Tell me I'm missing something obvious? !

sgosden · October 2016

Just bought myself a Victory VX kraken, sounded bloody amazing in the store...

But I get it home, and I can get nothing out of it at all!

I've tried 3 speaker cables, 2 intrument leads in, and all 3 outputs (8s through an 8 cab, 16 to a 16 cab) and NOTHING!

I've put it on high and low mode, taken volumes and gains off 0.

Please tell me I'm missing something bloody obvious. It's litterally been sat in in carry bag in the boot of a car for a gentle 90mins.

I just want to play with my new toy

Sporky · October 2016

Have you plugged it into the mains and turned it on?

You did say obvious...

Also does it light up at all?

sgosden · October 2016

Haha, yeah the missus even commented that the purple light was nice !

stratman3142 · October 2016

With a guitar lead attached but not connected to the guitar does it buzz or make a noise when you touch the end of the jack plug?

sgosden · October 2016

stratman3142 said:

With a guitar lead attached but not connected to the guitar does it buzz or make a noise when you touch the end of the jack plug.

no, no buzz atall, tried with a few leads too.

stratman3142 · October 2016

I've just looked at the manual on line and it might be worth checking the HT fuse.

sgosden · October 2016

HT fuse looked intact when I took it out, but will check with the multimeter when I'm home again.

ESchap · October 2016

Try going in through the loop. Should tell you if the preamp or power amp at fault. Could easily be just a valve fail.

paul_c2 · October 2016

Could it be that a valve has come loose, and needs reseating?

tone1 · October 2016

Try swapping guitars maybe

sgosden · October 2016

So,
1) check HT
2) go through power valves
3) check valve connection
4) if nothing works, cry and eat icecream

ICBM · October 2016

5) buy Peavey Bandit, forget about amp reliability problems for ever.

I think there's one for sale on this very forum...

digitalscream · October 2016

OK, here are the things I've known people to do with these, which all resulted in them feeling very silly afterwards:

1 - Not flicked the switch on the front panel (yes, really)
2 - Plugged the footswitch into the FX Loop/Solo Override socket, and left the FX loop switch on the floor unit disengaged while having nothing in the loop (just unplug the footswitch to test)
3 - Got the loop send/return the wrong way round

sgosden · October 2016

digitalscream said:

OK, here are the things I've known people to do with these, which all resulted in them feeling very silly afterwards:

1 - Not flicked the switch on the front panel (yes, really)
2 - Plugged the footswitch into the FX Loop/Solo Override socket, and left the FX loop switch on the floor unit disengaged while having nothing in the loop (just unplug the footswitch to test)
3 - Got the loop send/return the wrong way round

definitely flicked the switch,
Haven't taken plugged footswitchin yet,
Not plugged anything into the loop in/out,

May be worth putting a patch cable accross the fx loop

sgosden · October 2016

Fuse is fine,
No output when plugging into fx return,
Valves seated fine.

Arse.

the_jaffa · October 2016

Could it be that you've not posted in the correct forum? That might help

sgosden · October 2016

the_jaffa said:

Could it be that you've not posted in the correct forum? That might help

posted in "amps" ? Seems fitting?

the_jaffa · October 2016

I'm was sure it was in the for sale section. My mistake if not

monquixote · October 2016

sgosden said:

the_jaffa said:

Could it be that you've not posted in the correct forum? That might help

posted in "amps" ? Seems fitting?

Well I suppose technically it's not actually amplifying anything so he may have a point.

RocknRollDave · October 2016

Have you tried turning it off and on again...?

fretmeister · October 2016

Have you tried a different power cable? Can't see you've mentioned it.

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