Thermionic Culture Rooster 2

The Thermionic Culture Rooster 2 is dual-channel all valve mic preamp with distortion controls offering a wide range of tonalities.

The Thermionic Culture Rooster 2 is extremely flexible offering a choice of harmonic distortions and subtle dynamic control. The preamp section uses a double triode 12AX7 input valve which produces a smooth sound at the input stage.  It includes +48V phantom power and a DI input which bypasses the transformer for high impedance unbalanced input.

Following the preamp section the Rooster 2 has an “Attitude” section which shapes the distortion produced by a 5654 valve. At its lowest settings, the Rooster 2 exhibits very low natural distortion far below 0.1% offering a clean sound. Increase the “Attitude” and extra harmonics are added delivering an extremely musical and warm valve sound. In Triode mode, the Rooster 2 will produce mainly 2nd order harmonics while in Pentode mode and 3rd harmonics for a more aggressive sound adding a wide range of creative options.

Following the attitude section is a simple yet very musical EQ section comprising Bass Lift and Cut, Mid/high Lift, Mid Cut and Low Pass filter.

Thermionic Culture Rooster 2 Features:

• All valve signal path.
• Sowter Transformer balanced ins and outs.
• Unique 2 channel clean mic. amps with 'Attitude' control.
• Option of 2 settings to select type of introduced distortion.
• Versatile eq. with 'varislope' control of top and bass lift.
• 48v Phantom Power switchable to one or both.
• Phase invert switch on both channels.
• Mic./line and DI input.
• Low pass filter.
• High Pass filter.
• Low noise, High gain and High output level.
• Hand Made in UK.