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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.

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

While reverb and delay pedals have been the favorite effects of creative guitarists since the psychedelic '60s, the trend of creative modulation pedals is rather new. Australian pedal builder Anarchy Audio just released their take on this effect niche, and - as one may expect from their name - it's…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Anarchy Audio Aftermath Modulation Obliterator

Alexander Pedals Sky 5000 Delay/Reverb

The Sky-Fi digital delay/reverb was one of the first Alexander Pedals to put the company on the industry's map, becoming a favorite of shoegazer-type guitarists looking for a portable version of the rack units of the '90s that were so crucial in creating the wall of sound that defines that…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Sky 5000 Delay/Reverb

OPFXS Asteroide Sampler & Harmonizer

OPFX is a small Italian builder out or La Spezia specializing in synthy pedals, and the Asteroide is their take on the Sampler/Harmonizing stompbox, i.e. the "freezing with harmonizing effect that creates organ-like droney chords from a single note. The device samples and loops a section of your signal and…Click on the title for more

OPFXS Asteroide Sampler & Harmonizer

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Red Noise Pedals is the project of Atlanta-based guitarist Ariel Scherbacovsky, who turned into a pedal designer after the birth of his first daughter put an end to a 10-year touring career (probably, in hindsight, a good thing, since COVID has put an end to touring, at least for a…Click on the title for more

Red Noise Butterfly Tremolo & Tonal Amusement Park

Horizon Devices Flux Echo + Reverb

Horizon Devices, founded by Periphery's Misha Mansoor, is well known for its devices designed specifically for artists playing Prog Metal, Prog Rock and other similar punchy yet adventurous genres. The Flux Echo is their first foray into non-gain-related effects. A Stereo delay/reverb with Tap Tempo and Freeze function, the Flux…Click on the title for more

Horizon Devices Flux Echo + Reverb

Old Blood Noise Dweller Phase Repeater

All of a sudden there seems to be a lot of interest, among stompbox manufacturers, in taking the phaser effect to new places. Old Blood Noise Endeavors just introduced the Dweller, presented as a six mode "phase repeater," which, we gather, means that there's a sample stretching circuit inside the phaser, which…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Dweller Phase Repeater

The Best Pedals for Synths with CV in/out in 2022

You may be also interested in our article about the best analog-style synth pedals for guitars and the one about the best creative pedals for synths that accept line in. --- Updated on May 03, 2022 A Guide to the Best Pedals for Synths with CV Compatibility CV (an acronym…Click on the title for more

The Best Pedals for Synths with CV in/out in 2022

Dwarfcraft Devices Treeverb

At NAMM 2019 Dwarfcraft Devices announced two new pedals, unexpectedly hosted in compact cases (the company's latest pedals all defied the current minaturization trend of effects. The Treeverb is a 3-mode reverb that offers deep but intuitive controls. Hall is a traditional, long reverb, with controls for Tone, Pre-delay (Character),and Length.…Click on the title for more

Dwarfcraft Devices Treeverb

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

The Pefftronics Super Rand-O-Matic is a rather unique and semi-obscure pedal that appeared in the early '90s. It used a hybrid analog/digital circuit to produce a very particular modulation sound, described by some as "flange, chorus, doubling, and slapback plus alien blips and even the sound of a Huey chopper."…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Super Neo-Matic

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

The Cooper FX Outward V2 is a digital sampling device that records audio and plays it back in different ways (freezing, stutter, and time stretching effects) depending on the mode. V2 adds a new line of mini-knobs to fine-tune Clock, Tone, Mix and Volume and a new PIT l DIR…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Outward V2 Delay / Sampler

MOOER A7 Ambiance

At a time when the mini-pedal mania seems a little long in the tooth, we are happy to report that the company that the Chinese started this trend, MOOER, is still churning out very increasingly tempting mini-pedals. The Mooer A7 Ambiance is a new addition to the Chinese company's New…Click on the title for more

MOOER A7 Ambiance

Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission Fuzz/Overdrive

The Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission is the latest pedal, a fuzz, from this Mooresville, Indiana boutique pedal builder, that declares to be focusing on building "small quantities of weird things." The Failed Transmission keeps faith to this intent: it's a creative fuzz/overdrive with a separate and blendable noise oscillation…Click on the title for more

Audio Disruption Devices Failed Transmission Fuzz/Overdrive