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I bought this to performs guitar clinics/workshops with and give lessons and not have to drag my extremely heavy boutique pedal board and a tube amp. I bought the Sanpera 2 pedal board too with it.
I've done a half a dozen or so clinics now so far with it, and have been asked by many what amp and effects I'm using. For live, it sounds great. The effects are stellar, really, and it weighs ne... read more [+]xt to nothing,so you wont break your back carrying it out of your car to your gig. This amp is quite inexpensive too which is a plus!
The down sides
1. There's a built in noise gate that you can't turn off as of yet that can stifle the tone a bit.It acts also like a compressor, but in a not so musical way. For live, no problem, because of excess noise from people, atmosphere, etc..but I wouldn't record professionally with this. The last two rants are regarding the pedal board, not the amp...
2. The tuner display on the pedal board is tiny and very hard to see.
3. The looper can only be used once, meaning you can't keep overlapping parts in the time frame allowed, and the looper is tricky in the beginning to get it to loop properly. It's not self quantizing llike Boss looper pedals.
4. If you change patches too quickly and a lot, there is the rare occasion the amp can crash on you with no sound coming out and it needs to be restarted again. Hasn't happened live, but at home a few times.
I've tweaked and programmed my own settings with this and I'm very happy with it for what I use it for. You can get great blues, country, and jazz tones besides the rock tones Peavey is known for. I even made a patch similar to John Mayer's, "I Don't Trust Myself" using the auto envelope filter. Sounds great! Amazing reverb and delays too... 4 out of 5 stars close [-]
Crazy-Versatile Guitar Amp!
Here's a little secret. If you like to play a ton of different styles... if you wanna use effects, and if you wanna jam with your iPod, and even record straight from your amp... you're probably not going to be happy going with a regular combo amp. You need something that can hang with your multi-style interests and your modern edge. You need an amp from Peavey's Vypyr series, like this Vypyr 30. This 30W, 1x12" combo amplifier may look like your standard amp from far away. But don't let your eyes trick you. Let your ears do the talking here. Inside the Vypyr 30, you've got 24 different amp channel models... so that's already like having 24 amps in one (do the math, that's sick value at this price). But there's more going on here.You've got 11 editable preamplifier "Stompbox" effects plus 11 "post-amp" effects. What are we talking? Oh, just the most classic effects on the planet. You've got models of today's most famous distortion and overdrive boxes... phaser... chorus... ring modulation... wah... flange... it's all here. And then when you factor in stuff like the looper, octaver, pitch shifter, and tremolo effect — and you've got a lifetime's collection of stompboxes, already inside this amp. Not to mention, all of those classic and modern amp tones. We love it and you will too. But for the modern player, the extra-cool feature is gonna be the ⅛" input. You ever tried to jam along with a song on your iTunes library or your iPod or whatever? With most setups, you've got to go walk across the room to one set of speakers and turn them up at the same time you gotta go turn your amp down... and it's hard to hear what's going on in both. Now you've got a built-in practice solution. Just connect your favorite MP3 player and get going. And since you can plug headphones right into the front of the Vypyr 30, you can easily go private with your practices.
Peavey Vypyr 30 Modeling Guitar Amplifier Features at a Glance:
- 30 watts
- Four channels with 3-band EQ, master volume and pre- and post-gain controls
- 11 editable rack effects
- 12" custom-voiced modeling speaker
- Onboard chromatic tuner
- Tap Tempo
- Studio-quality headphone and record out
- MP3/CD/Aux input
- Patented TransTube technology in preamp and power amp
