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Ibanez SM7 Smash Box

Distortion from Ibanez belonging to the 7 series

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Published on 11/02/10 at 03:33
Therefore a distortion pedal on battery or external power supply.
Gain, bass, treble, level.
A sharp smooth switch.
A noise gate built with three settings, Off, moderately sensitive, very sensitive.

Quite a pretty cool little details:
Metal box.
The buttons that fit inside, they bougeotent cons by a little, simple battery hatch and ergonomic, it is not take a spring in Fig every battery change as is the case with Beringher. LED shines well.
Effectively Miniswitch to look a bit light, but ...

The midrange control would probably expand the possibilities.

UTILIZATION

Super easy to use. It's not making head

SOUND QUALITY

The effects are realistic?
Ha well yeah it's very realistic, as are both distos pedals that give a sound unrealistic, as frankly this one, we believe it (that I know not where, but we believe it)!
Well I stop the bullshit:
Then a distortion pedal dedicated to the great metal distortion type.
The grain is rather nice. The sound is not nasal, recess is an indentation in the media anyway, but not too pronounced.
The feature is very cool:
- The sound is well defined and sharp despite a very strong level of gain (gain recess bottom is a bit shit but we are not legally obliged to implement fully, is just to use these ears) .
- The sound comes out of my stuff that keeps a good momentum, it does not smooth atttaques, there are still expressive.
The stuff not quite on top:
- The gain knob, not really well-calibrated: It must be able to gain too much even with the microphones at the lowest output of the world. I would have preferred it goes lower, and it goes lower in fact. So recess should not put the gain in substance if not the sound it is pouasseux.

The noise-gate: overall very effective rhythmic, leaving the note to end so there is a natural artifact that its returns. So a nice option, but not quite to the point, fortunately you can disable it. And in many cases it makes for proud service.

- The switch Smooth / Sharp: The sound super smooth no problem, in a sharp electronics no longer filters the highs and the result and actually a bit too much.

- No button medium: It could greatly expand the possibilities of the pedal, but hey it's actually not a bad effect for that.

OVERALL OPINION

Purchased one week ago, 20 euros secondhand if not value for money it crazy!

Well since the time of distortion pedals I've tried a lot anyway, and frankly the SM7 is a good distortion pedal.
Boss in its direct competitor is the inefficiency Metal Zone, which is serious press: next to the SM7 is the MT2: nasal, without fishing crap to deal with, caricatured to the point that I would call Toonesque.

So actually I did a lot of blame at the top, but it does not detract from the fact = that's a big vbonne pure pedal distortion / metal. Simply with a set of media and gain a little restrained plsu it would explore further afield what.
Evidedment is typed big distortion / metal, so not the most versatile distos.
Since the sound is precise and dynamic pedal is easy to adjust and incorporates a noise gate, and it not cost too much, it's a pedal I would advise all the youngsters who want a metal distortion (although more than MT2 anyway).

The only uncertainty remains: it's ability to integrate into the mix as a group, still face a little break with this kind of big distos mediums dug. Good on a CD or a backing track is rather convaiquant, Apers Essau group I call again.