Ibanez CF-7 Chorus/Flanger

Pretty simple, knobs and switches. No problem.

I go from my standard strat to original crybaby, to boss ds-1, to the cf-7 to the ibanez de-7. It sounds really cool. The chorus can be altered a real lot, and the flange adds a nice sound to undistorted guitar. The krazy switch makes, well, crazy sounds. It can sounds really cool or make sounds that hurt to hear. I like having the option of making the effect completely nuts, though, cuz it adds a different flavor to my sound.

It's pretty sturdy, i dunno. I dropped it on a concrete floor and it only got a little scratched, no other problems. It doesn't seem as tough as my boss, though.

I dunno.

I love this pedal for playing with an undistorted guitar, but when distorted, the flanger sounds great. I don't really like chorus with distorted sounds, but i still think this pedal sounds awesome.

Takes a little bit of fiddling, but you can get some nice tones after about 10 minutes of messing with the settings. I don't really use the delay time setting except at maybe the 7 o'clock position. I set the speed and depth controls for 1 o'clock and 12 o'clock, respectively. I haven't really messed with the regeneration, as I got the unit for the chorus effect. I don't even use the "Wack'd" switch.

I play a Fender 48th Street Strat into a Dunlop 95Q, Boss CS-3, BD-2, this box, and Boss NS-2 all going into a Peavey Bandit 112. So far I like the sound I can get out of this pedal. I like a more subtle chorus that I can use to "fatten up" solos and occasionally use for rhythm guitar (ie: Skynyrd). I have found that chorus in this box, at least until I can save up for an Analog.Man. For the price, you can't beat the sound and it compares with either of the two Boss chorus' out right now. I haven't really messed much with the flanger, except when I get in an Eddie Van Halen mood. It sounds pretty generic though. This doesn't matter though since I hardly ever use it.

What can I say? It's built like a Sherman tank. With an all metal case and switch, about the only thing that could break would be the dials and once you set them you can lock them down into the case by pushing them. Battery use isn't an issue for me since I use a daisy chain from my NS-2.

Never dealt with them.

Very good unit for the price, especially if you are like me and are buying it primarily for the chorus. The flanger is just a bonus.

Right out of the box, you can get an okay chorus or flange sound out of it, but as with any effect, you gotta play around with it. 4 knobs, and 2 mode switches. I'm still trying to figure out everything this pedal can do. It's a little confusing at times. This little box will keep you busy.

Hamer Strat --> Fender amp. (I don't think any good pedal would sound bad with this setup :) ) If you don't know what this pedal is, its a chorus/flanger (and more).

One thing I noticed is if you crank the amp (or use cheap patch cables) you will hear the chorus swirl or flange sweep when you don't play, but if you click the pedal off, it's completely silent.

This has got to be the most versitile of the Tone-Lok pedals (the delay/echo one is nice too), the flange is great. You can get a short, warbly sweep to a long, underwater sounding one. The chorus, well, you really have to play around with it. But it does everything from a faint shimmer to a very full sounding chorus. I think the chorus sounds warmer than my Boss CE-5 does.

The Krazy switch is fun to play with too. It basically makes all the knobs more sensitive, and gives you cool modulated sounds. You can get anything from a ring modulator tone, to weird, super-fast vibrato sounds. Some people here have said the Krazy switch is useless and stupid. Well, ignore that. It's fun to play with, and more sound versatility is always better.

Ibanez Tone-Lok effects are VERY reliable. I've owned my SM-7 (also Tone-Lok) for some time now, and have NEVER had any kind of problem with it. These things are cased in a rugged (and cool-looking) metal housing. I would never abuse my gear, but these pedals can take it. I saw a dude accidentally drop his amp on one of these things, and a few minutes later when he plugged in, it worked fine.

I fully trust these pedals, and would gig without backups and not think twice about it.

Never had one break or fail on me, so I can't say. I would imagine it's good though.

I haven't played very long, I'm basically a punk-rocker. This thing suits the role perfectly. Heck, the CF-7 is so versitile, I think it would meet your needs, no matter what you play. By far the best feature of this thing is the amount of sounds you can coax from this little box. I've played around with it at the music store a couple of times before, and when I brought it home today, I was surprised to still find new sounds.

The chorus and flange are a little hard to control, but when you figure it out, you can get ANY sound. Even with out the Krazy switch on, you can get some funky sounds, and when you turn it on, you can get some really trippy effects.

Here in Hawaii, they jack up prices on everything, but I didn't mind paying extra for this one, because it just kicks ass. This thing is an absolute steal, like everything in the Tone-Lok series. I'm sure my future pedalboard will consist mostly of Ibanez products (except for wah, pitch shifting etc, but there's a Tone-Lok for every other effect, I think they surpass their Boss counterparts in terms of sound and cool features :)

Anyway, nothing bad to say about this one. Go try it out, I promise you won't be disappointed!

You'd have to be pretty stupid not to understand the basics of this pedal. Anything further can be discovered through fiddling with the knobs and the two switches.

It dosen't matter what my setup is, this pedal blows. Not that it completely sucks. If I just played guitar to sit in my room and show off to my friends, it would be fine, but I actually play shows, and the tone on this thing is embarrasing. I used it as a backup for my E-H Deluxe Electric Mistress Flanger and I have to say that this does not at all stand up to the EH pedal.

When my gear broke down at a show, I threw this awful thing across a field, and it wasn't even dented. It still sounds like crap, though.

It just sounds like crap. Really.

It's a traditional stompbox, so the CF-7 wasn't too hard to figure out, and the instructions gave some pretty good starting points for good chorus and flange sounds if you're clueless about how to use one of these. It's useful to have chorus and flange in one pedal (provided you don't want to use both at once), but I found it difficult to go between them at the flip of the switch. In addition I always had to turn a few dials as well. The tone-lock dials are a nice but unnecessary feature (I hardly ever have problems with other pedal dials moving in transit).

This pedal sounds very impressive, especially for the price. The flanges are nice and deep and the chorus is very rich. The "wack'd" switch produces some neat ring modulator and vibrato effects, though I personally won't need them. I used it with a Jeckyl and Hyde distortion, and found that on some settings, with the JH placed first, there was a big volume jump when the flange was on. Put a wah before the chours for some funky jazz grooves.

The tone lock dials seem a bit cheap, but other than that, the housing is very sturdy. Make sure to buy a good adaptor or have tons of spare batteries handy though, before I plugged this pedal in, I was going through a Duracell Ultra a night, using the CF-7 on 2-3 songs per gig. With an AC adaptor, this pedal is very reliable.

This is a great mid-range pedal if you're looking for something better than dano minies and cheaper than boss. Make sure you budget in an AC adaptor when buying this pedal, as its heavy power use drains batteries, sometimes in the middle of gigs. If you don't own either a chorus or flange, or want to build a second, smaller effects rig, this is a great pedal to buy. Good for jazz, rock, punk, country, you name it.

I read the manual right away just like I do with all my pedals, and even after that I had a pretty difficualt time trying to squeeze a decent sound out of it. You really just have to play with one knob at a time, test it on each setting.

I play a Fender Strat and my setup while using this pedal was Strat > Ibanez CF-7 > Dunlop Crybaby > DOD FX 69 Grunge Box > Fender 15 Watt Frontman Bass Amp. After using all of the settings that were recommended in the manual I still wasn't pleased so I triend rearranging the pedals and using different combonations but it was no good. I even tried using my friend's Jackson and I still hated it. The recommended Chorus setting sounded allright with distortion but that was about it. The add said that it would "whoosh, swoosh, chirp, and blurp" with the Whacked mode on but it just sounded lame. No backroung hum at least.

You'd have to take a jackhammer to this thing to even dent it. Very solid construction.

No idea.

I play in a Black Sabbath style band but on my own I play a good variety of styles. This pedal is terrible and I sent it back the day after I got it. I tried incorporating this pedal into some prettier songs I knew like Under the Bridge and Stairway to Heaven but it basically took away from any good tone I allready had. The flanger is practically non existent and you have to really strain you ears just to realize that it's even on.

Not too hard to use, although there are more things than most stomp boxes, 4 knobs and 2 switches.

The chorus sucks nuts, it's impossible to get a nice chiming chorus sound, it's quiet and suttle on the highest settings, and it's chunky and grainy, not smooth like chorus should be. Get an EH Small Clone, or a Boss CE-5, or even a DOD Ice Box, they're all better for chorus. The flange isn't TERRIBLE, but it definetly could be a hell of alot better. I have a Boss BF-2 which I prefer over this by alot, this pedal only makes that "whiny sort of feedback knob up" flange. No smooth even Jet Plane flanging, which is what I prefer, and unlike the Boss pedal you can't cut the little dip out when the flange hits the lowest frequency stage and starts it's rise back up. I hate that. The Wack'd mode is something new and inventive, if you want a really "Korn" type warbling effect pedal, this pedal's great for those sort of sounds, but very crappy untraditional chorus and flange.

It's all metal, it's made by ibanez. It's solid. It's reliable. The footswitch is a little wacky though, it's not as well designed under the pedal as a Boss pedal.

Like I said above, good for Korn warbly sounds, not traditional flanging and chorus. Not the greatest pedal. Ibanez should stick to guitars, I have an RG570, best guitar you can buy for the money.

four knobs (rate, depth, delay time, regeneration) and two switches (chorus/flange and normal/wack'd). quite a bit to mess around with, but if you sit down and play with it for a while, you can get the hang of it pretty fast.

the regeneration knob doesn't affect the chorus. it would've been cool if ibanez assigned something else to that knob for the chorus function. oh well...

normal chorus: exactly what it sounds like. the delay time is a little screwy, though. all the way up and there's a slight delay (hey!) between your playing and the sound coming out of the amp. this might be just because i've only played in mono, though. if i had more than one amp i'd try it in stereo. not a particularly outstanding chorus, but it does the job adequately.

normal flange: no complaints, works great. plenty of versatility in the sound. not really much else to say about it.

wack'd chorus: a really unique sound. can work as a really screwed-up, almost square-wave sounding chorus, a vibrato, and a light ring modulator. some settings obscure the notes altogether. a freakin' hoot if your into making noise. i have a setting that'll get a sound kinda like the clean guitar intro to radiohead's "my iron lung".

wack'd flange: more craziness. more quasi-ring modulation and a sorta mutant lesie-wannabe sound. less pitch modulation, too, for a more distinct sound from the wack'd chorus. lots-o-fun.

seems to be built pretty well. not quite boss-caliber, but better than the soundtanks and it's sure as hell better than dod's. it's never given out on me or anything, but it isn't too kind to batteries. an a/c adapter would go nicely with this. the whole tone-lok thing is nice, too, but i've never had any problems with settings getting messed up or anything. maybe i'm just more careful than other guitarists...

for a normal chorus/flange pedal, it's simply adequate. nothing outstanding, but nothing to scoff at. there's definitely worse out there, and for $70, the price is definitely right. but throw in the wack'd setting and this thing becomes a real asset to any sonic youth fan's setup. i've even managed to make the pedal itself make noise without any signal from the guitar. fun stuff indeed. if lost or stolen, i'd have no choice but to replace it, because no other pedal can do what this does. i'd need at least four different pedals to match this one. this thing has it all: quality, versatility, uniqueness, and damned if it ain't a lot of fun to play with.

Very easy.

the sound is fantastic. i hate ibanez guitars, but when i was this pedal in the store, i thought what the hell, try it out, as i was going to get a chorus anyways, and i was very very impressed with the sound of this little pedal. and for the price, it can't be beat.

seems reliable. i haven't had to deal with batterys for it cause i use an adapter. but so far, seems as good as your average pedal.

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if you see this pedal, play with it. even if you don't need one. because of thw wack'd setting (talk about a stupid name) there's alot more to this pedal than just a chorus/flanger

this pedal is really fun to use with the wack'd mode and is fairly easy to use you just have to play with it a bit because there is such a wide range of sounds on it.

Chorus sounds real good but the flanger sounds like any other flanger ouy there. The wack'd mode is fun and can be useful if you like experimental music.

No problems yet and looks like it could take a lot.

i play my own stuff which is mainly hard rock similar yo Tool, Black Sabbath, soundgarden etc. and I use the chorus a lot and you can make some some pretty crazy intros with the wack'd mode.