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CREATIVE GUITAR PEDALS
On this page, you will find a list of pedals that defy categorization or have particularly original functions.

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• Best Creative Delay Pedals
• Best Reverb Pedals For Ambient and Shoegaze
• Best Granular, Glitch and Stutter Pedals
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• Best Ring Modulation Pedals
• Best Pedals for Synths with CV In

Below, the latest creative pedals releases.

Intrepid Audio Crossflow Stereo Tremolo

The Intrepid Audio Crossflow redefines what a tremolo pedal can be. It’s a studio-grade modulation hub that combines an analog signal path with deep digital control, offering everything from classic amp-like pulses to complex, sequenced movement, all while acting as a master clock for your entire pedalboard. At its core…Click on the title for more

Intrepid Audio Crossflow Stereo Tremolo

New Pedal: Kinotone Ghost Chordal Resonator

Kinotone has quickly established itself as one of the most imaginative new makers in boutique effects, specializing in devices that recontextualize the guitar signal into something entirely new. Their flagship, the Ghosts, is the ultimate expression of this vision. Far more than a pedal, it’s a 6-voice physical modeling synthesizer and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Kinotone Ghost Chordal Resonator

Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal

True to their legacy of radical invention—from the Plasma Pedal to the Motor Synth—Gamechanger Audio has done it again. The Motor Pedal brings the raw, electromagnetic soul of their groundbreaking Motor Synth into a standalone pedal format, offering a truly unprecedented level of electro-mechanical synthesis at your feet. This isn’t…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine

It is a rare and satisfying thing when a manufacturer distills the core intelligence of a beloved, complex device into a form that is both radically simplified and utterly immediate. Electro-Harmonix has achieved precisely this with the Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine. The original Intelligent Harmony Machine was a powerful but…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

A marriage of the company's two fuzz circuits named Yes and No, the appropriately named Maybe? is a super-tweakable dual fuzz. Each side can be played independently or stacked on top of the other. Judging from the builder's words, the destiny of this union is doomed to be destructive, at…Click on the title for more

Mask Audio Electronics MAYBE? Fuzz

Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion

The Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion is one of the three pedals released at NAMM 2023 by the pro audio company turned stompbox builder. It's a dual delay + reverb pedal with a separate footswitch and three modes for each effect. The delay, which has a separate control for…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX DelVerb Ambience Companion

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Atomic Cluster

The Electro Harmonix Atomic Cluster represents a genuine departure, a compact laboratory for granular synthesis. It operates not by applying modulation or distortion, but by employing a unique algorithm to systematically deconstruct your signal's frequency resolution, rebuilding it into a cloud of resonant, melodic oscillations. The result is a palette…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Atomic Cluster

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

In a landscape saturated with variations on classic circuits, the FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube presents a genuinely singular proposition. It functions as a pulse-width modulator (PWM), a circuit more commonly associated with synthesizers, applying its transformative square-wave generation directly to guitar. The result is a radical tonal recasting that sits…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: FruitFX Pedals Melon Cube Synth Fuzz

Vongon Solarfaze Multi-Band Overdrive/Chorus

The Vongon Solarfaze redefines stereo processing by merging surgical multi-band saturation with an expressive, dynamic chorus. More than just a drive or modulation pedal, it functions as a complete tonal workstation for guitarists and producers seeking to add depth, warmth, and complex harmonic character. At its core, the Saturate section provides…Click on the title for more

Vongon Solarfaze Multi-Band Overdrive/Chorus

TWA Ladditude Envelope Filter

Because of their unique sonic characteristics, including a smooth, warm low-pass filter sound with a pleasing "fat" character, particularly when pushed into overdrive, the so-called "ladder filters" found in vintage analog synths are still highly sought after, even by guitarists. The TWA Ladditude pedal puts that exact circuit at your…Click on the title for more

TWA Ladditude Envelope Filter

Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator

The Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator is less a single pedal and more a laboratory for sonic discovery. It functions as a master delay-line manipulator, cloning your signal and warping its time, pitch, and texture before blending it back with the original. This process unlocks the DNA of classic modulation—flanging, chorus,…Click on the title for more

Cosmodio Splinter Twin Time Modulator

New Pedal: Blind Panic Devices Bad Signal

Forget pristine, studio-polished echoes. The Bad Signal from Blind Panic Devices is a hand-delivered felony against sonic purity. This isn't a delay pedal; it's a corrupted broadcast from a parallel universe where your guitar signal got hijacked, scrambled by a dying CRT television, and spit back out through a glitching…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Blind Panic Devices Bad Signal