Thermionic Culture Ltd. 2021
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1 Introduction
The Culture Vulture is universally renowned as the first and only
all valve unit, dedicated to producing the best harmonic
distortion money can buy.
THE ULTRA VULTURE takes the Culture Vulture to a new level
making it more suitable for accurate stereo uses, including
mastering, where extended frequency response, low noise and
re-callability are of prime importance. Transformer balanced
line ins and outs are standard, on XLR connectors.
Although the unit can be
"
clean”
(less than 0.2% THD), added
valve saturation may be quite desirable, improving naturality
and smoothing off unwanted digital spikes. But The Culture
Vulture can be used for distortion effects! Push it and try it!
The user has total control over the type and amount of
distortion, which can be changed from even to odd harmonics or
a combination of both. Starved, the sound from The Vulture
becomes thin and loses its body, overfed, it becomes fatter.
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The Function switch now has 2
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effects” positions, ‘P2’ & ‘P3’.
The extra ‘+10dB’ drive position gives some of the bite of
'
Overdrive’ but with far less noise. When ‘+10dB’ is selected
(only) the ‘Presence’ switch is available. The ‘-10db’ output
switch allows the unit to be driven into extreme distortion but still
have an easily achieved stereo balance. However, the ‘P2’ and
‘P3’ positions will become so extreme that true stereo won
’
t
always be applicable.
All pots, except ‘Bias’, are indented for easy recall. Use meter
readings to accurately recall ‘Bias’ settings.
A test report comes with each unit indicating best settings for
mastering.
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