First of all, I absolutely love the Power Station. It has been an integral part of my setup for years and years.
I tried writing this post explaining how I use the PS2, and why I would like the following feature in a future version, but I realized that it really isn’t necessary and it mostly confuses the issue.
I would love if the Power Station included a line out AFTER the effects loop, and before reamping (obviously).
In a perfect world this line out would include analog cab sim and/or impulse response, but I would be satisfied if it only included the effects loop.
I realize this crosses over product category lines, but for my purposes this would be a God send, and it would eliminate a whole redundant second, and inferior, attenuation step.
Thanks for posting. Yes I see what you mean it would be a Power Load / Power Station love child.
What’s your current setup, you mentioned using an attenuator?
Couldn’t you make a side chain but splitting the signal just before returning to the FX return? This would be post FX “line out” technically. Output 1 closes the FX and goes to the FX return, output 2 becomes your line out. The FX returns hits a buffer and then goes to the power amp. A good splitter pedal will also be a buffer.
Thanks for the suggestion. That is an option I haven’t really considered before, partially because of space and power supply limitations on my pedalboard, but it certainly could work. I will explore this idea.
To answer your question, I am currently running the PS2 reamped signal into an OX for cabinet emulation which then goes to my audio interface or to FOH. I run a cab off of the OX for… reasons, some bonafide and some just for convenience.
I would prefer to send my reamped signal directly to my speaker cab and take a line level out (including the effects loop) directly to the OX, or other cab sim equipment.
Splitting the signal before it gets back to the Power Station, as you have suggested, accomplishes the same thing but I’d love if it was integrated and didn’t add any more gadgets or connections. It would be even better if a cabinet emulation was included so I could get rid of the OX entirely.