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Hall Reverb

Upcoming Reissues: Dr. Scientist Reverberator Multi-Mode Reverb

Released in 2014 by an imaginative boutique Canadian builder, the Dr. Scientist Reverberator was one of the first compact digital reverb pedals offering a variety of algorithms. Discontinued a few years later due to a chip shortage, the pedal will soon be reissued, after the company unexpectedly stumbled upon a…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Reissues: Dr. Scientist Reverberator Multi-Mode Reverb

New Pedal: Pigtronix Cosmosis I – Morphing Reverb

A compact take on its bigger brother, the Pigtronix Cosmosis I packs the lush, immersive soundscapes of its predecessor into a pedalboard-friendly design, without giving up the stereo feature, offered here via TRS jacks. It features three distinct reverb modes, each of which can store its own preset: Theater, Temple,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Pigtronix Cosmosis I – Morphing Reverb

Strymon BigSky MX Reverb Workstation

Strymon just announced the successor of their super popular reverb workstation BigSky: it's the Strymon BigSky MX. Among the new features, there's Impulse Response technology and dual reverb patches, allowing the layering of two different effects on top of each other. The IR/Convolution Reverb addition allows for editing of parameters…Click on the title for more

Strymon BigSky MX Reverb Workstation

Alabs Cetus Multi-Mode Stereo Reverb

Alabs is a relatively new, Singapore-based pedal company focusing on building affordable but not necessarily streamlined, multi-algorithm, full stereo, compact effects. The Alabs Cetus is their take on reverb. It packs 9 high-quality effects running on a 32-Bit DSP, including Hall, Room, Church, Spring, Plate, Swell, Shimmer, Cloudy, and Wave,…Click on the title for more

Alabs Cetus Multi-Mode Stereo Reverb

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

A shrunken version of a 2019 pedal popular among shoegazers and any other guitarists inspired by the guitar tone of the '80s, the Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr. is a 3-in-one stompbox that (quite remarkably) combines delay, reverb and modulation into one compact enclosure. Loaded with 6 reverb modes, 3…Click on the title for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Sidekick Jr.

NUX Verb Core Deluxe Stereo Multi-Reverb

The new frontier of multi-algorithms pedals is managing to fit a full stereo signal inside a compact pedal, and the NUX Verb Core Deluxe does just that - for $99! Although not a small feat engineering-wise, that's not that surprising from a company that was able to create a line…Click on the title for more

NUX Verb Core Deluxe Stereo Multi-Reverb

BOSS RV-200 Reverb

BOSS's 200 series pedals are smaller but not necessarily less powerful versions of the Japanese company's flagship, multi-algorithm, stereo 500 series. The BOSS RV-200 (also a stereo device) is the much-anticipated shrunken version of the RV-500. Considering that its delay sibling, the DD-200, was released four years earlier, one may…Click on the title for more

BOSS RV-200 Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Ledges Reverb

The EarthQuaker Devices Ledges represents the Ohio company's entry product in what could be referred to as the "streamlined, multi-algorithm bread-and-butter reverb pedal niche" - which is a pretty popular niche since most guitarists commonly use traditional reverbs like Room, Plate, and Hall. By EQD's standard, this looks like a…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Ledges Reverb

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Oceans 3-Verb

The smallest sibling of the Oceans family of multi-mode reverbs, the Electro-Harmonix Pico Oceans 3-Verb is a mini pedal offering the three most popular algorithms found on those pedal (Spring, Plate and Hall) at a low price point. Everything is pretty straighforward here, with controls for Blend, Time (i.e. decay),…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Pico Oceans 3-Verb

UAFX Evermore Studio Reverb

Unveiled as part of Universal Audio's latest Compacts series, the UAFX Evermore pedal stands alongside three other effects, embodying a tribute to the legendary early digital reverbs that resonated throughout the late '70s and early '80s music landscape, and that were recently embraced by shoegaze bands. The extra (fixed speed)…Click on the title for more

UAFX Evermore Studio Reverb

NativeAudio Buffalo Days Multi-Reverb

The NativeAudio Buffalo Days is a compact, streamlined multi-mode reverb pedal by an emerging, US pedal company owned and run by a Native American engineer called Mike Trombley. The four reverb types, inherited from the more sophisticated Ghost Ridge reverb, can be switched via the central knob and need no…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Buffalo Days Multi-Reverb

Coffee Shop Pedals Cortado Reverb

The Coffee Shop Pedals Cortado is a multi-mode, stereo reverb pedal hailing from Saskatchewan, smack in the middle of Canada. This device is a testament to how, in this day and age, small builders with very small teams (in many cases a team of one) can create quality digital stompboxes…Click on the title for more

Coffee Shop Pedals Cortado Reverb