Thermionic Culture Purple Bustard
It's a Little Red Bustard except it has a purple front plate in honor of Thermionic Culture’s 20th Anniversary manufacturing these amazing products, and the Phase Shift has been improved.
This is a compact version of the Fat Bustard summing mixer. It has more inputs; there are 16 in all.
These come in on semi floating XLRs and are switched in as required. The last 4 (Channels 13-16) can be switched to center. There is no individual level control over any input. The only controls are Attitude, Air, and Output Levels.
We have provided some simple but unique indication of level at the stereo output by using multicoloured LEDs in the eyes of the Little Red Bustard icon. Output levels are on XLRs; unbalanced. A balancing box containing 2 Sowter 1:1 transformers can be supplied. The Little Red Bustard can easily drive a DAW to full level without saturation, or it can be plugged into the aux inputs on a Fat Bustard to give 28 input channels.
All audio connectors are standard XLR type. The Little Red Bustard, as the Fat Bustard, works on an unbalanced system. The 16 input connectors are wired Pin 1 Earth, Pin 2 Signal ('hot') and Pin 3 Signal negative ('cold'). Pins 1and 3 are connected by a small resistor, which means that the Little Red Bustard will accept outputs from electronically balanced sources (certain DAWs) without quality deterioration, as well as unbalanced and transformer balanced sources. The output XLRs are wired Pin 2 Signal, pins 1and 3 shorted to Earth.
The Little Red Bustard is switch selectable to operate from either 230V or 115V 50/60Hz AC mains supply.
Specifications
- Input impedance: 10k
- Output impedance: 250;. Load impedance should be 2k; or greater.
- Distortion and MOL specs are for a load of 10k
- Distortion: 0.025% @ +4dBu (THD, unweighted, 30kHz filter)
- Maximum o/p level: +25dBu (MOL @ 1% distortion)
- The following specs are for Attitude 1 setting:-
- Noise (30kHz filter): - 82dBu
- Frequency response +/- 1dB: 12Hz to 55kHz
- Phase shift @10kHz: 5% (18 degrees)
- Crosstalk: 1kHz - 60dB
10kHz - 50dB
- Power consumption 35 watts
- Weight 12 lbs
The unit comes with a 12 month warranty covering all parts
