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Depends on your budget. The following are pricy but good.
For reverb, I use both of these: Source Audio Ventris which is lovely and has lots of options. And the Strymon NightSky which can go to some quite unusual places.
As for delay there are so many pedals out there.
There are a few pedals that put delay and reverb together in one box: Source Audio Collider and GFI Speculst Tempus come to mind.
My only comment is I want some...
Strymon are good - Algorithmic and traditional sounding Big sky . Hologram Electronics are - Granular and sometimes on purpose unstable - Microcosm. Then there's a vast array of loopers that you can repurpose into delays like Chase Bliss - Blooper
Most of the above are VERY competent and on the expensive side. If you want bread and butter there are TONS of pedals and multi-effect pedals to fit that bill.
Watch some Knobs (youtube) or The JHS Show aka JHS Pedals. The JHS show is like a history lesson with demos and Knobs is sort of like aural porn, especially if you like noise candy.
I have several chase bliss, using real pedals for synth secret weapon Shhhh!
Some examples of implementation and workflow below
I’m a huge fan of the Red Panda Context 2 reverb. Compact, stereo I/O, plenty of great algorithms, and a very usable delay in every mode. The Grain algorithm in particular sounds utterly fantastic with everything I’ve put through it. The Context doesn’t have lo-fi or shimmer, and I know those are popular sounds, but I honestly don’t miss them.
I also recently picked up a Montreal Assembly Count to 5 and it pairs VERY well with synths. Non-standard delay and looping with an emphasis on creative applications.
Getting out of the boutique realm, Electro Harmonix’s delays and reverbs sound excellent without breaking the bank, especially if you don’t need stereo. And BOSS’s current offerings are particularly good — I’d be seriously looking at the RV-500 if I didn’t already have the Context.
Chase Bliss is immediately where my head went too.
I don’t have hardware effects pedals anymore because that rabbit hole goes too deep and iOS has so many amazing AU effects which are way easier to swap out and change.
That said I love almost anything by Chase Bliss, Beautiful Noises, Strymon, Empress, and Ventris (the dual reverb pedal is amazing).
I had a Chase Bliss Thermae on loan for a month last year and loved it as an "inspiration machine", and then spent too much time trying to replicate it with iOS effects. Gauss used as a delay was the closest.
Hardware effects pedals can be a pit of endless GAS, just like hardware modular synths.
That said, I do love the Blackhole algorithms on my Eventide H9 for the really big, not-even-trying-to-be-real, reverbs; the Empress Zoia for quirky experimental FX, Chase Bliss MOOD for its particular time-based FX, and Industrial Electric RM-1N for the hazy rusting cityscape of doom fuzzy reverb.
At the moment though, I'm using the Line 6 HX Stomp XL most of all. I originally got it to be a lightweight replacement for the full pedalboard, for taking to band rehearsal.
I also got it to use the electric-violin specific preset pack by Matt Bell of Electric Violin Shop, because I had enough of the guesswork involved in trying to tweak guitar-oriented FX to sound good with electric violin. Some people have dogged Helix reverbs compared to the competition but I think they sound pretty decent. Seems like every OS update introduces new delay FX, and they can get fairly playful/experimental with their delay ideas. OS 3.15 for example introduced Tesselator which "is part morphing delay, part loop sampler, part drone machine".
I'm really partial to Walrus Audio pedals, I have the Slo reverb and would like top buy the Mako R1 reverb and D1 delay.
However, if you want to save yourself a lot of money, I would recommend this thread I've been compiling, my motivation being to use the effects we have on iOS before spending hundreds on more pedals:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/48873/ambient-and-post-rock-guitar-effects-chains
+1 HX Stomp
Craig Anderton released an in depth book:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AndertonHX-e--sweetwater-publishing-the-big-book-of-helix-tips-and-tricks
https://line6.com/support/topic/62570-wow-the-big-book-of-helix-tips-tricks/
and the HX users are very active on YouTube.
I'm also a huge fan of the HX Stomp, there's SOOOO many amazing pedals in that little box. Dead easy to use, and pretty customizable too. Other than that, the only other hardware pedals I use anymore are a Timeline and Boss Tera Echo.
Delay and reverb is well represented on iOS. I sold my H9 and bought the Eventide plugs instead.
I use a Boss ME-5 and a few other analog pedals. The cool thing about the ME-5 is you have MIDI recall of presets but with analog fx.
One pedal I love is the Xvive Memory. That thing is great for wonky echoes.
Agreed on the pedal GAS…be careful there. That said, Universal Audio’s Golden Reverb is a beautiful multi-algorithm reverb. It covers all the bases with 5 different reverb types and 3 different variations with each type. I much prefer it to Strymons reverbs. Not a fan of their ‘churchy’ sounding Blue/Big Skys. Their Flint plate reverb is excellent, but expensive in comparison given it’s the only type of algorithm you get.
Anyway, UA Golden.
I love Walrus guitar pedals, but I find they overload wayyy too easily with synths. I have to keep my Take 5 master volume at like 1 (not o’ clock, I mean on a Spinal Tap scale of 1-11) and even then the pedals will peak out with any dynamic spike. Was very disappointed I couldn’t reliably use their Julia or Lillian with synths.
As far as delays, I think they’re wayyy too subjective to recommend a definitive one for you. Personally I use a Strymon Dig dual delay and the still classic Boss DD-500 workhorse.
Forgot to add, make sure you go stereo for reverb and delay, whether your synth has stereo outputs or not. Trust me, you’ll just end up rebuying stereo pedals later if you don’t.
Are they still even making mono delay and reverb pedals?
For a small price, this pedal have it all (Chorus, Delay,Reverb).
Don't be a tone snob, it sounds fantastic!
I use both the IOS effects and hardware pedals secret weapons
Here is a very good site that has categories and video demos of various pedals
Definitely check this website out It's called Delicious Audio
https://delicious-audio.com
If the house was on fire and I could only take one pedal this would be the one
Cooper FX Arcade, fun fact the guy that owned Cooper FX now works at Chase Bliss
This one has like 8 different cards you put in like an old video game console..cool.
These particular cards remind me of the Hologram Microcosm
This is my most fun pedal demo by Ricky Tinez
Yes it is this much fun to use/ we do not have an app that do this on the fly
Meris OTTOBIT (secret weapon)