Minimal Audio is a developer known for its unique and creative effects plugins (the Rift distortion is our favourite) and also the Current soft synth and content platform, released late last year.

There are more capable all-round reverbs out there, but Swarm is nicely immediate and fun when pushed to its extremes. Lacks some of the depth of more advanced reverbs. No output EQ or filter.

Competitively priced, stacked with 14 high-quality sounds with storable presets from a compact form, the R7 X2 is a serious stereo reverb pedal that covers all bases from everyday ambience to ...

Walrus Audio makes the most of a compact stompbox with an intuitive array of controls that present exceptional sounding reverbs that range from the everyday to the sublime. Best reverb pedals 2026: ...

Said to “stand on the shoulders of 60 years of chasing ‘the holy grail of DSP’,” Crystalline is a new algorithmic reverb plugin that harks back to classic digital reverbs of the past while taking ...

In the beginning, there was the Slö, Walrus Audio’s “multi-textural” reverb pedal that soon became a byword for compact pedalboard soundscaping solutions. Then we had Slötva, which allowed us to save ...

Cherry Audio has added to its plugin effect line-up with the release of Galactic Reverb, an algorithmic processor that’s designed to capture the sound of classic digital hardware reverbs. With a decay ...

The growing popularity of the dual function effects pedal continues apace with Source Audio plucking 12 delay and reverb engines from its Nemesis Delay and Ventris Dual Reverb and incorporated them ...

Gamechanger may have only released two guitar pedals so far, but the company has shown that it can live up to its lofty name. Its Plasma Pedal, for one, stands out in an ocean of distortion effects, ...