Phaser and Fuzz in One Hand-Built Box
Do not let the name fool you. The Little Guy from Monger Pedals is a fuzz and phaser pedal that pairs a versatile 4-stage OTA phaser with a crushing op-amp fuzz, and it covers everything from subtle movement to chaotic walls of texture. Two independent effects, one enclosure, and a routing trick that makes it far more flexible than a typical combo pedal.
On the phaser side, it can drift with slow, sweeping modulation or dive headfirst into warped, wonky movement. Selectable LFO waveforms cover triangle, upward sawtooth, and downward sawtooth, with full control over speed, width, range, and feedback, so you are sculpting the motion itself rather than adding generic swirl. The fuzz circuit snarls with real character and more dynamics than its hard clipping design suggests, cleaning up with your guitar volume knob and moving from gritty drive to ripping distortion to thick saturated fuzz across a single knob sweep.
How It Fits Your Rig
The built-in send and return loop is what makes The Little Guy drop into a real board without compromise. You can place other pedals between its fuzz and phaser stages, so a delay, an octave, or a filter sits right in the middle of the signal path instead of being stuck before or after the whole unit. Run phaser into fuzz for classic gritty modulated crunch, or put something weird in the loop for textures no single pedal makes on its own. Both sections have their own footswitch, so it works as a phaser pedal, a fuzz pedal, or one big noise machine depending on the song.
Features and Specs
- Phaser: 4-stage OTA phaser with waveform shaping
- Waveforms: triangle, upward sawtooth, downward sawtooth
- Phaser controls: Width for sweep depth, Speed for modulation rate, Shape for LFO waveform, Range for the frequency range of the effect, Regen for feedback
- Fuzz: op-amp fuzz with hard clipping character
- Fuzz controls: Volume for master output, Tone as an active high and low pass filter, Fuzz for gain
- Routing: send and return loop between the fuzz and phaser stages
- Jacks: top mounted
- Power: standard 9V center negative supply, approximately 35mA draw
- Build: assembled by hand
FAQ
What can I put in the send and return loop?
Anything you want between the fuzz and phaser stages. Delay, reverb, octave, filters, and envelope effects are all common choices, and the placement changes the character dramatically.
Can I use the fuzz and phaser separately?
Yes. Each effect has its own footswitch, so you can run either one alone or both together.
Does the fuzz clean up?
It does. Rolling back your guitar volume takes it from saturated fuzz to gritty drive, so you can control a lot of the range from the guitar itself.
The Little Guy may be little, but the sound is anything but.
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