ValhallaDSP ValhallaDelay $50

Renowned for the quality of DSP guru Sean Costello’s reverb algorithms, the cool flatness and visual simplicity of their graphical interfaces, and a wonderfully predictable monetary model (everything costs 50 bucks!), ValhallaDSP have yet to put a foot wrong in a decade of developing plugins.

A dedicated delay effect, ValhallaDelay (VST/AU/AAX) is only the company’s second nonreverb offering (the first being ÜberMod (10/10, 177) – although reverb is based on delay, of course, and both processes actually fall within the new plugin’s remit, as we’ll see. Expectations have been sky-high since first we learnt of ValhallaDelay’s inception, and it would