Originally designed as a "distortion box" to simulate distortion in valve amps, the Thermionic Culture Vulture has found lots of uses beyond this. We know that some owners use them on drum loops, vocals, piano sounds and even across entire tracks (it is a stereo unit).
We have refined this so that distortion figures are reduced to only 0.2% at lowest to about 99.9% (at least that's what our distortion meter tells us!). Predominant distortion can be changed from even to odd harmonics with a simple switch. We know it's recently been rented to mix a JAMES BOND movie!
Key Features:
Warm sounds gently or create a noise like a 200 watt guitar stack with all the drivers slashed. Independent channel operation
Odd or even harmonic distortion, or combination of both.
All valve design free from solid state additives.
High impedance line input or instrument inputs.
4 & 7 kHz filters
Overdrive & bypass switches
Some Cultured users...
Because of their unique blend of flexibility, musicality, and usability, brought about as a result of being hand-built by some of the worlds leading pro audio valve equipment designers and engineeers, Thermionic Culture products attract their fair share of high profile, industry leading producers and engineers from the world of recording technology. Here is just a handful - why not add your name to the list?
Tony Maserati - Culture Vulture
Black Dog Productions - Earlybird 2.2, Pullet, Phoenix Mastering Compressor, Culture Vulture.
Al Schmitt - Phoenix
Big Life Music - Phoenix Master Compressor
Steve Dub Jones - Earlybird 2
The Dairy - Phoenix
Al Stone - Culture Vulture
ROBERT CARRANZA - PRODUCER FOR LOS LOBOS, SUPER GRASS, JACK JOHNSON - CULTURE VULTURE
PABLO MUNGUIA - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - PHOENIX & CULTURE VULTURE
STEPHEN STREET - KAISER CHIEFS - CULTURE VULTURE
JAMES FORD - PRODUCER - ARTIC MONKEYS - CULTURE VULTURE
GROOVE ARMADA - EARLYBIRD & CULTURE VULTURE MASTERING - " Both myself and Tom Findlay bought the Earlybird and the Culture Vulture Mastering, they're like your first mobile phone, once you've used them for a week you wondered how you ever liver without them!" Andy Cato - Groove Armada.
Larry Hammel - Producer, Deepwave Music Productions, Earlybird 2.2 and Phoenix
Peter Katis
Chemical Brothers - Culture Vulture Mastering MV & Phoenix
"The vulture it distorts synths in a truly beautiful way-we used to acheive this effect thru a long,convoluted process now we can get this great sound at a flick of a switch!" - Tom Rowlands
Peter Gabriel - Real World Studios - Culture Vulture
Alan Moulder -Producer/Engineer The Jesus & Mary Chain, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine,Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral, U2's Pop.
Mike Caffrey
Steve 'Dub' Jones - Engineer/Producer - Chemical Brothers, Madness. Culture Vulture Mastering MV & Phoenix
Tom Findlay - Groove Armada - Earlybird-2, Phoenix
Pietro Taucher - Engineer for Sharrie Williams
Paisley Park
Tie Dye Keith
Jerry Harrison and Eric Thorngren (Talking Heads)
Peter Katis
Jimmy Boyle
Kevin Bacon ( Axis Studios, recent credits include Jaimeson )
Angel Mountain Studios
Overtones
Andy Strange ( recent credits include Robbie Williams )
David Ives
Bernard Butler
Tony Hoffer ( Beck , Turin Breaks )
Edwyn Collins
Mick Jones
The Libertines
Mark 'Spike¹ Stent ( U2, Madonna, Oasis )
Portishead
Ken Nelson ( Badly Drawn Boy, Coldplay )
Dave Gilmour
The Prodigy
Hugh Jones
Strong Room Studios
Air Studios
Mute Records
Ross Hogarth - "Mondo distorto! dude, i like your box a lot...really liked the musicality of it!"
San Francisco Soundworks
“La Source” Mastering suite - Paris France
Yves Jaget
Bertrand Blais producer of Etienne Daho
Wisseloord Mastering
Original Manufacturers Description
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User Testimonials
"I bounced a drum track using its distortion, and I even put it across the mix bus after an ssl mix bus compressor with mild harmonic distortion and to add warmth to the digital tracks. It really adds balls to your mixes, its an awesome unit!" Brody Murakami
