Tone Report Weekly Issue 108 | Page 25

BOSS LS-2 LINE SELECTOR Compared to many of the other pedals listed here, the Boss LS-2 is very reasonably priced. You also can count on there being units floating around for sale in the endless sea of used Boss pedals. The LS-2 has many routing options, letting you play around with two separate channels by combining them and blending your dry signal against them. The trick to using this pedal as a blender is routing one channel's output to be its own input, letting you “mix” between effects in one loop with your dry signal through an empty loop. TRY THIS: Appease the dark Boss lords by running your clean signal into a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, then running this into the LS-2 Line Selector. In the LS-2 effects loop, use the inimitable Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz. The Hyper Fuzz's Mode II is a very aggressive scooped sound that almost completely destroys the low end of a bass. With the magic of blending, adjust it to let that fat generated sub-octave from the OC-2 blend with the bite of the FZ-2, channeling one incredible stoner rock or doom metal sound! ToneReport.com 25