Thermionic Culture - Rooster
Posted on March 11, 2008
Filed Under Preamp/DI, What's In With Outboard? |
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Unity Audio are showing two new Thermionic Culture items at this years Music Messe in Hall 5.1 stand D48.
The second is the Thermionic Culture - Rooster - Stereo Valve Mic/Line/DI with EQ and Attitude!
A valve based mic/line + DI pre-amp with EQ and a distortion section based around the same 5725 used in the ever-popular Culture Vulture. The input stage uses a custom 1200-ohm input Sowter transformer and an ECC81/12AT7 valve. The EQ section has a broad bass lift control with up to 15dB of Lift, peaking at 50H. A mid cut at 700Hz with 17dB of cut with a ‘Q’ that is dependant on the amount of Cut, and a selectable mid/high lift at 2.5k, 4k (”bell” shaped with 18 dB of Lift) and 10k ( shelving with 20dB Lift ) respectively. The 6 position bass cut is straight off the Earlybird 2 pre-amp.
The new ‘ Attitude’ section uses a 5725- Culture Vulture distortion tube offering subtle distortion characteristic in the triode position, more so than a Culture Vulture due to the higher HT voltage, and so has a very low (about 0.01%) distortion when the Attitude control is set to 1. In the pentode mode it generates more 3rd harmonic distortion. Distortion can be pretty radical when Attitude is set to Max and the input is high. The output valve is ECF80 which combines high output with low impedance (less than 100 ohms). There is +48v phantom power, and phase reverse. The output is unbalanced standard but a balancing transformer option will be available.
Price £1395.00 ex VAT
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