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 ...

Set up by 2 former Gamechanger Audio alumni - Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans - with a Team steeped in Darkglass Electronics / Neural DSP and Marshall.

The pedigree and provenance is pretty clear here, and Menha.Works have understandably come up with an ulra modern killer aesthetic for heir very unique new Monk Echo + Reverb. The Monk Echo is inspired by  Baltic Choirs and Mystical Spiritual Spaces.

Apart from the gorgeous design here, the Monk Echo has a unique Human Formant Voicing ...

DBA has rolled out a really cool stretched out, endless, and cavernous stereo reverberator here - making use of TRS ports, and with 3 increasingly intense Modes onboard.

It’s a fairly simple pedal in many ways - but super smart too with its dual footswitches, and Low Pass Filter. It’s perfect for those who want to deliver a ’Big’ reverb sound in Stereo - in the most straightforward of manners. And the Modes and 2nd Footswitch throw in some useful variations.

External Controls - Dry>Wet Mix...

I believe this is the 4th in OBNE’s Square Stereo Series - following on from the Dark Start, Black Fountain, and Bathing Liminal pedals. As it says in the title - it combines two of OBNE’s ambient pedals - the Sunlight and Procession - here enhanced with further features and granulary, of course with full Stereo signal now, and onboard presets. This Sunlight has 10 controls :

Controls - Dry, Dynamics, Decay, Feedback, Rate : 1/4 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1x | 2x | 3x | 4x, Depth, Shape : Tape / ...

So this is a really interesting experiment by Alexander Pedals in channelling Modulated Reverb elements into a sort of synthesizer format. Synthesizers are mostly composed of Oscillators and Filters - where Alexander has deployed Modulated Reverb to similar ends.

You get really interesting Ghostly Synthy Reverb Textures - rendered in stereo - for an exceedingly ethereal sci-fi kind of experience!

Controls - Decay, Space, Blend, Level, Sense (Off CCW), Swell : Filter / Post / Pre, Rate, ...

August turned out a little bit different than expected. Not so many releases - as expected - but really busy regardless - with a number of Marquee Events and Articles throughout the month. With the king of the crop being the Extended Capacitor Primer - to which I’ve just added a further section on Capacitor Lifespan. Obviously I hit 15,000 followers on Instagram - which is a significant achievement - a really killer month all-round with some big articles - meaning I’m a little bit burned out ...

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 ...

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...

EarthQuaker is in trouble and needs our help. The business has been badly hit by Trump’s Tariffs and is in danger of going under supposedly. And no - it’s not so much politics - as economics rather!

So if you were thinking of buying a pedal within the next week or so - make it an EQD one!

For that purpose I’ve done a sort of A-Z of EQD Pedals - a curated selection which includes most of my favourites - both newer and more classic varieties currently available - these are the types I ...