Going to toy around with some cable/pedal configurations today, perhaps I can locate the black sheep in my setup. I have some suspects, some older looking pedal patch cables that came with my Ibanez. Some of the things I may try:

1. Guitar > LBM Pedal > Firebox, just a short chain to see how that sounds. Though I may have to throw the EQ into the mix, since that really makes the LBM scream.

2. Guitar > Firebox, with Amplitube loaded on the computer. Cut out the middle man, this will probably be the ultimate way to see if the problem is in the pedal setup. I could also give a few different cables a try to see if I need to throw any out.

3. Synth > Pedal board > Firebox. I'll try to get a gritty dirty tone, similar to guitar distortion and see what kind of result that gives me.

With any luck this shouldn't take me too long and I'll have time to do some writing and recording tonight.