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Your cart is empty.The Cloudlifter X offers a custom-designed Cinemag transformer along with two selectable output levels that expand the range of output gain offered by the industry standard CL1. Featuring Cloud’s signature ultra-clean gain, the nickel-core Cinemag transformer delivers an incredible amount of bandwidth at normal input levels, and can also provide a variable amount of harmonic content and saturation as the input signal is increased, adding extremely musical flavors to the CLX’s output, which can change dynamically based on the input level of the source material.
Christian
Reviewed in Spain on February 7, 2025
me encantó todo perfecto
Alberto Toscani
Reviewed in Italy on February 18, 2025
Lo uso in accoppiata con il mio SM7B, che dire.. Permette di avere un ottimo volume in entrata senza dover spingere troppo il pre della scheda audio.Fondamentale
Jon Raven Visser
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2025
I have a standard cloud lifter and wanted to see what doors this variable one would open with my collection of mics and wow…. This is an amazing tool! It creates so many new levels of character with mics of all kinds being vintage dynamics or new for that matter! It turns each mic into many! I am so excited to see what this can do with my entire mic locker. Exciting times ahead with tools like this! Selectable high pass filter first of all is great but the sweepable tone control with the variable impedance changes everything!!! In love!!! Thank you cloud
Omar Eduardo Bautista García
Reviewed in Mexico on August 16, 2024
Estaba utilizando el Shure SM7B conectado directamente al GoXLR mini y tenía que aumentar demasiado la ganancia al grado de que se escuchaba "ruido" por tanta ganancia, con este nuevo aditamento la ganancia añadida es mucho menos y el sonido es excelente, lo recomiendo 100%
Sia
Reviewed in Canada on October 18, 2023
Whatever your setup, whatever the mic is, doesn't matter - these will increase performance.
Orange Dugong
Reviewed in Singapore on September 5, 2022
This gadget is said to amplify the audio from your microphone to an external soundcard. Alas it does not work. Do not bother with this.
Paul Daplyn
Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2022
This is a very expensive rig for what it does. Especially if you need eight of them. Saying it can give up to 25dB gain is a stretch. It is really more like 20dB. Rodger Cloud explained that the actual gain you get depends on the input impedance of the equipment you are using. In my case it is the Tascam DP-24SD mixer/recorder with an input impedance of 2.7K ohms. I would be happier if it really did have 25 dB of gain, so only four stars. Signal to noise ratio is good but not amazing. I could have got a Tascam multi-channel preamp for less money but I didn't want an extra set of knobs to fiddle with during recording. However, the Cloudlifter is a better choice if you have long cable runs. Keep the cable between the mic and the Cloudlifter as short as possible for best results. Don't buy this unless you are using passive dynamic mics. It won't work with condenser mics.
SirD
Reviewed in Germany on December 13, 2022
Diese Bewertung bezieht sich vor allem auf Amazon.Das Produkt selbst ist klasse.Aber bestellt es nicht auf Amazon. Dies ist vor allem ein Stück Stahl mit enthaltener, toller Technik.Ich habe mir den CloudLifter geholt um ein Shure SM7B zu betreiben, was auch gut geklappt hat. Allerdings habe ich mir ein stärkeres Interface geholt, wodurch die Nutzung nach 2 Tagen obsolet war. Also wie bei jeder Rücksendung habe ich das Produkt gereinigt, desinfiziert und ordentlich verpackt zurück geschickt.Nun, ca. 2 Monate später, meldet sich Amazon und behauptet, dass dieses Produkt nicht den Rücknahmebedingungen entspricht und droht mit Kontoschließung. Für ein Produkt, wo ich nichtmal verstehe, wie es beschädigt sein soll durch eine 2-tägige Nutzung. Bestellt dieses Produkt lieber in entsprechenden HiFi-Stores, wo die Mitarbeiter der Rücknahme die Ware auch kennen...
Aaron U.
Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2020
If you have a weaker interface/mixer this is a must for your dynamic mic. I personally use it with a 1st gen 2i2 and Rode PodMic. Allows me to turn the gain way down while making my mic way louder. The sound is a ton better, it's crisp, loud, clean audio. The CL is way smaller than I thought too (which is good) Just plug it in and listen to the wonders it does.
Mark Oakley
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2020
This is a very high quality piece of equipment; tank tough and extremely reliable and effective.However, as others have pointed out, you have to be smart about its placement in an audio channel. -The dynamic mic I'm using connects at the end of 25' of XLR cable, and due to my own inexperience, I'd bought cheap cable (installed behind wall paneling, making it difficult to replace) which allows noise to introduce itself into the signal. When I put the Cloudlifter at the far end away from the mic, (I originally plugged it in just before the mixer), 25' of line noise was boosted along with the mic signal, so I got a horrid and loud extra buzz. Not cool!I despaired for a minute or two and then tried swapping the location of the Cloudlifter, plugging it in directly after the mic. That solved it; now only the voice signal is boosted, but the line noise is not, staying low and unnoticeable on the mixer end, -especially given that with the Cloudlifter I need much less gain on the mixer. The final signal is, to my ears, crystal clear.The simple fact is that high quality audio is expensive; to achieve a pro-level sound you need excellent mics and excellent cable and an excellent signal booster (like the Cloudlifter) -especially if you're using a dynamic mic; (mine is the Rode Procaster; an absolutely beautiful mic but which has a low volume output). All of that adds up in terms of cost, but the difference between a $60 audio channel and a $600 channel is night and day.I recommend this product heartily; swallow the one-time cost so you don't have to worry about it ever again.
Charles
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2020
I have a Shure SM7B I’m using with the Cloudlifter CL-1. Everything works as advertised and it’s very quiet as opposed to the ART MP Tube studio preamp I bought earlier elsewhere because I wanted to save money, I even replaced the tube to see if it would get quieter but nothing like the cloudlifter.My signal chain:SM7B > Cloudlifter > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB interface (48v phantom power must be on) and into Logic Pro X.My vocals are now at 11 o’clock and they are clear, and I can really hear the true sound of the SM7B.Morale of the story, get the Cloudlifter and don’t mess around with cheaper solutions like I did. Buy cheap buy twice.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2019
It works perfectly well. Most affordable audio interfaces cannot get clean signals from dynamic mics, especially if you're using it for recording something you'll further process in DAW. This cleans it up considerably, and it's made me appreciate my dynamic mics far more.As far as price, I haven't tried the cheaper options. This is highly recommended online, is built extremely well, and does exactly what it's supposed to. For that peace of mind, I don't mind the price.
Lizzie
Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2018
I use a Shure SM-57 which is plugged into the CL-1, which in turn is plugged into my Focusrite audio interface. Without the CL-1 my microphone was too quiet for my friends on Discord to hear me correctly, but this device solved that problem for me easily. If you find your microphone is too quiet even with your dials turned up to 11, the CL-1 will do the trick. It requires phantom power to operate, however, so make sure your audio interface can utilize that!
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