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New Pedal: BSRI Soft Rains and the Smell Of The Ground

The (rather wordily named) BSRI Soft Rains and the Smell Of The Ground is a reverb pedal with a wide palette of tones ranging from lush to brash, created with the ambient, experimental guitarist in mind. The controls' names may sound foreign at first, but are not that overworldly: Level:…... Click for more

New Pedal: BSRI Soft Rains and the Smell Of The Ground

New at NAMM: Surfy Industries SURFYBEAR CLASSIC REVERB UNIT

The Surfy Industries SURFYBEAR CLASSIC REVERB UNIT is a pedal that recreates the sound of the vintage Fender 6G15 Reverb Unit. The pedal is large in size due to its use of a full-size spring reverb tank. The pedal also uses JFET transistors instead of tubes, which are the original…... Click for more

New at NAMM: Surfy Industries SURFYBEAR CLASSIC REVERB UNIT

GFI Skylar Stereo Reverb

GFI System is an Indonesian manufacturer that has been gaining traction in the pedalsphere thanks to forward-thinking hybrid digital effects like the Synesthesia and the Specular Tempus. The Skylar is a studio-quality, streamlined, multi-mode, stereo digital reverb that replaces the Specular Reverb in their line. It features four of its…... Click for more

GFI Skylar Stereo 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 for more

EarthQuaker Devices Ledges Reverb

Poly VERBS Reverb

Australian pedal company Poly Effect has never played the pedal game the way the other companies do, and their new stereo reverb is another demonstration of that. With its touch-sensitive controls (no knobs!) and convolution reverb capabilities, the Poly Verbs is a unique entry in the very competitive reverb pedal…... Click for more

Poly VERBS Reverb

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

Amp and cab simulators in the shape of a pedal have been gaining momentum in the last decade, but we have never seen something quite like the Thermion Freeway, a tweaker's dream stereo preamp/USB interface/headphones amp with FX Loop and a 6-mode reverb! Looking like a Tech 21 SansAmp on…... Click for more

Thermion Freeway Interface Amp

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

The Soma Cosmos is a stereo pedal offering dynamic looping that evolves as you play and layer sounds. Four creative algorithms affect your sounds differently, featuring a mix of delays, reverb, and a granular mode. Five footswitches control vital parameters crossfading between on and off states. Several knobs (Blur, Drift,…... Click for more

Soma Cosmos Drifting Memory Station

New Pedal: Maneco Labs 4AD

The name "4AD" might mean nothing for the 20 to 30-year-olds among you reading this, but it's bound to bring back fond memories to anyone who was exploring goth and then alternative music between the early eighties and the early nineties: it's the name of a UK label that launched…... Click for more

New Pedal: Maneco Labs 4AD

Walrus Audio Slöer Stereo Ambient Reverb

The Walrus Audio Slöer is the third evolution of the Slö pedal, a compact, mono reverb designed to deliver a textural, rather than realistic, effect ideal for music with ambient and droney inclinations. It was such a resounding success, that the Oklahoma-based company soon followed it up with a version…... Click for more

Walrus Audio Slöer Stereo Ambient Reverb

EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run Delay + Reverb

With up to 2 seconds of delay and lush Stereo reverb, the EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run creates floating ambient tones through deep but still user-friendly functionality. It has Tap Tempo functionality and modes for Both (standard delay and reverb) and Reverse (reverse delay and standard reverb), but the real prize…... Click for more

EarthQuaker Devices Avalanche Run Delay + Reverb

BIG EAR Albie Modulated Reverb

We are happy to see our old Brooklyn friends, now Nashville-based, BIG EAR Pedals release a new pedal, and a really intriguing one for that matter: the two-knob modulated reverb called ALBIE. This stompbox delivers a "less is more" approach to reverb by limiting the control knobs to one (Blend)…... Click for more

BIG EAR Albie Modulated Reverb

Catalinbread CBX Gated Reverb

The Catalinbread CBX is the second pedal released this year that does something quite unusual for a stompbox: gated reverb. This is a type of reverb derived from a studio trick consisting in cuttin out the tail end of the effect abrubtly, creating an interesting angular reflection that works particularly…... Click for more

Catalinbread CBX Gated Reverb