Source Audio announces Encounter Delay + Reverb pedal

September 16, 2025 · 4 sources

Source Audio announced the Encounter Delay + Reverb on September 16, 2025, a stereo pedal carrying six delay engines and six reverb engines¹². Guitar Pedal X reported that the pedal was teased at NAMM at the start of the year and uses the same enclosure configuration as the Collider¹. MusicRadar described it as an evolutionary remodelling of the Collider, which launched in 2019 and combined the company's Nemesis Delay and Ventris Dual Reverb into one enclosure³.

The delay engines are Noise Tape, Resonant, Drum Echo, Echoverb, Kaleidoscope and Helix; the reverbs are Hypersphere, Shimmers, TremVerb, Reverse, Lo-Fi and Swell¹³⁴. Kaleidoscope, Hypersphere and Shimmers are new¹. MusicRadar reported Source Audio's description of Hypersphere as an "N-dimensional sphere… [its] richest, largest and most experimental reverb to date," and its description of Kaleidoscope as "A twinkling, scattering hypnotic audio journey"³.

Controls are Delay, Feedback, Tone and Mix, plus Control 1 and Control 2, whose function changes with the selected algorithm⁴. The delay footswitch doubles as tap tempo, and a subdivision switch sets quarter note, dotted eighth or triplets¹. The pedal has stereo inputs and outputs, an analog dry through path, MIDI In and Thru, a 3.5 mm control port, a Mini USB port for the Neuro 3.0 editor, and switchable true or buffered bypass¹. It stores eight presets onboard and 128 via MIDI¹³. Gearnews reported the delay and reverb can run in parallel, in series, or to separate outputs⁴. It runs on an included 9V DC supply at about 280 mA¹³.

Guitar Pedal X listed a US price of $399¹. Gearnews listed $398 and said the pedal could be ordered⁴. MusicRadar put it at $399³.