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REVERB PEDALS

The Best Reverb Pedals with Modulation or Fuzz/Distortion in 2023

[lwptoc titleFontSize="140%" titleFontWeight="bold" itemsFontSize="115%" colorScheme="transparent" hoverLinkColor="#cc0000" skipHeadingLevel="h1,h2,h3"] Updated on April 28, 2023 Defining "Hybrid Reverb Pedals" In the recent past, our blog covered in-depth the best reverb pedals available on the market, organizing them in several categories: Best Spring Reverbs, Best Multi-Mode Reverbs, Best Ambient "Shoegazer" Reverbs and gathered all…... Click for more

The Best Reverb Pedals with Modulation or Fuzz/Distortion 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 for more

Strymon blueSky v2 Reverb

New Pedal: Mr Black Heaven’s Gate Gated Reverb

Music producers have been using gated reverb on drums (snare and toms in particular) for fast-tempo pop songs since the '80s (first adopted in Peter Gabriel's 1979 self-titled album). The Mr. Black Heaven's Gate brings that effect to guitarists in the pedal format. Gated reverb works well on uptempo snares…... Click for more

New Pedal: Mr Black Heaven’s Gate Gated 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 for more

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

Surfy Industries Surfybear Metal

The Surfybear Metal is a real spring pedal that replicates the tones of vintage reverb pans with great accuracy, and it's considered by many as the best recreation of a Fender 6g15. It features useful controls like a Volume (to make up for lost volume when the effect is on),…... Click for more

Surfy Industries Surfybear Metal

Harley Benton Duality Delay+Reverb

The Harley Benton Duality is a mono pedal comprised of a 3-mode digital delay and digital reverb whose algorithms were licensed from Mooer and featured in the Japanese brand's original mini pedals. Joined together in a single enclosure, they form this new affordable delay+reverb pedal that can be cleverly routed…... Click for more

Harley Benton Duality Delay+Reverb

Dreadbox Raindrops Delay

The Dreadbox Raindrops delay was unveiled by the Greek synth veterans at NAMM 2022; it's a full stereo hybrid analog + digital pitch shifting delay. It delivers delay times from 50ms to 1000ms with lo-fi sounds above 700ms. Key features include: Three algorithms: modulated delay, pitch shifting delay, and reverb…... Click for more

Dreadbox Raindrops Delay

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 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 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 for more

Catalinbread Soft Focus Reverb

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

While working on their dual processor, "do-it-all" reverb pedal Ventris, Massachusetts' builder Source Audio put a lot of effort into creating a digital spring reverb that sounded as good and as natural as the ones generated by spring coils found in vintage amps. So much so that, in the Ventris, the…... Click for more

Source Audio True Spring Reverb

Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV

The Splash reverb series by Crazy Tube Circuits gains a new member with this 4th version presented at NAMM 2020. The Splash MK IV gathers all the algorithms from the previous versions of the Splash Mk III and Sidekick pedals and adds on top three entirely new ones, for a…... Click for more

Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Reverb Mk IV