In the historical timeline of guitar effects, long before pedals of any kind were commonplace, the effects that guitarists utilised were mainly built into their amplifiers, namely tremolo and reverb.

We’re so used to reverb effects being simply another software plugin that it’s easy to forget the electromechanical roots of the effect. Decades ago, a reverb would have been a metal spring fed at one ...

Heavily inspired by ‘50s and ‘60s combo amps, the Spring King was an oversized box with a real spring reverb tank inside and a kick pad you could stomp to create all sorts of ...

Reverb is one of the most-used effects in the music producer’s toolkit. Indeed, it’s rare to encounter a song from the last 70 years or so that doesn’t involve reverb in some way. While it may seem ...