The inspiration for the Cloak pedal came from the land of academia and the acoustics department at Stanford, where a treatise on the optimal shimmer effect has penned a handful of years back

In a similar pursuit of perfection, Catalinbread drew inspiration from a combination of research and their own endeavors to craft a truly superb take on shimmer reverb.

At its core, the Cloak is a “room” style reverb that sounds amazing on its own, but with a twist of the Shimmer knob, rich, harmonically-laden overtones creep in, emphasizing three different orders of harmonics within the trails.

A specially-designed low-pass filter steps in and smooths the harmonics out before they get too out of hand and wreck up the signal path.

The size of the room can be effortlessly dialed in, from a cramped broom closet to as close to infinity as we can possibly muster. This comes in handy when deciding on which type of switching you prefer; the Cloak offers up true bypass switching that cuts off the reverb trails when the Cloak is disengaged, or buffered bypass, which keeps the decay going even after switching off—your pick.