Strymon Cloudburst Cloud Reverb Pedal Setup - Stereo Connection Tutorial

The Strymon Cloudburst Ambient Reverb pedal is a great way to add cloud reverb or delay to you existing keyboard, but it can be a little confusing to know where to start! In this video I take you through what's needed to connect the Strymon Cloudburst pedal to a keyboard using a stereo connection and also walk you through how the pedal works. Here's a list of what I used in this video to connect the Strymon Cloudburst pedal to my Nord Stage 3:
1. Strymon Cloudburst Pedal: www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...
2. Stereo Breakout Cable (2): www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...
3. 9V DC Power Adapter: www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...
4. 1/4 Audio Cables (4): www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...
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[@mmiller6873]

The Cloudburst is such an awesome pedal. Sounds awesome with a guitar, but well done on this with a keyboard.

[@KAAN5913]

Hey Douglas, thank you for this useful video. I frequently see this cloudburst pedal and like to ask you, I wonder why do I need this while I have a NS4 with a powerful effects layer? Is that comes up with an extra feature that NS can not provide?

[@DSoundman]

Thanks! Great question! In my personal opinion, you don't need it if you have the NS4. I have a video coming out this Monday (April 8) comparing this pedal to the cloud reverb on the NS4 and I show that the reverb on the NS4 is really great. The pedal does offer the ability to do some finer tuning, but for 99% of cloud reverb needs, the NS4 does the job fine.

[@benjaminkoskinen5835]

You can achieve this with 2 cables instead of 6. I use Roland TRS -> Y (mono) split cables to solve this with my guitar pedalboard to create stereo.

[@DSoundman]

That’s a good idea! I wanted the flexibility to use the cables outside of this use case without the Y, but I like that if you want to reduce the number of cables.

[@yovannyserafin9658]

Can you please tell me how to change the tempo in the synth section on the Nord Stage 4? (For example: 134 BPM)

[@user-cs2ro5vc7x]

Hi God bless you question, what sounds pianos you recommend me for Nord stage 3 can you send the name what’s you prefer for play in church

[@user-ql1pc7pi9x]

Douglas, is this also how you could hook up a looper pedal? I have a TC Electronics Ditto X2 (I'm a guitar player but also have a Nord C73 like yours). I have a Cioks power supply already, but none of those splitter cables you have.

[@DSoundman]

Hi there, I’m not familiar with loopers and how they might treat a stereo signal, but seeing that the splitters are less than $10 each, it might be worth a try!

[@_classic_rob_]

Just curious, why not just run it mono and bypass the splitter?

[@DSoundman]

You could, but a lot of keyboards take advantage of stereo, especially piano sounds to give more realism and quality that you’d lose if you went mono.

[@fish24042001]

Would you still use a cloudburst with a Stage 4? Understand part of the reason is because the Stage 3 can only run 1 effect for each engine

[@DSoundman]

Personally I wouldn’t, I find the cloud reverb on the NS4 to be sufficient.

[@fish24042001]

@@DSoundman thanks so much!

[@BrianMason1000]

Remember, you need to buy a bloody power source for it through Strymon and they don’t include it so I had another hundred some bucks