What is it? Ibanez PH5 Phaser from the Soundtank series. Made in taiwan around 1996. I’ll admit it. I love phasers. Don’t use them much (or at all) on my standard pedal board, but i always have a couple of differently voiced ones with me when i’m in studio. Some phasers are bad, while some…
Category: Ibanez
Ibanez PH10 Bi-Mode Phaser
What is it? Ibanez PH10 Bi-Mode Phaser from Power series, made in japan between 1986-89. One of the nicest phasers. The Bi-Mode here means that the phasing stages are switchable between six and ten stages. Which is not a bad idea to throw in to a huge bowl of phasers. Got this unit for a…
Ibanez BN5 Black Noise
What is it? Ibanez BN5 Black Noise distortion from later Soundtank series in plastic enclosure. Made in taiwan in mid to late 90’s The marketing section of Ibanez pedals made this out to be a “industrial” distortion. It’s how the marketing can turn a design to something that it is not – and then people…
Ibanez SS10 Session Man
What is it? Ibanez SS10 Session-Man Distortion/Chorus from Power series. Made in japan between 1986-89. Mid 80’s was a perfect time to try out stupid things like to combine distortion with other type of effects in small pedal enclosures. DOD did it, Boss did it and of course, Ibanez did it. The idea of mixing…
Ibanez AW5 Autowah
What is it? Ibanez AW5 Autowah in plastic enclosure from later soundtank series. Made in taiwan around late 80’s. This model has couple things that are unique. First of all, it is the only Soundtank with analog opto-isolator on board. The box and the component layout itself is quite neat. It’s pretty well made and…
Ibanez CD5 Cyberdrive
What is it? Ibanez CD5 Cyberdrive, fixed wah distortion from later Soundtank series. Made in taiwan late 90’s. Ok. I’ve said this before. There’s one sub-genre of distortions that just isn’t for me. This being the fixed wah distortion. And here’s the Ibanez’ take on one with modern, dull traces and nothing earth shattering. Well….
Ibanez TL5 Tremolo
What is it? Ibanez TL5 Tremolo from soundtank series in plastic enclosure. Made in taiwan around 1995. There are just a few highly peculiar effects in whole Ibanez catalog fom the seventies to today. This is one of them. Only tremolo Ibanez ever produced. And to be honest, the design isn’t bad at all. In…
Ibanez OT10 Octave
What is it? Ibanez OT10 Octave from Power series. Made in taiwan around late 80’s. The most interesting Ibanez boxes are the couple of designs that only occur once. There are more examples where the designs have lived on in different series with slightly different names or very slight differences. For example, all the different…
Ibanez SP5 Slam Punk
What is it? Ibanez SP5 Slam Punk distortion from later Soundtank series. Made in taiwan, mid to late 90’s. One of the soundtanks that i had a pleasure of being in contact with before acquiring one. I did a rehousing job with true bypass for a friend and played with the circuit before letting it…
Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer Classic
Ah. Back to the old tricks with yet another Tube Screamer. What is it? Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer Classic. Later version, made in Taiwan late 80s or early 90s. So it is TS9 with one resistor added before the inverting input of the opamp. These taiwanese units tend to sell for less than current TS9…