Get out of your rut with some pedal weirdness

We’ve all been there. The horrible rut with your pedals. You got a sweet set up, but feeling a little stifled with creativity. The issue is usually because you’ve developed the walls around your creativity with the quest for the tone, but lost site of the possibilities. You search and gather pedals for that particular project or sound. You dial it in, replacing pedals to get closer to that tone, until you reach that point of achieving your goals, you realize what next? This is a delicate balancing act. You still want to sound like “you” and you’ve defined *your* sound, but you want something different.

Usually, for me, I find inspiration from other players or bands and I get that itch to expand the horizons. But where do you want to go? You got the drives. You got the fuzz. You got the modulation. Where do you go? Well, for some of you, getting a little weird might be the way to go. Go extreme, and out of that extremeness, you might find some inspiration and a new direction. Check out this video titled – “The best crazy weird noise guitar effects pedals – top 25”. That definitely got my attention.

My Top 25 List

#25 4ms Noise Swash
#24 LastGasp Misty Cave
#23 Malekko Diabolik
#22 Subdecay Harmonix Antagonizer
#21 Snazzy FX Tracer City
#20 Robot Factory Hydra III
#19 Moog Cluster Flux
#18 ZVex Super Ringtone
#17 LastGasp Gomorrah
#16 MWFX Judder
#15 Lovetone Ring Stinger
#14 Hexe Revolver
#13 LastGasp Octavella
#12 McSpunkle Gnomeratron VTF
#11 Dimehead Schumann PLL
#10 Zvex FuzzFactory 7
#9 Pigtronix Mothership
#8 Eventide Space
#7 Chase Bliss Audio Spectre
#6 Subdecay Starlight DLX
#5 Rainger FX Dr. Freakenstein Fuzz
#4 WMD Geiger Counter
#3 Iron Ether Frantabit
#2 Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine
#1 Red Panda Particle

UPDATE 1/11/17

I should mention a few more that came to my attention. I’ll probably keep adding to this list, so if you have any suggestions, please comment or shoot me a message!

Montreal Assembly Count to Five
Buggfx Daydream

 

How do you guys get out of your pedal ruts? Also, let me know what you think of some of these pedals by commenting below!