Catalinbread Cloak Reverb & Shimmer is a hall reverb with a tweakable shimmer that allows you to filter out some of the harsher high frequencies associated with shimmer.
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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today with the and bread cloak, reverb and shimmer is their newest reverb pedal. And obviously has shimmer in it. Uh, if you could guess if you didn’t, if you didn’t guess. That their name is a room reverb with shimmer and a, um, low pass filter. Humbler has filter, uh, almost said the wrong thing there caught myself.
[00:00:33] Um, so let’s, um, talk about the controls there. We’ll start with the mix. It goes from a hundred. Uh, dry to a hundred percent, what, uh, I’ll have it in the middle for most of the demo I will, of course show you what it sounds like. Was it at a hundred percent wet, basically kill dry. It’s really nice that they give you that kind of range.
[00:00:57] Um, the reverb is. It simultaneously adjust both the decay length, um, with a bit of a gain enhancement, uh, for more natural sort of decay. Um, I’ll start with it basically at nothing and I’ll slowly fade it up and then I’ll slowly add the shimmer. Speaking of that, uh, it mixes the, just as shimmer, so fully counter-clockwise gives you just room and, uh, that’s all the way to.
[00:01:30] Cranking it to the right gives you a hormone harmonically, rich shimmer, and then the low pass filter. According to what they sent me, quote cuts higher order harmonics from the signal to soften the edges at higher shimmer settings. I will ignore that, um, before I put in the shimmer, because it doesn’t really do anything, uh, to my understanding and to my.
[00:01:59] Otherwise, I’m using my tone master super river. Uh, as you can hear right now, have no reverb on. So there you go. Let me look at my settings. Yeah, I’m pretty, pretty much in the middle. Pretty much in the middle there. I just good with us. So when I got home, then the knobs were a little while. So, uh, I fixed that for you.
[00:02:28] Don’t worry too much.
[00:02:34] This was sent to me in exchange for a demo I’m playing, um, my Yamaha rev star. And again, that’s super reverb tone, master super reverb, playing clients kind of clean. And if I have time. See how this sounds through a baritone guitar. I’m hoping I have time
[00:02:58] with the river basically at zero now.
[00:03:04] So even all the way, and that is indeed turned all the way down. We’re still getting some sound at that 50%. What mark is going to keep saying? We’re gonna try to about nine o’clock
[00:03:58] that’s a big difference from noon to three. So let’s hear that again.
[00:04:05] Try it about one o’clock.
[00:04:12] Get to about two o’clock.
[00:04:18] Three o’clock.
[00:04:26] Yeah. So the difference does become a lot more significant
[00:05:27] Okay. So it’s not quite like an infinite type of holder or trail there. But it’s, uh, it’s pretty, uh, pretty long.
[00:06:16] All right, I’m going to turn the mix back on, not the mix. I’m going to turn the reverb effect back down. As I start to blend in the shimmer, I’m going to start with the shimmer at about nine and just see what we can. There.
[00:06:38] It’s not, you know, it’s, that’s, that’s pretty subtle. That’s pretty subtle. Let me get my fingers. It’s just one of those little octopus chords.
[00:06:58] it does feel a lot. Like, I just feel like a harmonic
[00:07:07] very subtle. We turn it up when it’s that low. What’s it going to sound like?
[00:07:22] Definitely. But it still sounds very cramped because the reverb is set so low
[00:07:44] it sounds kind of warbly I really dig it.
[00:07:51] kind of a banana sort of setup. Start that low pass filter
[00:08:03] really turned that up all the way and see what the teams it more,
[00:08:11] what’s the, what’s the point? What it’s like at that setting? Obviously we turn up the room reverb and the shimmer. I think you’re going to have. Let’s try it with the room reverb and the shimmer at about nine o’clock. Those are both going to be subtle.
[00:08:38] I haven’t told me that court. I don’t know why I’m waiting something with it.
[00:09:08] so I know that between 12 and three. The room reverb really takes off. So to say, so let’s get it to about like two o’clock, uh, keeping that shimmer kind of tame and see what happens.
[00:09:45] more of the shimmer at that rate, but it can get really sick. So that’s really nice.
[00:10:49] And as the reverb and everything gets bigger. Oh, Throwing in that low pass filter is going to
[00:11:51] So if you think shimmer can sound really harsh and, um, I tend to think it can, that really mellows it out. Like when you really want to put in a lot of shimmer to add a little, add some like harmonic, harmonic, like a theory will vibe to a river. This is great. Um, but sometimes it can add a harshness to it also, which really can, can, can vibe poorly in a mix.
[00:12:23] Um, but cutting out some of those highs is a great solution for that in cloak. Does that.
[00:13:02] Um,
[00:13:07] justice Campbell.
[00:13:58] all right, so last but not least, I’m just going to crank everything. For funsies. And, uh, then I’m going to sweep that low pass filter and just hear the different, some even cranking the mics. So we can hear just the 100% effect. So you can really hear how that filter.
[00:15:33] Hey, how’s it gone? I also, uh, after playing that, I, I wanted to hear how this reverb sounded on, on the baritone guitar. I have my Squire Cabernet paranormal series baritone. I’m going to stick with the middle position for this. I bought this guitar.
[00:16:06] let’s just get to it.
[00:17:14] more shimmer. I like baritone has almost percussive instruments. Sometimes.
[00:17:44] Too much. Like, I, I don’t, I don’t feel like you would need it as much just because I felt like it was more beneficial for playing on those higher strings.
[00:19:11] like that took out a little bit of the magic. So.
[00:19:17] Yeah,
[00:19:21] it’s a low pass filter off.
[00:20:23] Normally, I just like a spring reverb on baritone guitar, but I give it two thumbs up, two thumbs up on a baritone guitar for sure. Stick around for my thoughts on the sixth string. I’m going to go back to it. It’s going to be matching. Obviously I’m gonna snap again. It’s going to be magic. I think this is one of the more versatile shimmer pedals I’ve played.
[00:20:47] Uh, I don’t play a lot of shimmer reverb, so it’s been a fun time, really figuring this one out. Uh, and I think that Callan bread has really made it easy, um, different parts of that. Fills her are going to really help you in different parts of the mix, uh, in different parts of the fret board. I think you’re going to use it more if you’re playing higher up, those does the, those notes that they’re going to sound, they can sound shrill.
[00:21:19] They really can, and this could help you really get out of that. Um, if you found other shimmers to be too. To shrill. So I think it’s been a really fun time. I’ve had a really fun time playing this puddle. Uh, I think that as far as shimmer reverbs go, um, it’s, it’s been more, it’s been a lot more versatile.
[00:21:42] Uh, I think it’s definitely great for anyone. Who’s trying to get some, uh, theorial reverb into their playing, but also still wants to have just a nice. Good sounding room reverb on their pedalboard. Uh, this does that, um, and more obviously, so check it out. It’s available now. Thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding, please like comment and subscribe below.
[00:22:19] Check out more information and links in the video description. Uh, until next time, my name is Emily goodbye.