Peavey Vypyr X1 Problems

HanJolo

HanJolo

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Howdy all,

I ordered an X1 online for a pretty good deal and it arrived a few days ago, but unfortunately I think there might be a problem with it and was hoping someone could offer some advice before I have to return it. I only played it for about 30 minutes on the first day and encountered two issues:

  1. It was working but with massive amounts of feedback (especially on channel changes), and sometimes within the amp (rolling down the volume knob on the guitar didn't reduce the feedback, which I've never seen before) or
  2. the gain almost completely died twice when changing a channel / effects setting and there was this weird tunnely metal on metal sound (this happened twice in the middle of playing without changing any settings within the channel, such as gain). I tried troubleshooting by trying three different guitars and also plugging the same guitar / cable into my other amps and they worked fine. It seemed to fix itself both times by turning it off and coming back to it like 15 minutes later.
I have played the amp twice since then for about 20 minutes each time and it seems to be working now but the feedback is still pretty ridiculous. Fortunately, I haven't encountered that weird in-amp feedback again yet. The purpose of this amp was a leave at friend's house to jam / teach kind of thing and I would rather not bring a noisegate pedal with me everywhere. Even when I roll the gain back to about 10-11 o clock it's still producing tons of feedback.

Has anyone owned one of these before and experienced the feedback issue? There's only one dealer that carries Peavey within 1.5 hours of me and they didn't have any Vypyr's, so I wasn't able to test one out before buying or test one after to see if they're just made that way.

I reached out to Peavey but they were pretty useless and just gave me a copy and paste response with a link to their return policy.

I'll put a link to a little video below:



Thanks
 
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