Electro-Harmonix releases Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb pedal

June 10, 2026 · 5 sources

Electro-Harmonix has expanded its Pico Series with the Pico Shimmer Cosmic Reverb, a compact digital reverb pedal with three shimmer settings, the company announced on June 10, 2026¹².

The pedal offers three modes selected with a Scene button: Intergalactic, Off-World and Etherdust¹². Guitar Pedal X lists the mode colors as GREEN Classic Intergalactic, ORANGE Mellow Off-World and RED Glitchy Etherdust³. Guitar.com describes Intergalactic as a "classic shimmer" built from polyphonic octaves, reverb, modulated delay and compression plus a string synthesis engine, Off-World as a mellower shimmer with enhanced delay modulation, and Etherdust as a glitch effect with randomized delay time producing stutters from "short granular sparkles to distinct glitch echoes"¹. Gearnews says the algorithms were borrowed from the Oceans 11⁴; Guitar.com says the pedal is inspired by the Shimmer settings on the Canyon Delay and Oceans 11 Reverb¹, and Guitar Pedal X says it combines algorithms from the Oceans, Canyon and POG pedals³.

There are four knobs. Gearnews gives them as Blend (dry/wet), Time (reverb time), Voice (morphing between plate reverb, shimmer and string engine) and Tone (low-pass filter)⁴. MusicRadar lists the primary functions as Blend, Time, Voice and Depth, and says holding the Scene button switches the knobs to Reverb Mix, Delay, Depth and Rate². Holding the footswitch engages Infinite Reverb, which freezes the reverb tail³⁴². The pedal has three buffered bypass modes, Digital, Analog and Hybrid, plus a Trails function⁴², and ships with a power supply¹²⁵.

Guitar Pedal X describes it as a mono Pico pedal rather than stereo, aimed at mini boards³. Prices differ by outlet: Guitar Pedal X and Guitar.com give $149³¹, MusicRadar gives $149², and Gearnews gives $154⁴. Guitar Pedal X says European availability may follow later³.