Fryette POWER STATION PS-100 INTEGRATED REACTANCE AMPLIFIER

FRYETTE’S FIRST ITERATION of the Power Station, which debuted in late 2014, was both a revelation and a virtual revolution among guitarists seeking to achieve cranked-up tones from powerful amps at the lower volumes that venues and studios have been demanding these past couple of decades. The thing is, while the Power Station performs attenuation duties extremely well, it isn’t built as a traditional power attenuator at all, and will do so much more than that once its full capabilities are understood.

The first I’d heard of the promised 100-watt unit’s availability was in guitarist Toshi Yanagi, the results of which prompted Friedman to text designer Steve Fryette the message, “Goddamn you for making an even better product!” Then the pandemic gripped U.S. manufacturing, and Fryette’s production ground to a halt.