Reverb round-up

This month sees five new unorthodox space designers to drench your signals

The state of plugin reverbs back in the late 90s and early 00s was a sorry one. Unrealistic, grainy echoes and metallic, ringing tails were the best our feeble Pentium CPUs could muster. Things are very different now, of course, with a whole vista of pristine-quality space simulations to explore. But where do we go from here? Once you’ve hit peak reverb, what’s left to conquer? These five new unconventional ’verbs may hold the answers…