I’m confident that I missed something here, but I’m trying to run a preamp to line in, “jump” the speaker out to amp in per Joe’s video below, but am getting no signal from the XLR or the 1/4" line out.
I’ve tried it a number of ways. XLR out to XLR input on my interface, 1/4" out to XLR on interface and 1/4" out to 1/4" DI input on my interface. I’ve also tried different cables between the speaker out to amp in, just to make sure I don’t have a bad cable (at least, assuming they’re not both bad).
Ok, so I’m assuming you used a speaker cable from the “SPKR Out” to the “Amp In” and set the impedance to match. You’ve set the line out level where it should be for your set up, it comes at zero from the factory. You’ve got good cables that work. You’ve set the levels for the line in, power section of the Power Station, and the levels on your preamp. If you’ve done all of that, we need to look at possibly trying the effects loop return instead of the line in and see if that changes anything.
Let me know if all of that looks right, and we’ll move on.
Ok perfect. So you switch the speaker cable to the “Amp In”, put the switch on “operate” and get nothing?
Just so we try everything, set the voicing switches to flat, turn of the low pass filter, and place a jumper cable between the send and return of the effects loop.
Video is best. Yeah if you look behind Joe when he’s playing after showing the set up, the unit is in “operate” while he’s playing. I’ve done this with the PS-2A and PS-100 numerous times, I can’t think of a reason it wouldn’t work with the PS-2 off hand but I’m looking.
While we’re at it… once this works, will the same output go to both the 1/4" and XLR line outs? I’d prefer balanced to balanced but I thought the manual indicated the XLR tapped in somewhere different than the 1/4" does (sorry, I’m not technical…).
Yes, power is off. I did plug it in and turn on the power, leaving it in stanbdy to try it just to see if maybe it needed power in the circuitry but there was no signal then either.
Since Joe had it off though and since that’s how silent mode works, it’s been off for all of this except that one on-standby test.
We need to plug the unit in, turn on the power button, then put it in operate. See if that gets things going. If that doesn’t work at all we’ll move to something else.
OK - so without a speaker plugged in, with power on and in operate it’s fine? I think it is but I haven’t actually used it that way and am not completely familiar with that functionality… just want to make sure.