Monger Pedals named it the Little Guy. Probably to lower your expectations before it melts your face off.
This is a dual-effect box that pairs an OTA-based phaser with an op-amp fuzz. Two circuits that could live on separate boards, wedged into a single enclosure, because apparently Monger believes in chaos efficiency. The Little Guy isn’t subtle. It isn’t polite. And it isn’t actually that little, but we’ll let the name slide.
The phaser side is the real sleeper. Triangle, upward sawtooth, downward sawtooth LFO waveforms. Not the usual one-trick swirl machine. You want slow, drifting modulation? Fine. You want warped, wonky, seasick movement? Crank the Regen, twist the Range, and watch your signal stumble over itself. The Width, Speed, Range, and Regen controls give you more shaping power than most standalone phasers. It’s a phaser for people who hate phasers.
The fuzz circuit is op-amp-based, hard-clipping, and surprisingly dynamic. Clean up with your guitar’s volume knob. Get gritty. Get rippy. Get full-on saturated wall-of-noise. One knob sweeps from “is this thing on?” to “your amp is now a chainsaw.” The Tone control acts as an active high/low-pass filter, so you’re not stuck with whatever mud the fuzz wants to give you.
Here’s the killer feature: a built-in send/return loop between the fuzz and phaser. Drop other pedals in between. Delay after the fuzz but before the phaser. Reverb in the middle. You’re not stuck with one order. You get to choose.
Hand-assembled, top-mounted jacks, 35mA draw. The Little Guy is for players who want their modulation to move and their fuzz to bite. Everything else is just noise. Good noise. But still noise.
