Thermionic Culture THE CULTURE VULTURE SUPER 15 Stereo Valve Distortion User Manual
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© Thermionic Culture Ltd, 2014
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1 Introduction
The Super 15 version of the Culture Vulture is introduced in
2013, which happens to be our 15
th
Anniversary.
This edition retains the features found on our 11
th
Anniversary
edition and was introduced due to the continuing demand for
these features plus some enhancements. Special features are:
• The input gain controls now go up to “15”- not just “11”
– yes- it does have a little more gain ;
• All valves/tubes are NOS 1st grade military spec for low
noise high stability and long life ;
• It has a 10 position ‘function’ switch which apart from
the usual “Triode”and “Pentode” settings has 5 mid lift
“eq” settings and 3 extreme distortion settings;
• The switch next to the “drive” control has 3 positions,
“normal”, “+10dB” and “overdrive” instead of 2.
• We have added a "Presence" switch which operates
only on the "+10dB" position of the "drive" switch.
The user now has even more control over the type and amount
of harmonics produced from a practically clean triode setting to
virtually 100% distortion.