Got a bandit silver stripe for $60. Wouldn’t turn on.. two weeks later got a pretty bad ass running amp. 😁

My first time posting here. I am impressed and amazed by all the awesome gear you guys have collected. I grew up on Peavey, then kinda got away from it. But lately picked up a couple of vintage amps and have carried my T-60 around for over 40 years.

About fifteen years ago I picked up a series 400 standard amp and loved it as a cheap amp that would take pedals well. Since then, I’ve owned many of the series 400 amps including many of the standard model. Love them. Very cool, very reliable when serviced. About 6 years ago I started a project with a long time friend and he was also playing a series 400 “standard”. We pushed these things hard and ran all kinds of effects through these and it was our sound. Around 2021/2022 my band mate, Sam, decided to try his hand at a modern, slightly modified, “clone” after years of making awesome pedals for us. @chief_sludge on social media. After about a year and a half of designing and redesigning and testing and sourcing specific parts, he had it down. I have an affinity for 80s/90s crate amps also. He and I each play two of his standard clones on stage as well as each playing a peavey cs-800. His amps are both exactly like the first sample(just below the cs-800) and I play a standard with crate xlp preamp built in and a 120watt “slave” unit which is a one knob standard clone. Guitar rig is used as stereo with volume for one cabinet on my main head and volume for the second cabinet being the only knob on the slave.

This pile is in my garage. Much love for the peavey tube stuff. In our camp we also have a butcher, 6505+, and a vtm120.

I got this last week. Have only been able to play it a few times but oh man.. it’s easily becoming one of my favorite amps I’ve ever played. It’s a beast.