Catalinbread announces CB Paint reverb pedal with eight Microverb patches

March 12, 2026 · 3 sources

Catalinbread has announced the CB Paint, a compact digital reverb pedal built around eight patches from the Alesis Microverb, the half-rack digital reverb unit introduced in 1986¹. Delicious Audio reported the launch on March 12, 2026¹. MusicRadar later reported the pedal as available now, priced $209².

The pedal has three knobs and an eight-position mode switch. Tone controls a two-pole low-pass filter, described by the maker as working like a tone control, bright when turned up and dark when turned down³. Mix sets the balance between dry signal and the pedal's reverb³. Onset sets pre-delay: at minimum the reverb is instantaneous, and at maximum it takes about 200ms to begin³. In gate mode Onset controls the gate time, and in reverse mode it controls how much smearing is applied to the reverse sound³.

The mode switch is an eight-way rotary. Patches 1 through 6 are the Microverb's original room patches, with room size and decay increasing from 1 to 6³. Patch 7 is the Microverb's gate mode and patch 8 is its reverse reverb³. MusicRadar describes the first six as ranging in size from a studio apartment to a warehouse, selected via a chickenhead dial². Catalinbread says the reverse patch does not read the signal backward: "Rather than read the signal in reverse, the Microverb uses math to reverse the signal by reducing the reverb state's reflective properties"³.

The CB Paint runs on a center-negative 9VDC power supply supplying at least 63mA; the maker states that improper powering voids the warranty³. MusicRadar reports that gated reverb has appeared before in the Catalinbread line, as a mode in its CBX Gated Reverb².

The accounts differ on the Microverb's standing. Delicious Audio calls it a studio rack unit "everyone wanted and everyone could afford"¹. A commenter on that article disputed the description, writing that the Microverb entered the market at $400 in 1986 and was the unit musicians could afford rather than the one they aspired to, citing the Lexicon PCM70 at $3,000¹. MusicRadar describes the Microverb as a cult '90s rack unit with fans including Neil Young, Daft Punk and Trey Anastasio².