Agreed, James! It's the kind of pedal that would probably grow old if it was on every song. But it works so amazingly in the right places. There's just nothing else like it, really. Like I mentioned in another reply, rolling back the tone knob of the guitar to varying degrees really bought out different "bowing" tones. It's really an amazing pedal, and it organically responds to the harmonic content it receives from the guitar. Just experimenting with the tone knob (in some cases rolling the tone all the way back, for example) really brought out these beautiful symphonic tones.
I have the Cloudburst pedal. Do you think I'd be able to replicate this closely with adding only the SuperEgo? Or Mosaic? Or do I REALLY need all 3? If I were to buy one or the other which would you suggest? Great video. I spent 20 minutes looking for this video again so I subscribed and "liked" it. Thanks buddy.
That's really interesting about the tone knob, it's an effect clearly but the excellent way you are using it, makes the pedal an instrument in its own right a midi guitar string synthesizer. Nice playing and composing should have mentioned that in my previous comment.The only one thing - To hear these lovely strings in any one section I guess you'd need to keep the big distortions and power chords etc at bay or leave them for other sections of your music,those beautiful strings have to be heard! Have you thought about writing / recording a piece entirely with the string sounds from the pedal - bass strings / cello without reverb and the higher strings with reverb wouldn't that sound incredible?oh wait I think you've done that? Do you think other manufacturers will copy this shall we say phenomena?Don't think there's any direct comparison except the shimmers.
I created three other videos containing the discrete parts alone ("Violins 1", "Violins 2", and "Cellos", respectively), and those videos are available on my channel. But I didn't combine them in a "strings only" symphonic thing. I was just demonstrating each part discreetly, without any other accompaniment. Check those out when you get a chance! Thanks so much for the compliment! Much appreciated. Right about other pedal makers. I think EHX is maybe the only other one that has pedals in the same ballpark, except they're using different technology and (I suspect) not nearly as much underlying DSP power as the CloudBurst. Strymon "took it up to 11" with the CloudBurst DSP-wise. They spent a lot of time in R&D, from what I gathered watching the video on the Strymon website's CloudBurst product page (the CloudBurst developers discussing).
Thanks, James! What a cool pedal. So much lush sound in a tiny package. I found that rolling back the tone knob on my guitar (for some parts, all the way back) creates excellent orchestral textures. You'd think it would cause it to be muffly, but the pedal doesn't work like that. It still creates the gorgeous violins-bowing string section vibe with rich harmonics. The difference is in exactly how it responds with the tone knob rolled back at varying levels. It just creates different sounds, but all of them are lush and vibrant.
Something I didn't talk much about is the glissando effect of the EHX SuperEgo, lilting one chord into another. That almost deserves its own dedicated video, because it works so well with this kind of thing.
