Thermionic Culture The Rooster Balanced

Thermionic Culture The Rooster Balanced
Weight: 20 lb
Brand: Thermionic Culture Inc.Thermionic Culture Inc.

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The Rooster is a valve based design mic/line & DI pre-amp with EQ and a distortion section based around the same 5725 valve used in the ever-popular Culture Vulture Mastering Plus.

INPUT STAGE
The input is balanced, via an attenuator in Line In mode, with a custom Sowter transformer.  There is 48v phantom power selected by a locking toggle, and phase reverse.   A DI jack input (unbalanced) comes between the transformer and the Input Level control.  Gain is provide by a twin triode 12AT7/ECC81 valve which also powers the active boost controls in the EQ section.

EQ SECTION
The neatly laid out EQ section has all the active boost controls on the left, with our unique “Varislope” bass lift control, peaking at 60 Hz, and a selectable mid/high lift peaking at 2.5k/4k (“bell” shaped) and 7K (“Varislope”).   The Cut controls are in the centre.  The mid operates at 700Hz, the 6 position Bass Cut is combines a high pass filter with shelving, depending on the setting (see curves in manual).  There is also a switchable low pass filter (labelled LPF) to remove unwanted harsh high frequencies.

'ATTITUDE' DISTORTION SECTION
The same 5725-distortion tube which is employed in the Culture Vulture is used in the new Rooster. It offers a subtle distortion characteristic in the triode position, more so than a Culture Vulture due to the higher HT voltage, plus the use of negative feedback, and so has a very low (about 0.01%) distortion when the 'Attitude' control is set to 1. In the pentode mode it generates more 3rd harmonic distortion. Distortion can be pretty radical when the Attitude control is to 'Max' and the input is high.

OUTPUT STAGE
The output valves are 2 triode/pentode PCF80s which combine high output with low impedance, controlled by the Output Level control.   The output is transformer balanced.  The Output level is indicated by 3 LEDs.

Rooster Specifications

Measurements are made at typical ‘Attitude’ setting ‘2’. in Pentode mode with an output of +4dBu. Measurements made with AC mains input 236V 50Hz. Load resistance is 10k?.

Available gain (dB)

Mic

Line

 

50 (77 with Attitude at max.)

14.5

Frequency response

+0dB, -1dB

 

14.5Hz to 45kHz (balanced version)

Distortion (THD @ 1kHz)

?0.06%

Noise (unweighted, 30kHz filter)

?97dB below MOL

MOL (2% THD @1kHz)

?+24dBu

Phase shift

21º (5.6%) at 10kHz

Input impedance

Mic

Line

DI

 

600?

10k?

47k? unbalanced

Output impedance

75?

10k? is the ideal load impedance. The Rooster will work into a load of 600?, but distortion will increase & MOL will be reduced.

VALVE COMPLEMENT (2ea)

Input:

ECC81 / 12AT7

Attitude:

5725 / 6AS6W

Output:

PCF80 / 9AQ8

Brand URL : http://www.thermionicculture.com/index.php/products/the-rooster-2-12012-03-20-11-02-02-detail

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