Fat Bustard News: Thermionic Culture has released the new Fat Bustard summing valve mixer. It now has a total of 12 inputs instead of the 8 that were on the version previewed at the last AES NYC show, the inputs are arranged as 4x stereo pairs, 4x mono with pan controls, and all the channles have toggle mute switches. The simple but amazing Bass and Treble EQ now has 0.5dB stepped Lift controls while there are 6 way stepped Bass and Treble Cut controls.
Thermionic Culture have also come up with something new, a really sweet and effective stereo width control, a little reminiscent of some vinyl lathe cutting EQ's.
Four valves are used on the master buss, a pair of 5965 double triodes, the first half of which is pre-amp/eq , the second half is gain makeup in conjunction with the dedicated ‘Attitude’ feedback control which determines the amount of THD. The Attitude control can yield a clean signal or add gain and some “valvy” 2nd harmonic distortion. The other pair of valves is the larger 6SN7 double triode connected in parallel to give massive headroom cleanly (approaching +30 dBm).
The Thermionic Culture Fat Bustard Valve Summing Mixer is shipping June 2008. Contact any Digital Village Pro Audio store and arrange a personal demonstration.