marnold
July 18th, 2008, 04:05 PM
You may recall that I picked up a Digitech CF-7 Chorus Factory (http://www.digitech.com/products/Pedals/CF7.php) for a cool $40 at the Guitar Center by my parents' place. I forgot how fun a good chorus pedal could be. There are a lot of different chorus tones available. I tend to spend most of my time on the Digitech Multi Chorus model (#1) or the Boss Chorus Ensemble model (#7). I usually keep the level at noon, the speed at about 10 A.M., and the depth dimed. The Multi Chorus model gives a real full, lush, 80s-style chorus, perfect for playing little ditties like Dokken's "Alone Again." The Chorus Ensemble is much more subtle. It works great to make a distorted tone "bigger" (for the lack of a better word) without making it muddy.
I like those two models so much that I really haven't messed with the others too much. I was able to dial in a "Come As You Are" tone with the Small Clone model pretty easily. Some of them can do flanging too, but the A/DA model on my EX-7 is vastly superior to them.
Like the EX-7, the CF-7 can do cabinet modeling so you can run it directly into a mixer/soundcard for recording. Someday I'll try a recording with just my guitar->overdrive->CF-7 and see how that would sound. I'd also like to have a second ampf to see how some of the stereo stuff would work.
The manual says that the CF-7 will only get about four hours of continuous playing out of a 9v battery. As soon as I got it, I removed the battery and put it on my 1-Spot's daisy chain. No worries.
The long and the short of it is that I really like it. Would I have paid $100 for it? I don't know because I'm a cheap person-of-questionable-parentage. For $40 it's a downright, bona fide, class A steal.
I like those two models so much that I really haven't messed with the others too much. I was able to dial in a "Come As You Are" tone with the Small Clone model pretty easily. Some of them can do flanging too, but the A/DA model on my EX-7 is vastly superior to them.
Like the EX-7, the CF-7 can do cabinet modeling so you can run it directly into a mixer/soundcard for recording. Someday I'll try a recording with just my guitar->overdrive->CF-7 and see how that would sound. I'd also like to have a second ampf to see how some of the stereo stuff would work.
The manual says that the CF-7 will only get about four hours of continuous playing out of a 9v battery. As soon as I got it, I removed the battery and put it on my 1-Spot's daisy chain. No worries.
The long and the short of it is that I really like it. Would I have paid $100 for it? I don't know because I'm a cheap person-of-questionable-parentage. For $40 it's a downright, bona fide, class A steal.