CF7 Chorus/Flanger Review

Highly versatile, capable of producing vintage chorus, flange, and modern modulation effects, everything from shimmering soundscapes to jet plane whooshes. A Krazy switch lets you choose between 'normal" and 'whack'd" modes.

Ease of Use:	10
Sound:	9.8
Reliability:	9.5
Impression:	9.5
Overall rating:	9.7
Users rating:	8
Comments:	8

overall: 9.5

Featured review by: crazy_geetarist, on february 09, 2004

Price paid: $ 110.5921

Purchased from: Ardens Music

Ease of Use: This pedal was very simple to find the flange and chorus tones I was looking for. It's very easy to tweak aswell. The manual had some decent starters settings, but weren't really nessacery. // 10

Sound: This pedal sounds great. Clean or distorted. Chorus or flange. With my Hamer strat copy, Boss DS-2, Boss EH-2 and crate practice amp, it produces a very thick flange and can go to an extreme jet plane with a longer delay time. The chorus is very deep and can do subtle chorusing to an extreme vibrato sound depending on the speed setting. // 10

Reliability & Durability: Very dependable and durable casing. I'd gig without a back up for sure. The tone-lok knobs are a great feature. I can set it for the tone I want, lock the knobs and forget about it. no worrying about pre gig resetting because of knobs moving during transportation. // 10

Impression: I play nu-metal and metal and its a great match. If it were stolen or lost I'd definitely replace it. The only other flange I'd ever want is an Ibanez FL9, but I'd still keep the CF7 on my pedalboard, it's irraplaceable.

If you're looking for a versitle modulation pedal, the Ibanez CF7 is a great pedal that covers varioul levels of modulation. // 8

overall: 10

Reviewed by: rotted_strings, on september 23, 2008

Price paid: $ 30.00

Purchased from: Sound Shoppe

Ease of Use: This pedal is the master exploder! you can use it with any sound, from Nirvana to Heart to Judas Priest. The controls are excellent and the "normal" and "wack'd" setting woll give you any tone from simple chorus or flange to ring modulation. this is the best and easiest to use chorus or flanger on the market. // 10

Sound: From sizzling high to gut bustin lows, this pedal can do it. The speed and depth keep YOUR sound not the manufacturer's. I used it Live through my ESP LTD F-200 and a Crate GT 2-12 and it boosted the output of the over all rig. You can hit Barracuda with little to no changes to the controls. If you use multiple effects (additional Chorus and Flangers) with amp feedback you can do allot of kewl sound effect. I even got a police siren out of it! // 10

Reliability & Durability: I've taken it on the road and use a 1spot AC Adaptor with my chain and it performed well for me stomping the Jesus out of it. The body will hold a lot of pressure. This is my rock of ages for Nirvana and Heart covers. I have had this pedal for at least two years and it has never failed me once. I use ots dual outputs (1 mono, 1 stereo) to make a truely stereo rig and it it doesn't distort at high or low volumes, tones, or octaves. // 10

Impression: I play hard Rock-Grunge and this single pedal it the only chorus or flanger that I will use. My Rythem guitarist uses a Boss BF-3 and an Electro-Harmonix Small Clone and I can easily beat him to the settings and tones. If it were stolen I would find the guy, torture him/her, make him buy me another, and still use the old one too! // 10

overall: 9.8

Reviewed by: acytonestd69, on march 13, 2006

Purchased from: Ted Herbert's

Ease of Use: This pedal is simple to use and worth every penny. The manual is alright, it gives you a good idea how to create certain sounds. I prefer making my own settings. I like it a lot because it has a very vintage sound and futuristic look. // 10

Sound: I play Ibanez SZ's a Fender half stack and a 60 watt Kustom, along with other Tonelock pedals. I use it mainly for the chorus effect. It works fine alone and as good if not better with distortion. I don't get much bad feed back from this pedal, all depends on the channel I'm playing on. The effect can become weak if not set right, or can be just plain old wacked out as hell if not set right. But that's life, a series of failed attempts to fly. I model my clean sound after Mark Tremonti, I have it almost to the exact sound he has, except I don't use Boss pedals, I do Ibanez. // 9

Reliability & Durability: If you read previous reviews from me you'll know by know I trust Ibanez products very much. I depend on this pedal so god damn much because I always have it on, or else it sounds real plain and like not very active. Not only would I use it with out a backup I have done that. I have 2 CF7's, only because I'm making an exact of my pedal board so I can have one at my house and 1 at the drummer's house. // 10

Impression: I play hard rock/alt. metal. It has a real good blending sound. I've been playing for about 5-6 years now. I use Ibanez, Samick, and Epiphone guitars and mostly Kustom amplification. I wish I had asked if they could include a 9v. battery. If this pedal got stolen I would get another one (despite the fact I have another one, that is for my Pedal board B). I love that it is so easy to create your own sound with. I hate one thing about it. Sometimes when you activate it it doesn't stay activated, It's a minor glitch that is easily solved with a battery to create more tension when pressing down. My fav. feature about this pedal is that it is both a Chorus pedal and a flanger. I don't remember what I compared to, but I do remember what the major diff. was the tonal quality. I wish it had a sensitive tap system (barely have to touch it to activate it). // 10

overall: 9.5

Reviewed by: aeliustehman, on july 02, 2008

Price paid: $ 60

Purchased from: Guitar Center Nashville

Ease of Use: This pedal is pretty much just a chorus/flanger pedal, it has four knobs (speed, depth, delay time, regen) you can turn that effect the sound, a chorus/flanger switch, a normal or wack'd switch (which is very wack'd), and of course the pedal control. There is no manual for this thing. // 10

Sound: I'm using it with an Ibanez ICT700, Dunlop Crybaby 535Q, Morley Little Alligator, then Peavey Valveking 212. It's not noisy at all. The effects on this little box are never weak (unless you want them to be), because this thing is versatile. I bought this pedal actually to play the Fade to Black intro solo, and it worked great. I have also used it for just playing all the time or the intro to King Nothing (which I didn't think was a C/F pedal). // 10

Reliability & Durability: The battery power on this thing seems quite short even when using some very good batteries (I don't have an AC adapter yet) but I think I would depend on it as it has not broken yet. You should never use anything at a gig without a backup, but if it came to where I couldn't have a backup, then yes, I would. // 8

Impression: I play hard rock, thrash metal and any sub genre of those really and this is a very good match. I've been playing a year and I have an Ibanez ICT700, Dunlop Crybaby 535Q, Morley Little Alligator, then Peavey Valveking 212. I don't wish I had asked anything, I just wanted a low price C/F pedal that was good and I found it. If it were stolen or lost I would buy it again. I don't wish it had anything, It's pretty much decked out with controls right now. // 10

Comments

[joedefenestrate]

Great pedal! So many different ways you can use it,I Recomend!!!!!

[loop-de-luke]

I've heard lots of reviews saying this pedal sounds crap, but on here everyone says its good... the review site that says its crap was harmony central.
I'm lookin for a flanger/chorus mainly for the flanger to get cool sounds for rage against the machine Tom Morello type sounds, except he uses the expensive MXR Phase 90.
I'd also use the chorus for cool laid-back jazz stuff.
Man I'm confused!

[Jaimequin]

I owned the Chorus version of this pedal series. If you ask me, I would say stay away. It's not that it sounds crap, it's the reliability of these products. Mines would work sometimes and other times it wouldn't. The light would turn on but the effect just never happened. Maybe it was my pedal but I couldn't prove this to my vendor since it always worked properly when I brought it in, but not when I kept it in use like on stage one time. I was embarrassed in front of 300 people. Stick to using BOSS effects, they work amazing.

[Rocker_94]

I've heard lots of reviews saying this pedal sounds crap, but on here everyone says its good... the review site that says its crap was harmony central.....
Man I'm confused!

I too. On Musician's Friend, they say the Flanger is crap, and the Chorus is really good.

[dranz1212]

They look cheap and crappy in the picture.

[_GoingBlind_]

They break....easy....had one for 2 shows...STOMPbox my ass. Ibanez makes great guitars, but if you need a great sounding reliable pedal BOSS is the way to roll

[slash_rocks2005]

this pedal is garbage...the flanger is VERY hard to notice and the chorus is subtle too....this really is more for the guys who just want a slight bit added to their clean sound....i can't notice much change when it's on...the sound is pretty sickening to my ears really...

sorry ibanez...this pedal is shit

[Gopher1409]

slash_rocks2005 wrote:

this pedal is garbage...the flanger is VERY hard to notice and the chorus is subtle too....this really is more for the guys who just want a slight bit added to their clean sound....i can't notice much change when it's on...the sound is pretty sickening to my ears really...

sorry ibanez...this pedal is shit

Okay....

If anything, the Flanger is more noticable WITH distortion. As is the case with most Flanger effects.

You probably need to adjust your EQ.

The problem I have with the Flanger is that it there, but things get a bit "gunky" when it's on. I've tried so many settings it pisses me off to think of the time I wasted.

and yes, the Chorus sucks unless the depth is on 10.