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Signature creative design
Nucleo was developed hand in hand with Paul Davids, ensuring every sound and function supports real musical expression. Rather than being a basic ambience pedal, it behaves like an instrument in its own right, encouraging players to experiment, explore and build evolving textures. Its 90-second decay opens vast atmospheric spaces, perfect for cinematic playing, ambient layering or expressive chord work. Every parameter is voiced to feel natural, musical and instantly inspiring.
Three engines and three voicings
At the heart of Nucleo are three reverb engines: Reactor, Room and Hall. Each offers a distinct personality, from tight ambience to wide, blooming expanses. Pair these with three voicings – Normal, Vintage and Lo-Fi – and you can shift the character from clean and modern to warm, grainy or intentionally broken. Whether you are crafting shimmering pads, retro reverb tails or atmospheric drones, this flexible architecture ensures you always find the tone you want.
Creative texture shaping
Three dedicated faders – MOD, AIR and FLUX – give hands-on control over modulation, pitch-shifting and granular behaviour. These allow you to transform a simple reverb tail into something animated and expressive, from gentle movement to fully evolving soundscapes. The Freeze and Freeze Pitch modes expand this even further, turning any sound into a pad that can sit beneath your playing or shift harmonically for smooth transitions between sections.
Modern connectivity and workflow
Nucleo is built for today’s rigs, offering TRS input for seamless mono or stereo operation and stereo outputs with an isolated right channel for clean, noise-free performance. Deep MIDI integration gives access to up to 128 presets, while the USB-C port enables firmware updates and doubles as a USB audio interface. This makes Nucleo just as comfortable on a pedalboard as it is in a recording setup, offering direct capture of your ambient creations.
Specifications
- Product Name: Cornerstone Nucleo Stereo Reverb – Paul Davids Signature
- Product Code: CST-NUC
- Format: Compact stompbox enclosure
- Bypass: True bypass
- Power: 9V DC centre-negative (250mA minimum)
- Engines: Reactor, Room, Hall
- Voicings: Normal, Vintage, Lo-Fi
- Controls: Mix, Decay, Pre-Delay, MOD, AIR, FLUX
- Special Modes: Freeze, Freeze Pitch
- Presets: 3 onboard, 128 via MIDI
- Inputs: 1 × TRS for mono or stereo
- Outputs: 2 × TRS stereo (right output transformer-isolated)
- USB: USB-C for updates and USB audio interface
- Processor: M7 Cortex Engine