Offering the same award-winning circuitry and performance specs as the original, patented Cloudlifter CL-1, the Mini CL-25 is a custom engineering collaboration with Neutrik. The unit's ultra-compact in-line design interfaces directly with dynamic, ribbon, and tube microphones to provide up to +25 dB of ultra-clean gain, and is the smallest and most portable Cloudlifter ever produced for studio, broadcast, and live sound professionals. Plugging directly into microphones, preamps, mixers, stage boxes, and wall panels, the Mini CL-25 is built utilizing a custom Neutrik gold-plated XLR connector system. Employing hard-soldered, wire-free internal circuitry designed to meet the demands of thousands of insertion cycles, the device offers reliability within live and studio environments where daily hard use is the norm.

Capture Every Detail with a Cloudlifter
Unlock your microphones' true potential. Cloudlifters dramatically increase the sensitivity of your microphone, fully capturing the nuance and detail of the source. Many of the most incredible sounding microphones typically require the most gain. Ribbon, dynamic and even tube microphones can be difficult to amplify, even with high quality preamps. Previously, it has been difficult to capture very quiet sources with these mics, without hearing noise and frequency loss caused by the preamp being operated in its upper gain range. The detail and nuance, the true character of your mic comes to the foreground with the Cloudlifter. This… read more is in remarkable contrast to the tone achieved by pushing the preamp to its upper gain range to produce a similar level of gain.

Not Just Louder, Better...
The patented technology dramatically increases microphone output sensitivity without coloring or altering the natural character of the source. Cloudlifters are free of capacitors, resistors, and other distortion-causing components. They utilize a patented Class-A Discrete signal path that directly couples the noise-canceling JFET chips to the microphone and preamp. These innovative JFET chips were initially designed for top-secret military and science applications where quality and clarity are essential to national security, safety and education. With these ultra-high tech chips available for use in Cloud products, you can take advantage of these advancements in order to Elevate Your Sound to the highest level while fueling the creative process.

Activated by Cloud... The Industry Standard, Licensed
The award-winning technology is used by audio professionals worldwide and is the industry standard for low-output mics such as the Shure SM7b, EV RE20 and popular ribbon microphones. Additionally, Cloud licenses the patented technology to Shure for use in the popular active SM7dB microphone.

A Mod for Your Preamp and Microphone
While most preamps sound great in the middle of their gain range, that last one-third of the gain range is the most challenging, where signal degradation and noise can occur. Cloudlifters mitigate this by giving you more of the actual microphone itself, upfront and unaltered. The way the technology works, the Cloudlifter electrically becomes part of your microphone and preamp. By utilizing the preamp's components to complete the circuit, the Cloudlifter's design offers two distinct noise-canceling gain stages. These occur prior to the signal passing through capacitors and other components that cause distortion and alter the microphone's natural character. The circuit is completed by the components in the preamp and phantom power supply in such a way that they are removed from the signal path. By the time the signal reaches your preamp and passes through capacitors and other electrical components, their negative impact is greatly reduced. This is because more of the signal's authenticity is present up front, meaning the preamp doesn't have to work as hard to achieve optimal performance. Your microphone becomes active, and your prea

Features:

- Up to +25dB of gain for any passive microphone
- Uses standard +48v Phantom Power
- Does not pass phantom power, protecting ribbon and tube mics
- Patented Class-A discrete JFET circuitry
- Significantly increases microphone sensitivity, capturing every detail of the source
- Reduces noise and artifacts, allowing the preamp to operate in a more comfortable gain range
- Improves signal to noise ratio and microphone performance
- 3k input impedance, ideal for dynamic, tube and ribbon mics
- Rugged, solid steel chassis in a portable design
- Lifetime Limited Warranty Offer (with registration)
- Made on the Navajo Reservation and entirely in the USA

Recommended Applications:
- Capturing quiet sources with passive microphones
- Podcasting, VoiceOver, or dialog with dynamic mics
- Live streaming, gaming, or remote conferencing
- Foley and nature recordings
- Recording delicate, difficult to capture sources and fine instruments
- Using low-output dynamic, ribbon, or tube mics in the studio or live
- Any source where more of the mics' natural character is desired
- Use at the output of a passive DI, to get the most from your instruments

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