LS-2 Line Selector Pedal Review

Essential Tool

I"ve used a lot of different ABY boxes through the years and the Boss one is the best value of all. It"s dead silent and can help tame the noise in vintage pedals. I"m up to two of these on my board, one to switch between amps, and the other to switch between sets of pedals. Not to mention that it will power up other pedals With a daisy chain, just watch those milliamps

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Boss LS-2 Line Selector Pedal

Great pedal --- the balance levels is an excellent plus and very useful. I also appreciated Sweetwater quick response (I ordered the pedal Monday afternoon and received confirmation that it was shipped the same day and received Thursday).

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Indispensable

There are so many uses for this pedal. I use it to isolate pedals that make a popping sound when they are engaged, and to equalize their noise levels with other pedals. Putting them in a loop makes it possible to engage them silently. Thanks to Josh and Sweetwater for their consistently great service!

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Used For MY Modern EJ Board

I use two of these for what I call my modern Eric Johnson pedal board. I route one thru a clean chorus amp and the second to switch between my dirty rhythm and lead amps. The flexibility allows me to run all three pedal banks into one amp as well. Having the volume knobs on these is a huge plus in balancing the volumes at a gig sans guitar tech. I know a lot of old school guys… read more hate boss and say they suck tone, but I run just four effects max through each loop and have all the tone I need. Definitely the same quality and no nonsense approach to switching you'd expect from Boss!

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Working great for looping in an older noisyish pedal

I'm using this in a front-end guitar effects chain to switch in a side loop with a vintage EHX Electric Mistress. It does the job with excellence, with no added interference or discernible signal loss on pass-through. With the loop level controls I can give the output signal from the Mistress the slight boost it needs to even out the effect/no effect signal level, and I can blend… read more wet and dry signals to color the signal over a richer tonal range than running straight through the Mistress. The LS-2 provides that boost while also reducing interference noise in the Mistress loop (with only very slight audible loss of desirable harmonics compared to the Mistress in direct line). So this setup unexpectedly saved me from having to buy and fuss with a noise gate in the chain. This noise taming effect allows me to run the Mistress through some more gainy amp settings that sounded like crap before. Expected Boss high quality in the case and firm handling, smooth response, noiselessness movement in the switches and pots. So far I could not be more satisfied in this application, and with the unexpected noise control benefit (though this might be a chance outcome in my particular array that perhaps not everyone should expect) pushed me give it a 5.

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