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: Klowra Budding Bloom Series

Klowra Budding Bloom Series Klowra stuffed five pedals into 1590A boxes and somehow none of them feel like a compromise you have to apologize for. The five pedals in their Budding Bloom Series all share the same control layout: four knobs, a 3-way Mode push-button, a 3-way secondary toggle, and a footswitch with different hold functions per mode. All mono TS in and out. USB-C for updates. 150mA draw on standard 9V DC.... Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Klowra Budding Bloom Series

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb

Electro-Harmonix Pico Shimmer Electro-Harmonix built the Pico Shimmer so you don't have to spend ten minutes dialing in a decent octave reverb. Three scenes, one knob to morph between them, and a footswitch that gives you infinite reverb on a press-and-hold. That's the whole interface.... Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

Bananana Mandala The Bananana-Mandala isn’t just another “fun-toy” glitch box—it’s a tiny, hand-wired manifesto that says the future of chaos lives on a printed circuit board the size of a postage stamp.... Click on the title for more

Bananana Mandala Glitch Pedal

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Beetronics finally went digital. After years of building analog dirt boxes in those signature hand-painted enclosures, the California-via-Brazil hive unleashed the Pollinator Hazee Delay—their first fully digital pedal . And thank fuck. Because you can't do what this does with bucket brigades and capacitors.... Click on the title for more

Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Multi-Modulated Delay

DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pedal

The Black Keys and The White Stripes - there are some suspicious similarities. Both are two piece acts. Both have "the color + plural noun" band names. Both went from Midwestern garage rock roots to become bands that you mom downloads from iTunes.... Click on the title for more

DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pedal

Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effector

JHS Bit Cusher, Glitch Delay and Ring Modulator

Butterfly Effects Dobbo Granular Pedal

Butterfly Effects Dobbo

In a world of predictable effects, sometimes your sound needs a collaborator—not just a tool. Enter the Butterfly Effects Dobbo, a stereo granular effect pedal designed not just to process your sound, but to play with it. This isn't merely a delay or a reverb; it's an ecosystem of sound where controlled chaos, randomness, and evolving textures invite you to explore sonic territories you didn't know existed.... Click on the title for more

Butterfly Effects Dobbo Granular Pedal

New Pedals: BSRI Geometry Stacks Flanger

BSRI Geometry Stacks Flanger The BSRI Geometry Stacks is an analog flanger that feels less like an effect and more like a piece of malfunctioning space station equipment.... Click on the title for more

New Pedals: BSRI Geometry Stacks Flanger

Kinotone Sparks Overdrive/Wavefolder/Filter/Synth

Kinotone Sparks Kinotone is a relatively new boutique US pedal brand that is grabbing attention for designing unusual and creative compact stompboxes that work well with guitar, synths or any instrument with an output. The Sparks, mostly a filter + distortion pedal, is their second product after the very well-received Ribbons.... Click on the title for more

Kinotone Sparks Overdrive/Wavefolder/Filter/Synth

Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

The looper is a tired format. Most of them just capture and repeat—useful, boring, done. NativeAudio's Mike Trombley looked at that and asked: what if the loop kept moving? The Pattern Keeper is a phrase modulator disguised as a looper. Sixty seconds of stereo recording at 48kHz/24-bit, analog dry path, buffered bypass . But the capture is just the beginning.... Click on the title for more

Native Audio Pattern Keeper Looper

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo

Vongon Polyphrase We were very proud to host the launch of the new Vongon Polyphrase at our 10th Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit (yeah, after all what happened since our 2019 edition we kind of forgot that this was the event's ten year anniversary!).... Click on the title for more

Vongon Polyphrase Stereo Echo