PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring the Universal Audio Thermionic Culture Vulture for UAD-2 and Apollo

September 2, 2014 New Products Abbey Road Studios/Chandler Limited: Long-Term Development Agreement » Blue Mo-Fi Headphone » Cakewalk Z2TA+ iOS DAW » Focusrite Midnight Plug-in Suite: Free With Saffire PRO Firewire/Thunderbolt Interface » Today's Video PAR-Tube Presents—World-Class Microphone Preamplifiers, Favorite Flavors: Earthworks 1024 ZDT by Rob Tavaglione, PAR Contributor The Editors of Pro Audio Review magazine proudly present "PAR-Tube," a new initiative starring the Contributors of PAR in an ongoing video-based review, applications and new product presentation series. Here, PAR Contributor Rob Tavaglione continues in part 4 of our first monthly topic, "World-Class Microphone Preamplifiers, Favorite Flavors" with the Earthworks 1024 ZDT. More » Today's Review Universal Audio Thermionic Culture Vulture for UAD-2 and Apollo By Rich Tozzoli, PAR Software Editor The Thermionic Culture Vulture is one of those pieces of gear I've heard about for years, but never actually had in my hands. The hardware is a hand-built, 2U rackmount valve unit made by Thermionic Culture that produces varieties of harmonic distortion. With EF86, 5963 and 6AS6 tubes, transformers, capacitors and filters, as well as the ability to adjust bias and drive, it can go from subtle to screaming. [Read PAR Contributor Rob Tavaglione's full review of the hardware Culture Vulture here: http://www.prosoundnetwork.com/article/review-thermionic-culture-culture-vulture-/15370.-Ed.] However, with the release of Universal Audio's V7.8 software, the Culture Vulture is available on your desktop for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces. More » No subscription to Pro Audio Review? Get on the inside track with the best peer-to-peer pro reviews in the audio production biz: visit http://www.mypsnmag.com now! Today's Blog PAR Editorial: On The Importance Of Gear By Frank Wells, PAR Editorial Director One regular client from my studio days, a superlative golden-eared producer/engineer, had a plethora of exotic analog outboard gear that he married in to a digital workflow. Then one day, he put the whole lot on eBay. He said that while he could discern differences between the hardware and the latest software versions of the devices, the differences were so minute as to be insignificant. In a full mix, he said, any differences were completely insignificant, as they were not audible in that context. None of his artists had any complaints about the transition, nor did the labels paying him for his services. More » Click The Covers — Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » Read the July/August 2014 Issue of PAR Now! Click Here For The Digital Edition Events 137th AES Convention, Oct 9-12, Los Angeles » The NAMM Show 2015, Jan 22-25, Anaheim CA »

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