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Likely needs the DSP board replaced. It is the small board held on by 2 screws(if I remember correctly) and is easily replaced. I think retail cost is about $30 and can be ordered directly from Behringer.
The last knob on the right should give 16 different effects, are you saying the knob doesn't work at all? Is it turning smoothly? Do you hear any clicks as you turn it? Is anything plugged into the dsp socket on the back where the footswitch would go?
A lot of the effects chips run off of the +5 volt or +3.3 volt power source while a lot of the audio is off +/-12 or 15 volts. Sometimes loss of the +5 causes loss of the effects. Check that before assuming a chip is gone.
It sounds like the DSP processor is either about to go out, or is mostly there. Have a qualified amplifier technician take a look at the DSP. Also look up the cost of a new one.
When you are changing the DSP effect on the fly, static or noise is NORMAL !!! The DSP is changing the data and having to recalculate on the fly and doesn't mute itself while doing so which results in "garbage sounds out".
The bypass setting should NOT get any tone UNLESS you have feedback going on. If your guitar can "hear" the speakers in the amp, the strings can vibrate and get feedback going.
Unplug the guitar and see if high freq tone is still there on bypass. If the tone is in the musical range, then there is a problem if nothing is plugged in. If it is a VERY weak, very high frequency tone, this may be the digitizing noise from the DSP. On bypass, the audio is likely to still go through the DSP, just not be modified by it.
If this has a digital effects processor read on.., I had a SIMILAR problem on a Behringer GX110.
The electrolytic filter cap for the 5 volts of the DSP effects had gone bad. The 5 volts was dipping when the DSP reset and it would repeatedly reset causing a clicking at about once a second. 50 cent part fixed it. The part is a little undersized electrically so is more prone to failure in the unit I have.
That particular one had the DSP as a seperate board with its own 5 volt supply from the main transformer.
I repaired a Behringer guitar amp that had a DSP effects in it (BX1200 I believe).
The effects were on a seperate board and the board had its own 5 volt power supply. The filter capacitor for the 5 volt power on the board was UNDERSIZED and it had degraded causing the 5 volts to drop out of regulation, dipping to 4 volts. This caused the DSP effects to fail.
YOUR device MAY use the same DSP OR design.
Check the 5 volt power with an OSCILLOSCOPE to look for dips below the 5 volt operating point that occur at 120 HZ.
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