Thermionic Culture Vulture

Saturation
UAD / Universal Audio

The Thermionic Culture Vulture is a high-gain valve distortion plugin that emulates the British-made boutique hardware unit, offering studio-grade dual-stage valve processing with three distinct valve topologies for coloring or destroying tracks, buses, and mixes. It captures the authentic circuit response of the original hardware while adding parallel Dry/Wet mixing and stereo linking not found on the hardware.

Available for:VSTAUAAX

Key Features

  • Three valve topologies: Triode, Pentode 1, and Pentode 2 modes
  • Drive control (1-11 range) for input gain into 6AS6 distortion valve
  • Bias control for cathode current adjustment from clean to voltage-starved distortion and gating effects
  • Overdrive switch providing 20 dB of additional gain
  • 12 dB per octave low-pass Filter switch for smoother output
  • Mix control for parallel processing (0-100%)
  • Control Link function for stereo-linked or dual-mono processing
  • Output Level control (1-11 range) with optional 5963 output valve overdrive
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