The Little Guy

*Nominated for best phaser pedal of 2025 by Emily Hopkins!*
Don’t be fooled by the name. The Little Guy isn’t so little when it comes to sound. This dual-effect powerhouse combines a versatile OTA-based phaser with a crushing op-amp fuzz, giving you everything from subtle movement to chaotic walls of texture.

On the phaser side, The Little Guy can drift with slow, sweeping modulation or dive headfirst into warped, wonky movement. With selectable LFO waveforms (triangle, upward sawtooth, downward sawtooth) and full control over speed, width, range, and feedback, it’s a phaser built for sculpting motion, not just adding swirl.

The fuzz circuit delivers snarling character with surprising dynamics. It cleans up beautifully with your guitar’s volume knob but still packs enough headroom to shift from gritty drive, to ripping distortion, to thick, saturated fuzz — all with a single knob sweep.

And thanks to a built-in send & return loop, The Little Guy drops into your rig seamlessly, letting you place other pedals between its fuzz and phaser stages without sacrificing your core signal.

Features:

2-stage OTA phaser with waveform shaping (triangle, upward sawtooth, downward sawtooth)
Op-amp fuzz with hard clipping character
Send & return loop for flexible routing
Top-mounted jacks
Assembled by hand


Controls

Phaser

Width – Adjusts the sweep depth
Speed – Controls modulation rate
Shape – Switches between LFO waveforms
Range – Determines frequency range of phase effect
Regen – Blends feedback into the phase-shifted signal


Fuzz

Volume – Master output level
Tone – Active high/low-pass filter
Fuzz – Gain/distortion control


Specs:

Standard 9V center-negative power
~35mA current draw


The Little Guy may be little, but its sound is massive — a swirling, growling, hand-built beast ready for anything from subtle textures to sonic overload.