Best budget reverb pedals: wallet-friendly ‘board buys for the thrifty guitar player

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Reverb is a must-have effect on the pedalboard of any guitar player. It does everything from helping your guitar sit better in the mix, right through to catapulting your tone to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. Unfortunately, the majority of reverb pedals are pretty pricey, thanks to the tech required to simulate a space for your guitar so - to help you find your next pedal bargain - we spent some time picking out the best budget reverb pedals for your ‘board.

Reverb is not just a sweetener for your guitar tone. Mix engineers all over the world put reverb on drums, vocals, guitars, keys, and pretty much every other instrument. Sometimes it’s used to gel everything together, so it sounds like instruments recorded separately are occupying the same space. Other times it’s used to add wild effects to guitar solos, enhance vocal lines, or make drums sound like they’re coming from the room next door.

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Matt McCracken
Junior Deals Writer

Matt is a Junior Deals Writer here at Guitar World. He regularly tests and reviews music gear with a focus on guitars, amps, pedals, modelers, and pretty much anything else guitar-related. Matt worked in music retail for 5 years at Dawsons Music and Northwest Guitars and has written for various music sites including MusicRadar, Guitar Player, Guitar.com, Ultimate Guitar, and Thomann’s t.blog. A regularly gigging guitarist with over 20 years of experience playing live and writing and recording in bands, he's performed everything from jazz to djent, gigging all over the country in more dingy venues than you can shake a drop-tuned guitar at.