answer:I have a friend with the Vypyr modeling amp, and although the tone is great, so many onboard effects are kind of overkill and hard to switch. He’s also had the power crap out on him once, but that was fixable fairly easily. So I’d actually go with something else if you already have some stompboxes to make up for the lack of effects on the amp. There are better (and cheaper), but more simplistic heads out there that may be better, and perhaps more reliable if you just eliminate the onboard effects. I’d look into this JCA head myself, as it’s the same price as the Peavy, but with a little drop in wattage. JCA is a fairly reliable brand in my opinion, so I don’t think you’d be going wrong there, but if you need to play the head to find out you might just want to go with the Peavy, it’s kind of a small company so it might not be in your local music store.