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Enhanced Sonic Quality
The Thermionic Culture Purple Bustard utilizes valve technology to produce a velvet-like sheen on high frequencies, ensuring musical sonics without harshness, ideal for pure, high-quality audio production.
KEY FEATURES
" You Can Do Anything With A Valve " Vic Keary
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Thermonic Culture Vic Keary has released a limited edition range of some of their most popular products. Alongside the 20th edition Culture Vulture the Little Red Bustard has been given a facelift and upgrade to now be called The Purple Bustard.
The Thermionic Culture Purple Bustard is a 16-channel valve summing mixer with attitude control heavily inspired by the flagship Fat Bustard mkii.
The Purple Bustard adds a beautiful velvet-like sheen on the high frequency courtesy of the Air Control which adds no harshness or unpleasant hi-frequency overtones as the unit provides pure musical sonics typical of all valve high-quality equipment.
Eight toggle switch activates each pair of channels, while another two switches convert channels 13/14 and 15/16 to mono. The Attitude switch covers six positions and works exactly the same way as in the Fat Bustard mkii by addding musical 2nd harmonics to your summing mixer.
All the inputs are on semi-floating XLR's and the outputs are on un-balanced XLR's (as most of the Thermonic Culture range) as Vic believes this sounds better.
Thermionic does provide a balanced option via a Balance Box which features two Sowter transformers at additional cost on request.
Thermionic Culture Puple Bustard Features:
- 16 channel summing valve mixer with mute switches
- Channels 13/14 and 15/16 collapsable to mono
- Passive inputs
- Unbalanced line level
- “Air” Control to add velvet-like sheen on the top end.
- Stereo width control
- Unique Attitude control to dial in some 2nd Harmonic Distortion
- 2U high
- Hand Made in UK
- UK over £99 FREE
- UK under £99 £10
- EU £36
- Rest of World £80
Large/Heavy items: Extra charges may apply (e.g., consoles, large monitors). We’ll contact you before processing if so.
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This item, like everything we supply, comes with the complete support of our expert team. Our excellent technicians have been specifying, building and supporting studios for over twenty years. If you have any problems with installation, setup or everyday use, they’re never more than a click away, and always happy to help.
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KEY BENEFITS
Flexible Channel Control
Equipped with toggle switches for each pair of its 16 channels and options to convert channels to mono, the Purple Bustard offers versatile mixing capabilities suitable for various audio engineering needs.
Unique Attitude Adjustment
Featuring an Attitude switch, similar to the Fat Bustard mkii, this mixer allows the addition of musical 2nd harmonics, enabling users to tailor the summing mixer's sound character and enhance audio warmth and richness.