What is it? Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan. Condition could be better, but after swapping the switch it runs like a charm. I never thought that dents or scratches affected the sound in any way. Late 90’s date, so this unit isn’t the most valuable soundtank in…
Category: Ibanez
Ibanez No.95 Renometer
Just because i happen to feel like it, here’s another post for today.. What is it? Ibanez Renometer Model No. 95 EQ/Booster from mid seventies. Got this unit in a trade some time ago. In very good condition i might add. Plugged it in and had no response. Gladly, the only broken thing was one…
Ibanez AF9 Auto Filter
What is it? Ibanez AF9 Autofilter. Made in japan in early 1980’s. Even though i don’t see myself as a huge fan of autowah/envelope filter genre, i happen tohave a few specimens. The way envelope filters, aka autowahs usually work, is that there’s an driver part that triggers the filter when certain input level threshold…
Ibanez FL5 Flanger
What is it? Ibanez FL5 Flanger from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan, late in the 90’s. So it’s pertty new unit in my collection with only about 15 yesars of age. According to notes from (one of my heroes,) Dirk Hendrik the circuit is pretty much verbatim clone of Ibanez/Maxon FL9, with delay…
Ibanez LF7 Lo-Fi
What is it? Ibanez LF7 Lo Fi from Tonelok/7-series. Apparently made in the year 2000, as the enclosure has the date 1/2000 stamped on the inside. The board itself has a lot of components left out, so it seems that the same board may be utilized in other designs of the series too. I think…
Ibanez FZ5 60’s Fuzz
What is it? Ibanez FZ5 60’s Fuzz from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan. Manufacture date unknown due to missing label that’s been ripped off by velcro at some point before this landed to my care (Grrrrr!). Techically pretty close to Ibanez OD850 and OD9 (which are damn close to BMP), with some…
Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm
What is it? Ibanez CR5 Crunchy Rhythm from Soundtank series in metal enclosure, made in Taiwan around 1989-90. It is a design that differs from usual TS and/or Voodoo Labs overdrive topology. Boosting, bluesy overdrive with discrete differential pair to determine which parts of the signal get to Si diode hard clipping before the tone…
Ibanez TM5 Thrashmetal
What is it? Ibanez TM5 Thrashmetal from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan around 1994-1996 Serial starting with 184 points to early-mid nineties date due to this being with its own type font. Earlier ones should be with uniform type face and so are the metal cased units. Serial is quite low for…
Ibanez TS5 Tubescreamer
Let’s start out with underrated, yet obvious classic. What is it? Ibanez TS5 Tubescreamer from Soundtank series in plastic enclosure, made in Taiwan around 1992-1995 This unit has serial number starting with 107, which suggests that it is early Taiwanese Tubescreamer with plastic enclosure. I’m not 100% sure about the serial numbers and how these…