With so many different pedal companies out there, I love the fact that you discovered Hagerman. Something different, something good that works!👍🏾👍🏾😎🎸🎸🎸🎸
The bandit, texas heat, and Hagerman effects record pretty great! Let me know how you think the pedals helped a solid state amp! Links to the pedals in the description box. Please re-check the bell and notification bell, even if you think it's on - it's been broken for ages. Cheers! 😎🎸
so subtle but effective. Probably wouldn't notice it too much in a live band context, but I certainly like it a lot. You do fantastic reviews mate! Well done
My old school standby is to use a microphone pre-amp between my pedals and the front of the amp. Most of the mic pre-amps have a 12ax7 with a gain and volume control as well as a 20 db pad and limiter. What ever pedals you like are then boosted into the front of the amp and you can make adjustments on the guitar with volume and attack combined with the volume and gain settings on the pre-amp. These pedals you are featuring seem to be built on the same principle that has been around for most of the 60 years I've been playing electric guitar. I used this method on my old tube amps originally to get break-up at lower volume, but when I discovered this could be used on solid state amps, I have left my tube amps in storage or sold/traded some.
I've heard of people using a mic preamp in the effects loop of a ss amp as well, to emulate the feeling (sag and compression) that you get from tube amps.
@@castleanthrax1833 Thanks, I guess that is a similar interface, though I assume it skips the amps pre-amp. I have older amps, only 1 with an effects loop, and just prefer plugging into the board and running a single cord to the amp like the old days.
@@tonycullotta8528 Thanks, I used a Bellari MP110 for years but found a Behringer MIC 100 would allow me to use the high impedance/guitar cord input as well as the XLR, so I can use a microphone with my guitar and take advantage of the nice reverb on my clean amp channel for solo playing and recording. And, since the mic goes into the chain after the pedalboard, it's independent of the guitar options, like chorus or OD/boost.
Sounds killer, Shane! These look and sound super cool. They definitely sound good through the Bandit. Unrelated, many moons ago, you got me on the hunt for the Fender Deluxe 112, and recently I finally snagged one up really cheap that needed a really simple repair. You were right - what a total sleeper amp!
Great looking Fx but if you want to add a bit of tube zing to your SS amp on a budget try a Joyo American or Joyo Actone which are copies of Tech21 pedals and have great eq options. The Tech21 pedals are better but now discontinued. My fav SS amp atm is the Laney Lionheart Foundary great amp at a great price!! Nice review keep up the good work!
I do this with my Fender Champ 25, it's a hybrid amp with two 6v6s in the power section, the thing is so loud tho!!! I never get it cranked up enough to get any tube compression, pass 5 it doesn't get louder it just fattens up total clean machine but yeah American Sound in front I go for a tweed sound with my Tele and a driven Blackface deluxe sound with my strat. It's not exact but gets you in the ball park!!!
Great video mate - honestly the Peavey Bandit just keep on going and sounding so good for the little money you can find them for! Using a tube pedal to soft clip before the pre-amp is a cool idea - I used to do something similar years ago on my dad's Marshall MG50 I was using in my teen years. I am definitely keen to try this on one of my bandits soon :)
After listening for years to you ranting about the Peavey Bandit I did buy one plus the Texas Heat speaker , I love it with all my guitars except with my Telecaster too much treble. Mine also has some volume drop issues on the clean channel, I think the trimpot needs a replacement. Thanks Shane keep those bandit vids coming!
I love my Bandit in the Vintage Clean Channel when i put an OCD or a Klon copy in the front... Just an amazing tone! After that i stop using the drive channels.
First EF86 based pedal I've seen where the EF86 can be driven. The EF86 pentode has much higher gain than a 12ax7. A pentode doesn't overdrive as messy as a 12ax7 triode. Notice how it has better dynamic response-- more sensitive to picking variations. Maybe doesn't get as dirty, but sounds huge and retains definition better.
I like the Tubeklon the best out of these. I'm not much of a fan of those tiny knobs, I wonder why he chose to use them instead. I recently picked up a Red Stripe Delta Blazer. Sounds WAY better than I thought it would. Cool LOUD little amp!
I gotta check those pedals! I wonder how the Peavey Bandit would perform by using it as a power amp, ie Plugging a preamp into the effects loop return(Power amp in). Have you tried this? Some amps have a really dark effects return.
On a budget, I like the EHX Hot Tubes Nano for this job too. I use it with my Vox Pathfinder 15, another nice solid-state amp, for practice or recording. It can do a subtle boost, gentle warming drive all the way up to gnarly tube-like pretty yheavy overdrive/distortion something that approximates a Neil Young 'Cinnamon Girl' full-cranked Fender 50s Deluxe Tweed tone. I like to EQ/shape before it to trim the bass flub, and push the mids, especially for combos like the Pathfinder 15, and it's 8" speaker. The new Laney Foundry 60w solid-state amps are quite nice sounding too, for around 300. As well as the super loud Orange Crush 100. Just discovered Roland JC77 that Robert Smith recorded Cure tracks on. Really nice amps too, and not as unweildly as the JC120, and sound better than the new JC22 or JC40.
Got the Orange Crush 60w ..... changed the speaker and that made the amp worth its weight in gold. The clean channel has a nice breakup that the OEM speaker doesn't show.
Picked up an old Teal Bandit - last week - only played it a few times - I am just playing mine without effects to get feel for it. Am really impressed by it - like it. Probably Not as good as the red stripe but Wow they are pretty good. Might get a collection Red silver teal
I bought a 1989 Bandit last year. It's the one with no mid control on the overdrive channel (they later added this, calling it "body"), so the o/d channel's too middly for my taste. The clean channel, however, is where it's happening! I have an always-on Boss Blues Driver set fairly clean but very loud, as the last pedal before the amp. Before that, I run an o/d pedal set to crunch, for drive tones. My guitar volume and tone controls are turned down a bit normally, and up a bit for solos. It's very loud, and sounds great.
Comparing my 1989 Bandit against my Laney LC30II and Fender BDR, the Bandit sounds "2D", whereas the valve amps sound "3D". it would be interesting to see if a valve-equipped pedal gave the Bandit sound like my other amps.
@@dingalarm Thank you for replying. Well, you have to be there to hear and understand the difference. it'snot possible to explain in words. If you get the chance, try a solid state amp and a decent valve amp in the same room, and you may hear that difference yourself.
@@1man1guitarletsgo If you can't explain it, then I can't understand it 😂 I guess I'll just have to do a side-by-side comparison to hear the difference 🤷♂️
@@dingalarm Yes, do that. When I heard the difference, I had a Peavey Bandit, a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue, and a Laney LC30 II set up in a room; all on their clean channels. The Peavey sounded very good, but the other two amps just added another dimension to the sound, hence my 2D/3D description.
He’s talking about the push or the “throw” of the sound from the speaker. He’s probably got the original speaker in it which is the problem. Peavey speakers are good but not great. If you got a bandit, go get a Texas heat or swamp thang speaker. All the bandits are great but slightly different from each other.
Not really. Some people love that but it takes away from how dirt pedals are designed to push the front end of an amp and hit the premp. That can work with amp/cab style pedals but not with these. :)
I think it's important to test these things. A TS would be awful in the loop but something like a low gain red llama can sound really nice as it has a bit more frequency range.
The Bandit, in general, doesn’t have a great drive channel sound. I used to add a Boss SD1 to the drive setting on the Bandit I bought in 1982, and used to get great tones.
Depends on what version of the bandit. The redstripe has a killer drive channel but the stock speaker holds it back. I put a Celestion Redback in mine, and all I need for dirt pedals is a tubescreamer to compliment the drive channel. I use the vintage mode on both channels. Kicks ass even with a baritone guitar.
@@cavanray5327 In 1982, it was the very first version (if I’m not mistaken), with the great Scorpion speaker. It also had a great reverb tank, providing you didn’t play on a wooden stage. Otherwise every step you took would sound like thunder.
@@jimmcdougall9973 and each version improved on the last as peavey developed their transtube tech. It's no joke, the power amp really does react to ones playing and the drive channel nails amp like gain with the cascading darlington transistors. I think opamps were used in the earlier versions like yours and yeah the drive in those was not great. The scorpions are probably peaveys best in house speakers though, the stock Sheffield is harsh and muddy, and the blue marvels are even worse.
With so many different pedal companies out there, I love the fact that you discovered Hagerman. Something different, something good that works!👍🏾👍🏾😎🎸🎸🎸🎸
The bandit, texas heat, and Hagerman effects record pretty great! Let me know how you think the pedals helped a solid state amp! Links to the pedals in the description box. Please re-check the bell and notification bell, even if you think it's on - it's been broken for ages. Cheers! 😎🎸
I'm going to tell my children this: "Find someone who loves you as much as Shane loves his Peavey Bandit."
Great tones man
🤣 That’s great!!!😂😂😂
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That's a good one! 😂
Don't make it weird... 😂
so subtle but effective.
Probably wouldn't notice it too much in a live band context, but I certainly like it a lot.
You do fantastic reviews mate! Well done
Thanks, Aaron!
My old school standby is to use a microphone pre-amp between my pedals and the front of the amp. Most of the mic pre-amps have a 12ax7 with a gain and volume control as well as a 20 db pad and limiter. What ever pedals you like are then boosted into the front of the amp and you can make adjustments on the guitar with volume and attack combined with the volume and gain settings on the pre-amp. These pedals you are featuring seem to be built on the same principle that has been around for most of the 60 years I've been playing electric guitar. I used this method on my old tube amps originally to get break-up at lower volume, but when I discovered this could be used on solid state amps, I have left my tube amps in storage or sold/traded some.
I've heard of people using a mic preamp in the effects loop of a ss amp as well, to emulate the feeling (sag and compression) that you get from tube amps.
@@castleanthrax1833 Thanks, I guess that is a similar interface, though I assume it skips the amps pre-amp. I have older amps, only 1 with an effects loop, and just prefer plugging into the board and running a single cord to the amp like the old days.
That's what I do I run a bellari mp 507 tube preamp all my solid state amps and I use it for bass and keys it works on anything
@@tonycullotta8528 Thanks, I used a Bellari MP110 for years but found a Behringer MIC 100 would allow me to use the high impedance/guitar cord input as well as the XLR, so I can use a microphone with my guitar and take advantage of the nice reverb on my clean amp channel for solo playing and recording. And, since the mic goes into the chain after the pedalboard, it's independent of the guitar options, like chorus or OD/boost.
Those Hagerman pedals sound awesome!!! Love what you’ve done with that Peavey Bandit!!!!! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸
Great sounds and smart-looking pedals.
Sounds killer, Shane! These look and sound super cool. They definitely sound good through the Bandit.
Unrelated, many moons ago, you got me on the hunt for the Fender Deluxe 112, and recently I finally snagged one up really cheap that needed a really simple repair. You were right - what a total sleeper amp!
Nice mate! Those amps are great - well done! :)
The Bandit and these pedals sound awesome. Really tasty playing too Shane , you're one hell of a blues guitarist.
Great looking Fx but if you want to add a bit of tube zing to your SS amp on a budget try a Joyo American or Joyo Actone which are copies of Tech21 pedals and have great eq options. The Tech21 pedals are better but now discontinued. My fav SS amp atm is the Laney Lionheart Foundary great amp at a great price!! Nice review keep up the good work!
I do this with my Fender Champ 25, it's a hybrid amp with two 6v6s in the power section, the thing is so loud tho!!!
I never get it cranked up enough to get any tube compression, pass 5 it doesn't get louder it just fattens up total clean machine but yeah American Sound in front I go for a tweed sound with my Tele and a driven Blackface deluxe sound with my strat. It's not exact but gets you in the ball park!!!
I now want all of those pedals. 😂. They all sound great, but my fav was the first one you demo'd. Good stuff..
Excellent sounds from those pedals Shane, great video.
Great video mate - honestly the Peavey Bandit just keep on going and sounding so good for the little money you can find them for!
Using a tube pedal to soft clip before the pre-amp is a cool idea - I used to do something similar years ago on my dad's Marshall MG50 I was using in my teen years.
I am definitely keen to try this on one of my bandits soon :)
Very cool, Shane! Quality stuff. Great sounding pedals and great review. 👌😎
After listening for years to you ranting about the Peavey Bandit I did buy one plus the Texas Heat speaker , I love it with all my guitars except with my Telecaster too much treble. Mine also has some volume drop issues on the clean channel, I think the trimpot needs a replacement. Thanks Shane keep those bandit vids coming!
That tube tone knob on my beloved Bandit amp worked realy amazing good, still use the amp! These pedals are great to! ♨️♨️♨️
I love my Bandit in the Vintage Clean Channel when i put an OCD or a Klon copy in the front... Just an amazing tone!
After that i stop using the drive channels.
Make sense! The dirt pedals make it easy hey!
Those pedals sound fantastic with that amp!!!! 👍🏽
The pedals push the front end nicely Shane, definitely made a difference...
So does the Eminence spkr.👍🏼
The booster and the tubeklon sounds really good.
Speaker selection and judicious balance of compression saturation
Wow, what a tone from that T-Klon! ... if it sounds good to the listener's ears, then it probably is even better for the player!
First EF86 based pedal I've seen where the EF86 can be driven. The EF86 pentode has much higher gain than a 12ax7. A pentode doesn't overdrive as messy as a 12ax7 triode. Notice how it has better dynamic response-- more sensitive to picking variations. Maybe doesn't get as dirty, but sounds huge and retains definition better.
I think it all just sounded good from the start of the video to the end.
EF86 part of the magic of early VOX amps!!
I like the Tubeklon the best out of these. I'm not much of a fan of those tiny knobs, I wonder why he chose to use them instead.
I recently picked up a Red Stripe Delta Blazer. Sounds WAY better than I thought it would. Cool LOUD little amp!
I gotta check those pedals! I wonder how the Peavey Bandit would perform by using it as a power amp, ie Plugging a preamp into the effects loop return(Power amp in). Have you tried this? Some amps have a really dark effects return.
Halfway through the video I realized there is an actual tube in each of these pedals, super cool.
He did show it at the start.
@@DMSProduktions lol, i was clearly not paying attn then.
@@traviswaynedoyle Heheh! Well it WAS there Trav!
On a budget, I like the EHX Hot Tubes Nano for this job too. I use it with my Vox Pathfinder 15, another nice solid-state amp, for practice or recording. It can do a subtle boost, gentle warming drive all the way up to gnarly tube-like pretty yheavy overdrive/distortion something that approximates a Neil Young 'Cinnamon Girl' full-cranked Fender 50s Deluxe Tweed tone. I like to EQ/shape before it to trim the bass flub, and push the mids, especially for combos like the Pathfinder 15, and it's 8" speaker. The new Laney Foundry 60w solid-state amps are quite nice sounding too, for around 300. As well as the super loud Orange Crush 100. Just discovered Roland JC77 that Robert Smith recorded Cure tracks on. Really nice amps too, and not as unweildly as the JC120, and sound better than the new JC22 or JC40.
Got the Orange Crush 60w ..... changed the speaker and that made the amp worth its weight in gold. The clean channel has a nice breakup that the OEM speaker doesn't show.
My guess is that the EF-86 on the edge of breakup could sound great in the fx-loop as well.
So beautiful, thx Shane. ❤
The great Bandit. I loved mine. It should be the law you can only play wearing spandex.
Those are some serious pedals
Picked up an old Teal Bandit - last week - only played it a few times - I am just playing mine without effects to get feel for it.
Am really impressed by it - like it. Probably Not as good as the red stripe but Wow they are pretty good. Might get a collection Red silver teal
I bought a 1989 Bandit last year. It's the one with no mid control on the overdrive channel (they later added this, calling it "body"), so the o/d channel's too middly for my taste. The clean channel, however, is where it's happening! I have an always-on Boss Blues Driver set fairly clean but very loud, as the last pedal before the amp. Before that, I run an o/d pedal set to crunch, for drive tones. My guitar volume and tone controls are turned down a bit normally, and up a bit for solos. It's very loud, and sounds great.
This sounds good- Compared to the Klon - I know that Joe Perry likes his Klon / Where do you get those Orange Pedals
This is all from the same guy at hagamps.com - the one in the video is the kit build but there's a nicer looking enclosure option now too.
That TubeClon sounds amazing. The knobs look weird. though. Very weird.
On the TubeKlon only was weird
Bandit素晴らしい！世界一のソリッドステートアンプ。
Damn buying those 3 pedals, would cost more than just buying a tube amp 😭
Try a Rage 258 head into a Princeton Cab with G10 Creamback
Sweet DIRT! \m/
How can I make a transistor amp sound kinda like a tube amp? Spend more money?
ceritone has great British amps
Hello, Will you be doing a demo of the ultra 2 strat?
Once the shop I borrow stuff from gets it in, I'll give it a shot. Fender are slow as when it comes to lefties in Australia.
Comparing my 1989 Bandit against my Laney LC30II and Fender BDR, the Bandit sounds "2D", whereas the valve amps sound "3D". it would be interesting to see if a valve-equipped pedal gave the Bandit sound like my other amps.
What does 2D/3D sound even mean? Can you please explain?
@@dingalarm Thank you for replying. Well, you have to be there to hear and understand the difference. it'snot possible to explain in words. If you get the chance, try a solid state amp and a decent valve amp in the same room, and you may hear that difference yourself.
@@1man1guitarletsgo If you can't explain it, then I can't understand it 😂 I guess I'll just have to do a side-by-side comparison to hear the difference 🤷♂️
@@dingalarm Yes, do that. When I heard the difference, I had a Peavey Bandit, a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue, and a Laney LC30 II set up in a room; all on their clean channels. The Peavey sounded very good, but the other two amps just added another dimension to the sound, hence my 2D/3D description.
He’s talking about the push or the “throw” of the sound from the speaker. He’s probably got the original speaker in it which is the problem. Peavey speakers are good but not great. If you got a bandit, go get a Texas heat or swamp thang speaker. All the bandits are great but slightly different from each other.
Is there a big difference between the red stripe and the current one?
Would it be better to run the tube pedal through the effects loop? Just curious about the differences in doing that.
Not really. Some people love that but it takes away from how dirt pedals are designed to push the front end of an amp and hit the premp. That can work with amp/cab style pedals but not with these. :)
I think it's important to test these things. A TS would be awful in the loop but something like a low gain red llama can sound really nice as it has a bit more frequency range.
It's a sort of kick you in the b@ll$ kind of boost you can get with these! Sweet tones, Shane!
Umm you can say it, balls aren't a swear word!
(A problem if you play soccer etc!)
The Bandit, in general, doesn’t have a great drive channel sound. I used to add a Boss SD1 to the drive setting on the Bandit I bought in 1982, and used to get great tones.
Depends on what version of the bandit. The redstripe has a killer drive channel but the stock speaker holds it back. I put a Celestion Redback in mine, and all I need for dirt pedals is a tubescreamer to compliment the drive channel. I use the vintage mode on both channels. Kicks ass even with a baritone guitar.
@@cavanray5327 In 1982, it was the very first version (if I’m not mistaken), with the great Scorpion speaker. It also had a great reverb tank, providing you didn’t play on a wooden stage. Otherwise every step you took would sound like thunder.
@@jimmcdougall9973 and each version improved on the last as peavey developed their transtube tech. It's no joke, the power amp really does react to ones playing and the drive channel nails amp like gain with the cascading darlington transistors. I think opamps were used in the earlier versions like yours and yeah the drive in those was not great. The scorpions are probably peaveys best in house speakers though, the stock Sheffield is harsh and muddy, and the blue marvels are even worse.
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Sound great, but the knob choice on the tubeklon is awful.
The one I have was from their DIY build kit from a while back - the new one has a way better design :)