BOSS LS-2 Line Selector Pedal Review

[@khoiplaysguitar]

Nick brings a breath of fresh air to Sweetwater's demos. I love it!

[@Struct2009]

When Nick talks I listen. Class is in session.

[@luismejiagonzalez3342]

"technically, I suck"..., one of the best double guitars in heavy metal history to my ears.., the ammount of details in his records, the way he complements the "left" and "right" guitars in his compositions, oh man thanks to keep playing Nick u are a big inspiration to a metal maniac like me

[@GobiPup]

This guy might be the most fun to watch of pedal advertising on KZbin. Cheers. 🙂

[@willfreeman4736]

I have used this pedal as a clean boost for years. I try others from time to time but always go back to the LS-2.

[@eldude-iv8dw]

Every now and again you search for gear vids and you find gold. This guy must do all gear vids, clear and funny.

[@vinplaysbass]

dudes hysterical! more reviews with this guy

[@utubehound69]

This dude was in the 80's metal band Grim Reaper .

[@jondanny]

Nick you don't suck! I really appreciate you playing and you are a cool guy!! Rock On!!!!

[@glisteningkabana8154]

When he through that daisy chain cord! Gold.

[@kaleb4299]

Rocco i read this right before he did it 😂

[@facedowngaming]

He does that a lot in all other sweetwater videos.

[@Xn4W]

isn't he Grim Reaper's lead guitar player? Can't forget that left handed British heavy metal guitarist that was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Guy is a riff beast! Go check Nick shred on some Grim Reaper's music videos here on KZbin, very underrated band and underrated player, I'm glad they hired him as the Sweetwater gear demoer. Cheers mate \m/

[@vicferrari89]

OK Nick, that blues outro was fabulous! So I would say, forget shred because that where you may lack (and when you call your playing awful) and give yourself up to the blues, man! Sounded awesome!

[@danielhooglandt1620]

Love this guy, entertaining, honest and sweet sounds!!

[@musikawangawa3907]

The best video I watch to have more knowledge in pedals... Thank you

[@ArielsSmartyPants]

Thumbs up for the lefty Jem :)

[@StevenBrenner-theOriginal]

NIck you rock! Thanks for the informative review.

[@drnitrousjaw3400]

“...I’ve got the BOSS RV-6... I just leave it on all the time because I like to play in a cave” best commentary we can all relate

[@JessieThorne886]

Nice tip about using it as a booster as well! I use it right now to add overdrive and modulation only to my delays, but still retain my clean tone. Sounds very much like the Caroline Meteore.

[@VelvetItch]

That Jam at the end was so delicious, the October sounds gorgeous!

[@GrahamMylett]

Great review, this is the pedal I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing.

[@thelmadickinson2740]

Great demo! This is what I’ve been looking for.

[@alexchubbymclynn6060]

"my delay to hide my flaws...")))). I love this guy.) But the tip with "dead loop" is a good one. Thanks.

[@JackstandJohnny]

Pro tip: Those Boss 9v power supplies can also power the original Korg Electeibe series grooveboxes, the 80s Korg Poly 800 and other old keyboards.

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

Cool to know! 👍

[@Mr.Steve-O]

Great clip, picked up several tips here, thx for that !

[@jjohnson9009]

A support pedal in the spotlight? Well played lol. Great pedal for loop switching but I just use mine to bypass my entire pedalboard's signal. It's like insurance, at least if a cable or pedal goes dead in the middle of a song I can just bypass to my amp and finish the song without effects.

[@MrSouthsilicon]

Nick... nice, perfect and to the point... Thanks man, will get some of the stuff...!

[@granthambeard]

Love the way he's so self effacing "there's a delay, that's to hide my flaws" 😂

[@LeviBulger]

This pedal is like having an all star quarterback on your board.

[@VinJapanGuitarShop]

very nice. your "bad" playing was awesome!

[@the92project]

ok this one does it, Sweetwater has oficially gone METAL...and i love it

[@DaisyHead666]

Id imagine its possible to run two amps with one guitar right?

[@neoaureus]

Most underrated pedal in history!

[@leesbassment6393]

Just FYI, you don't have to dead patch the loop to use it with nothing. The loops are normalled.

[@danielcastillo5525]

What does "dead patch" mean?

[@utubehound69]

@@danielcastillo5525 It's completing a circuit that you can boost 20+Db

[@Lowered_Gadh]

Love my Boss LS-2 from ADawliah Al-Khobar Saudi Arabia

[@enavy04]

"I like playing in a cave." Kudos to you, sir! 🫡

[@trebleboost7]

"Ad infinitum". YES! (BTW This is one of those pedals that at first seems meh but in use is just a wonderful optionprovider and problem solver).

[@MtlRedAtheist]

Thanks for the breakdown!

[@Daniel-zo9hz]

Cool pedal. But if you are looking for a cheaper and and easier-to-use alternative, the ONE CONTROL FLASH LOOPER is the way to go. It's easier to bypass with added 9v DC outputs instead of one.

[@DEATHVIPER1777]

Nick Bowcott ladies and gentlemen!!!

[@sweetwater]

🤘🤘🤘

[@christianboddum8783]

Here's a tip; to reintroduce a delay trail at the end of a pedal chain, a way to achieve spillovers ;-)

[@elaguajdo]

Informative AND amusing!

[@DavidBrown-ez5jc]

Great explanation fellow thanks for education on this makes life easier *****

[@javiermelladomusica]

Nice video. Could you connect two amp heads to the A & B signals and connect the output to a cabinet with one speaker? This way switching between amp A and amp B or mix both but using one single cabinet?

[@sweetwater]

Hi, javiermelladomusica. The LS2 is not designed to take the signal coming off of an amplifier. It doesn’t act as a load box so doing this would likely damage your amps. To use two heads with one cab, you would need something like the Radial Headbone: www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Headbone Thanks for your interest! Charlie Davis, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, [phone] ext. 1320, [e-mail]

[@louaquiler]

Me: Looking up a video about boring old line splitting and signal routing Sweetwater: SHREEEDDDDDDDDD

[@zlippery1]

Great tone!

[@davidlindsay2138]

V helpful, thanks!

[@squirelova1815]

Ehm, I do believe that starting at 5:25 and on concerning Amp select switching that Nick mistakenly points to the wrong sides of the pedal when talking about ins and outs thus making the explanation a bit more confusing than needs be or am I imagining it? Oh well, at least Nick understands and well shows how it ultimately all works.

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

Just got one of these to mess with effects in parrallel... might get a second for a loop-switcher, as well.

[@hermaniu]

Leaving the reverb on all the time just because you like to play in the cave? I use my Boss Fender Spring reverb, that means I like to play in spring! ROFL

[@paniccleo]

Hmm. Stale comment since this is a super old video, but pretty sure there's no need to "dead patch" the loops. You can use the boost on a loop as song as it's selected, even if you have nothing plugged into or out of the loop.

[@savoirfaire8979]

What if I like riverdancing?

[@db_howard]

did homeboy just legit break his strings in that first part? kinda hard ngl

[@Goomer]

Nice Demo

[@ravidebrabander972]

What a wonderful man

[@robertjl5619]

This guy is cool.

[@DakotaBusCaptures]

Is it just me who find him slightly hilarious

[@spaceman103]

Glad I never met him in real life . He would have sold me the entire boss pedal collection, his guitar and the amp.

[@oddarnebeck]

This guy is hilarious! :-D "Playing in a cave!"

[@Emet.V]

11:50 I too like playing in a cave.

[@josgeusens4637]

I still don't get it that professionals don't manage to make a decent script wherein also the camera to be used is planned. That would not lead to the speaker looking in the wrong camera. As a spectator, this is awkward at least.

[@davidhunt6508]

I use this purely in the A/B function to change paths to two different inputs on the console(sound board). That way I can use it for two different instruments(such as guitar and bass, or guitar and mandolin) which are eq'd differently but I still want to use my same tuner pedal(or other stomp boxes).

[@tavofo95]

I’m interested on this. My idea is to have the chance of changing between electric bass and upright bass. Without too much time waste, how much did it worked for you?

[@davidhunt6508]

@@tavofo95 It works pretty well for guitar to bass, because I use the tuner pedal as a mute. Then I simply unplug the 1/4" cable from one instrument, replug, change the a/b switch pedal, unmute, and I'm good to go. In your case, if the cable and the pickup for your upright are one in the same(ie. aftermarket bridge/surface pickup), then you'd be changing connections at the pedal and not the instrument. It would still be about the same procedure, however you could get it to the point where you weren't doing any unplugging if you had two a/b switch pedals. You could put one at the beginning, and then one after the shared pedals(such as tuner). You'd just have to make sure to remember to have both pedals in either a, or b at all times.

[@tavofo95]

@@davidhunt6508 Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@davidhunt6508]

@@tavofo95 Ignore the last couple sentences in my previous reply. My idea with 2 a/b pedals would only make sense if the pedals had a reverse option which I don't believe is possible. If it were then you could go from multiple inputs to one output, but as is I believe you can only go one input to 2 outputs.

[@AmbientMelancholy]

I wonder if a drum machine (such as an Alesis SR-18) could be used with a guitar...

[@ChristEnlightening]

Wow. So really, a guitarist can have three respective sounds to choose from the by using the LS-2 then? One that’s just the amp by itself, another that’s 1 effects board (A), and a final one that’s a 2nd effects board (B)?

[@gramsci420]

The intro to this made me lol. The smoke and shredding belies the fact this is the world’s most boring pedal. Don’t get me wrong, I have one. It’s as essential to own as a can opener and equally as exciting. I commend everyone involved in the making of this review, I’m sure making engaging content around this pedal was no small feat

[@S1CK_T0MMY]

So could I have a nice chorus then when I press in the pedal it could be distortion and it will turn the chorus off

[@THESONICSPEEDDEMON]

so is look A basically a clean tone?

[@damianrjames]

Great review… bit confusing… just to clarify, it can be used for switching betepween tp two amps AND also playing both amps at the same time, correct?

[@miserableunoriginal]

Yes it can

[@wilfordbrimley5180]

3:02 When you’re reading a newspaper that discusses Gibson’s financial troubles.

[@squirelova1815]

..."Cause I like playing in a Cave." Well, I don't but my town banished me to playing in one.

[@Alexander-iq5yq]

Can I use this to split my guitar so that I can add chorus to my delay pedal, but also have my guitar signal unaffected by the chorus? I just want to modulate the delay, not my guitar.

[@JessieThorne886]

Yes, you can do exactly that. You just use a cable from the Send A to your delay, then from delay to chorus, and from chorus back into Receive A. The guitar is plugged into Input and a cable from Output to your amp. The pedal should be set to "A+B MIX", which is a bit confusing, but when only loop A is used, B becomes your clean signal. I use it to apply an overdrive to only my delay, but not to my clean sound, which gives a nice lo-fi sounding delay.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

Time effects shouldn't be used except in an amps effects loop

[@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist]

​@HAHb-zc2dp you can put them anywhere that makes you happy, there are no rules to this.

[@tf.00]

I still don't understand what this pedal does. Sorry for being dumb! Please explaine to me !

[@Earthwormjimm]

So it doesn’t matter which Jem Jr it is apparently, that whammy bar is just a loose pos on all of them including mine

[@Toquelibre]

Hi there, So I just pulled out my LS-2 recently to use between my Spark and Yamaha THR amp and have been getting pretty noticeable transistor / Grounding noise. Is this normal? I don't remember it doing this when I was using it years ago switching between two Fender tube amps. Any advice?

[@Toquelibre]

Here's an update. I tried a different Guitar cable and noise is gone. Problem solved!

[@hermanessences]

"RED LIGHT............. GREEN LIIIIGHT"

[@dtjmusiclife2023]

can we use this boss ls 2 into separate pedal like reverb pedal and delay pedal in parallel at the same time?

[@sweetwater]

Great question. Thanks for contacting us. The A+B mix mode does allow for a mono parallel combination of pedals, one in each respective path. Please contact us direct with other questions as you have them! Robert Williams, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, [phone] ext. 2371, [e-mail]

[@jeanenviedapprendre]

He throws the only BOSS product that's breakable.

[@SpiritOfMontgomery]

Is it possible to use this pedal to create a sort of wet/dry? Having one loop with the wet and the other with the dry all running into one amp?

[@mandrilo43]

yes you can,but this is not a wet dry system,is more like an external loop efffect,to aloows you to mix the dry signal with the wet signal at the level that yoiu want. To make a really wet dry system you have to use the ls2 to mix the signals of two amps sounding toghether,so in that case you can preserve very dry the tone of your "main amp" and use the other amp to do the modulation thing and win in clarity sound . Im trying to say that is not a wet dry system if at the end of the chain you are only going out through one amp.

[@schizodrift]

how do you do to put on all those necklaces?

[@cesmcmyth]

The biggest crappy situation here. I just got a stupid aby box. Buffered and with phase switch but does half the tricks this one does. And was costlier. Damn.

[@Emet.V]

Ces McMyth That's why boss rules!

[@swamplifecontrol]

0:29 Leap Bogart ? Sweetwater needs to give you a raise and make you chief pedal basher !

[@bryandonoghue3141]

Can this be an effective pedal when used as part of a pedalboard with two acoustic guitars? (I play different guitars in different tunings) Or am I better going with something cheaper ?

[@sweetwater]

Hi, Bryan! Thanks for your message, hope you're well and safe. www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BigShotIOv2--radial-bigshot-i-o-true-bypass-instrument-selector The above pedal from Radial is a better option for instrument selection. The LS-2 is an effects routing selector not optimized for instruments. Please contact us direct with other questions as you have them! Robert Williams, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, [phone] ext. 2371, [e-mail]

[@lone_wolf2453]

Hi. Can anyone help me with this. I want to know if there is a pedal that has all the features of LS2 plus also provides the option to save presets of A+B mix. Let say on A I have high gain distortion/fuzz and in B I have an overdrive. Now what I want to do is create presets for different tones by mixing A and B. Is there any pedal has option to save different mix presets.

[@melikhaydarsahin5470]

GFI System Duophony Parallel Blender

[@Lion3L]

Was a dog foot at 11:02?

[@adakhochalai]

can you tell me is this not a ABY box?

[@KingBlonde]

You're a bit hard on yourself mate, the fact that you have a level of objective criticism towards your playing is something you should be proud of. It's all just a bit of fun! anyway!

[@johnhowardnardine6815]

Whatever it is, they're not paying this guy enough.

[@_DinoHat_]

So is there something like this but instead switch between 3 lines of pedals?

[@jamesmulligan7413]

2 of these pedals

[@_DinoHat_]

James Mulligan as obvious as that is I thought of that but it costs more and people be cheap these days 😂

[@creepymcpeepers]

I like

[@mindful__gardener]

How does this work for changing channels on amp with an overdrive . Dirty channel to clean with my channel changer. Can it change amp channels? I'd like to have the clean channel totally clean and have me only using one to do both

[@juanforrester2283]

No,it ain't no footswich,it selects between its two loops,e.g. line selector

[@tortillaman2491]

Can u use this pedal like an ABY and push 2 amps simultaneously?

[@sweetwater]

Hi, Tortilla Man. You can use the pedal like that, although it is not its main function. The LS-2 was mostly meant for toggling between two different signal chains. If the goal is to have a true ABY function, you might want to check out the Radial Bigshot ABY. The JHS Buffered Splitter would also work if you don't need to A/B between the signals. Thanks for your interest! Charlie Davis, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, [phone] ext. 1320, [e-mail]

[@jamesbates9038]

nothing better than being able to take a tone sucking crybaby pedal and just leave it on all the time only putting it in signal path when you actually want to use it. very nice to be able to set up 2 different paths.

[@davidharte6781]

The only negative about this video is the lie you told at 1:18 😂 We all agree that Nick is the g.o.a.t 🤟

[@marianofernandez3600]

cool guy! applause!

[@vecernicek2]

11:00 Your 'crunch' is another person's death metal sound.

[@rovatogger]

Ibanez is my favorit

[@nsc217]

You can switch between only 2 pedals? What’s the point?

[@evenseb7574]

Wish it was stereo...

[@miru021]

Hahaha this guy is awesome = )

[@scottyd2262]

Horrible playing..... Please don't be so humble...…..You rock !

[@ferranmelero7727]

Wich guitar are you using

[@towelie4625]

*throws wires* "think about it" lmfao

[@shah5936]

I just leave it on cause i like playing in a cave... 😂 Sameee dude samee

[@rodolforibas]

The biggest joke I heard today: “Your Technique SUCKS”????? LOOOOL

[@jameslanclos568]

Why does it seem like "lefty" guitar players kick ass !?!?!?!?