Thermionic Culture CULTURE-VULTURE Harmonic Distortion Box

Originally designed as a "distortion box" to simulate distortion is valve amps, The Culture Vulture has found lots of uses beyond this. Some users use it on drum loops, vocals, piano sounds and even across entire tracks (it is a stereo unit).

Thermionic Culture has refined the Culture Vulture so that distortion figures are reduced to only 0.2% at lowest to about 99.9" at the highest setting. Predominant distortion can be changed from even to odd harmonics with a simple switch.

FEATURES

• Warm sounds gently or create a noise like a 200W guitar stack with all the drivers slashed
• Independent channel operation
• Odd or even harmonic distortion, or a 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

• General
  • Maximum Output Level: +17dBV
  • Distortion: 0.2% to 99.5%
  • Noise: Better than 75dB below M.O.L. at typical settings
  • Input Impedance: 30kOhms
  • Output Impedance: 2kOhms (should ideally drive a 10kOhm + input impedance)
  • Max Gain (clean): 35dB
  • Man Gain (overdriven): > 60dB
• Valve Complement
  • Input: EF86 x 2
  • Output: 5963 (equiv. 12AU7 / ECC82 near equiv)
  • Distortion: 6AS6 x 2