Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture

The Culture Vulture can be seen in Deadmau5's setup in one of his instagram videos.

Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture is one of the pieces of equipment in Hardwell's studio.

Josh Homme uses the Thermionic Culture Vulture in his studio equipment setup for stereo valve distortion.

Different Fur Studios owner Patrick Brown says "We used [The Culture Vulture] to tuck distortions under certain things, making a heavier, darker low end to help piano float on top or vocals sit in the mid; it’s those harmonics that people are missing when they talk about analog tape or big consoles..."

Using Culture Vulture in video

bus studio during making of ACMOTS

This item can be seen at 36:07 into this video.

"The effects returns on the SSL are pretty much hard-wired, and I would have used a selection of them. On the left side are the Elysia compressor, Fatso Jr tape simulator and compressor, Neve 33609 compressor, Ridge Farm Boiler compressor, Distressor, Dbx 160 compressor, AMS DMX150s delay, Eventide 2016 and H3500 effect units, and EMT plate reverb, and on the right the Drawmer compressor, Valley People Dynamite compressor, Marshall Time Modulator which is an '80s short delay and phaser, Delta Lab Effectron which is a very old digital delay, Thermionic Culture Vulture, Dbx 120 [subharmonic synthesizer] and Eventide H910 Harmonizer.”

moneyshot rack of death set up & ready for recording the next song !

"I remember that was something I first found out about at The Pool, with Ferg [Peterkin]. He put my guitar through a [Thermionic Culture] Culture Vulture into a [Yamaha] REV7 or something and I declared I was never, ever going to use an amp ever again! It was so cool."

Tom Rowlands, of Chemical Brothers fame, working in his studio. Just check out the complete list of this synthesizer nerd … an instant daydream … and also explains the original sounds on their records!

“As for the gear racks, I have a whole load of 500–series preamps, and quite a bit of Thermionic Culture stuff like the Earlybird, the Culture Vulture and the Phoenix. I love their stuff: it imparts an analogue character that plug–ins have difficulty emulating."

This article states that Jerry's studio includes "Alan Smart stereo compressor (2), Cyclosonic Panner, dbx 120A Subharmonic Synthesizer, dbx 160x, Electro-Harmonix NY-2A compressor (2), Empirical Labs Distressor (4), Eventide H3000, Focusrite 3 stereo compressor, Neve 2254 stereo compressor, Roland Dimension D (2), SPL Transient Designer 9842, Thermionic Culture Phoenix, Thermionic Culture Vulture, UA Teletronix LA-2A (2), Urei 1176LN Peak Limiter (2), and Urei LA-4 (2)."

Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture

Seen in one of the pictures of his interview.

3:03 in this video Matador's explains how he used the Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture to produce "The Enemy".

hermionic Culture Vulture Stereo Liam Howlett was the very first customer to purchase a Phoenix compressor and Culture Vulture distortion from Unity Audio before the company established their distributor and dealer networks. Liam Howlett from The Prodigy gets presented with his Culture Vulture Limited EditionOriginally designed as a "distortion box" to simulate distortion in valve amps it has found lots of uses beyond this. Some owners use them on drum loops, vocals, piano sounds and even across entire tracks (it is a stereo unit). Predominant distortion can be changed from even to odd harmonics with a simple switch. “Thermionic Culture has always been an important part of The Prodigy’s sound. The new Limited Edition Culture Vulture takes it to a new level of sonic devastation.” Key Features Warm sounds gently or create a noise like a 200 watt guitar stack with all the drivers slashed. Independent channel operation Odd or Even harmonic distortion, or 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 Culture Vulture Specifications: Max output level (MOL): +20dBV Distortion: 0.2% to 99.9%. Noise: Variable better than 75dB below M. O. L at most settings Input Impedance: 30k Output Impedance: 2.5k ohm ( should ideally drive a 10k input impedance ) Frequency response: >1dB variation over 10Hz to 25kHz ( actually +/- 1.75dB over 50Hz to 15kHz at low distortion ) Used You can clearly hear the Culture Vulture in action on the bass line in Thunder.

According to this article, the Culture Vulture is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.

As shown on his Instagram story

"It's a brilliant peace of kit"

"@skudge_elias_landberg Got my Culture Vulture! #thermionic #culturevulture #overdrive #distortion #rackunit #gear #analog ##hardware #vavledistortion #2015"

According to the "equipment list" found on Church Studios, owned by Epworth, one of the things listed is Thermionic Culture Vulture.

Wrong Version. Alex uses the Thermionic Culture Culture Vulture Super 15 Stereo Valve Distortion (Unbalanced) (Needs Admin update to change picture)

"several layers of a custom oberheim matrix 6 patch run through 1/4" tape and a thermionic culture vulture a few times. the entire track is also slowed down from its native speed/tuning within logic 9."