Cloudburst Beauty & the Baritone Guitar Beast

Does the Strymon Cloudburst play well with an acoustic guitar? Obvious answer, but here is my first performance with the Cloudburst and a Taylor baritone guitar sweetwater.sjv.io/XYYYL3
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[@z101dc1]

This is how to stop the world being being a bad place for 4 minutes and 34 seconds. A musical wizard with a witchcraft pedal. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@greetingsbox4229]

I think you will find this pedal is used in more churches by the saints than wizards in covens.

[@kpingvin]

Sometimes, when it's -5C outside and thick fog covers everything and I get back home from dropping off the kids at school, I sit in my study with a hot coffee drink and I get a feeling that I need to listen to Chords of Orion.

[@sandyturner1911]

Absolutely beautiful! That guitar is wonderful. Thanks, Bill!

[@Banquet...]

You have a beautiful soul - thank you for these moments of listening.

[@jasonhudson73]

That is beyond beautiful music and playing. Well done!!

[@camerasandcoffee3466]

WOW! Stunningly beautiful Bill! Thank you for sharing this masterpiece!

[@TheGreenKingdom]

Beautiful playing and words Bill!

[@pedalscapes]

inspirational stuff Bill - immense sounds!

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Always inspirational and encouraging. Beautiful

[@FGg503]

Beautiful, serene tune. 😍

[@glennweber9290]

Gorgeous playing!

[@hondo_archipelago]

Beautiful song and performance. Thank you.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Fantastic Bill. I knew you'd be doing something great with this pedal. Enjoyed it.

[@dannyvalentine468]

There's a stellar beauty in your playing I can't describe!

[@judeworth938]

Gorgeous tones !

[@romeozulu57]

Wonderful music! Words to live by.

[@marcobiolcati]

AMAZING SOUNDS! This guitar sounds soooo good!

[@BakerImageGroup]

Fantastic Bill!

[@shredward666]

Beautiful

[@BassBusMusic]

Utterly beautiful. I'd love to hear more of your acoustic playing. All the videos you done with an acoustic have been great.

[@macsarcule]

Magic. Thank you, Bill! ✌️😌🎸

[@TheNate0428]

IT’S GORGEOUS, BILL!

[@Bikewithlove]

Gorgeous. The insults fade, and the anger melts away. I needed that tonight, thank you.

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Majestic and beautiful.

[@thomasnielsen7899]

DADGAD never fails! Great work, as always!

[@nicholasbohensky7097]

Wonderful!

[@RemoSforza]

Sounds amazing!

[@alanarmstrong298]

Beautiful!

[@martinlindsay579]

So getting one of these pedals. The ensemble and freeze function are just perfect for my sort of stuff. Thanks for another lovely session.

[@gitarendirk1]

Just wonderful.

[@miketomanelli8799]

I could listen to this all day. Absolutely perfect playing, tone and the song itself puts me in a perfectly sedated mood. I’m so glad I discovered you. Just got my cloudburst yesterday, gonna run my 12 string acoustic tuned to dadgad through it. Got a feeling I won’t be seen for a while. You are a total inspiration!!

[@RobertBasilio]

I love my Taylor 8 string baritone! For those of you who now want a Taylor Baritone, they sometimes make them still, it's just in limited runs every now and then. It's not too hard to find a used one if you're not too picky! Thanks for the beautiful playing! This pedal is at the top of my wishlist!

[@WeDreammore]

Fantastic lovely soulful playing. You can see how much your enjoying the music you play. Found dadgad when I was young it’s been a favourite of mine ever since. Something about it is just so relaxing. Wow and that baritone with the cloud burst sounds amazing

[@JerzyRugby]

Really beautiful.

[@DreamArtScientists]

Sounds great!

[@Spaceman-jo5mz]

Beautiful sound journey 🙏

[@popsplace0420]

Now you've presented me with a new tuning for my Alvarez 8 string baritone. 😊

[@davidsummerville351]

Beautiful tuning.

[@EduardoMartinez-dm5pp]

I'd love if you could make an instrumental playlist with this style this video made my working day easier and joyful

[@jackpaulin6488]

Fantastic

[@georgemavimbela]

so good

[@angelosmilios]

Once a beatiful sound to light our minds

[@damienalvarez2957]

Beautiful Taylor!

[@Itowle9]

Sir Davos, the Onion Knight, is absolutely slaying the musical dragon.

[@COWBOYBARNMAN]

I ordered the cloudburst pedal yesterday and should have it tomorrow. I'm so excited! I'll be using it on my channel for sure. Nice video man!

[@scottschmittmusic]

Wonderful

[@smandez2023]

Sounds YUGE!!

[@bobbow683]

Beautifully

[@Kmuggle]

That sounds sensational Bill! Somehow ... you've managed to be in the right place at the right time to scarf up all your baritone guitars!

[@agerven]

Relaxed and floating music, that is timeless. Thank you for a very nice 4:33

[@alexm.handro1313]

Just found your channel. Great playing sir. Love the tone and sound.

[@frederickklinge2885]

Beautiful Bill! I'm sure a lot of us would love to hear a follow-up to your fantastic Wood recording.

[@PowerfulSlicer]

Brilliant

[@underoath16v]

Beautiful playing.......🙌🏻🙏🏻🤍🤍

[@RobertJones-et7gh]

Delicious! As a fellow guitarist, I find your acoustic guitar ambient sounds (several videos) to be very inspiring. Makes we want to pick up my guitar and play. Thank you.

[@smandez2023]

Great sounds Bill! Just sublime playing, and that Taylor and the Cloudburst sound huge! Also wanted to mention that while Taylor is not making THAT baritone anymore, they do currently manufacture the six-string 326 Baritone 6-LTD and the 8-string 326ce Special Edition.

[@theouterplanet]

Cool....I just bought me an Ibanez acoustic....gotta get the pedal next!

[@ALoveSupreme65]

Just got my Cloudburst in the mail today. Your video definitely helped in that decision. My first Strymon and at the reduced price (compared to their most popular) it is a great starter before committing to the more pricey options. I absolutely love it.

[@chordsoforion]

Excellent!

[@paulversey6589]

For the first time i am tempted to try a strymon pedal. Nice

[@scotts917]

This makes me want to go out any buy every piece of gear he's using + find a Taylor baritone. Awesome playing and composition

[@mikespring9984]

Shades of Adrian Legg. Beautiful playing.

[@mondayworship390]

Yes! It’s like you read my comment on the other video and did this for me! 😉 Thanks.

[@BrentAdams]

Inspiring.....

[@SteveAttwood]

|The was gorgeous! Have had a Cloudburst on order for over a month.. They're like gold dust at the moment!

[@chordsoforion]

Looks like they are in stock today at Sweetwater!

[@jackprice7828]

Wow that is just amazingly beautiful! I get some nice acoustic tones out of my HX Stomp. But the Cloudburst sounds like it could really add a pad sound to my acoustic playing.

[@johncruz9357]

You should do more with that guitar!!!

[@surfandsoundevents]

Firstly, I have a Taylor 320e baritone (which is what his looks like) and it’s really great. Second, this might have sold me on getting the compadre for my acoustic pedalboard. Sounds great! (I would be using for dynamics more than tone). Third, which should have been first actually, 👏👏👏 beautiful performance!

[@GUITARISTED]

Playing for the sheer joy is truth

[@BURG]

"How to sell a pedal 1:1" well done sir and lovely playing! 🙌

[@samseitz9937]

David Wilcox was the first artist I explored who used open tunings. DADGAD always makes me feel like I could play forever

[@samseitz9937]

@@hillblocksview yes I do enjoy Michael hedges from time to time! Mark Kozelek also is another one I really enjoy who uses open tunings!

[@ScottRandall31]

@@samseitz9937 mark became a master and then went sideways…part of the creative genius development I guess.

[@samseitz9937]

@@ScottRandall31 very true. He new stuff is pretty out there

[@louisethompson7706]

Bill, any music you have recorded with this dadgad thing, you seem to know the tuning quite well. Thanks

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Nice ☮️

[@alangarrett]

Nice.

[@knvbcoach]

I followed you for a while 2-3 years ago; bought Wood because I think it contained one of your Taylor Baritone performances I’d watched on KZbin. Tried to find a 320e baritone but failed and gave up on the idea. I watched this video, thought…hmmm…I’ll look for a 320e baritone again.

[@danielgrenier2417]

Gorgeous piece, Bill, as always ... BUT any chance you could do a demo with *just* the cloudburst in line with the acoustic?

[@mattfleming2287]

Beautiful. Simply gorgeous. Bill, how much of these pieces are improvised? I hear so many ideas that I think it would be impossible to remember.

[@chordsoforion]

All of my music has some level of improv. This piece less so, as I took time to lay out what I wanted to play. But the Frippertronics style pieces - all improv, never to be repeated.

[@russbrown8272]

Mesmerizing, Sir. I could listen to this all day and night. Thank you for this. I just bought a Taylor AD26e baritone a few weeks ago, and after watching and listening to this video, I know I have to have the Cloudburst. So many possibilities. Are you playing a 320e baritone here?

[@chordsoforion]

Glad you liked the piece! And yes, it's a 320e. Bought it used from a friend of mine a number of years ago.

[@clementnade972]

Could you one day walk us through your work flow? How do you record and film and edit?

[@Chris_Lohmann]

Wait, so was that whole thing recorded direct? No mics? 😱 That sounded incredible!

[@aaronvarughese9638]

If true that's amazing because I'm not a big fan of taylor's piezo pickups.

[@Chris_Lohmann]

@@aaronvarughese9638 In that case, may I suggest that you try an older Taylor with their Expression System 1 which is not a piezo but rather a magnetic string sensor that is concealed under the fingerboard extension and is actually very similar to an electric guitar pickup. I have a 2007 Taylor 314ce which is equipped with the older ES1 and I have a 2014 Taylor 816ce which has the newer ES2 which is the behind-the-saddle piezo system. I have a hard time deciding which one I like better. Some days I feel like I prefer the old ES1 and other days I think I like the newer ES2 system better. I’m not sure which system the guitar in the video is equipped with.

[@ddog4121]

Bill....thanks for the sublime music meditation. I have an Avalon baritone and just purchased a set of Santa Cruz parabolic tension strings. Have you used them? Impression? Love what you do!

[@stephenupton]

I use a helix LT any chance of a demo with this pedal added to the setup ? great playing beautiful tone

[@gitarzystaakustycznymidodr9358]

Waw..great sound..playing.and very nice guitar....can I have that tab please..I just get my Strymon pedal...and wish get that playing like yoy

[@grc3rb]

The onion night couldn’t get any cooler

[@debussy2002]

Hello, I`m about to get a Baritone acoustic. The string gauge recommended is 16 - 70, which I find too heavy to play. Also, 15 - 68 are common. i read that someone buys 12 & 14 gauge, then adds lightish bronze for the low four strings. I use 11s on regular acoustic... Any advice - anyone ?

[@chordsoforion]

Sounds like it might be worth creating a custom set by buying individual strings gauges. I would suggest using a string tension calculator to determine what the overall tension is with a standard set, then calculate the overall tension of what you like in a standard acoustic set. You could then pick string gauges that provide a tension somewhere in the middle. You likely don't want to try and match the lower tension of your stand acoustic as the strings might feel too "floppy".

[@openup007]

Today there will be a Cloudburst here in Prince William county! Where's that FedEx truck?

[@agerven]

Lucky you! Strymon builds their gear like a tank, to survive even a FedEx delivery. Remember when Bill did an unboxing video of a guitar that was delivered by FedEx: part of the unboxing was already done. Well, lets say for any internet purchase delivery service: They all get very sloppy and careless when the amount of packages ramps up, sadly. Wishing you lots of fun and enjoyment with this purchase!

[@johnnyrichard6659]

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[@iloveFreedom.]

🌻🌸🌻🌸🌻🌸🥳🌈

[@quiet216]

A chunk of your best songs are on that guitar.

[@bolotskih675]

Baritone Capo

[@davemascetti9964]

Dang it man, your video just cost me $300. Thanks a lot! No really, thanks.

[@icarocosta4302]

nothing is good is that piezo quack :/

[@InspectorSomething]

Beautiful