Tough amp. Has the circuitry and voicing of the 6505 as well as the JSX and Triple X, along with a preamp tube and a full quad 6L6 power amp section. That thing should dominate live.
I've got a Tube 60, a VIP 3, and had a Vypyr 30 for a minute. I think the Vypyr Tube and the solid state Vypyrs are completely different animals. The tubes bring the modeling to life. The VIP does have some fun presets and some pretty warm Transtubiness, if you will, but the 30 did nothing for me at my age, despite my having heard some good buzz about it. I personally think Peavey should bring back the tube models for the latest generation of Vypyr. In general, I think real power tubes are what's needed to put almost any digital modeling over the top, although solid state and digital modeling by themselves get closer all the time.
The tube Vypyr is one of the best amps Peavey has made in the last 20 years. The 6505 channel, worth the price alone, sounds more like a 5150 than any other modeling amp to this day. And from what I've heard so far from online videos it sounds better than the EVH 5150 Iconic. You can also get vintage VH tones out of that amp quite easily, the 6505 green channel with a bit of the built in tube screamer is your friend if you're going for the Dave era VH tone. Or you can go with the 6505 red channel and roll off the the gain to about 12 o' clock and mix in some of the phaser effect, which is very good on that amp.The clean sounds are amazing on this amp as well, especially the Fender Twin channel. I still have my tube Vypyr 120 2x12 combo and still use it often despite having a EVH 5150, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, etc...If you buy one go for the 2x12 combo, it has plenty of low end and pushes air, heavy amp but I don't move it around, it stays in my studio. I retubed mine with a set of Ruby tubes a while back and it still kicks ass. I got a used Sanpera II pedal in mint condition for $100 several years ago for it and it's great. I also own a Vypyr Pro 100 1x12 combo, which is the second best Vypyr in the series. That's all solid state and and has a harsher attack, and has more bells and whistles, and less bottom. That's a good amp as well.
Are the vypyr Pro and the vypyr tube version similar when modeling amps? Ignoring 1 vs 2 speakers. Or the tubes really make a huge difference. Thanks in advance!
Great description. The tube Vypyrs are, imo, the best modeling amps of all time. And are just phenomenal amps, even without consideration of the word "modeling." Great amps, period.
The vypyrs are sooo slept on way better than katana for metal by a county mile not bad at all for clean too, the buddah amp model has a real good clean . if they had better marketing and visual designs and couple cheap extra features (external cab out for one) you would see them as much as the katana
Great playing and tone, it's nice to see what the amp can do other than the high gain models that everyone focuses on. I've got 60w and 120w Tube Vypyrs. I've bought/sold loads of amps over the years and the Vypyrs always stay. Versatile, great tone and serious headroom 👌
The older Peavey Vypyr is one of the best practice amps ever. You can gig with em too. I've got a Boogie Roadster and a Mark IV but I STILL turn my Vypyr 30 on with the sanpera from time to time! Haha.. Great amps... And the tube version is twice as great! With patience, you can dial in whatever you want to on this thing. The plexi channel is slept on for nice bluesy breakup tones too.🤘
I had one of the Tube 60 Vypyrs and I loved it. Coupled with the Sanpera II pedals it was crazy versatile. Unfortunately it wasn't reliable to gig with. It left me out to dry on a couple of gigs. It went back to Peavey several times and they couldn't get it stop locking up. The problem seemed to associated with the pedal. I could practice and record all day long but didn't trust it at a gig. I've gone through a 5150III that just didn't sound as good in my opinion. I'm currently using a Helix floor with power cab and it still doesn't sound quite as good but its been really reliable and even more versatile....... I wish I had my tube 60 back..
Peavey is actually about to release a new Vypyr model, the X-series. The preview videos sound truly awful though... the best vypyr I ever played by far is the 60 watt tube version. Actually it might be the best practice bedroom amp ever, but good luck finding one as it has been discontinued
Great vid, great playing, enjoyed this. But man im trying to justify a vypyr for a practice amp and I just cant get over the peavey 'fizziness'. Every peavey i hear has that great, tight chunk, but its like static wrapped around it. Everyone seems to love it and it just pierces my ears haha.
Killer Tone & Sound! Picked one of these up last week and blown away and that's coming from an Early B revision Mesa Mark iv and a JVM 210 and a 5150 III and that's only what I have now and not what I've gone through in 40 years as far as Bogner Ecstacys and Splawn Quickrods, 5150's ect. but this thing gives You that squishy compressed 80's Lynch / Dimartini sound probably due to the hybrid technology but I'm fine with that even being a total tube snob.....I did change out the 6L6's to Mesa str-420's and a vintage Jan Phillips 12ax7a in the P.I Slot (No bias adj. needed)).......Woke this Beast up BIG TIME, although I want to try kt66's down the road! It's super loud, tight and still maintains its tone at high volume and does not fart out til ear bleeding volumes and the effects are top notch and they actually sound better than some of my vintage Boss Japanese pedals. It also crushes with another cab plugged into the speaker out and the amp itself still puts out sound unlike other amps that cut it off when another cab gets plugged in (Sweet!).......Super crushing stereo type sound with tons of compliments live. Another huge factor is that there is NO LATENCY when using a MIDI PEDAL when changing channels (Yeah, Baby!!!)....Get ya' Pull with this one.
I had mine since I was 15 (2010), the solid-state 100w combo version of it. Thing slaps so fucking hard I just put my 50w tube head for sale and I'm now in the process of separating the vypyr's speakers from the amp and making it a head version. I always knew it did, I just didn't think it would've held up against a normal stack. I took it to band practice the other day and it sounded amazing at full volume and held up in the mix with the other guitarist using a Kemper and an Orange 2x12. The thing even sounds way better with band-context volume too (instead of the usual home/recording levels). At that point I just got convinced, this amp had probably the best modeling of that generation, the 6505 model specially wins for me.
KILLER! Lucas with some Ratt to open! And some more Ratt to close this out. Nice. Sounded awesome for that! Cool vid on the Vypyr. I didn't even now they made this with Tube Power.
Mr. Fowler, I have seen many, many amp and guitar demos and at 2:25 you did something no one has ever accomplished: Your use of the selector switch on the guitar made a very noticeable difference, as if you picked up a different guitar. Others may claim that the selector makes a mind-blowing, unicorns and rainbows shift in tone, but this is the first time I've truly heard it where I want to know how, why, and what pickups. It wasn't subtle at all, it was like getting off the calm bus at Basic Training and meeting Drill Sergeant for the first time.
You got some seriously good tones out of that amp. I have never been a Peavey fan, but I've got to say, this amp sounds good. A LOT of that is you and your playing, but the amp sure does help. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎
Bought both the Vypyr 60- and 120Tube and they're pretty awesome. With the built in stomp boxes they're ready to go and sound furious. The 6505 channel is the most accurate when picking hard and can be even played without a booster or (internal/external) pedal in front and still rip & tear. What I like the most is that these amps feel responsive and sharp when alternate picking. It's pretty worrying how muddy many amps sound. I bought a TSL100 and it sounds like total ass - I can't crank it though so I might miss out on the goods. Pretty crisp amps were the old Crate line from the 90ies. I remember playing the 30 Watt version and most people were truly awe'd by the "crystal like" sharpness of the amp. Very aggressive and piercing tone. The only downside being that there was near zero bass(guess this was their trade-off for the amp's pristine cut). Does anybody know how one gets a really hard and dry sound of a Marshall? My go to reference for "hardness" is Slayer's 1988 Felt Forum concert here on youtube - the guitars sound amazingly badass th-cam.com/video/gGW6YEdATA8/w-d-xo.html King's solo starting at 1:29... displaying that mid centered "cut and thunk" I'm looking for.
I was playing vypyrs in my teens, getting close to 15 years ago. Glad to see them getting some love, I thought I was onto something with them but ultimately their lack of durability is what led me away from them, I blew 3 and every one of them Peavey told me it would be cheaper to just buy a new one instead of fixing it. Now I have a 5150ii, couldn't be happier with the dependability of analog circuits
While there seems to be so much Praise and "Hoopla" over the BOSS Nextone and even Katanas...Peavey had nailed the Tube feel and realism thing way before BOSS.
They are tube preamp and tube power amp. 12AX7 in the pre, and 6L6GC in the power section. Plus it also mixes some Transtube analog stuff in as well as some digital efx. All in All, a great amp. And they did well, compared to what they are doing now. Too bad it's probably the last Great thing they will ever do. The Vypyr Pro is pretty good, with lots of bells and whistles with a monster footboard(that is not included and costs half the amp). It's just cheaply built with plastic and fiberboard. No high quality components. Not like my old Peavey tanks from back in the day that weigh a ton. These are light and easy to move around, but the corner protectors are plastic(stupid) and break easy, plus they are shaped really weird and I have yet to find any kind of metal replacement for the odd shaped front ones which are the first to break. Why would you want to protect flimsy fiberboard with flimsy plastic? Are they even paying attention to what the players are saying or wanting? And now with the tube market like it is...new tube amp designs are probably not going to be a thing.
That is a pretty glaring oversight in my opinion, especially since I don't think it can be switched off and there is no fx loop to add your own. I think they addressed that in the second generation of Vypyr.
@@LucasFowler The noise gate in the second generation still sucks. The Vypyr pro has more noise gate options.Maybe Peavey will get it right in the third generation.
Being that this is tube, can you get good apartment levels out of this while still having the gain cranked? Basically, does this act more like a tube where you have to have the volume cranked too, or does it act more like a solid state?
Great question. Basically, the Tube Vypyr has the same preamp as the solid state version, and those sounds have the tube power amp modeled into them already. At low volumes, the tube and solid state versions sound pretty similar. The main difference with the tube version (to my ears) is the increased dynamic range and perceived volume. The amp feels less compressed and "digital" to play at high volumes, and it also gets VERY loud.
Lucas- Are you using any pedals with this vypyr in the video? I was thinking about buying some pedals to use with my Vypyr x2, do you think it would sound sound ok with pedals???
I have a couple of vintage peaveys ( mace t 160 and a penta ) I like them both for certain things. But my main is my 1987xl 50 watt plexi. You just cant beat those plexi tones.
I have bought this Peavey 120 tube second hand recently and its great. But there's one thing, I can't be sure if its compatible with bass guitar and if so, is there a specific 'instrument channel' for that like in newer series? There are 3 banks A,B,C and 4 presets to each of those. Probably it doesn't matter what guitar I plug in: electric, semi-acoustic guitar or bass but Im not sure. Anyone knows?
I use my Vypyr vip2 for bass. The Guitar high gain sounds to digital but still better than what i grew up using in the 80's. I am curious about the lates X series Vypyrs. I hve 3 Vypyr amps
It has similar frequency balance & style of the intended amp 'models' but like almost all 'modelers' the end result is 'hashy' & 'harsh' & 'jagged' & oddly lacking in detail in a hollow distant sort of way & overal lifeless, flat, boring & compressed feel. It's 'impressive 4 the price' but overal sounds worse than a tiny cheap MG10G practice amp, because it's analog & basically a 'good analog pedal' into a little speaker instead of half-baked digital 'attempts'. I've heard many good 'clean' models, but for distortion they almost always sound weird like this.
Oh and I h$te everything Peavy. I had 3 or 4 over the years. From the Renown to the Bandit to the Undercover Boss version( I know that maybe not fair) but yeah I never met a Peavy I liked. Aside from my opinion on the “episode”. But you’re still a monster!! Honestly I never cared for Charvel either. Now I want one because of you! lol. Peace bro
Where I live in NC, Peavey's were the mainstay amps. Eventually I found myself more drawn to Boogie and my Dad's old Legends, but they have a special place in my heart. I have an old Rockmaster 120 watt head from the 80's that sounds as good or better than any JCM800 I've ever heard.
It is a Sophia 2:92. I will have more on that in the final video in my Charvel Upgrade series. That will be coming within the next week or so. Great trem!
@@LucasFowler yup i saw it after i sent the question. Story of my life! LOL! Those are GREAT sounding pickups. Im listening to the video in thePlanet website. Sweet!
Didn't see this until now! Thanks for the mention and for a good video!
Thank you for testing sh*t and making things chug!
Still gigging my vypyr tube 120 Great Amp.
Me too! also added in the 412MS for a 612 setup
Tough amp. Has the circuitry and voicing of the 6505 as well as the JSX and Triple X, along with a preamp tube and a full quad 6L6 power amp section. That thing should dominate live.
I've got a Tube 60, a VIP 3, and had a Vypyr 30 for a minute. I think the Vypyr Tube and the solid state Vypyrs are completely different animals. The tubes bring the modeling to life. The VIP does have some fun presets and some pretty warm Transtubiness, if you will, but the 30 did nothing for me at my age, despite my having heard some good buzz about it. I personally think Peavey should bring back the tube models for the latest generation of Vypyr. In general, I think real power tubes are what's needed to put almost any digital modeling over the top, although solid state and digital modeling by themselves get closer all the time.
The tube Vypyr is one of the best amps Peavey has made in the last 20 years. The 6505 channel, worth the price alone, sounds more like a 5150 than any other modeling amp to this day. And from what I've heard so far from online videos it sounds better than the EVH 5150 Iconic. You can also get vintage VH tones out of that amp quite easily, the 6505 green channel with a bit of the built in tube screamer is your friend if you're going for the Dave era VH tone. Or you can go with the 6505 red channel and roll off the the gain to about 12 o' clock and mix in some of the phaser effect, which is very good on that amp.The clean sounds are amazing on this amp as well, especially the Fender Twin channel. I still have my tube Vypyr 120 2x12 combo and still use it often despite having a EVH 5150, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, etc...If you buy one go for the 2x12 combo, it has plenty of low end and pushes air, heavy amp but I don't move it around, it stays in my studio. I retubed mine with a set of Ruby tubes a while back and it still kicks ass. I got a used Sanpera II pedal in mint condition for $100 several years ago for it and it's great. I also own a Vypyr Pro 100 1x12 combo, which is the second best Vypyr in the series. That's all solid state and and has a harsher attack, and has more bells and whistles, and less bottom. That's a good amp as well.
Are the vypyr Pro and the vypyr tube version similar when modeling amps? Ignoring 1 vs 2 speakers. Or the tubes really make a huge difference. Thanks in advance!
Great description. The tube Vypyrs are, imo, the best modeling amps of all time. And are just phenomenal amps, even without consideration of the word "modeling." Great amps, period.
I love mine. The key to getting the most out of it is to turn up the pre and post gains, and start with the master low and adjust to suit your tastes.
The vypyrs are sooo slept on way better than katana for metal by a county mile not bad at all for clean too, the buddah amp model has a real good clean . if they had better marketing and visual designs and couple cheap extra features (external cab out for one) you would see them as much as the katana
The Tube 120 has an external out. 17years running I still use my Vypyr with a MS412 extension for a 612 setup and love it.
I absolutely love my Vypyr 75!
I've recorded just about everything I've done with the vyper. It's easy to tame, versatile, and very clean.
Great playing and tone, it's nice to see what the amp can do other than the high gain models that everyone focuses on. I've got 60w and 120w Tube Vypyrs. I've bought/sold loads of amps over the years and the Vypyrs always stay. Versatile, great tone and serious headroom 👌
That sounds incredible and your playing is on another level! 🤟🏻
Hahaha well I'm glad you like it, I wasn't feeling as confident since that guitar is not my comfort zone!
every day i regret selling my peavey XXX. i had no idea the vypyr i have sitting in the corner had XXX and JSX amp modeling.... this is motivating
The older Peavey Vypyr is one of the best practice amps ever. You can gig with em too. I've got a Boogie Roadster and a Mark IV but I STILL turn my Vypyr 30 on with the sanpera from time to time! Haha.. Great amps... And the tube version is twice as great! With patience, you can dial in whatever you want to on this thing. The plexi channel is slept on for nice bluesy breakup tones too.🤘
I had one of the Tube 60 Vypyrs and I loved it. Coupled with the Sanpera II pedals it was crazy versatile. Unfortunately it wasn't reliable to gig with. It left me out to dry on a couple of gigs. It went back to Peavey several times and they couldn't get it stop locking up. The problem seemed to associated with the pedal. I could practice and record all day long but didn't trust it at a gig. I've gone through a 5150III that just didn't sound as good in my opinion. I'm currently using a Helix floor with power cab and it still doesn't sound quite as good but its been really reliable and even more versatile....... I wish I had my tube 60 back..
Hi… What’s wrong with The Vypyr tube amp when its going to a gigs? Tell me please, I looking to this amp for my live gigs.
@@BagusWibisono ..... My Tube60 was tempermental... I locked up multiple times at live gigs and was just unreliable ..
That sucks. They’ve made a number of firmware updates over the years. I wonder whether by now they have figured it out?
This happened to me at a gig. The pedal blinked twice and the amp shut off completely. Haha
Peavey is actually about to release a new Vypyr model, the X-series. The preview videos sound truly awful though... the best vypyr I ever played by far is the 60 watt tube version. Actually it might be the best practice bedroom amp ever, but good luck finding one as it has been discontinued
This! 👆 Tube 60 is the greatest bedroom amp in existence 🤘
It still won't be as kick ass as these vypyr tube amps. I love mine.
I juste buy à 60w tube for 200$ and i put à fx loop on it !!!!! Sound amazing white equalizer in the loop !!!
You're one of the very few who really makes it sound 👍🏼 !!!
I had mine for 10 years .All it needed was a set of JJs and a Eminence inside.
Great vid, great playing, enjoyed this. But man im trying to justify a vypyr for a practice amp and I just cant get over the peavey 'fizziness'. Every peavey i hear has that great, tight chunk, but its like static wrapped around it. Everyone seems to love it and it just pierces my ears haha.
Was that the count of Tuscany you played? Awesome song more folks need to hear!
Killer Tone & Sound! Picked one of these up last week and blown away and that's coming from an Early B revision Mesa Mark iv and a JVM 210 and a 5150 III and that's only what I have now and not what I've gone through in 40 years as far as Bogner Ecstacys and Splawn Quickrods, 5150's ect. but this thing gives You that squishy compressed 80's Lynch / Dimartini sound probably due to the hybrid technology but I'm fine with that even being a total tube snob.....I did change out the 6L6's to Mesa str-420's and a vintage Jan Phillips 12ax7a in the P.I Slot (No bias adj. needed)).......Woke this Beast up BIG TIME, although I want to try kt66's down the road!
It's super loud, tight and still maintains its tone at high volume and does not fart out til ear bleeding volumes and the effects are top notch and they actually sound better than some of my vintage Boss Japanese pedals.
It also crushes with another cab plugged into the speaker out and the amp itself still puts out sound unlike other amps that cut it off when another cab gets plugged in (Sweet!).......Super crushing stereo type sound with tons of compliments live. Another huge factor is that there is NO LATENCY when using a MIDI PEDAL when changing channels (Yeah, Baby!!!)....Get ya' Pull with this one.
I had mine since I was 15 (2010), the solid-state 100w combo version of it. Thing slaps so fucking hard I just put my 50w tube head for sale and I'm now in the process of separating the vypyr's speakers from the amp and making it a head version. I always knew it did, I just didn't think it would've held up against a normal stack. I took it to band practice the other day and it sounded amazing at full volume and held up in the mix with the other guitarist using a Kemper and an Orange 2x12. The thing even sounds way better with band-context volume too (instead of the usual home/recording levels). At that point I just got convinced, this amp had probably the best modeling of that generation, the 6505 model specially wins for me.
KILLER! Lucas with some Ratt to open! And some more Ratt to close this out. Nice. Sounded awesome for that! Cool vid on the Vypyr. I didn't even now they made this with Tube Power.
I don't like *all* of Ratt's stuff but they have some real bangers!
God DAMN Lucas. You are a monster player. Maybe a compressor is what I need ha ha!!
Compressors make clean sounds feel better to me :P
Mr. Fowler, I have seen many, many amp and guitar demos and at 2:25 you did something no one has ever accomplished: Your use of the selector switch on the guitar made a very noticeable difference, as if you picked up a different guitar. Others may claim that the selector makes a mind-blowing, unicorns and rainbows shift in tone, but this is the first time I've truly heard it where I want to know how, why, and what pickups. It wasn't subtle at all, it was like getting off the calm bus at Basic Training and meeting Drill Sergeant for the first time.
I was splitting the coils of the Planet Tone "Poundcake" pickup with the "Freeway" switch I installed. Nothing magic :P
You got some seriously good tones out of that amp. I have never been a Peavey fan, but I've got to say, this amp sounds good. A LOT of that is you and your playing, but the amp sure does help. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎
Bought both the Vypyr 60- and 120Tube and they're pretty awesome. With the built in stomp boxes they're ready to go and sound furious. The 6505 channel is the most accurate when picking hard and can be even played without a booster or (internal/external) pedal in front and still rip & tear.
What I like the most is that these amps feel responsive and sharp when alternate picking. It's pretty worrying how muddy many amps sound. I bought a TSL100 and it sounds like total ass - I can't crank it though so I might miss out on the goods.
Pretty crisp amps were the old Crate line from the 90ies. I remember playing the 30 Watt version and most people were truly awe'd by the "crystal like" sharpness of the amp. Very aggressive and piercing tone.
The only downside being that there was near zero bass(guess this was their trade-off for the amp's pristine cut). Does anybody know how one gets a really hard and dry sound of a Marshall?
My go to reference for "hardness" is Slayer's 1988 Felt Forum concert here on youtube - the guitars sound amazingly badass
th-cam.com/video/gGW6YEdATA8/w-d-xo.html
King's solo starting at 1:29... displaying that mid centered "cut and thunk" I'm looking for.
I was playing vypyrs in my teens, getting close to 15 years ago. Glad to see them getting some love, I thought I was onto something with them but ultimately their lack of durability is what led me away from them, I blew 3 and every one of them Peavey told me it would be cheaper to just buy a new one instead of fixing it. Now I have a 5150ii, couldn't be happier with the dependability of analog circuits
Now I want to break out my Vypyr 75w that I’ve got sitting out in the spare room for storage. I forgot how good it could sound
They aren't the end-all amp for me, but they can really sound great in some settings :)
These amps are a great value and this demo sounds great! Another similar hidden gem is the Marshall JMD.
While there seems to be so much Praise and "Hoopla" over the BOSS Nextone and even Katanas...Peavey had nailed the Tube feel and realism thing way before BOSS.
Wow look at that srv stuff in the beginning with the classic 50🔥🔥
If you think that sounds great, I have two linked up and they sound GIGANTIC!!
Sounds great Lucas! Now I have to go look and see if I missed an episode on the Charvel... I cannot remember this bridge that you have on there.
I'm about to finish shooting the last video in that series! It's a Sophia 2:92 Tremolo, it's very cool.
@@LucasFowler Cool! I actually went back through your videos to make sure I hadn't missed it haha. I was hoping you'd put up another video to show it.
now I'm going downstairs and putting the 4 6l6 back in my 120 combo . it's a metal machine
I blew a typed up once. It literally had smoke rolling out of it. Reminded me of Back to the future
If you're going to blow up an amp, that's the way to do it: in style.
They are tube preamp and tube power amp. 12AX7 in the pre, and 6L6GC in the power section. Plus it also mixes some Transtube analog stuff in as well as some digital efx. All in All, a great amp. And they did well, compared to what they are doing now. Too bad it's probably the last Great thing they will ever do. The Vypyr Pro is pretty good, with lots of bells and whistles with a monster footboard(that is not included and costs half the amp). It's just cheaply built with plastic and fiberboard. No high quality components. Not like my old Peavey tanks from back in the day that weigh a ton. These are light and easy to move around, but the corner protectors are plastic(stupid) and break easy, plus they are shaped really weird and I have yet to find any kind of metal replacement for the odd shaped front ones which are the first to break. Why would you want to protect flimsy fiberboard with flimsy plastic? Are they even paying attention to what the players are saying or wanting? And now with the tube market like it is...new tube amp designs are probably not going to be a thing.
Did you video the bridge change on that charvel?
my only major complaint with the vypyr is you can't adjust the noise gate..it's a fixed gate :/
That is a pretty glaring oversight in my opinion, especially since I don't think it can be switched off and there is no fx loop to add your own.
I think they addressed that in the second generation of Vypyr.
@@LucasFowler The noise gate in the second generation still sucks. The Vypyr pro has more noise gate options.Maybe Peavey will get it right in the third generation.
@@jcrowre this is the 3rd, first was the vypyr, then the vypyr vip, now we have the vypyr x.
First like within 10 seconds. Dang, that sounds good!
Being that this is tube, can you get good apartment levels out of this while still having the gain cranked? Basically, does this act more like a tube where you have to have the volume cranked too, or does it act more like a solid state?
Great question. Basically, the Tube Vypyr has the same preamp as the solid state version, and those sounds have the tube power amp modeled into them already. At low volumes, the tube and solid state versions sound pretty similar. The main difference with the tube version (to my ears) is the increased dynamic range and perceived volume. The amp feels less compressed and "digital" to play at high volumes, and it also gets VERY loud.
great review, what the hell kind of bridge trem is that?
Lucas- Are you using any pedals with this vypyr in the video? I was thinking about buying some pedals to use with my Vypyr x2, do you think it would sound sound ok with pedals???
What would ola know about tone?😅 Its ok not pure tube
I have a couple of vintage peaveys ( mace t 160 and a penta ) I like them both for certain things. But my main is my 1987xl 50 watt plexi. You just cant beat those plexi tones.
Lucas - What tuning do you use???
great amp hope this comment stays up.
I have bought this Peavey 120 tube second hand recently and its great. But there's one thing, I can't be sure if its compatible with bass guitar and if so, is there a specific 'instrument channel' for that like in newer series? There are 3 banks A,B,C and 4 presets to each of those. Probably it doesn't matter what guitar I plug in: electric, semi-acoustic guitar or bass but Im not sure. Anyone knows?
The original Vypyr were for guitar only, the later solid state only VIP series can do bass as well though.
@@paulmurphy9151 Yes I use VIP's as well. Great equipment. Thank you for reply !
Grand Funk Railroad 😎
What about the Vypyr Pro?
I use my Vypyr vip2 for bass. The Guitar high gain sounds to digital but still better than what i grew up using in the 80's. I am curious about the lates X series Vypyrs. I hve 3 Vypyr amps
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what was the riff at the first of the video?
It has similar frequency balance & style of the intended amp 'models' but like almost all 'modelers' the end result is 'hashy' & 'harsh' & 'jagged' & oddly lacking in detail in a hollow distant sort of way & overal lifeless, flat, boring & compressed feel. It's 'impressive 4 the price' but overal sounds worse than a tiny cheap MG10G practice amp, because it's analog & basically a 'good analog pedal' into a little speaker instead of half-baked digital 'attempts'. I've heard many good 'clean' models, but for distortion they almost always sound weird like this.
Oh and I h$te everything Peavy. I had 3 or 4 over the years. From the Renown to the Bandit to the Undercover Boss version( I know that maybe not fair) but yeah I never met a Peavy I liked. Aside from my opinion on the “episode”. But you’re still a monster!!
Honestly I never cared for Charvel either. Now I want one because of you! lol.
Peace bro
Where I live in NC, Peavey's were the mainstay amps. Eventually I found myself more drawn to Boogie and my Dad's old Legends, but they have a special place in my heart. I have an old Rockmaster 120 watt head from the 80's that sounds as good or better than any JCM800 I've ever heard.
sophia 2.92 is the best floyd rose
Do you use compression with distortion as well?
You certainly could, but I usually don't. The distortion adds a natural compression that is enough for me.
What’s the tremolo on that guitar ??
It is a Sophia 2:92. I will have more on that in the final video in my Charvel Upgrade series. That will be coming within the next week or so. Great trem!
What pickups do you have in that guitar?
First link in the description :)
@@LucasFowler yup i saw it after i sent the question. Story of my life! LOL! Those are GREAT sounding pickups. Im listening to the video in thePlanet website. Sweet!
@@dblanco77 I'm very proud of the way they came out, Jose at Planet Tone nailed what I wanted from a pickup :)
Your playing lay it down incorrectly, it doesn't sound right
Putting a double locked guitar into drop d is kind of a pain.
@@LucasFowler understandable
Of all the things to pickout of his good playing. Dont be that guy....
Ola clickbait 🤘🤘 picture back when he was still with Washburn
I love Ola's channel. I'm glad he made that video about the Vypyr because it made me want to try one again :)