Cloudlifter

The Cloudlifter provides up to +25dB of ultra-clean gain in two distinct stages and optimal impedance loading for dynamic and ribbon mics to perform their best. NOTE: It requires phantom power to function.

It and other similar devices are especially handy when using a microphones with relatively weak output ALONG WITH a mic preamp which doesn’t provide a lot of gain. (Like a Shure SM7b plugged into a cheap Behringer mixer, etc.)

To use it:

1. Connect the output of the Cloudlifter to a preamplifier, mixer, or any other source that is capable of supplying phantom power.
2. Connect your Passive microphone (dynamic, ribbon, crystal, or otherwise) to the input of the Cloudlifter. NOTE: It cannot and need not be used with microphones that require phantom power, like condenser mics; those mic’s usually have a strong enough output level not to need a boost from a Cloudlifter.
3. Turn on phantom power.

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