![]() Totally satisfied with both amps for home use. Loud enough to fill up the room or house with noise. If I want to get louder and way more gainy, I use a Fender Pro Jr tube amp with dirt pedals for practicing standing up. I think of the Pathfinder as a great 'quiet' practice amp. The Pathfinder will not be near as loud or as big sounding as your Bandit but is very well voiced and a great amp for $120. The Pathfinder though takes dirt pedals as well as solid state amps can. Dirt pedals (overdrive and distortion) often will not sound right into solid-state amps. It takes pedals as well as any all-solid-state amp. No hum and it has a good dirt sound if you dial it in right. I have been doing more to practice with a clean tone as this makes my practice a lot more honest. The Pathfinder is my sit down and practice amp. I think thery are both exceptionally good sounding amps. I have a Pathfinder 15 (no reverb) and a Pro Jr for home practice. Would I feel a huge difference going from this 12" speaker to the Vox's 8"? How good would are the cleans compared to the Bandit. How good would it sound with my guitar and its Dimarzio humbucker? Does it hum? (My first amp was a small peavey rage which hummed and buzzed so much I had to get rid of it. There's a few things that are important to me: I initially wanted to get a small tube amp, but this Vox seems way more versatile, while having similar tone and dynamics. So when I was looking at under $200 amps, I ran across the Pathfinder. A good low end and it works well with my pedals. I think it has good clean sounds, they're okay. I never go past 12 o'clock on this amp (that's cranking it for me). Besides I don't gig, I only play for myself at low volumes. I'm thinking of selling my Bandit 112 and buying a smaller under $200 amp, since the Bandit's a little too big for the space I have in my room. And I own these pedals: ProCo RAT, Ibanez delay, EHX Small Clone, Boss Metal Zone, and Boss Flanger. In order to access the back of circuit board I also had to remove ground wire and transformer mount screws.I currently have a Peavey Bandit 112 (80w, 12" speaker), and a strat-like guitar (S-S-H, changed them all to new Dimarzios). This allowed me to pull the circuit board down out of the chassis Remove screws from aluminum angle (heat sink?) Remove 2 screws on top as well as all knobs and the nuts on the pots and jacks Remove screws from wood piece that goes across the back (this has 3 jacks in it) The most time consuming part is getting the circuit board out. If you're comfortable soldering, it's a pretty easy fix. ( but I still prefer the sound and portability of the 8" that's in there- my baby!) *I actually threw out the Cambridge chassis ( just frustrated!) years ago, kept the cab, which now was modified by a buddy, to fit a 10" Celestion as a matching extension cab for the PF15R. New posts New media New media comments New profile posts Latest activity. The original discussion spanned a couple of weeks or so in January-February of. ![]() Fantastic sound- 6-7 years of gigs with it. More than 3 years ago, I started the thread The next ‘Pathfinder 15R’. So I still had the Cambridge amp, took the 8" Vox/Celestion Bulldog out of it and put into the Pathfinder. I did not notice 'till after purchase, but it had a 4ohm Crate speaker in it, instead of the stock one. Not sure when, it was a while, but I got my Pathfinder 15R used maybe 2012, for $85 on CL, sounded great. Then it got 'sick' lost volume, got super distorted, and I just shelved it, played one of my other amps.Īround 2006/7, I joined TDPRI and started constantly reading, over the years, about the Vox Pathfinder, and how folks were ( are!) nuts about it. I first ( maybe 2000) bought a used Cambridge 15 and used it in my ( then new) own band, and it was a little rockin' beast, for maybe 6 mos.
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