Article: New active ribbon mic based on RCA design revealed…read the full article at Sound on Sound….
Read the full story »FRANKFURT, GERMANY, April 10, 2013— Built using modern technology and
manufacturing processes, the new Cloud 44-A microphone reawakens the spirit of the classic RCA Type 44 ribbon mic for today’s applications.
Internally within the Cloud 44-A, the ribbon itself remains unchanged,
handcrafted to specifications first prescribed in the 1930s by RCA’s Harry F.
Olson. Everything else has been engineered anew, however, using 21st century improvements transcending the capabilities of Olson’s time.
Utilizing Cloud’s award-winning Cloudlifter circuitry with its unique features and ultra-clean characteristics, the 44-A is an active ribbon mic with personality from the past plus all the strength and clarity required for today’s most demanding tasks. When engaging the device’s onboard high-pass filter, the 44-A provides voice actors and vocalists with the benefits gained from reduced proximity effect. With the filter switched off to its “music” position, the microphone captures the most challenging sources in fine detail, and with unusually high sensitivity.
Combining the best attributes of both the vintage and modern worlds, the Cloud 44-A joins Cloud’s complete line of boutique ribbon microphones at this year’s Musikmesse. On display at the Sound Service GMbH booth (Halle 5.1 stand B90), this latest addition to the Cloud family will begin shipping in May of this year.
Cloud Microphones founder Rodger Cloud broadcast live from the Gearslutz Lounge at the AES 2012 convention in San Francisco, CA.
Cloud Microphones is proud to announce that the latest addition to our Cloudlifter line of Mic Activators, the CL-Z, has been nominated for a 2012 Technical Excellence & Creativity Award! The TEC Foundation honors outstanding achievement in audio technology and production, as voted on by …
“The Cloud JRS-34P is hand-made in the U.S. from U.S.-sourced components”…
“excellent detail and smoothness, great transient response, outstanding off-axis rejection at the sides, abundant proximity effect, and a very pleasant, natural sound quality without any harshness.”
Check out the whole review through the link below.
Electronic …
Bryan Clark & The New Lyceum Players, rising Americana country stars, rely on Cloud Microphones and Cloudlifters to get their bold and progressive Americana music from concept to recording. Check out the new CD “Southern Intermission”, the vocals and many of the instruments were …
Dren McDonald spent some quality time getting to know Cloud Microphones newest addition to the Cloudlifter family, the CL-Z.
We’re pretty happy to see quotes like these…
“First impressions: I was certainly surprised by the range of new tones that the CL-Z offered when changing the …
Phil O’Keefe over at Harmony Central spent some time putting the new Cloudlifter “Z” through an evaluation and put down his impressions over at their website in a thorough review…
“USE A RIBBON? YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT YET, BUT YOU WANT THIS BOX”
“The sonic flexibility …
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Using a Shure SM57 into a CL-1 into a handheld recorder.
Silver Thread Trio doing their original composition “Beneath the Waves” at Chamber of Sounds, as recorded by a pair of Cloud JRS-34 Active ribbon mics through an M-Audio Project Mix I/O to Logic.
Leon Russell, The Rock Legend, appreciates the qualities of the JRS-34 and uses them during performances on tour.
Drummer Brandon Holder shows the Cloud Microphones mounted “over the shoulder” of his drum set.
Paul White with Sound On Sound reviews the Cloudlifter… Cons? “Difficult to live without once you’ve tried it!” Well that’s what we think here at Cloud Microphones too!
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