2 Powerstations for Wet (Stereo), Dry, Wet (Stereo), Possible?

[wally1919]

Hello,

I own a PS2 and am looking into doing a wet dry wet rig.

The easy/Logical solution would be to buy/use an LxII out of the line out of the PS2 to drive wet effects (Strymon Flint) in Stereo, with the speaker out to the dry cab.

However, for the money, in Lieu of the LXII I would like to get an additional Powerstation (perhaps a PS100) for multiple applications beyond just this use case, as I have other amps I would like to attenuate ad-hoc.

Question:
In a wet dry wet context. Can I achieve the same stereo wet signal results by adding a second PowerStation to drive the wet effects to two 1x12s as an LXII?, Or would those wet cabs technically be in dual mono? My Strymon reverb has 2 stereo outs and I’d love the reverb to be in stereo. Seems like the wet PowerStation output to the two cabs would be dual mono.

Hypothetical Signal w/ PS100 & PS2:

Dry: Friedman Head Speaker out 1> Amp in jack to PS100 > PS100 Speaker Out 1> to 8 Ohm 2x12

Wet: Freidman Head Speaker out 1> Amp in Jack to PS100 (same signal as above) > Line out of PS100 > Line in of PS2 > Strymon Flint in PS2 Effects Loop > PS2 Speaker outs to individual 8 ohm 1x12’s

Hypothetical Signal w/ PS2 and LXII:
Dry: Friedman Head Speaker out 1> Amp in jack to PS2 > PS2 Speaker Out 1> to 8 Ohm 2x12

Wet: Freidman Head Speaker out 1> Amp in Jack to PS2 (same signal as above) > Line out of PS2 > Strymon Flint input >

Then:

Stereo 1 out of Strymon Flint > Channel 1 input of LXII > LXII Speaker out to 1x12

Stereo 2 out of Strymon Flint > Channel 2 input of LXII > LXII Speaker out to 1x12

Am I tracking here? Want to get the most of the reverb effects by ensuring the wet cabs are in “stereo”.

Thanks!

[dan]

Hi Wally and welcome to the community

Your first hypothetical setup seems to be Wet (mono) Dry. For a Wet-Dry-Wet you need three power amps; there is no other way around it.

Take a look at this video,

Can I use a Power Station in a wet-dry-wet rig?

Yes, within a certain context… a wet dry wet rig is typically a center dry sound and then stereo left and right with effects. You have three cabinets, one head, and a stereo power amp. The center is usually the cabinet that’s powered by the head and then you take a line out off the head run that into a stereo effects processor and then the outputs of that into a stereo power amp and the outputs of that into two cabs: that’s your wet-dry-wet, your three sound sources. If that’s too loud, then y…

There was also a recent discussion about this here, that used one Power Station,

PS-100 in W/D/W - Main Amp Volume no longer controls Wet cabs

I’ve got a pretty standard W/D/W rig with - tube amp head → Suhr Line-Out Box → stereo fx → Matrix stereo power amp → 3 4x12 cabs. (center cab fed from Suhr’s speaker thru) This has always worked great, in that once I get unity volume between the Tube Amp & Matrix, I never have to touch the Matrix volume again - the tube amp volume will then act as an overall master volume raising & lowering all 3 cabs in unison. Perfect. This changed when I added the PS-100 (using its line out) and removed t…

Hope that helps; let me know what you think, and we can take it from there.

Regards,

Dan