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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.

Drolo Moon Rabbit 6 Stage Phaser

These days, traditional guitar effects like flanger and phaser are being reinvented by brave new manufacturers, and the 6 Stage Phaser Moon Rabbit, by Belgian builder Drolo, firmly folllows this trend. With its envelop follower tool, CV input, pedal expression input option and 8 selectable waveforms, this pedal does a…Click on the title for more

Drolo Moon Rabbit 6 Stage Phaser

New Pedal Walrus Audio’s Luminary V2 Quad Octave Generator

At our first Toronto Stompbox Exhibit we had the chance to play with Walrus Audio's Luminary, and we were rather impressed. It's definitely one of the most versatile "octavers" around, with its four-octave generator that allows for a wide variety of tones, ranging from pipe organ sounds to completely otherworldly noises. The…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Walrus Audio’s Luminary V2 Quad Octave Generator

Hungry Robot El Castillo Arpeggiating Reverb

Hungry Robot never ceases to surprise us with their lush, imaginative designs. They just unveiled a new "Arpeggiating Reverb" called El Castillo. For those looking to get experimental with their time-based effects, the Hungry Robot El Castillo combines delay, reverb, and pitch-shifting into one fairly compact unit. The pedal is…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot El Castillo Arpeggiating Reverb

Alexander Pedals Quadrant Audio Mirror Delay

Alexander Pedals has been churning out very cool products, climbing the stompbox buzz ladder thanks to imaginative designs packed with features. Their brand new Quadrant Audio Mirror Delay certainly makes a good first impression as well (we dig the graphics!). Belonging to the recently introduced Neo Series, this is a compact…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Quadrant Audio Mirror Delay

Adventure Audio might have never happened if founder Christian Terjesen hadn’t cracked open the back of an effect pedal, “just for the heck of it,” he says. In 2014, Terjesen was a new college graduate living in Philadelphia and trying to find a job. “I started applying at restaurants and…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturers Profile: Adventure Audio

Adventure Audio unveils the Outer Rings Ring Mod

If there's one effect that pre-dated the current "glitch pedal" mania, that is, without a doubt, the ring modulator, an effect that sounds wrong, that sounds weird - that sounds like the music your parents don't understand, therefore, wonderful. Adventurous upstate New York effect designer Adventure Audio just unveiled a new…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio unveils the Outer Rings Ring Mod

Cooper FX Moment Machine

Pitch shifting is one of those effects that, when used in non-subtle ways, can open up a wide palette of creative possibilities, which seems to be the precise mission behind the effect circuits of stompbox maker Cooper FX. The company new pedal "Moment Machine" was recently unveiled through a video by…Click on the title for more

Cooper FX Moment Machine

Pigtronix Ringmaster Ring Modulator

After driving the incredibly successful revival of the Supro amps, it looks like the guys at Pigtronix are refocusing their attention on their first love: guitar pedals. In advance of NAMM they announced the Pigtronix Ringmaster Analog Multiplier, an "intelligent" ring modulator effect that can sync to your notes frequencies to avoid the…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Ringmaster Ring Modulator

Hungry Robot The Stargazer V2 Reverb

Our friends Hungry Robot just unveiled the Version 2 of The Stargazer, check out Livingroom Gear Demos video below, and the info about the new features: The most exciting change is the "simultaneous, parallel processing" of the two channels. With the new Stargazer, both channels can be used at the…Click on the title for more

Hungry Robot The Stargazer V2 Reverb

Smallsound/bigsound Pretty Years Distortion

This blog and its blogger have seen a fair amount of gear in their lives, but an outboard rack effect that deals with distortion (not just saturation or subtle "warming") was missing from the list. This changed today, when, while looking into PA-based pedal builder smallsound/bigsound, we realized that its…Click on the title for more

Smallsound/bigsound Pretty Years Distortion

Adventure Audio Demogorgon V2

The Tone Mob just unveiled this video of the Adventure Audio Demogorgon V2, a Fuzz/Tremolo/Reverb - check it out! The Tremolo and Reverb operate as one block and the Fuzz as another. When Bypass switch is engaged, the Fuzz is always on. The Gain controls the amount of fuzz, and…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio Demogorgon V2

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tempo Tremolo

The Monument is Walrus Audio's take on Tremolo with Tap Tempo, check out this new video by Dennis Kayzer, more info about the pedal below! Inspired by the beautifully jagged, red-sand desert landscape of Monument Valley, the Monument Tremolo is both a harmonic, and standard tremolo that produces a rich, luscious,…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tempo Tremolo