The Boosted Reverb by Heretic Effects is a combined booster and reverb pedal in one enclosure, built around an analog circuit1. It sits in the overlap between boost pedals and reverb pedals: rather than boosting your clean tone or adding reverb on its own, it uses the boost to push the reverb itself.
What it does
The pedal's signal path runs the boost into the reverb. As the maker's product page describes it, "The signal is boosted (controlled by internal trim pot) before the reverb to saturate the processed signal." In practice that means the boost amount is set with a trim pot inside the pedal, not from the top panel, so it is a set-and-forget control: you dial in how hard the reverb is driven, and the pedal then saturates the wet signal as it passes through1.
The second half of the design is the toggle switch. "When the toggle switch is activated (up) it completely cuts out the dry signal," according to the maker's page. With the dry signal removed, only the saturated reverb remains, which the maker describes as producing "huge ghostly soundscapes." That makes the switch the pedal's main creative control: down for a conventional boosted reverb sound, up for washes of reverb alone1.
Controls
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| External knob | Controls the volume of the reverb signal1 |
| Toggle switch | When activated (up), completely cuts out the dry signal1 |
| Internal trim pot | Sets the boost amount before the reverb1 |
Power
The pedal runs on 9V DC, center negative1.
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Sources (1)
- Boosted Reverb by Heretic Effects, RockBoard PedalPedia, 2026