Peavey Vypyr X1 Problems

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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
 
Return it if you can. These are not amps you can really work on to fix, even if you had to.
 
I ended up returning this amp and the replacement finally arrived last week. It works but it still produces a massive amount of feedback. Like it feels like it's broken amounts of feedback.

I was using a DigiTech drop pedal on it and I discovered that it gets rid of the feedback for some reason. I thought that maybe it was a grounding issue that was being resolved within the pedal when I activated it, but I tried to replicate that with a few other pedals and it didn't work.

I've probably tried about 30 amps over the last 18 years (and owned 8) and I've never seen an amp produce this much feedback. I've rolled the pre and post gain down but the feedback persists. I think I'm going to reach out to the seller and see if they can just do a refund or if that option is off the table now (I'd have to ship it to them and they've already replaced one amp).

There was some damage on the bottom of the box; is it possible I have horrible luck and received two broken amps in a row? I've read reviews of this amp and I've heard complaints like it can only do metal and sucks at everything else, but I haven't seen anyone specifically mention this feedback problem.
 
HanJolo said:
I ended up returning this amp and the replacement finally arrived last week. It works but it still produces a massive amount of feedback. Like it feels like it's broken amounts of feedback.

I was using a DigiTech drop pedal on it and I discovered that it gets rid of the feedback for some reason. I thought that maybe it was a grounding issue that was being resolved within the pedal when I activated it, but I tried to replicate that with a few other pedals and it didn't work.

I've probably tried about 30 amps over the last 18 years (and owned 8) and I've never seen an amp produce this much feedback. I've rolled the pre and post gain down but the feedback persists. I think I'm going to reach out to the seller and see if they can just do a refund or if that option is off the table now (I'd have to ship it to them and they've already replaced one amp).

There was some damage on the bottom of the box; is it possible I have horrible luck and received two broken amps in a row? I've read reviews of this amp and I've heard complaints like it can only do metal and sucks at everything else, but I haven't seen anyone specifically mention this feedback problem.
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At this point, I would cut any losses I could and never touch that amp again.
 
JackBootedThug said:
I have one sitting right here. Send it back dude. Something is wrong with it. Nice little amps to play around on….
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That's super helpful to hear that you've got one too and aren't experiencing the same problem. Thank you.

I've reached out to the shop again and I'll see what they say. In the future I'll probably just buy local ones that I can test myself first. I ended up ordering this one online because it was on sale for a good price.

I'll attach a picture of the damage to the box. It's nothing crazy but maybe it was dropped and hurt something inside?
 

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Who knows. My brother had the first version and something just fried in it. It was under warranty and was repaired or replaced… it has been fine. This one belongs to my son’s buddy and it’s great. You have to hook it up to a computer and download the software for it but once you do it’s great. There’s no speaker out but I would love to hear it through one of my 4x12’s. Lots of really decent sounds.
 
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