Mercenary Audio
Thermionic Culture Culture Vulture Stereo Valve Distortion Unit





If you've ever just wished you had a bit more "wool" on a sound your days of wishing have ended. The Culture Vulture's 3 different tube sounds [Triode, Pentode 1 and Pentode 2] afford the user the ability to add a smidgen of harmonic content to their audio or full on distortion [when the "overdrive" switch is engaged this unit is anything but subtle or unnoticeable!!]. For a tad of sparkle or thickness to the most urgent of grunge sounds the Culture Vulture is a tool that should not be overlooked.

Also check out the fully transformer balanced and detended mastering version.

THCVU List $2,175.00

Mercenary $2,090.00


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thermionic culture culture vulture features
Originally designed as a "distortion box" to simulate distortion in valve amps it 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. 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

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Max output level (MOL): +20dBV
  • Distortion: 0.2% to 99.9%
  • Noise: Variable better than 75dB below M. O. L at most settings
  • Input Impedance: 30k
  • Output Impedance: 2.5k ohm (should ideally drive a 10k input impedance)
  • Frequency response: >1dB variation over 10Hz to 25kH (actually ±1.75dB over 50Hz to 15kHz at low distortion)

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THCVU List $2,175.00

Mercenary $2,090.00








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