot Rod Deluxe on long term loan!!). 🎸🎸

[@GraemeCampbellMusic]

I have one of the black and silver ones. I think its from the late 90s, made in the USA. Needs a bit of TLC with noisy pots, but sounds so good.

[@jamespell8091]

These silver stripes I understand are made with components Ibanez uses. Think the Tubescreamer boxes and the like.

[@giuseppezambotti8576]

It's amazing how everything sounds nice and good on youtube.

[@intheblues]

Thats because most of us know how to mic up amps properly. I have arguably the best combo of mics I’ve recorded with in this amp.

[@giuseppezambotti8576]

@@intheblues That's good, but, usually, nothing reaches that level of organic and dynamic response in the real world. By the way, luckily, I play an old Peavey Blazer.

[@TheKLeifheit13]

​@@giuseppezambotti8576 can confirm, these sound just like Shane is making them sound in this video, live. One of my best tones with my band (5 piece southern rock and grunge) was my Bandit with an Eminence Red White and Blues speaker

[@jcwm01]

Never getting rid of my Red Stripe USA Bandit. Love that thing! Great tones Shane. Cheers!

[@jamespell8091]

Yeah I know. My boss (on a date I think) wanted me to lend him mine for his son. I gave him the Peavey and also a Fender Stage Lead. (A newer one not one of those Ed Jahns ones perish the thought) I shall not ever see them again.

[@dkelley9661]

This made me guilty and nostalgic: for many years I played through a Peavey Mace, 160 watts of semi tube terror, and it sounded pretty good, as does the amp you review. Peavey was many peoples first amp or guitar, and did very well with their products.

[@muiravenue7182]

I just got an OLD TEAL ( I love it) and if that is anything to go by The Red Stripe must be the Business. I now have a Bandit a Marshall Code 50 and 2 Fender Mustangs x 100w I am in HEAVEN

[@Terry3Gs]

Awesome & nice of you to give it to a friend shane !! :)

[@danfango1333]

Got my old Bandit redstripe out after watching this. I forgot how good it is.....falling in love with it again Shane...

[@bahiajones]

I played with mine last week, in front of the beach, very windy at night, the other guitarist played with a Vox AC Nightrain miked and the peavey was much more efficient in cutting the mix. I also used a Sansamp Tri-AC to get that Fenderish tone.

[@acoffeewithsatan]

I have a Peavey Envoy 8”, awesome smaller amp. Handles rehearsals just fine with my heavy-handed drummer and can even do gigs no problem, they always end up getting mic’d anyways. Best part is, it costed me 20 euros! Even the remote switch I’ve bought for it NOS was more expensive than that! Serves as a great side amp to spare me the hassle of carrying around my 80’s, US-made Peavey Classic Chorus 212. Also bought it (fully restored!),for under 200, now that’s a whole different beast and quite a poor man’s Jazz Chorus that still owes nothing to the Roland counterpart!

[@ismaelborges9622]

Hey! Here's a nice Peavey again. I can't post some comments at some time. You how that i have a Peavey express silver Stripe. Yet😄 Its hard to get amps like this anymore, with the possibility of 12" speakers and the options of sound. Great find and great playing by the way. Cheers and success!

[@glenkepic3208]

wow,,,,i had to stop around the 2 minute mark.... around 20 years ago, i bought one of these for $150. Became my main amp for band practice in '05 with a Zoom 1010 until i bought a first gen Cyber Twin. Still used it alot at home jamming with my stereo. I used to call it Tommy Crain since i could nail his tone on The CDB's Funky Junkie using my Epi LP Std +. Sounded great. Had to move to an apt and 3 amps had to go due to space (still have the CT and more),,,,i don't even want to say what i got. It was a good amp and with regret around me, i'm glad to see one getting props like this. Nice work.

[@positivecolor4864]

Great demo! It's a great amp. Got mine almost mint for 50€ although I need to replace the reverb cable as the reverb tank works but not the signal into it 😅.

[@ronb7481]

My first amp back in the late 70's was a Peavey Standard. 130 watt head with 4x12 cab on casters. Crazy loud.

[@hutchfromba]

The original U.S.A. Peavey's were incredibly under rated. The one amp I got rid of and regretted it.

[@fusionfan6883]

Got a Bandit 112 which I love🤘🏻 It is one of the Chinese made ones but I sourced a Peavey Sheffield speaker for it as fitted in the US made ones. Currently I am running it with a Celestion Seventy 80 speaker, which is a lot tighter. Rock on🎸🤘🏻

[@andrewksadventures]

Hey, the old Peavey is back! I sold mine a while ago to make space, but they are Great amps.

[@davidzepeda2290]

damn good bullet proof amps, still got the 100w version, never let me down.

[@nazmoking3171]

I have a Peavey Vypyr 2 40 Watt and I love it. I tweaked it to get some great tones out of it and they sound really good. It's called a "Trans Tube" as well. Very loud and dependable also.

[@douglaschristine8387]

Damn Shane, how could you model a 30 year old amp that they don't sell anymore and after your video the price just went uppppppp!

[@jamesprice6381]

Hartley Peavey wil n always be one of THE greatest engineers of our time.....

[@Rocktalk101]

I own 2 of these older peavey trans tube amps a 60watt and 100watt and I love them both they are great amps!

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Everyone I know started with a Peavey Bandit. Classic.

[@kennygardner5041]

I still play a teal striped Peavey Special( 160 watts) which is pre trans tube. There is some of that technology in there. It is LOUD and sounds great! I have Marshalls, an AC30 and the Peavey takes no back seat to any of them!

[@narbonneguitars8590]

Nice video Shane ,great tones....I went to your other web page on speaker choices for Peavey transtube series amps ...a more efficient speaker makes the amps really come alive..they are great stock as is though ....my silver stripe studio pro has different speaker along with my red stripe ...teal stripe an silver stripe bandit has Sheffield speaker which have a little more sauce then the stock marvel speaker....love the reminiscent fall back on Peavey...🤘

[@williamhawkins69]

I had a Special for a long time in the 80’s moved onto Boogie but fond memories and even thought of buying one again

[@Thomas-pq4ys]

I've an Envoy, same year and series, 110. It's my go-to rehearsal and small gig amp... I prefer the clean channel, and use a pedal should I need gain...

[@everythingisopen]

Teal Bandit bandit here. A SP112 just came up used for €$75, one owner, only used for rehearsals. Senior bandits claims that Sheffield speaker is the bomb, not sure if they're in anything but Bandits. Anyway: I wonder why I don't see more of them used as 12" powered cabs, with a digital amp modeller or whatever into its FX return, should be good enough for most us and for sure cheaper than newer FRFR options. The day your digital gizmo crashes you also have a capable solid state B-rig for backup. Same for Tech-21 TM series.

[@mark.guitar]

My Bandit was nicked by a bandit back in the day. I got a decent second hand AC15 with the insurance payout so I'm not too sore...

[@stevepatterson6297]

I bought one of these second hand off Gumtree too.. never bonded with the overdriven tones, or any of them really. It suffered a catastrophic capacitor meltdown a week after I bought it. 😂 now the amp's out of it, it's a dedicated cab and sounds sooo much better with a Joyo Jackman II hybrid amp head powering it.

[@ajporter7487]

I have the 212 and love it. Been using the last 20years.

[@keithconville5460]

I have a silver striped Studio Pro 112 that I bought new in the 90's. Great amp!! It's not going anywhere.

[@brennanfleuette4627]

Many amps have come and gone but I will always hang into my red stripe studio pro

[@Chucksguitargeekery]

The longer I play, the more I come back to SS Peaveys. They always work, and they cover almost everything.

[@RobbieNewberry]

I have that exact one that I gig weekly. I zoomed in to see where you had the volume set and at 3/4 my red white and blues speaker at that volume would peel paint. This amp like most has to have pushed volume to sound that good. They definitely punch above their price.

[@carlhuffman6792]

I gotta red stripe bandit a few years ago after watching your podcast on them love it

[@Dzika_Astronomia]

I was my first combo amp Peavey (Express?). It was heavy as hell, but I wrote my songs with it/played with my first band. I am puzzled by numerous recent reviews of this amp. I bet Peavey is about to show something new :-)

[@hartlee1160]

The Tdynamics works really well with preamps through the clean channel. You should run kemper preamps through it and try the Tdynamics that way. You can try the effects loop but i prefer through the clean

[@jimmyjames2022]

Great workhorse amps, the Peaveys. Long gone now, but I still have my little Peavey Companion 15.

[@CZPavel-c1p]

You make excellent videos and tests, absolutely professional. I wish you much success. Thank you and I wish you all the best. Pavel Czech Republic.

[@debhart4302]

I have a USA designed and USA built Envoy 110. 40 watts and a 10" speaker. It's really nice.

[@cavanray5327]

Pretty sure you were partly why I got a red stripe bandit. If anyone reads this, a speaker swap is the number one best thing you can do for a bandit or studio pro as the stock speakers hold back their full potential. Shane here likes the Texas Heat, if you prefer a British flavoured speaker like me, the best alternative to the heat is the Celestion Redback. Same power rating, warming up of the highs, and dynamic improvement, but the midrange only a Celestion can have.

[@robbie12207]

Hi. I have a recently acquired studio pro. Did the celestion make the amp louder or just sound better? Reason why I ask is most of my at home volume is at #1 max. Cheers

[@1man1guitarletsgo]

I recently bought a 1989 Bandit, and it is excellent. It has a Celestion Sidewinder speaker, which is non-original, but suits the amp very well. Physically, my Bandit must be about the same size as the Studio Pro 112, and I'm not sure how different it is to a red stripe Bandit of the same age.

[@75Pollux]

Hi, very convincing blues rock tone ! What are the difference between the red strip made in USA and them made in China ?

[@msh6865]

Another good budget brand is Kustom. Their old KGA and DFX series have amazing cleans and a serviceable overdrive/distortion.

[@markharwood7573]

Wish I'd had one of these back in the day instead of an unreliable Laney valve amp. It also beats the solid state Fender that I replaced it with. This and the Bandit are classics.

[@lincolnjohnson6511]

Used to have a Peavey Studio as a kid! My friend SteveO gave it to me as well as a Squier Strat.

[@57ebartley]

I bought that amp because of your review a few years ago. I got it for $100 . I was gigging back then and that amp just didn’t cut it for me . We were doing some rehearsals and I brought it. Didn’t really care for it.

[@justsofrivolous]

I still have my old red stripe Peavy Bandit I bought it new long long ago

[@papawx3]

Give me a "Solo Series" Peavey amp over the "transtube series" any day of the week. I've had my Bandit 65 since I bought it new in 1983 and have used it as a back up amp in emergency situations. When the "Transtube" amps came out and everyone went on about how much better they were I was stoked and played one. I was very disappointed in it. But I'm very happy with my 65, just wish it had an effects loop, so I am on the look out for a Bandit 75 Solo series {that does}.

[@abl9087]

Hi all, nice review. I have studio pro red stripe, I was considering to buy a Bandit, however the weight of the bandit makes me think twice if buying or staying with mi studio pro (which could be more convenient for my use..) do you think bandit sound much better? After all these years which one do you use more?? Regards

[@intheblues]

The bandit is louder and larger sounding. Most of the sound comes from the bandit having a better speaker. You can change the speaker in the studio pro 112 to something like an Eminence Swamp Thang or Texas Heat and it'll be a huge upgrade over the stock speaker.

[@xb5883]

Peavey solid state is strong. It's like a great amp in a box pedal with a power amp and pretty good speakers.

[@stewarttomkinson3356]

Saw a video for a Peavey special chorus 212 trans tube nobody’s selling

[@DMSProduktions]

All of these were, ( & still are) great amps! The only thing that often let them down were those speakers! I had 1 with a Blue 'Marvel' speaker & it would turn to shite in 10 mins! (Sounded GREAT thru a better external speaker! A Lorantz! )

[@baabaabaa-yp2jh]

Lorantz are excellent spkrs tho, a mates 70s Twin had 2 x 12 Lorantz replacements... Sparkle, jangle & grunt!

[@DMSProduktions]

@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Yep! Been singing their praises for years! I know the owner Michael. Man knows so MUCH about speakers and acoustics!

[@masonsart8461]

transtube efx 112 also a good sounding peavey amp. did a simple speaker swap in mine to a EHX 112 and lord is it buttery smooth

[@DougMen1]

Even better than a Bandit. We sold lots of them at the shop where I worked.

[@jamespell8091]

That is like the last of the made in USA jobbies. The red stripe is realy atuned to the guitar.Very revealing to what you play. My favorite basically. Hartly was preety much a humbucker guy i think. The only gripe i have is the cab sounds lo fi but aside from that.his venture with solid state amplifiers was an achievement he should be proud of. Im proud of it for him I consider it to be quite an achievement

[@RossD8]

Had a smaller Peavey Transtube and loved it.

[@GiacomoRavioli]

I remember seeing these at my local guitar store, but that was 25 years ago. If only I knew....

[@stephenhanlin2388]

Love all your great videos & love your playing the most Shane! Was that the China made model you just used? Noticed it said “designed in USA”

[@ripley7t429]

I have gone through 3 SP 112's through the years. I do prefer the red stripes. I love old peavey amps. Quite a few sleepers in their lines.

[@aleksasbaravykas1223]

My big regret is that I've sold my Bandit couple years ago... My big win is that I've brought Studio Pro recently. Still want my Bandit back. Marshall's, VOX's, Oranges or Laney's aren't that good as Peavey's are. I'm talking SS amps, of course.

[@shanewalton8888]

I know I should pay attention to the amp, but I always end up drooling over Shane's lefty guitar collection. Whose got the better lefty collection, Shane or Conor of Southie Shack Guitars?

[@georgesarris5556]

I have the rage 158. Great tones

[@danthegeetarman]

I ❤️ 90s/00s solid state Fenders and Peaveys

[@flatroc1]

I picked up a Red Stripe 1x12 Bandit after watching one of your reviews on them. How to they compare to this Studio Pro

[@svenwalther135]

The old peavey bandit sounds killer

[@deviusfeilds]

Ive got the silver stripe and a 150w fender, but Im such a noob. Trying to find a 'how to' connect a combo amp plugged into a passive external speaker. KZbin doesn’t have one.

[@JustJoshua73]

I still love the bandits. Hard to find a studio pro in good shape where I live.

[@johncollins5552]

Just know not many Katanas will still work after 30 years of use😂. Some of these peaveys are gonna last another 30 O reckon❤

[@jamesprice6381]

NO current DUMBLEDSQUE offering EVEN eclipses that CLEAN tone! IMHO of course..................

[@mitahapsari4960]

hi Shane, does this one take pedals well?

[@MrShooter72]

Peavey’s Transtube technology is underrated.

[@che2335]

I used to like mine gave it to my brother i had a pag60w i liked now have a 6505mh 20w head i like as well.