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<strong>The</strong> Ultimate Guide to<br />
Reverb Pedals<br />
delicious-audio.com<br />
<strong>The</strong> object pictured here that<br />
looks like a 10 inch-long<br />
metal bath tub is how reverb<br />
effects for guitar looked like<br />
when they first appeared in the<br />
early ’60s — although you didn’t<br />
really see that, since it was hidden<br />
inside guitar amps like the Ampeg<br />
Reverberocket and the Fender Vibr<strong>over</strong>b.<br />
Those amps represented<br />
the beginning of a long lasting and<br />
prolific love story: the one between<br />
electric guitar and reverberation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first reverb in stompbox format<br />
only appeared in the mid ’80s (DOD<br />
and BOSS units), but since then the<br />
acceleration in popularity has been<br />
A spring reverb tank. (Credit: Grebe, Common License)<br />
so swift that, thirty years later, looking<br />
for a reverb pedal has become a<br />
little bit like looking for a car: there’s<br />
a wide range of options and prices,<br />
with each model excelling at different<br />
things and offering different features.<br />
This is why when confronted<br />
with the idea of creating a guide to<br />
reverb pedals we decided to organize<br />
it in the four categories below<br />
— you can find the full articles by following<br />
the red links next to the titles.<br />
Best Ambient/Shoegazer Reverb Pedals<br />
bit.ly/GazeVerbs<br />
Once upon a shoe-gazing time, guitarists had few choices when it<br />
came to pedals that could create washes of ambiance. Many players<br />
used multiple delay and reverb pedals at the end of their signal chains<br />
to generate deep, blooming and lingering soundscapes. <strong>The</strong>se days,<br />
thanks to advances in digital signal processing (DSP) chips, pedal<br />
makers can create stompboxes dedicated to this particular brand of<br />
reverb. As it happens, pedals that excel at creating ambience are all<br />
the rage right now. We’ve spent some time with the current crop of offerings<br />
and have collected 18 that we consider the best. All of the pedals<br />
listed in this article will allow you to create cavernous reverbs with<br />
lingering tails, shimmer effects, delay, modulation and much more.<br />
In this article you’ll find these lists:<br />
1. Ambient/Shoegaze Reverb Pedals<br />
2. Ambient/Shoegaze Reverb + Delay Pedals<br />
30 the deli Winter <strong>2019</strong>
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