Amdek Flk-100 Flanger (19??)

A not well-known pedal from the end of seventies or firsts 80 from an early Roland / Boss division Called "AMDEK".

For sure it's vintage? but still worth a buy? let's find it out!

 

PEDAL metal stomp box grey with green colors.
The main panel has four knobs for flangin' sound adjustment (see description below).
The back panel (pic) has these connections: two audio guitar connection, also impedance for line IN like synthesizers for both INPUT and OUPUT.

The FLK works with a 9V battery or external power supply 9V DC- 1.5mm jack- a simple red led diode show if the AC is preset and flickers when battery gets low.

 

 

Here's the knobs functions:

- MANUAL controls the center amount of shift.
- DEPTH intensity of the flanger effect.
- RATE frequency of the LFO modulation for slow or fast effect - range speed from 100 ms to 16s.
- RES filter resonance Q brillance for PEAK effect

SOUND sounding based on delay line Bucket brigade from PANASONIC model MN 3102 and MN 3207 (time 2.56 to 51.ms) chips- all good analog stuff (is it so true?) resulting as pleasant, deep and smooth sound! love that sound. I also appreciated that the FLK does the job for both guitars and synthesizers, not always so obvious.

KIT amdek was famous to be sold in KIT DIY you have to assembly it yourself! So maybe when buying one, be sure a serious tech made the job.

Guitar demo1 Guitar demo2 synth pad demo

- great sound!
-quality components

- hard to find/ coulb be expensive now

PERSONAL OPINION:

Like this, very good sounding. Can be both soft or really aggressive, often a problem with flangers.

try it!