Beautiful ! I'm loving my Cloudburst. There's nothing else like it. I was surprised at how small it is. Great presentation of your sound ! Thank you for sharing. Best Wishes - John
Thanks so much, John. It is amazing! I know they won't reveal their secret sauce, and I hope they never do. They must have toiled over this for years to get it right. I suspect that, among the generated partials, there are number of inharmonic partials the mix, to give it the bowed vibe. The pedal also manages to create subtle dissonance that is not discordant nor unpleasant (and frankly not even really perceived as "dissonance"). The harmonic complexity is very impressive. I feel like it's the kind of pedal I've been waiting for my whole life.
@@onceuponashredder Agreed ! I have wanted something like this and tried so many other things for years. Even having the Roland GR 300 and GR 700 decades ago. Wishing you the best - John
The Electro-Harmonix Mel9 is at the core of my 12-string pedalboard. It's tremendous and I thought my board-building days were done. Then this astonishing unit comes along and I have to somehow break it to my wife that there's another £300 on its way out.
Mark, the Mel9 rocks! I've owned (I think) each of the EHX pedals in that series at one point or another, with the possible exception of the most recent (I think it's the synth-related one). LOL about that auto-purchase. You have to! It's a law of the universe. (With wife's approval, of course.🤣)
Indeed! See my reply to your other comment. The violin-y, reverb-y, modulation-y stuff is 100% CloudBurst. The pedals in front are slight tweaks to achieve an octave-up "violins 1" vibe.
Hey Ernie! The signal path is right-to-left, and there are no other pedals *after* the CloudBurst (so, nothing else to the left of the CB). The pedals before the CB were: 1. REVV Shawn Tubbs Tilt Overdrive (using only the boost, and only the EQ of the boost), 2. EHX SuperEgo for that lilting glissando causing chords to "gliss" into each other, and 3. DigiTech Mosaic 12-String Effect to add an "octave-up" line to get those higher "violins". But the CloudBurst is doing the heavy lifting, and there is nothing post-CB in the signal chain. It just sounds lush and gorgeous.
Hey, Jack thanks for comment! Interesting perspective! Well, If I wanted a static sound that was always the same (like a synth/sampler), then sure. But this Cloudburst is analyzing 48 separate frequency bands in realtime and generating harmonic partials, all in realtime. I have Arturia V suite, and soooo many synth plugins. The Cloudburst is fundamentally different. It even sounds different depending on the input (just changing which pickup I use, or whether I have the tone knob clockwise or anti-clockwise, etc.). Lastly, I'm a guitarist, not a keyboardist. (Drum programming doesn't count as keyboard playing, in my opinion, even though I do it on a keyboard.) The Cloudburst is just a different beast. I was able to coax a lovely symphonic vibe out of the pedal with only 3 tracks ("violins 1", "violins 2", and "cellos" -- all of those are just my names; the pedal does not have a "violins" button, or a "cellos" button, though it does have an "ensemble" toggle that adds varying amounts of those crazy harmonics.) Anyway, I appreciate you sharing your perspective! Thanks again.
@@onceuponashredder I have the cloudburst pedal and am using it with violin and guitar, but have not had much success with it, need to keep tweaking it.
