I was surprised to see that the guys behind the Landtone klone kits (those Amazon build-your-own-klone deals) were selling finished pedals – that was who I got mine from.
There’s also this other brand, Ginean, who was apparently Harmon Group’s overseas builder for various DOD pedals, and they have dirt-cheap versions of the Gonkulator, Carcosa fuzz, and a couple of other DOD drive pedals from before the CorTek buyout. The circuit boards, control layouts, and pedal cases are identical, just with different paint jobs/branding and no DOD stamp on the back plate. Oh, and a weird bevel around the top of the pedal case. But yeah, $35 USD Gonkulator “clone.” Hard to go wrong with that, other than the fact that it’s a damn Gonkulator and its mere existence is an affront to, uh, something that doesn’t Gonk very well.
I was surprised to see that the guys behind the Landtone klone kits (those Amazon build-your-own-klone deals) were selling finished pedals – that was who I got mine from.
There’s also this other brand, Ginean, who was apparently Harmon Group’s overseas builder for various DOD pedals, and they have dirt-cheap versions of the Gonkulator, Carcosa fuzz, and a couple of other DOD drive pedals from before the CorTek buyout. The circuit boards, control layouts, and pedal cases are identical, just with different paint jobs/branding and no DOD stamp on the back plate. Oh, and a weird bevel around the top of the pedal case. But yeah, $35 USD Gonkulator “clone.” Hard to go wrong with that, other than the fact that it’s a damn Gonkulator and its mere existence is an affront to, uh, something that doesn’t Gonk very well.