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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.

OUR SHOPPING GUIDES:

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

Below, the latest creative pedals releases.

Daredevil Bootleg Dirty Delay

The Daredevil Bootleg is analog, self-oscillation prone delay designed to give classic tones that sound similar to vintage tape machines, increasingly more lo-fi and dirty when driven at intense or longer settings. The Dirt section of the circuit adds gain to the repeats. The decay will become brighter as it tails…Click on the title for more

Daredevil Bootleg Dirty Delay

Dirge Electronics Slowly Melting Glitch/Fuzz/Chorus/Delay

Here's a new pedal for the wild experimenter! The Slowly Melting by Baltimore based Dirge Electronics is an out there pedal that combines several circuits like fuzz, starving circuit and modulation to give adventurous guitarists a heavy handed tool of sonic disintegration - or rather, fusion, hence the name. Described as…Click on the title for more

Dirge Electronics Slowly Melting Glitch/Fuzz/Chorus/Delay

Spaceman Effects Mission Control Expressive Audio System

Portland's own Spaceman Effects returns to the game with the Mission Control, featuring a fresh concept: sit as the central nervous system of your pedalboard and operate everything around it. Dialing in the Mission Control and stomping the Activate footswitch triggers attack and release times that you set. The built-in…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Effects Mission Control Expressive Audio System

Damnation Audio Ugly Twin Octave Fuzz + Boost

Damnation Audio’s newest release is called the Ugly Twin, but that name seems to be fairly ironic because it is actually a trio of circuits that can be used separately or stacked for utter sonic destruction. It’s an octave fuzz (courtesy of a fantastic take on Dan Armstrong’s Green Ringer),…Click on the title for more

Damnation Audio Ugly Twin Octave Fuzz + Boost

Hungry Robot – The Wardenclyffe LoFi Ambient Modulator

Hungry Robot Pedals is one of the few new pedal manufacturers who's been able to catch the attention of both guitarists and synth players through a growing range of imaginative stompboxes that are at once musical and edgy. The company just unveiled a new Lo-Fi modulation pedal called the Wardenclyffe, after…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot – The Wardenclyffe LoFi Ambient Modulator

3 Leaf Audio returns with the Chromatron variable filter

Edgy stompbox manufacturer 3 Leaf Audio has been quiet for a while as far as new pedals are concerned, which is why we are excited to see it return with an intriguing take on the filter pedal: the Chromatron. This effect was probably one of the reasons behind the small…Click on the title for more

3 Leaf Audio returns with the Chromatron variable filter

Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal

Gamechanger Audio is certainly living up to its name, with the Plus,Plasma, and now the Motor. The Motor is a wild synth pedal that fuses your signal with motor-driven oscillators in real time. The Motor Pedal is absolutely pro at synth-like portamento sounds and some inspiring envelope effects, along with…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal

Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation 2

Since the early aughts, NYC's Death By Audio has been on the forefront of a trend that has since then picked up a lot of steam: the one of stompboxes offering extreme sonic features (and apocalyptic names). We discussed this in depth in this 2017 interview with owner Oliver Ackermann,…Click on the title for more

Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation 2

MOD Devices Duo X

Germany's MOD Devices bring us the Duo X, an intensely customizable effects unit that puts the controls at your fingertips rather than your feet. This unit is indispensable for the studio, tabletop musician or DJ. A near-infinite amount of effects reside within the Duo X, with almost as many routing…Click on the title for more

MOD Devices Duo X

Joyo Cab Box

Joyo's Cab Box puts affordable cab simulation and IR loading at your feet, giving players an unprecedentedly huge LCD screen with a stripped-down, easy-to use interface. Loading different cabs and IR models is a snap---just cycle through the onscreen menu and stomp both switches to bypass. It literally couldn't be…Click on the title for more

Joyo Cab Box

Electro-Harmonix Bass Mono Synth

New York City's own Electro-Harmonix has birthed the pedal that synth geeks have been waiting for: the Bass Mono Synth. Featuring 11 different huge mono synth emulations, the Bass Mono Synth will add some deep, pulsating rhythm to any band that lacks it. The biggest addition to the Bass Mono…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix Bass Mono Synth

Chase Bliss Audio Dark World Reverb

We woke up this morning to an invasion of videos of the new Chase Bliss Audio Dark World, a two channel digital reverb pedal created in collaboration with Keeley and Cooper FX. As feature-rich as any other stompbox by this manufacturer, the Dark World features a "World" channel created by Keeley…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio Dark World Reverb