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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.

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

Among the (not easy to navigate) content of Believe in Music 2021, we somehow missed that Detroit's experimental pedal maker Red Panda had released version 2 of their Bitmap, a Stereo bit crusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation. The new version features one extra footswitch, an entirely…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Bitmap 2 Stereo Bitcrusher

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz

From a veteran boutique pedal manufacturer that built its name on tweakability comes one of the most feature-rich and unique fuzz pedals on the market: the Subdecay Noise Theory. Presented as a "Parallel Waveshaper Fuzz," the noise theory combines an analog and a digital fuzz circuit placed in parallel, and…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Subdecay Noise Theory Fuzz

Haunted Labs Shadow Winds Delay

Unveiled at the NAMM 2023 show, the Haunted Labs Shadow Winds is a delay pedal with three modes and a trick up its sleeve. The builder isn't sharing the modes' names or functions yet, but from the video, we gather that the Invoke knob adds extra "haunted" effects like pitch…Click on the title for more

Haunted Labs Shadow Winds Delay

Warm Audio RingerBringer

The Warm Audio RingerBringer continues the US company's series of pedals inspired by discontinued (or supposedly so) stompboxes brought to you at a lower price point than the original and with very minor sonic compromises, if any. The RingerBringer, as many of you may have guessed, is a clone of…Click on the title for more

Warm Audio RingerBringer

Weird Noise Death Spiral

A digital, creative modulated, and fuzzed-up delay based on the PT2399 chip (a semi-obsolete component that still inspires hundreds of boutique pedal builders) the Weird Noise Death Spiral offers two LFOs, a Low Pass filter and a fuzz circuit, along with expression control. The Low Pass filter can help create…Click on the title for more

Weird Noise Death Spiral

Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Delay

The race to build the best stereo analog delay is on, ladies and gentlemen! The Walrus Audio Meraki, released under Reverb.com's multi-builder 2023 Blackout Series initiative, joins the BOSS DM-101 in an effect category that's universally considered hard to crack for its engineering challenges, including the fact that this kind…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Delay

Old Blood Noise Dark Light Stereo Reverb

Enclosed in a beautiful case featuring an illustration by Jon Carling, the Old Blood Noise Dark Light is a versatile reverb pedal that combines the unique features of the company's Dark Star and Sunlight. Offering various routing options like separate stereo, parallel mono, and series mono, Dark Light merges Dark…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise Dark Light Stereo Reverb

Red Panda Particle V2 Multimode Granular Stereo Delay

V2 of the Red Panda Particle Granular Delay sports completely rewritten firmware, as well as high-performance 32-bit processing and conversion. It runs at a higher sampling rate, with more headroom and lower noise than the original and... it has Stereo In and Out! Interactive controls mean a small change can…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Particle V2 Multimode Granular Stereo Delay

Walrus Audio Fable Granular Soundscape Generator

The Walrus Audio Fable, presented by the Oklahoma City builder as a "granular soundscape generator," is a pedal developed on the successful platform of the Lore, the company's reverse soundscape generator released in 2022. Needless, to say, the keyword here is "granular," a sample synthesis technique that records your performance…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Fable Granular Soundscape Generator

BOSS Tera Echo TE-2

The BOSS Tera Echo is a rather unique pedal that delivers something in between a delay and a reverb, with an added dynamic modulation/filter effect. It can produce original echo and ambiance effects. The freeze function holds the ambient sound for lead backing and sound effects. The BOSS Tera Echo…Click on the title for more

BOSS Tera Echo TE-2

Chase Bliss Audio MOOD MkII

Chase Bliss has just announced an update to its popular supercreative, granular ambient loop + reverb pedal: the Chase Bliss MOOD MkII, which will start shipping in late April but can be ordered now. The original version, the product of a collaboration with Old Blood Noise and Drolo, was very…Click on the title for more

Chase Bliss Audio MOOD MkII

Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal Reverb

The Latvian inventors behind Gamechanger Audio don't like to do things the "normal" way. After releasing a bolt-of-light-driven distortion pedal and an engine-based synth, they are launching at NAMM the first "analog optical spring reverb," called Light, where an optical sensor is employed to "harvest the timbral and harmonic range…Click on the title for more

Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal Reverb