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Old 07-14-2009, 09:42 AM
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Man did i luck into something sweet.

I was at a shop and saw something i had never seen. An Ibanez Lo-Fi pedal. I had to try it. It turned out to be amazing on bass. I am in class and dont have time to do a full review yet, but this is the warning of whats to come.

I recommend it to anyone who wants a sweet dirty clean tone or even a staticy overdrive for a solid state.
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Old 07-14-2009, 11:05 AM
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I bought one on eBay ages ago for a friend who wanted to use it with a mic for distorted vocals (which it does very well btw, although creates masses of feedback!). Never thought to try it out on bass, d'oh!
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Old 07-14-2009, 11:48 AM
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lo-fi pedals are really bad for bass in my experience they tend to cut ALL the low end
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Old 07-14-2009, 11:54 AM
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This is intriguing. I wonder what it does to make your sound Lofi.
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Old 07-14-2009, 02:48 PM
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i imagine its a variable band pass filter and a gritty overdrive.
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Old 07-14-2009, 04:46 PM
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This is intriguing. I wonder what it does to make your sound Lofi.
generally bad distortion and cuts all the low end to make it sound like a old transistor radio
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Old 07-14-2009, 06:30 PM
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The LF7 comprises a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter, and a distortion. You can set the cutoff frequencies of each of the filters, and the amount of distortion.

http://www.ibanez.com/support/manuals/LF7.pdf
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Old 07-14-2009, 08:31 PM
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Its sounds like it could be a very useful pedal if the distortion sounds decent, I like being able to control the cut-off frequency.

An expression pedal controlling the cutoff freqs would make it el fantastico

Probably very useful on a drum machine too...
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Old 07-14-2009, 11:21 PM
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This is a sweet pedal. You can get several familiar sounds out of it: the am radio/tin-can sound, a deep, highs cut-off almost dumb sound, or just a dirty sound.



It has four knobs and a switch. The knobs are drive, lo cut, hi cut, and volume. The switch is really just a line boost for the input. Guitar is the lowest of flat boost, the drum has a small boost to it, and the vocals has a huge boost. The dirt on this pedal is amazing in my opinion, very... lo-fi. Its raspy, fuzzy overdrive. The pedal will get awfully dirty when cranked. The lo cut knob can cut off your lows if you want, but you can dial it back and have all your low end. The lo pass cut is 80Hz – 1kHz. The hi cut knob can also cut the highs or let them rain in. The cut range is 1kHz – 10kHz. Last but not least the volume just makes it louder .

The footprint is like any boss or digitech pedal. I thought the tonelok line was plastic till i got this. Its solid metal or something lol. Very heavy pedal too. It uses a boss style 9v power supply or a 9v battery.

I put my keyboard through it, and used the drum kit on it. It sounds sweet if you like that sort of thing . I tried a mic through it, flawless megaphone sound.

Any pedal can sound good alone in your bed room so i tried it at a practice with my band. Its my new clean sound pedal. I have it set to get just a little dirt with highs cut all the way and lows wide open at unity gain. Gives me an old tube amp sound.

You can notice a slight low end loss, but its at 80Hz which isnt bad IMO.

Over all i think this isnt for everyone, but worth a try if you get the chance.
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Tom, that's Thunderscreech for you. Pay no heed.

Looks pretty cool, might pick one up for my mic.
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