Used NAD.

so years ago I owned a peavey 15 watt vyper vip series. I thought it was kinda cool but for its size I thought it was trying to do too much at once. What I mean is that it was designed so you can either plug an electric guitar in it, a semi electric acoustic, or a bass... it didn’t take bass too well, you really had to turn it down. Eventually what ended up happening is that the power would cut in and out. But this older version I haven’t seen anything bad, nothing mind blowing, but great as a free piece of gear. Very grateful!
 
Metal89 said:
so years ago I owned a peavey 15 watt vyper vip series. I thought it was kinda cool but for its size I thought it was trying to do too much at once. What I mean is that it was designed so you can either plug an electric guitar in it, a semi electric acoustic, or a bass... it didn’t take bass too well, you really had to turn it down. Eventually what ended up happening is that the power would cut in and out. But this older version I haven’t seen anything bad, nothing mind blowing, but great as a free piece of gear. Very grateful!
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Congratulations those kind of deals come around, but not always, my Vox Tone Lab was the same a buddy of mine gifted it to me because it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, and after some stalled , price talks he just up and gave it to me.
Cool buddy huh ?
I am sure you can make good use of it brother...
Cheers
 
Tone wise, peavey vypyr amps are actually pretty decent I remember the 15 watt I had it was a fun amp with decent tone. But I had the VIP 1 or 2, I can’t remember but like I said I think it was trying to do too much at once. Really the only reason I got rid of it is because it developed a mind of its own...

So I’d be sitting there playing it and all of a sudden the sound would just stop, it didn’t lose power, all the lights were on, but no sound. But it would come back after a few seconds. Then there was one time the volume just shot up all on its own, I wasn’t anywhere near the volume knob but even turning that wouldn’t do anything so I had to shut it off before I lost my hearing. I took good care of the thing too...if it was a tube or a hybrid amp even I would of gone to get it looked at but as that wasn’t the case and I was thinking that getting it fixed would cost as much as the amp itself (I think $150-200 for the 15 watt at the time) I decided against it.

It’s entirely possible that I had just gotten a lemon, maybe it was dropped at factory or somewhere in shipping before it made it to the guitar center I bought it from.

But what my friend gave me was the first iteration of the Vypyr series, so generation 1 if you will, I think they came out in 2008. Peavey hyped up the “trans tube” technology when they advertised it. Basically it’s a solid state that’s supposed to emulate the tones of a tube amp. I heard that the 6505 setting in this is actually really good, it’s got a rotary speaker effect that I’m eager to try for those Zakk Wylde type tones. I’m actually pretty excited.

Just looking at it, there’s a ton of bells and whistles and other than what I read... really not sure what to expect.
 
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