In many ways this is the most straightforward category with singular award nominees - GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE.

It’s the second smallest category after Distortions - and the one where I own the least number of pedals in proportion to the whole - just 10 out of these 26.

The order pretty much set itself - with the Cornerstone Nucleo being the clear winner from the start. I’m so impressed with every aspect of that pedal - it’s a perfect Trifecta of Design, Feaures and Playability - pretty ...

A little over 2 months after the original Dual Channel Mirage, we now get a half pint version with one of the 2 channels rendered in full - but obviously without the various routing options and stereo playback. The Mirage JR is literally half of the original pedal - with the exact same 16 algorithms and control topology for that single channel.

Controls - Volome, Shift Button : ⬆ Outer Reverb Modes / ⬇ Inner Reverb Modes, Mix, Voice : Outer || Plate  Cathedral / Hall / Room / Spring / ...

The new Encounter Delay + Reverb which was teased all the way back at NAMM at the start of the year - features the exact same enclosure configuration as the Collder. It can largely be considered in terms of a Collider reboot - but with a more adventurous mix of algorithms.

In some ways this is ’old tech’ as the pedal somewhat inexplicably is still using Mini USB, and not the long-standing international standard of USB-C!

The control topology is nigh identical - with the only key ...

My Strymon journey started in December of 2016 - of course with the ’Stryfecta’ of BigSky, Mobius, and TimeLine. That was my first foray into Strymon, as well as the first of my Workstation pedal types - where I’ve favoured Stereo BIG-BOX solutions for Modulation, Delay and Reverb ever since. You can see the Stryfecta was a very significant part of my first official pedal-chain arrangement - first shared in April of 2017 - as below!

I own a fairly significant number of Reverb Pedals - where I’m mostly focused on Workstation style Pedals with multiple algorithms. I normally have at least 2 Reverbs on the board - a Primary Multi-Verb, and a Secondary more Specialist Verb. Occasionally I have a 3rd Reverb - which can be another Stereo Secondary, or more likely a Mono Tertiary. In fact I can have as many as 4 Reverbs on the board - as the Eventide H90 is always there too!

You can see from my various Pedal-Chain posts that ...

Electro-Harmonix is the only one of the big 3 for which I haven’t done a capsule collection rundown yet - so here it is! Obviously heavily dominated by Big Muffs and fuzzes - mostly JHS Modified, with the Violet Ram’s Head modified by Alchemy Audio - after JHS exited from that arena.

As for all of these reference projects - acquisitions are based on a mix of opportunity, timing, price and condition. And I periodically do sweeps to see if any of my targets can be acquired on beneficial terms...

As promised - here is the first of the Klowra Bloom Infinity Series Deep Dive Reviews. I pretty much declared this Limbo Reverb a winner from first encounter. This one sounds really great - and gives you the perfect balanced of algorithms including all of the classics - and 2 really unique ones - the Cloudy / Floaty ’Hazy’ one, and the gentle sea-shore swishing ’Tide’ those 2 are worth the price of admission alone.

All the more vanilla algorithms are present - Hall, Church, Room, Spring, ...

So this Hotone Verbera is the diametric opposite to the Crazy Tube Circuits Mirage I featured yesterday - but still at its heart a Dual Reverb. Where the Mirage has 16 fixed algorithms per side, and this one allows you to make use of 200 Presets - with 120 smart IR’s already loaded onto the device from a number of different sources. The are a combination of IR Reverbs and Studio Engineered Presets.

This is not my first rodeo as far as Convolution Reverbs go - my first of that kind was the ...

Crazy Tube Circuits really seems to be on a roll these days - and this is another surefire winner - 2 independent Reverb Circuits with 16 Algorithms Each - and which can be creatively routed - MISO / Full Stereo / Separate Channels / 2 Reverbs in Series.

The two sides have mostly identical control topologies - with further smart switching and routing options via external and internal controls. You can either have the Footswitches independent per channel, or the Left one as a Bypass / Engage...