Are you talking Fryette in general or the power station? I’ve seen many people slag off Fryette on boards. Those of us that like what they do, love them. So those people might seem “cult like”. We get that way because there aren’t others similar to Fryette. Love my D120 for specifically what Fryette does and no one else seems to. Definitely not unwarranted.
Used it pretty much daily for over 6 years through all the amps in my sig and plenty more. Incredible box—nothing available today does what the TAE does. Thousands of units sold worldwide and one guy on TGP claims he had an issue. John Suhr sells a competing product and made boogie man accusations about the much more capable Boss unit that his product competes with. His own endorsee Pete Thorn chooses to tour with the TAE even while publicly backing Suhr’s story. They both admit that unless you have the resonance all the way up it’s a nothing burger so if the scary stories bother you just don’t do that.
We have discussed this and I get where you are coming from but have you actually owned the TAE?
I did find that interesting.
Wait, are you BennyHillFranklin from that TGP thread linked above?
Fryette in general. Mostly on TGP but it leaks here as well. The PS is a sensitive topic b/c it resurrects the old tube vs no tube arguments.
Yeah, but where does Boss tell us this risk? That’s the point. Not everyone is on forums. In fact most aren’t. So if I buy a TAE and wind up the resonance and have a disaster, how is that cool or fair or reasonable. Yet Pete Thorn and John Suhr are in a conspiracy to discredit only your one particular device, not others?
Lottery ticket, Russian roulette, rolling the dice…I’ve read all the dramatic verbiage lol. Again, one story on a geek board when who knows how many thousands are out there in rigs around the world.No, I would never spend money on something where by turning the resonance knob it's a lottery ticket for frying transformers
But, i've played around with one at a local music store. It sounds good (especially compared to a non-reactive powerbrake, etc) but I don't personally think it sounds as good as the PS for in the room, attenuating a tube amp with a cabinet. TBH it's simply not as transparent sounding to my ears, and especially at higher attenuation levels flattens out the eq response of the attenuated amp.
If you want to load IRs, the TAE im sure is great - and it also is the best at headphone playing - it killed the OX and PS for that from what I can tell.
I just think all of the attenuators are on a venn diagram with some overlap, and pretending they are all the exact same thing for the exact same purpose is a little silly, because they clearly excel and stumble at different things. Non-overlapping magisteria.
Well the only person coming out against the thing sells a competing product. And his biggest endorsee uses the TAE on tour.
We won’t go around on circles on it, but I still don’t get that first sentence. There are many other competing products, why does he choose this one?
There are plenty of devices that can sit between your amp and cab and let you enjoy your cranked amp at lower volumes. They mostly all do a fine job of this. Several allow for 3rd party IRs. But only one has on board effects, amp control and full MIDI. Absolute game changer for a gigging guitarist.
See above—one of these boxes clearly has more capabilities than the others.