GPDI/IR and a traditional amp head

Hello!

I glanced through the downloadable manual and I watched the Michael Nelson video, and I understand that if you have a head with an effects loop (or a preamp pedal etc.), you can send to the effects loop in of this device.

But if you have a traditional head w/o an effects loop or a line level out: Would you need a dummy load or something else with a line out to feed the signal from your amp head?

Related question: The GPDI/IR is a “tunable reactive load” which implies I can take speaker out from a traditional head like a PowerStation does, but I didn’t see that in the manual. Perhaps I overlooked it. But a reactive load means feeding it from an amp head, right?

(EDIT: I don’t think ‘reactive load’ for this device means what I wrote above. From the manual:

The integrated reactive load isdesigned specifically for the GPDI One-Watt output stage and the output transformer driving it. This purpose-built load is automatically engaged when no speaker cable is connected to the Speaker Out jack")

So you’d still need something to take the speaker out load from a traditional head besides this device.

Hello, There are two “loops” in the GPDI/IR, one is a traditional FX loop FX Send and FX Return.
The other loop is intended to allow the user to “patch” the GPDI/IR’s preamp into the input of an external guitar amplifier so as to add the GPDI/IR as an alternate preamp for that amplifier, and then utilizes the external guitar amp’s effects loop to complete the connection back to the GPDI/IR. The GPDI/IR is a standalone guitar amplifier and not intended to accept the speaker output from another guitar amplifier. The reactive load is only for the GPDI/IR’s internal tube amplifier when a speaker is not connected. Hope that clears things up. Cheers! Gil