Fryette - Power Load IR 

I don’t need this product but I still watch your videos because you are pretty much my favorite guitar player on RU-vid… Subtle, classy and articulate yet burning when you need to be. Plus you always have a great tone! Thanks for another great video, Michael… Hope you have a great weekend!

Awesome, if not essential tool, if you want to convert your authentic tube amp signals to line level. Not so cheap, but worth the money. One big advantage of the Fryette is, that it works with 2/4, 8 and 16 ohm speaker outputs. other ones are the flexible connection options, although first some use of the manual will be helpful, as all the controls and connections and their relationships are not always self-explanatory without the manual and if you use the wrong controls with the wrong connections, nothing happens. Next advantage is, that you can use is fully passive as reactive load box, or active with or without cabinet IR's. The 16 preset places are enough, the built-in presets already sound good, but of course everybody has his own favorites, which additionally can be fine-tuned. Even in passive mode you can select between different reactive load modes (Edge - Brite - Flat and Deep - Warm - Flat for both treble and bass response.) I personally anyway prefer using Flat, the rest I do with IR fine tuning, but the options certainly can make sense with some more unbalanced sounding amps. I already had the smaller AMT Power Eater, but this one only worked with amps up to 15W, sounded nice and was well usable, but by far not as good as the Fryette, also hardly offered any fine adjustment options and then tried Torped Captor, which was an immediate return, as it sounded horrible, swallowed almost every bass and a good, well adjusted tube amp treble sudddenly sounded as scratchy as the one of a transistor amp, which is exactly not, what I expect from a reactive load box. Also the built-in fan was horribly loud, opposite to the one of the Fryette. Great for recording, amp capturing or even simply for using your own stage amp at bedroom level through your computer monitors... More expensive than most of my tube amps, but for the results ok! I anyway only need it once for all of them, but not any more real cabinets and speakers... Also the results sound much better and more authentically than even the ones with the best power attenuators.

If Steven made it, then it's the best product of it's kind in the market.-

Thanks for using the graphics showing how all this works!!! I don’t record, but LOVE to learn!!!

Damn fryette gonna steal sales from boss and UA

OR get a Kemper and you're triaxis pack and call it a day!! Worked for me 😊

New neck on the Cali, I see. Nice!

what a banger opening tune. absolute headbanger as always!

Great video as always! I would love to see a mick mars decade of decadence tone recreation video. It would be pretty straightforward, your soldano, a h3000, a pcm70, and a vht power amp

Great review. I've been a PS user (PS2, these days) from the day they were released. These things make using my dr103 possible in daily life. Absolutely love them. Also, your intro song was on point. Definitely got the head bob going. Not standard fare YT riffing, very tasty. As always, thanks for your hard work in making these videos.

Great videos Michael. On point, with all the right information and no unnecessary blah blah! Not to mention your awesome playing and tones. Thank you!

The 5th choice would be to use the headphone out aswell as a speaker sim out for a W/D/W setup

Great video Michael. The cab sims are pretty decent sounding. Thanks for sharing!

The problem with built in IRs is that you get double ad/da conversion. It makes sense for live play, not so for recording.

Thanks for this excellent run through and the sounds are great!

I remember seeing a video where you compare a kemper, power station, oxbox and some other devices . The kemper and power station felt the most dimensional and natural to me. I’m not used to these devices, power load is the same thing as reactive load? I can tell I don’t like most of them, including suhr which kinda scoops mids a little and boosts high end . I did like the sound of the fryette compared to the others but don’t like how it alters tone if used for attenuation . So this would sound the same? I will say for the price though, a kemper seems to beat almost everything. Though the freyette sounded second best to me, just a bit more top end and hardness to the sound .

Brilliant! I have the original PL and REALLY hope the IRs will be available for separate purchase! I'm currently using the Yorke IRs of the 4X12 FB cab and they're pretty great but I'm dying to hear something official, from the SOURCE!

One thing I suspected, but now have confirmed... is that Steven Fryette is a bit more intelligent than I am 🤪 I have a PS-100 and absolutely love it... it's basically the most amazing tool I've ever possessed. I was trying so hard to avoid purchasing products that would result in some redundancy (ie, paying more money for a full featured device that many features of which I already possess the functionality 🤓 And for some reason, I was having difficulty figuring out if the Power Load IR would address my needs without paying for redundancy. Unless I'm tipsy, and I am... I think my brain just put together what I had hoped and trusted for a long time, that the Power Load IR was designed to work seamlessly with the PS products. I believe this is the case. And thus, I have to have a PLIR

Any info on maximum IR length?…..does it chop down a 200ms IR to a shorter length?

The Analog Cab Sim sounded great! especially the short low gain clip. Would love to know your thoughts on the analog cab sim part of the PLIR vs some others like the SUHR ACE. Maybe in your next Coffee Q&A?

Aah, chunky tune! Great sounds, too. Well I guess I am going to enjoy my new SYN-2 system. Überschall anyone? And the BE-BB rock, too. Cheers!

I have the PL-1 and love it. However, I would have prefered the fx loop had been switchable to the output instead of only usable for the headphones. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Hello, I have limited use as I only plug a pedal board straight in to my Captor X. I feel like this has a bit more versatility but not sure. Can anyone help? I really like this one........ Want to get it.

If I were to connect a load box and cabinet to separate outputs of an amp instead of connecting the cab through the load box. Would this approximately half the volume of the cabinet and not colour the sound of the cabinet?

Jeez your favourite cab sound good 😎

Analog out into cab m+? Also if using headphones do the front panel level controls adjust the headphone output? I haven’t seen anyone touch on either topics.

Michael Good review. I am considering either the ps-100 or this. I have a Glaswerks amp. Could you let us know or do a comparison of how these 2 attenuators differ Tonally. Ps-100 being tube attenuation vs. this being solid state. I’m curious how much or how little the tonal difference are. This would help me make a decision. Thanks, Michael

Can you compare it to the Suhr RL?

Is it me or do most of those audio samples sound fizzy and more like static instead of tube overdrive.

I have not seem anyone demo how to get a good sounds of headphones when playing out out of , digital modelers, or load boxes or audio interfaces. Not sure why it sounds harsh and nothing like when it's heard from youtubers

How do I use this live? XLR to the PA and leave my cab at home?

Great vid. My unit arrived today. Getting pretty decent tones with the included IRs and the Analog Cab. My 3rd party IRs.. not so much. They sound buzzy and thin via the PL IR. I saw that you posted that 20ms is the included IR length. What about KHZ? 44.1khz, 48khz, etc? Thanks!

Oh and I forgot. Could you let us know what the capabilities of the software are. Thanks

So are the brite and warm switches inactive when using a digital IR? Or can you still use them to shape the reactive load?

I am waiting on delivery of the PS-100 and PS-2 to compare. What do you like better between the two?

This or the OX? I'm looking for the quality, tone and feel.

I ended up getting the Power Station instead as it does have the same reactive load section, right?

hey michael...i just purchased ur bhg alien green 93...chunky..lotta low end...wonder how the power load would sound with that cab sim...also just a side note..harry cody from shotgun messiah recently i think got an instagram ...he shows his tappin section on the song nowhere fast...would love to see u do a vid on that or any shotgun messiah guitar stuff...the guys a complete animal on guitar..

Can this be mounted in a rack?

I was considering buying a Radial EXTC-Stereo reamper because I wanted to be able to use my fx pedals with my Novation launchkey. My understanding is that the Valvulator can be used for reamping, but the FX loop is only on the headphone channel. Would I be able to use guitar fx pedals in the way I intended with the Radial reamper?

This would be so cool with a way to remotely switch the IR

Front panel close up? Rear panel close up, for more than 3 seconds? Link to product?

Can you attenuate your amp with this also.

product question: if I set this unit up with speaker level and line level signals simultaneously, but switched between the two via A/B switch, would both signals be routed thru the IR processing? Ex. line level from GPDI amp into line-in, any other tube head into the speaker level input.

Mike, off topic question, but which amp do you lean towards more, the original Friedman BE100( say 2018)? Or the BE100 Deluxe. Trying to decide, it’s hard! Lol

How does it sound with a GPDI run through it?

are the stock IR's made with a preamp TIA

Now only if the powerstation had the IR loader...

I think this unit and its predecessor is way better than the PS2A or PS100. For re-amping just go via one of the line outs into the effects return of another (tube)amp. This setup comes with less hum and no fan noise, which bugs me when playing at lower volumes using the Power Station. A lot of people buy a Power Station for playing at (bed)room levels. This in mind, a unit creating substantial fan noise is a bit counter intuitive. Power Station is a great concept, but in my opinion they cramped too much electronics and tube circuits into a fairly small enclosure. This is asking (so in my studio) for problems when it comes to noise issues. Not so with their Power Loads (or the Suhr Reactive Load).

Suhr RLIR killer??

you can't record directly to PC via USB, that's why I went for Boss WAZA TAE

hot sticky load , I spilt a Coke on this box one time

What tuning are you using?

What is the length of IR's this unit supports? More than 20ms? What is the latency?