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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

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal

The slim group of synth pedals featuring one or more tracking oscillators has just gained a new member: the Subdecay M3. This monophonic stompbox efficiently tracks your signal, triggering three digitally controlled oscillators in a circuit inspired by the legendary Korg MS-20. Here's the pedal's path, also immortalized in the…... Click for more

Subdecay M3 – 3 oscillator guitar synth pedal

Flamma FC02 Mini Reverb

Flamma is an up-and-coming builder from China that has released some interesting multi-mode pedals in 2020 and it's now focused on the mini-format market, with a new series of stompboxes as affordable as $39. The Flamma FC02 is their new Mini Reverb pedal, featuring three modes (Studio, Church and Plate)…... Click for more

Flamma FC02 Mini Reverb

Fender Pinwheel Rotary Emulation

For Fender, NAMM 2019 was the year of modulation pedals: they unveiled three of them, all sharing a few features with each other. The Pinwheel is a stereo in/out, rotary speaker emulator that works seamlessly with guitars and keyboards thanks to a voicing switch on the back panel (see image…... Click for more

Fender Pinwheel Rotary Emulation

UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Ovedrive

Part of a three amp-in-a-box pedal addition to the Universal Audio pedal line, the UAFX Dream '65 Reverb is an authentic emulation of a Fender Deluxe Reverb, with several added features. Like the previous three pedals in the series, this is a multi-mode, studio-grade, stereo stompbox with presets and deep…... Click for more

UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Ovedrive

Colortone Spring Reverb II

Hailing from Australia, the Colortone Spring Reverb II is a three-mode digital reverb voiced after classic vintage units and combined with two independent modulation filters: Vibrato and RotoTrem. The three modes, selectable through the E S T toggle are the following: Echovberb, based on the '90s Princeton PT2399 Echo, some…... Click for more

Colortone Spring Reverb II

New at NAMM ’22: Cusack Music Prototype Delay

This year at NAMM, Cusack music teased their upcoming delay pedal, which will replace their current flagship Tap-a-Delay model. The new delay will use the same format as their Resound reverb pedal, meaning that it will have 8 different digital delay programs and 8 different presets, all recallable through the…... Click for more

New at NAMM ’22: Cusack Music Prototype Delay

Eventide Rose Modulated Delay

Eventide hadn't released a single function pedal in a while, focusing all their energy in the last few years in the development and expansion of the H9, a very innovative and powerful digital stompbox that gathered - in one small device - all the digital goods of their previous effects…... Click for more

Eventide Rose Modulated Delay

Flatsons Time Effects Reverb + Delay

Flatsons is one of those Chinese pedal builders whose mini-stompboxes sell like candy on eBay, AliBaba and Walmart (!!!), but don't seem to have their own website. Time Effects is their $59 digital reverb+delay and it frankly looks remarkable, if anything for the fact that it includes an LCD screen,…... Click for more

Flatsons Time Effects Reverb + Delay

IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-GEAR Pedals

IK Multimedia's first major success back in the early days of digital recording was AmpliTube, one of the very first amp simulation plugins that allowed mixing engineers to record clean guitar parts and apply amp and cab character to the signal while mixing. That piece of software kept growing as…... Click for more

IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-GEAR Pedals

Zander Templo Stereo Multi-Reverb

Alex Millar at Zander Circuitry is one of the few really boutique builders releasing full-fledged multi-mode pedals in this day and age, and the Templo is his take on the fully stereo multiverb workstation. The pedal's eight modes offer algorithms ranging from the traditional (Spring/Tile, Room/Hall) to the modulated ambient (Cave,…... Click for more

Zander Templo Stereo Multi-Reverb