I’ve tried to include the best representatives at the different enclosure sizes - and here we have 5 Compacts - including the discontinued DigiTech Polara, then 9 Medium size boxes of various orientations, then 5 Big Boxes, and 1 Xtra-Large (CXM 1978)! While the little orange diamonds indicate those that are under consideration for future acquistion - with the Neunaber Illumine obviously the uppermost amongst those choices. I’m a little surprised that we don’t yet have more dual-channel Reverb varieties besides the forerunner RV-500 and Ventris, and the fairly recent Oceans 12? Furtehermore little green diamonds mark out the 6 pedals here that I alraedy own and have in rotation.
Note that in the above visual I’ve put in the ’2021’ date stamp for those Reverbs released this year, while ’x2’ denotes Dual-Channel variety. Last year I also added the Copper FX Arcades (Mono), with Reverb Card for this category - so for my main pedal-chain sequence - I have 4 pedals that deliver Reverbs - the Arcades (Mono - 8), Boss GT-1000 Core (Stereo - 10), NightSky (Stereo 3 3) and H9 Max (Stereo - 12) - which is pretty decent coverage all-round - and with at least 33 Algorithms at my disposal - while the NighSky does quite a bit more than that in absolute terms! Next came the Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 which had an all-too brief a residence as it was soon ousted by the very impressive Strymon NightSky ’Build-a-Reverb-Workstation’ - which is just genius and somewhat underrated. The Ventris finally materialised and became my mainstay then, supplemented by the addition of the Eventide H9 Max - which I largely acquired on the basis of its Reverb algorithms. My own journey into Reverb started with the Strymon BigSky - which was my mainstay for a while, then Source Audio announced its new Dual-Channel Ventris and I was very keen on that - but that edition was very slow to materialise, and so I moved instead to Boss’s excellent RV-500 next. Since we have had 5 cool new and formidable Stereo Reverb pedals this year - it seems opportune to review the category and figure out which are the standout options and alternatives - past and present.
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