WTF?? (more Bandit content/clips)

[Dingleberries]

I've been rocking this since 86', no joke:

 

[bubbastain]

Nice recordings. Super tight almost Mark like.

I chopped my silver stripe Special into a head as well. Some days the thing sounds great. Other days I feel kind of meh. I did a/b it with a 6505+ and felt it could hang with it just fine. I use its power section with my Rockmaster preamp and it slays. Its a good solid amp and I kept it over its big brother the XXL which I had before.

Thanks man. Your head conversion looks sweet. Not sure how I'm going to do mine yet. Probably blonde tolex or even bare wood. I started using my fish 'n' chips eq in the loop now with pretty much the same very slight tweaks I had in the pic in the OP. I'd say that mine would hang just fine with many amps out there. To me it would boil down to that last 5-10% edge that some amps might have. However, guitarists tend to put a lot of time, thought, money and endless days of GAS over that last 5-10%.

 

[jlb32]

Here's my USA Bandit Red Stipe once converted into a head 4-5 years ago.

 

[Lution]

I owned a Redstripe Bandit and really liked how it sounded. Then, I took it to practice and it got totally drowned in the mix by the drums, bass, and other guitarist with similarly wattaged equipment.

Great sounding, just expect to never hear yourself if you gig with it, unless it's right behind your ear or fed into a slant.

 

[apophis]

I owned a Redstripe Bandit and really liked how it sounded. Then, I took it to practice and it got totally drowned in the mix by the drums, bass, and other guitarist with similarly wattaged equipment.

Great sounding, just expect to never hear yourself if you gig with it, unless it's right behind your ear or fed into a slant.

Run it into a proper cab man, don't be a noob...also don't dime the gain so the meat of the tone is not lost

 

[bubbastain]

I owned a Redstripe Bandit and really liked how it sounded. Then, I took it to practice and it got totally drowned in the mix by the drums, bass, and other guitarist with similarly wattaged equipment.

Great sounding, just expect to never hear yourself if you gig with it, unless it's right behind your ear or fed into a slant.

Run it into a proper cab man, don't be a noob...also don't dime the gain so the meat of the tone is not lost

The stock speaker in the open back combo is cool for lower volume playing IMO, but I'm running mine into a 4x12 with Celestions (either Century Vintages or GK-85s) and it is night and day difference. I agree with the gain thing too. It's capable of super saturated tones but I run mine low. If I have the switch on "high gain" then I run the gain knob at 9 o'clock. If I am on the "vintage" setting I run the gain anywhere between noon and 2 o'clock and sometimes clean boost it with my MXR classic OD. The "modern" setting sounds like ass to me. The clips in the OP were recorded with the gain at 9 O'clock on the "high gain" setting. That's high enough gain for me.

 

[apophis]

Word...also if you use a boost pedal, use the "low gain" input.....when playing at high volume it helps in keeping tone thick ...forgot to mention that the special 212's EQ is parametric, which gives you even greater flexibility for acquiring cool tones, plus you get 3 extra sounds from the "Ultra" channel, which has built in noise gate i believe!

 

[Lution]

I owned a Redstripe Bandit and really liked how it sounded. Then, I took it to practice and it got totally drowned in the mix by the drums, bass, and other guitarist with similarly wattaged equipment.

Great sounding, just expect to never hear yourself if you gig with it, unless it's right behind your ear or fed into a slant.

Run it into a proper cab man, don't be a noob...also don't dime the gain so the meat of the tone is not lost

I tried both of those things, hoss. Don't be an incorrect caller-outer of noobs, you incorrect noob caller-outer. Still lost in the mix. The tone was pretty good for what it was. Sold that heap long ago and forgot about it. YMMV, of course. Love it if you love it.

 

[jlb32]

I owned a Redstripe Bandit and really liked how it sounded. Then, I took it to practice and it got totally drowned in the mix by the drums, bass, and other guitarist with similarly wattaged equipment.

Great sounding, just expect to never hear yourself if you gig with it, unless it's right behind your ear or fed into a slant.

Run it into a proper cab man, don't be a noob...also don't dime the gain so the meat of the tone is not lost

I tried both of those things, hoss. Don't be an incorrect caller-outer of noobs, you incorrect noob caller-outer. Still lost in the mix. The tone was pretty good for what it was. Sold that heap long ago and forgot about it. YMMV, of course. Love it if you love it.

How did you get drowned out in the mix unless your settings were wrong for cutting through? Run these amps through a 2x12 or 4x12 and they are way loud enough to cut through any drummer, bass or other amp setup. Not really sure what you mean. I've used mine with a 2x12 in a band and had no problems what so ever cutting through.

Anyway you no longer own it so I guess it really doesn't matter. They are pretty awesome amps. Probably the best SS amps I have ever played.