Help with line selector

Neither will work. The Killswitch is a single loop box (select either straight through or through the effects in the loop) but with a momentary switch, while the Switchblade is an A/B (one input to either of two outputs). You need something with two loops - loop 1 for all your clean fx, and loop 2 for the pedals used for the lead sound - and the ability to switch from loop 1 to loop 2. Check out the Boss LS-2 - it's one of the most useful tools out there

 

Agreed with the LS-2.

 

One thing, though - with that kind of setup, you can only choose between two distinctly separate setups (in this case a dirty chain and a clean chain). If you want to be able to use a pedal in both setups (for instance, if you suddenly fancy a modulated delay on the lead sound), you have to move it to after the LS-2.

If you want to go deeper into presets and want more flexibility, you should be looking at a programmable pedalboard loop strip - the GigRig, Cusack Pedalboard Tamer and the Carl Martin Octa-switch are a couple of examples. With those, you can choose any combination of the pedals in the loops and recall the presets with a single stomp.

Me, I'd buy a 4-loop/4 preset version of the Cusack Pedalboard Tamer in a heartbeat - I'd love to be able to set up my base sound (compressor for cleans, different overdrives for dirt etc) and recall them as presets, while leaving the rest of the pedals free for kicking in/out at my leisure.

 

Well, it's hard to get a much smaller footprint than a Boss pedal - after all, most people's feet are still bigger But the limitation I mentioned can be a problem, or not - it depends on your setup.

For me, I usually run a compressor on the clean sound, but when I kick in one of the overdrives I want it turned off. Going back and forth therefore requires two stomps. I could easily use an LS-2, run the comp in loop A and the overdrives in loop B and switch between them. I'd need to pre-set loop B for which overdrive to use next, of course, but that'd be fine. The problem is if I suddenly wanted to use the comp and one of the overdrives... then I'd have to get a second compressor to run in loop B. That's the limitation with that type of setup - if you can live with it, it's a cheap and easy way to switch between two completely different pedal combinations with a single stomp, or to at least diminish the number of stomps needed to go from sound A to sound B.