Reverb effect

The American producer Bill Putnam is credited for the first artistic use of artificial reverb in music, on the 1947 song "Peg o' My Heart" by the Harmonicats.

Convolution reverb uses impulse responses to record the reverberation of physical spaces and recreate them digitally.

[2] The American producer Bill Putnam is credited for the first artistic use of artificial reverb in music, on the 1947 song "Peg o' My Heart" by the Harmonicats.

Putnam placed a microphone and loudspeaker in the studio bathroom to create an echo chamber, adding an "eerie dimension".

[1] They became popular with guitarists, including surf musicians such as Dick Dale,[1] as they could easily be built into guitar amplifiers.

[5] It was pioneered by the English recording engineer Hugh Padgham and the drummer Phil Collins, and became a staple of 1980s pop music.

The EMT 140 plate reverb system
A spring reverb tank
A Strymon BigSky digital reverb
Video demo of a digital reverb pedal , producing modulated reverb, octave up and octave down shimmer