Cloud Microphones has unveiled its new Cloudlifter Mini CL-25 compact mic preamp. Offering the same award-winning circuitry and performance specs as the original Cloudlifter CL-1, the Mini CL-25 is a custom engineering collaboration with Neutrik. Using standard 48-volt phantom power, 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.
As a tool to achieve more clarity while reducing noise or coloration, the Mini CL-25 adds clean, transparent gain before your preamp using standard phantom power that isn’t passed along to the microphone. Along with cleaner gain, the unit lets users operate with lower preamp gain settings to better preserve clarity, detail, and authenticity. Resulting performance provides more of the actual microphone and less preamp coloration and artifacts, along with increased headroom.
Optimal for voice mics, dynamic mics, and low-output microphones, plus situations where protection for ribbon mics is desirable, the CL-25 will find itself completely at home in applications including studio recording, broadcast, location recording, podcasting, and live sound. Advantages within the latter category center around its compact form factor that won’t pull or stress microphone connectors, clear gain and natural frequency response (which helps reduce artifacts that cause feedback), easier EQ control from the mixing console, its ability to eliminate the need for an extra mic cable, and an external black finish that maintains a low visual profile onstage.
Designed using state-of-the-art multilayer technology and high-tech engineering, the streamlined miniaturization process at the heart of the Mini CL-25 brings the smallest footprint possible to the Cloudlifter universe, but guarantees that no sacrifices to either performance or audio quality are made along the way. The true sound of the source with all the attributes the Cloudlifter line has built its reputation upon remains totally uncompromised.
The Cloudlifter Mini CL-25 is now shipping and carries a street price of $149. For more information visit cloudmicrophones.com.
