Selling a Thermionic Culture Vulture Mastering with switchable balanced/unbalanced inputs and outputs.

The balanced I/O is a particularly nice feature on this unit. Most of the older Culture Vulture Mastering units you'll come across did not have a balanced I/O option, so this one is much easier to integrate into a modern professional studio setup. You can switch between balanced and unbalanced operation depending on how you want to patch it in.

This is one of those pieces of studio gear that can do subtle, beautiful tube saturation or completely destroy a signal in the best possible way. The Culture Vulture is basically a very sophisticated tube distortion/saturation box — great for adding harmonics, warmth, grit, compression, and weirdness to pretty much anything.

The Mastering version is especially great on stereo mixes, mix buses, and individual tracks where you want to add some analog character without just slamming a signal into obvious distortion. It can also get seriously nasty when you want it to. Drums, bass, guitars, synths, vocals, stereo buses, and especially sounds that need a little more personality all sound great through these.

Really special piece of analog gear and one of those processors that tends to find its way onto everything once you have it around.
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Details:
• Thermionic Culture Vulture Mastering
• 2000s black version
• Switchable balanced/unbalanced inputs and outputs
• Most older Culture Vulture Mastering units did not have balanced I/O
• Stereo tube saturation / distortion processor
• Multiple operating modes for everything from subtle warmth to extreme distortion
• Variable drive and filtering
• Great on mix buses, drums, bass, guitars, synths, vocals, and individual tracks
• Excellent for adding analog harmonics, saturation, grit, and character
• Hand-built in the UK
• Very cool high-end studio piece

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