Clark Effect Pedals

**garmenteros** · #1 02-05-2011, 12:48 PM

I recently came upon two vintage clark pedals and thought about buying them. All I could fin online was that clark made fender amp copies in USA. http://www.clarkamplification.com/index.html Anyone have experience with these, are they collectible, any good? They are huge steel chassis about the size of a big muff, but the chassis is chrome, has a switch and two knobs... I opened them up and my guess they're at least 20 years old and all the wiring is point to point turret board style...

shamrock&roll · #2 02-05-2011, 03:49 PM

Clark made a pedal called a Gainster with David Barber a few years ago. The pedal was phenomenal for guitar, but I never heard it with bass. It was in a bigger goldflake enclosure.

**garmenteros** · #3 02-05-2011, 11:10 PM

This is all chrome though, I'll think I'll go ahead and buy it and just keep it around for kicks...

**garmenteros** · #4 02-07-2011, 09:44 PM

Bought the pedals. Looks like no one's touched them in ages. I opened them up, put new duracells in there and they were good to go. The pots weren't even scratchy. To me they work OK for bass but were probably meant for guitar. I don't like fuzz much but thats my take. The tone knob was pretty sensitive and could hold most of the low end and make it dissapear completely as well. Anyways here are the pics:

And check out the vintage battery hahahh

In case you can't make the letters it says:
"MAXELL Dry Battery For Transistor Radios 006P 9V Hitachi Maxell LTD" and "made in Japan" on the sides...