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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 Pedal: Spooky Circuits Wee-Bird Reeverb

The Spooky Circuits Wee-Bird Reeverb is one of those creative pedals that immediately charm you with their beautiful DIY artwork, and then proceed to conquer you by delivering a trove of inspiring sounds. A 6-algorithm reverb with a Germanium gain stage, it's presented as a "pedal for non-traditional reverb sounds,"…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Spooky Circuits Wee-Bird Reeverb

New Pedal: Empty Head Falling Man Lofi Delay

Handbuilt in Germany by a small boutique builder, the Empty Head Falling Man is a simple but intriguing lofi echo pedal that will tickle the fancy of creative guitarists chasing character and texture. Built around the PT2399 chip, an obsolete component found in Karaoke machines that's become incredibly inspiring for…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Empty Head Falling Man Lofi Delay

WMD Geiger Counter Distortion/Bitcrusher

When I first took a look at the WMD Geiger Counter pedal I thought for sure that the WMD stood for Weapons of Mass Destruction and thought , "OK, these guys are no joke". Come to find that WMD actually stands for William Mathewson Devices and that he is actually...…Click on the title for more

WMD Geiger Counter Distortion/Bitcrusher

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That RF Distortion

The Fairfield Circuitry Roger That, a distortion inspired by FM radio communication, is another intriguing and imaginative pedal by a Canadian company with an uncanny ability to design original yet rather intuitive effect circuits, outside all trends. Using an "FM modulation and demodulation scheme," the Roger generates tones ranging from…Click on the title for more

Fairfield Circuitry Roger That RF Distortion

New Pedal: Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall

These days we rarely see effects pedals that do something that hasn't been tried before, and the Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall seems to be exactly that kind of rare device. It's an effect that emulates the natural effect of sympathetic resonance that all musicians experience when they play loudly…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall

Glou-Glou Flancher Stereo Pedals

From awesomely quirky French builder Glou-Glou comes a new series of stereo pedals that blur the line between stompbox and Eurorack (hey, they are both modular formats, after all!). Enter Flancher. Flancher consists of four stereo, analog, voltage-controlled pedals that utilize BBD chips and operate internally at 15V. These pedals…Click on the title for more

Glou-Glou Flancher Stereo Pedals

EarthQuaker + Death by Audio Time Shadows II

Released in limited numbers in 2021 as a marketing stunt to promote Reverb.com’s The Pedal Movie, the Time Shadows is a filter pedal engineered by two of the edgiest stompbox brands in the US: Ohio’s EarthQuaker Devices and NYC’s Death By Audio. The two companies are now unveiling an update, Time Shadows II, which adds welcome features such…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker + Death by Audio Time Shadows II

MXR Joshua Ambient Echo

The MXR Joshua Ambient Echo bears that name for a particular reason: it aims to offer, in a compact case, the legendary sound of U2's The Edge as heard in The Joshua Tree, a 1987 album that featured a signature guitar sound drenched in a rhythmic yet ambient delay. Extremely…Click on the title for more

MXR Joshua Ambient Echo

Rounder Sounds Zebra Trem

Tremolo enthusiasts who like to sculpt their own modulation waveform should take a look at the Rounder Sounds Zebra-Trem, allegedly "the only tremolo pedal with on-pedal waveform editing," - and the handy ability to store your creation in presets. Things are pretty straightforward with controls for Level, Depth and BPM,…Click on the title for more

Rounder Sounds Zebra Trem

StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine Fuzz + Tremolo

The StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine is an octave fuzz that blends vintage tone with modern technology, with a twist. A digitally controlled fuzz pedal, it is at its heart a classic octave-up fuzz, but integrated with a dynamic octapulse tremolo that allows it to go well beyond your typical fuzz…Click on the title for more

StoneDeafFX Rise & Shine Fuzz + Tremolo

Gamechanger Audio Bigsby Pedal

Once again, the talented team at Gamechanger Audio fulfilled the mission statement implicit in their company's name. The Latvian designers came up with a stompbox that shifts the vibrato action of the Bigsby lever from hand to foot: it's the Gamechanger Audio Bigsby Pedal! That, in our book, qualifies as…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Bigsby Pedal

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Octave Reverb

Ohio's EarthQuaker Devices is one of the pedal companies that pioneered the "creative" stompbox trend that has taken over the field in the last decade. In the last few years, they have been focused on more traditional "tone" pedals (like their incredibly successful Tube Screamer-style overdrive Plums or the Metal-inclined…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Octave Reverb