You’ve heard of parallel dimensions. How about a parallel looper? Parallel loopers can open up your rig to entirely new soundscapes. Most pedal chains are serial, meaning that one device feeds its output signal into the device after it and so on. This means that each device can affect whatever device, or devices, are before/after it. That can be a good thing, but you’re never quite getting the true or ‘pure’ sound of that device. With parallel signal paths, however, the signal is split, with each split signal going to the device. That means that each device gets the original input signal, rather than the signal from whatever is upstream. The signals are then recombined using active mixing circuitry so that you can customize a blended sound of whatever you place in the parallel loops.