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IBANEZ "SILVER" BASS PEDALS

#21
Crater said:
Ibanez' "Tone-Lok" series of pedals. They all have 7 in the model number, and they've been out of production for several years now. I have a couple of them that I use for guitar (TS7 tubescreamer and FZ7 fuzz). I also have a Tone-Lok 'Bass Synth' pedal, it's so bad it's funny.

Nope, all the hipsters know about these, so they are no longer a cheap "sleeper" pedal. Virtually every one on Reverb is priced over a hundred bucks.
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Weird I got my second one for 60 bucks a few months ago. It still seems slightly underrated based on what people usually turn to as far as delays...whether it’s the hottest boutique or a carbon copy or something.

Either way, if it is getting more praise now, it deserves it. Cheers mate
 
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#22
mb94952 said:
If I showed you my chest of parts, you'd see about seven bass overdrive pedals. There are only TWO that I keep out in my pedalboard - The Ibanez PhatHed and the Darkglass B3K.
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I have over 70 drive pedals and I am almost always changing them up daily... 20200513_105459.jpg 20200515_084415.jpg
 
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I took my silver pedals to practice last night. Too bad the Phat Hed is so noisy :(
I added it the chain with another OD pedal and it sounded great, but again, just way too noisy. Now I see what you guys are talking about. I still love it though. Maybe I can use it in another capacity like recording. My other brand OD pedal is dead silent, so that one wins.
The chorus /flanger sounds killer. I still need to adjust the volume so they're the same whether engaged or disengaged.
 
#25
SuperBass I’m with you on a cabinet of drive pedals. I have a huge assortment but for treble guitar. Most of my guitar pedal collection is a variation of a tube screamer.

Oddly on bass guitar other than my 3 bass amps (Eden, Markbass and Rumble) the only tone processing I do is with my Sans Amp programmable bass driver di.
 
#26
The FZ7 is a killer fuzz. With the damage switch off it's a great straight up fuzz, click it on and you'll give the Boss FZ-2 a run for it's money. Super stable, not overly noisy, and very usable and wide tone control range. It's kicked some much more expensive pedals off my board. Got it mint in the box for $50 last year.
 
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I have two of the PD-7s and would contemplate a third. Mostly because I like the sound so much and they’re discontinued. But partly because they have an apparently poorly designed switch as both of the ones I have are intermittent in turning on and off. Makes sense since it’s just a tiny piece of plastic doing the work under that plate.

also, the attack switch is straight garbage. Just keep that off. But without the attack, the tone is monstrous.
 
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SuperTbass said:
I have two of the PD-7s and would contemplate a third. Mostly because I like the sound so much and they’re discontinued. But partly because they have an apparently poorly designed switch as both of the ones I have are intermittent in turning on and off. Makes sense since it’s just a tiny piece of plastic doing the work under that plate.

also, the attack switch is straight garbage. Just keep that off. But without the attack, the tone is monstrous.
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How hard would it be to fix the switch?
 
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Super Bass said:
I have over 70 drive pedals and I am almost always changing them up daily...View attachment 3829886 View attachment 3829887
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Thanks for planting the seed, SuperBass. All my life I thought one is supposed to find one pedal to use and stick with it. The idea of owning many distortion pedals, especially for bass, is a new concept to me. Since you posted this, I've bought about 10 distortion/OD pedals. I feel like such a slut and I love it !
 
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mb94952 said:
Thanks for planting the seed, SuperBass. All my life I thought one is supposed to find one pedal to use and stick with it. The idea of owning many distortion pedals, especially for bass, is a new concept to me. Since you posted this, I've bought about 10 distortion/OD pedals. I feel like such a slut and I love it !
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LOL! It's a sickness....
 
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#33
There are loads of good things about the 7 series.
I have owned or still own a few of them.
The sb7 was great fun. Practically useless live, but fun for noodling time
The pd7 sits around and gets used on occasion, and the lofi gets used on guitar for things like the transistor radio style intro to I believe in a thing called love.
The king of the series for me is the wd7. it is seriously the best bass wah I have found so far, sitting amazingly well in a mix on both settings. It sits so well, that I have two - one for the metal covers band, and one for my Ozzy / Sabbath tribute show.
I really like the retractable pots - it gives a degree of security with settings, since I don’t spend hours ‘playing’ with the pedal, as I’m more a “find a sound and stick with it until it doesn’t work anymore” kind of person
Pound for pound, they’re great value
 
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crapusername said:
There are loads of good things about the 7 series.
I have owned or still own a few of them.
The sb7 was great fun. Practically useless live, but fun for noodling time
The pd7 sits around and gets used on occasion, and the lofi gets used on guitar for things like the transistor radio style intro to I believe in a thing called love.
The king of the series for me is the wd7. it is seriously the best bass wah I have found so far, sitting amazingly well in a mix on both settings. It sits so well, that I have two - one for the metal covers band, and one for my Ozzy / Sabbath tribute show.
I really like the retractable pots - it gives a degree of security with settings, since I don’t spend hours ‘playing’ with the pedal, as I’m more a “find a sound and stick with it until it doesn’t work anymore” kind of person
Pound for pound, they’re great value
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Yeah I took my mini wah off the board and now just run my weeping demon off the board - it really is the best wah I’ve found and it just works so well with fuzz running into it!
 
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crapusername said:
There are loads of good things about the 7 series.
I have owned or still own a few of them.
The sb7 was great fun. Practically useless live, but fun for noodling time
The pd7 sits around and gets used on occasion, and the lofi gets used on guitar for things like the transistor radio style intro to I believe in a thing called love.
The king of the series for me is the wd7. it is seriously the best bass wah I have found so far, sitting amazingly well in a mix on both settings. It sits so well, that I have two - one for the metal covers band, and one for my Ozzy / Sabbath tribute show.
I really like the retractable pots - it gives a degree of security with settings, since I don’t spend hours ‘playing’ with the pedal, as I’m more a “find a sound and stick with it until it doesn’t work anymore” kind of person
Pound for pound, they’re great value
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I'm the same way, man. I'm a set it and forget it guy, too. Ron Popeil pedal, lol. Thanks for the info. I'm gonna look into a WD7 now.
 
#37
I traded my octave pedal I never really used for an Ibanez SB7 a few weeks ago. I only have a few pedals so I've been getting a lot of use out of this one for both bass and guitar. My latest track I put on youtube uses this pedal and my Ditto looper as a crude echo/delay effect. On bass I was using Synth 1 with fast decay (if I recall correctly). I don't remember what settings I used for the guitar part! I'm a total synth/envelope filter noob but I think this adds a lot to my sound, both at a high effect level and at more subtle levels.

 
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I have a been collecting Ibanez pedals for years starting with 9 series and then started down the road with the Zero, Master, 7s and 10s. Some great sounding pedals in there! I slowed down in last couple years but I always keep an eye open.

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I also have a few early DOD and MXR from early 80s through current.
 
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