IBANEZ CF7 CHORUS/FLANGER | Pedal Demo

The Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger is a digital modulation stompbox from Ibanez’s Very Y2K Tone-Lok series, featuring a sturdy metal enclosure and pushbutton potentiometers. The Tone-Lok series is most famous for its fantastic DE7 Delay/Echo, but from what I can tell, the whole series is a collection of gems. I picked this up because of Ian (collector//emitter)’s demo of it, and despite owning (and having built) a few choruses, this honestly might be my favorite. It has a shimmer to the top-end that nothing else I’ve used does, it’s got a nice complex waveform to the LFO, the delay time stretches out to a double track/slapback range, and I just think it looks fantastic. The chorus setting gets a lot more play than the flanger side, which I think is passable but a bit anemic, and while much is made of the outrageously titled “wack’d” setting, we found the FM thing it does to be funny but ultimately not worth demonstrating. Casey and I are both huge proponents of chorus before gain and so we ended up spending probably more time than was prudent showcasing that application, but we also had fun, and isn’t that what matters most?
- Colin
0:00 Casey Chorus 1
0:34 Colin Still Ill, high delay time for doubletracking feel
1:03 Colin John McGeoch-esque, Flanger Mode
1:51 Colin DCFC Stereo Chorus
2:50 Colin Fleshwater Chorus + Effects Layouts Pepperbox (Dunwich Volt Thrower)
3:34 Casey Chorus Chords + Effects Layouts Pepperbox
4:36 Colin Hotline TNT Parallel Processing with Boss DS-2 and Foxpedals Defector
5:16 Colin Chorus Solo
Gear list:
1992 Squier Silver Series Telecaster (heavily modified)
2011 Fender MIJ ‘59 Jazzmaster with Lollars
‘90s Ampeg Dan Armstrong
70s Gretsch Beast with Fender neck humbucker in bridge
2014 Fender American Standard Stratocaster
Mod 102 (Fender Champ-like)
Effects Layouts Pepperbox (DIY Dunwich Volt Thrower)
Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion
Foxpedals Defector (Big Muff with JFET boost preamp)
Peavey Butcher 100W
Marshall 1960B 4x12 (80s Celestion G12T-75s)Evans 1x12
Shure SM57
Focusrite Claret Pre2
Ableton

[@TheBichoxxx]

beautiful pedal

[@NOHEAVENWITHOUTEARTH]

Agreed, we’re big fans. It definitely put the DE7 and TC7 on my reverb watch list.
-Casey

[@realledbetter5015]

Yeah, might be playing too loud. Microphone is clipping.