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Diamond Pedals Launches the Dark Cloud

Diamond Pedals Launches the Dark Cloud

Diamond Pedals introduces the Dark Cloud delay pedal, featuring innovative hybrid analog-digital design.


At the heart of the Dark Cloud is Diamond’s Digital Bucket Brigade Delay (dBBD) technology, which seamlessly blends the organic warmth of analog companding with the precise control of an embedded digital system. This unique architecture allows the Dark Cloud to deliver three distinct and creative delay modes—Tape, Harmonic, and Reverse—each meticulously crafted to provide a wide range of sonic possibilities.

Three Distinct Delay Modes:

  • Tape Delay: Inspired by Diamond’s Counter Point, this mode offers warm, saturated delays with tape-like modulation and up to 1000ms of delay time.
  • Harmonic Delay: Borrowed from the Quantum Leap, this mode introduces delayedoctaves or fifths, creating rich, harmonic textures that swirl through the mix.
  • Reverse Delay: A brand-new feature, this mode plays delays backward, producing asmooth, LoFi effect with alternating forward and reverse playback—a truly innovativeaddition to the Diamond lineup.

In addition to these versatile modes, the Dark Cloud includes tap tempo functionality with three distinct divisions—quarter note, eighth note, and dotted eighth—ensuring perfect synchronization with any performance.

The Dark Cloud holds special significance as the final project conceived by the original Diamondteam before their closure. What began as a modest attempt to repurpose older designs evolved into a masterful blend of the company's most beloved delay algorithms, combined with an entirely new Reverse Delay setting.

The result is a “greatest hits” of Diamond's delay technology, refined into one powerful pedal that pushes the boundaries of what delay effects can achieve.

Pricing: $249

For more information, please visit diamondpedals.com.

Main Features:

  • dBBD’s hybrid architecture Analog dry signal New reverse delay setting
  • Three distinct, creative delay modes: Tape, Harmonic, Reverse
  • Combines the sound and feel of analog Companding and Anti-Aliasing with an embedded system delay line
  • Offering 3 distinct tap divisions with quarter note, eighth note and dotted eighth settings for each of the delay modes
  • Pedalboard-friendly enclosure with top jacks
  • Buffered bypass switching with trails
  • Standardized negative-center 9VDC input with polarity protection

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