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Air
The Air control on The Kite adds a
beautiful, tube-dusted upper-end openness to your sound. It's gentle and almost imperceptible when pushed to its
full +5dB at 10kHz, peaking at 40kHz.
Attitude
The final control on The Kite is Attitude. This is not an EQ, but a harmonic saturation circuit borrowed from the
Thermionic Culture Fat Bustard II summing mixer. Attitude offers six settings,
from 1 to Max, that add from 0.01%
to 5% 2nd order harmonic distortion.
As you turn the dial, it has the apparent effect of making everything louder,
which to our ears makes everything
sound better, and it does sound good.
In practical use, if you compensate the
output trim for the amount of Attitude
you're adding, it yields varied levels of
harmonic saturation, up to a nicely perceptible valve breakup that just starts to
tickle your signal.
The Kite's Tail
On the stereo bus, The Kite is more subtle
than you might expect from the makers of
the Culture Vulture. You can push it hard
into unmistakable top-end grit and thickness, but the beauty of The Kite is how all
of its controls work together to enhance
your sound with a myriad of blended color
variations. As such, this is a box you need
to mix your source sounds or full mix into
at the start of a mix session, adjusting and
tweaking as you go for the best results.
While a great mixing tool, and while
sonically I could see its use in a mastering studio, the softly detented controls
lack a touch of the precision that most
of the mastering engineers I know seek
with fully detented controls; a stepped
mastering version is easy to imagine,
should the market dictate.
Conclusion
Once again, Thermionic Culture
proves they know their valves (you
know, tubes) inside and out. The Kite is
a fantastic stereo flavor-adding device
with a boutique, all-British build quality-a great balance of thick, warm,
open, and airy-all in one.
Price: $2799 unbalanced, $3299 balanced
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RØDE PodMic
2019 Holiday Buyer's Guide
Steinberg Dorico Pro 3 Music Novation Software
Thermionic Culture ‘The Kite’ Stereo Equalizer
API 2448 Recording and Mixing Console
IK Multimedia UNO Drum: Beat Creation Station
Austrian Audio OC18 Popular Cardioid Pattern Precision Microphone
UK Sound 276 Dual Channel FET Compressor
Windows 10: An Upgrade Story
Splicit Reel Audio Products: Capture Series 914 Audio Tape
Plugin Outlet: Waves Abbey Road Studio 3
Once Over: Royer AxeMount Dual-Microphone Clip & Arturia MicroLab Smart Keyboard Controller
Readers' Tracks
TC Electronic TC2290-DT, TC8210-DT, TC1210-DT and DVR250-DT
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