Thermionic Culture The Culture Vulture Super 15
All-valve distortion unit, enhanced/most comprehensive Vulture variant
Saturation / CharacterPrice not published
Specifications
- Type
- Saturation / Character
- Description
- All-valve distortion unit, enhanced/most comprehensive Vulture variant
- Topology
- all-valve/tube, Class-A
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 2
- Channel format
- dual mono (2 independent channels)
- Form factor
- 19-inch rack
- Powered
- yes (mains powered)
- Frequency response
- Normal drive: 40Hz–18kHz ±1.5dB; Overdrive: 50Hz–11kHz ±1.5dB
- Impedance (Ω)
- Line In 20kΩ / DI In 50kΩ / Line Out 1kΩ / Lo Out 4kΩ
- Country of manufacture
- United Kingdom
Details
Controls: Function switch (T/P1/P2/SQ1-3 distortion + dynamic mid-lift), Bias, Drive switch (Normal/+10dB/Overdrive), 2-position Presence switch, Output Level with -10dB attenuator, Low-pass filter, Bypass
I/O: Transformer-balanced XLR line input, unbalanced DI input; unbalanced Hi & Lo XLR outputs
Notes: Max Output Level +17dBu at 2% distortion (max +25dBu at 20% distortion); DI gain >65dB; selected NOS valves matched for stereo. Balanced outputs available to special order. Dials now go to 15 instead of 11 (hence name). Distortion/gain figures from official spec PDF. Official site thermionicculture.com is currently unreachable/broken (root returns an empty Apache directory listing, product URLs 404) as of research date 2026-07-19; all data below sourced from Wayback Machine snapshot dated 2025-05-16 (and linked official spec-sheet PDFs) of the live Joomla/VirtueMart catalog, cross-checked against the current Independent Audio (US distributor) product listing, which also shows no USD pricing.