Mentha Works launches with Monk Echo delay/reverb pedal

November 24, 2025 · 3 sources

Mentha Works, a new music gear brand from Latvia, has announced its first product, the Monk Echo, a delay and reverb pedal built around vocal formant filters¹². The brand was founded by musicians and sound designers Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans, both former Gamechanger Audio contributors¹³. Delicious Audio reported the pedal on November 24, 2025¹; Guitar.com and Guitar World followed on November 26 and November 28²³.

The Monk Echo processes its reverb and delay signal through morphing formant filters tuned to the resonant frequencies of the human voice²³. Players can select a vowel, glide continuously between vowel shapes, or let the pedal respond automatically to playing dynamics, and can switch between male, female and children's choir timbres¹². Guitar.com describes the pedal as designed to sound like "a choir of monks echoing through stone walls"². Sound-shaping tools include granular pitch shifting, reverse delay, modulation, distortion and degradation, plus stereo width control¹³.

Guitar World lists the top row of controls as a Wet/Dry dial, a pre-delay reverb control, Delay Time and Reverb Feedback, with a Monk Voice character knob, a Vowel Selector and modulation and distortion/degradation controls beneath³. A Macro Control system links multiple parameters to a single knob, expression pedal or the built-in footswitch, and an 8x8 dot display shows parameter movement¹². The pedal has full MIDI, presets and a stereo signal path, and is tap tempo operable¹³.

Guitar.com gives the price as $380 for a limited time². Guitar World reports that pre-order price is limited to the first 500 units, with shipping due in February 2026³.

The Monk Echo is a delay and reverb pedal; more delay pedals are covered in our delay pedals section.