Cusack Music Cusack Sweet Verb

The Cusack Music Sweet Verb is a reverb pedal built around the Belton BTDR-3 reverb module. Cusack Music announced it in September 2013 at a retail price of $199, and Guitar World reported at the time that the pedal was available and in stock¹. The company describes it as offering versatility and an intuitive user interface¹.

Controls

The Sweet Verb keeps its front panel to four knobs, each with a single job²:

The separate Wet and Dry controls are the core of the layout. Tony from Cusack Music put it this way when the pedal was featured on Pedal of the Day: "Separate Wet and Dry controls allow for as much or as little of each signal as you want"². In practice that means the pedal can sit at the end of a chain as a subtle room behind the dry tone, or run as a fully wet effect with the dry signal handled elsewhere.

The Size knob is what gives the pedal its range. Cusack Music describes it as covering everything from a spring-style character up to a large cave-like space, all with one twist². The Texture knob then shapes the tone of the reverb signal itself, separate from the dry guitar tone².

Bypass and switching

The pedal uses Cusack Music's True Bypass Switching system, so the guitar signal passes through untouched when the effect is off².

Where it sits in Cusack's reverb range

The Sweet Verb was an early entry in Cusack Music's reverb line. The company later introduced the Resound, a digital stereo reverb with eight reverb programs and presets, and more recently the Resound V2, which adds new algorithms and an Expression output. Players looking for a simpler single-knob-style design may also come across the Tiny Verb and the Reverb SME. For a broader look at what else is available, see the site's guide to Reverb Pedals.

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