Update: Yesterday i left the c-lator powered up for about 6 hours and when i came back it was behaving totally different. No matter what i did it was acting like an overdrive distortion box. So, i figured maybe my tube went bad and i swapped it out for a groove tube 7025 that was laying around and still the C-lator was giving me the overdriven distortion sound. At this point i was pretty much baffled so i started trying different configurations and finally decided to remove the LPB-1 booster and lo and behold, the C-lator is now working perfectly. I have lots of headroom, lots of volume out of the amp, and noise level is quite low. I am now able to use my Ibanez SDR1000 in the loop and it sounds awesome. I still have no idea how i arrived at this point, perhaps i had a bad patch cord or something, but hopefully it stays working this way.