Our offering is for vocalists and instrumentalists. Cloud Microphones’ Cloudlifter Zi DI box and “mic activator” improves instrument and microphone signals and lowers noise. You may also use impedance to alter your tone musically. Phantom-powered Cloudlifter Zi microphones and instruments avoid numerous frequent issues. It provides 25dB clean gain for lo-Z sources and XLR microphones and 12dB for 1/4″ instruments and hi-Z sources. Cloud builds well. The Cloudlifter Zi’s Neutrik combo connection and Cinemag hi-Z to lo-Z instrument transformer meet Cloud’s high quality requirements.
DI or mic: your Cloudlifter for all seasons
Engineers who employed Cloudlifters to revitalise their low-output broadcast microphones post love letters on the forums. However, the wonderful Cloudlifter can bring out frequencies that are generally too subtle to discern, making even inexpensive handhelds sound like studio microphones. The Cloudlifter Zi DI box/mic booster is your Swiss army knife for direct and microphone sources. Engineers need it.
Dial in character with variable input impedance loading
The Cloudlifter Zi provides up to 25dB of clean gain, variable input impedance, and a variable highpass filter. Cloud’s patented Vari-Z impedance control is sweepable from 150 ohms to 15k ohms and allows you to creatively load a mic’s output transformer, opening up a broad range of tonal variations for each microphone.
Instant ribbon pre mod
Ribbon mics are wonderful, but many microphone preamplifiers are simply too weak to get enough signal out of them. A Cloudlifter Mic Activator will turn your preamp’s harmful phantom power into as much as +25dB of extra gain, transforming even a budget model pre into an effective ribbon preamp.
Totally transparent boost
Cloud Microphones designed their Cloudlifter series around direct-coupled, discrete JFET circuitry, engineered to preserve the natural sound of your mics. So, no matter how dramatic of an impact this transparent technology may have on your recordings, you can be sure you’re really just hearing your mic at its best.
Essential for long cable runs
A Cloudlifter will transform your huge, multi-room studio or auditorium like the Performance Theatre. Even across hundreds of feet, this additional gain boost will keep your signal alive. Amazing results.
Noise-free amplification
Many preamps sound great until you push them, resulting in all the hiss and crackle produced by the amplifier itself ending up in the mix. The gain boost provided by your Cloudlifter Zi lets your mic pre work more efficiently, giving you the levels you need, without the noise.