Boss LS-2

[headcrash]

Actually HR, why did you want to have the Jubilee’s loop „parallelized“? As primitively as it is designed, it works really well with most modern guitar effects with a high input impedance, using low capacitance, high quality cables.
Many FX devices also have mix knobs. If you‘re picky like me, you would maybe want your FX device to be analog dry through.

 

[The Mad Pride]

I have a boss LS-2 that I was happily using to group effects pedals together so they could be activated or bypassed with the press of a single switch. 20 years ago I had 2 boss PSM-5 pedals for the same purpose. I didn't think that they were very noisy the way I used them. However, an LS-2 in 'A B Mix' mode would combine the noise floor of both loop A and loop B. If either loop contained an active distortion pedal then noise would be inevitable.

I recently bought an EQD Swiss Things Pedalboard Reconciler to upgrade the routing solutions on my effects board. It could be responsible for reducing the noise in my signal but the same could be said for the Walrus Audio Canvas Power 15. As I added them both simultaneously, I can't be sure which unit is reducing noise the most. I didn't think it was possible to run pedals so quietly. I couldn't be happier with my current board.

 

[HotRats]

Actually HR, why did you want to have the Jubilee’s loop „parallelized“? As primitively as it is designed, it works really well with most modern guitar effects with a high input impedance, using low capacitance, high quality cables.
Many FX devices also have mix knobs. If you‘re picky like me, you would maybe want your FX device to be analog dry through.

I was on holiday when you posted this and never answerd you!

Main reason is that the Jubilee loop is quite hot and some pedals (like the TC flashback) struggle with it.
When engaged there's a sort of ducking effect that lower the repeats and I can hear a the pick attack (on clean sound) being chopped a bit.
This happens also with the TC hall of fame 2. My theory is that the analog input section can't handle the signal very well.

So...my idea was to try the parallel route and see if it works better. It was just an idea.

I've recently bought a Dunlop/MXR Echoplex, and it works perfectly.
At this point I might replace also the hall of fame with a the Dunlop/MXR M300 reverb that has the same input stage of the echoplex.

 

[QQQ]

It's not great tbh. Does the job, but the Lehle stuff is a lot higher quality.

Exactly my experience with the Boss, and the Lehle!

 

[headcrash]

I was on holiday when you posted this and never answerd you!

Main reason is that the Jubilee loop is quite hot and some pedals (like the TC flashback) struggle with it.
When engaged there's a sort of ducking effect that lower the repeats and I can hear a the pick attack (on clean sound) being chopped a bit.
This happens also with the TC hall of fame 2. My theory is that the analog input section can't handle the signal very well.

So...my idea was to try the parallel route and see if it works better. It was just an idea.

I've recently bought a Dunlop/MXR Echoplex, and it works perfectly.
At this point I might replace also the hall of fame with a the Dunlop/MXR M300 reverb that has the same input stage of the echoplex.

Hmm, I had tc HOF mini, when I played my Jubilee clone. But i rarely use FX loops, and I can't remember, if I encountered these level issus with the HOF mini, WHEN I used it in the loop.
And actually the Jubilee's loop is not very hot, the overall signal level in the preamp is determined by the signal being clamped down with that diode bridge in the lead channel. I remember even having lead master cranked to balance lead to the clean channel by the given input gain setting (6..7-ish out of 10), so that must have been about the highest signal level you can go in the preamp. But who knows, this was in the late 2010s, and I just can't remember exactly, how the HOF mini behaved...

Good to know you found a workaround

 

[HotRats]

Hmm, I had tc HOF mini, when I played my Jubilee clone. But i rarely use FX loops, and I can't remember, if I encountered these level issus with the HOF mini, WHEN I used it in the loop.
And actually the Jubilee's loop is not very hot, the overall signal level in the preamp is determined by the signal being clamped down with that diode bridge in the lead channel. I remember even having lead master cranked to balance lead to the clean channel by the given input gain setting (6..7-ish out of 10), so that must have been about the highest signal level you can go in the preamp. But who knows, this was in the late 2010s, and I just can't remember exactly, how the HOF mini behaved...

Good to know you found a workaround

I had the 100W jubilee few years ago and the TC Alter Ego I had at the same time distorted at the input.

I played both the 100W and 20W in cm4 with the Helix floor with no problems at all so I guess (at leaast some) TC pedals don't get along with the Jubilee loop.