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2023 UPDATE! The Best Ambient-Shoegaze Reverb Pedals

Relevant pages for ambient/shoegazer guitarists are also the Best Reverse Pedals for Shoegaze article and the Modulated Reverb Category. For a more comprehensive article on all types of reverb see our Best Reverb Pedals piece. Updated on Sept. 22, 2023. Once upon a shoe-gazing time, guitarists had few choices when it…Click on the title for more

2023 UPDATE! The Best Ambient-Shoegaze Reverb Pedals

The Best Octave Pedals in 2023 | A Buyer’s Guide

Welcome to our guide to the best octave pedals. This article focuses on clean octavers - not octave-up-style fuzzes. If you are looking for the latter, please check out our guides to the Octavia, Super Fuzz and Foxx Tone Machine, and the list of all the new releases in the…Click on the title for more

The Best Octave Pedals in 2023 | A Buyer’s Guide

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

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Octave Reverb

Ohio's EarthQuaker Devices is one of the pedal companies that pioneered the "creative" stompbox trend that has taken over the field in the last decade. In the last few years, they have been focused on more traditional "tone" pedals (like their incredibly successful Tube Screamer-style overdrive Plums or the Metal-inclined…Click on the title for more

EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny Octave Reverb

The 3 Best Reverb Pedals, By Type in 2023

If you are looking for a thorough guide to the best reverb pedals, you've come to the right place. We organized this article in a way that should help you figure out what kind of reverb pedal you need, guiding you through the variety of stompboxes on offer and their…Click on the title for more

The 3 Best Reverb Pedals, By Type in 2023

Strymon blueSky v2 Reverb

Strymon have updated their iconic blueSky reverb to a v2 edition, with some quality of life improvements and new features. The biggest change is the implementation of a dedicated shimmer knob. The modulation is now on a three way selector for off, light, and deep. In addition, the pedal now…Click on the title for more

Strymon blueSky v2 Reverb

12 Reverb Types, Explained – using 6 of the Best Modern Reverb Pedals

There are several types of reverb that are commonly used in music production and audio engineering, and all of them made their way into the pedal format, in one device or another. Although guitarists have traditionally adopted spring reverb first and digital reverb after over other types like plate and…Click on the title for more

12 Reverb Types, Explained – using 6 of the Best Modern Reverb Pedals

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

The JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb is the Kansas City-based pedal builder's $99 take on the so-called "Shimmer" effect, a circuit that marries a long ambient reverb with an octave effect placed in the reverb's decay. Appeared on the scene in 1984 when Brian Eno came up with it while…Click on the title for more

JHS 3 Series Octave Reverb

Alexander Pedals Space Force Stereo Reverb

Alexander Pedals just unveiled their new multi-mode stereo reverb, the Force Reverb, which looks like an evolution of the 2018 Space Race. The new pedal also launches a new series called "Leap," destined to take over from the company's popular Neo series. The big upgrades of the Leap series, compared…Click on the title for more

Alexander Pedals Space Force Stereo Reverb

Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb

Guitarists with shoegazing tendencies (for the unaware, "shoegaze" is a musical genre featuring cascades of heavily reverberated distorted guitars) should take a look at the Catalinbread Soft Focus, a reverb + modulation pedal based on some algorithms of the Yamaha FX500, a digital rack effect of the late '80s that…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb

Mojo Hand FX Octaverse Reverse Octave Delay

We somehow missed the release of the Mojo Hand FX Octaverse earlier this year, and it's a shame because it looks like one of the coolest pedals released by the Michigan-based company in some time: it's a reverse delay with an added up-or-down octave circuit. The idea is quite unique…Click on the title for more

Mojo Hand FX Octaverse Reverse Octave Delay

Walrus Audio Descent

We got word from our friends at Walrus Audio that the Descent is... descending on us! (This is a pedal that in all likelihood you'll be able to check it out at our upcoming Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit). This is one of the most unique and intriguing reverb pedals that has…Click on the title for more

Walrus Audio Descent