Tube distortion
mastered
Saturate your mix bus with responsive analog heat; scorch your instruments and stems with destructive distortion; enjoy the unmistakable character of tube-drive studio hardware in your DAW like never before. This is Dist TUBE-CULTURE.
Channeling tube character
Nothing saturates, colors, distorts, or breathes harmonic life into a sound quite like heated vacuum valves. Dist TUBE-CULTURE meticulously emulates this behavior for the most authentic virtual valve sound you could wish for.
Choose your temperature
Enjoy warm mix-gluing saturation, white-hot fuzz, and everything in between. Dist TUBE-CULTURE will respond to your projects with whatever heat you need.
For any sound
Enrich your guitar tracks, fatten your topline vocals, crush your drum transients, or roast your mix bus to serving temperature. This faithful emulation might just be the finishing touch that your production is looking for.
Tastefully enhanced
Overcome the limitations of studio hardware and go beyond analog circuitry with modernized features like gain compensation, post-drive EQ and expanded stereo processing. Old distortion, new tricks.
The sound
of heat
Many of music’s most legendary guitar riffs, iconic vocal lines, and soul-stirring mixes simply wouldn’t have been possible without the humble vacuum tube.
These decades-old components are temperamental in their behavior, fragile in their operation, and limited in their lifespan. Yet their ability to produce a beautifully even harmonic response gives any valve-processed sound a rich, warm, smooth character that’s hard to match.
Couple this with their unique ability to dynamically distort incoming sounds with varying levels of grit and aggression, and you’ve got a formula that remains irresistible to musicians, producers, and audio trailblazers to this day.
Whether it's a vocal line in need of some extra color, a drum bus that needs some crunch, or your guitar & synth tracks begging for some edgy crunch, Dist TUBE-CULTURE puts this sought-after sonic attitude in your hands. Experience the stunning sound of a modern studio classic reimagined in virtual form.
Getting Crispy E Guitar
Adding a bit of crunch to the dynamic peaks of the guitar track.
London Dance Synth
Make your synth slightly more agressive with the Triode mode. Add harshness to the high end with the presence switch.
Oh That's Nice Drums
Subtle loudness on the bottom of your drums. Compensate with the presence switch.
Vox Enhancer
All is in the title: it's an enhancer for voices to help you to bring out the vocals in the mix.
Quick N Easy Mastering
Very clean use of the Tube Culture here. The Bias meter is set to a very small value to only add subtle harmonics from the pentode.
909 Bassdrum Exciter
Here, the sound is filtered pre-distortion so it only affects low frequencies. This can be used to create harmonics on a particular frequency band, then blend it with the dry signal using the mix knob.
Authentic studio
immersion
Emulating the sound, circuitry behavior, and straightforward layout of its hardware predecessor, Dist TUBE-CULTURE makes you feel like you’re working with a genuine bit of studio hardware.
But Dist TUBE-CULTURE doesn’t stop at authenticity; we’ve retrofitted this distortion workhorse with a selection of useful and creative features designed to work seamlessly with your workflow.
Here’s a closer look at its feature set.
Artistscorner
Stan Greene
with FX Collection
LA-based Stan Greene knows what he wants when engineering a mix. But for him, part of the challenge - and privilege - of being an engineer is being trusted to elevate someone else’s art to the next level.
Read the StoryA modern crunch
classic
In an age of digital precision and demanding hi-def audio, sometimes you just want good old fashioned analog fatness.
In the late '90s, as the music production world was becoming ever more focused on the flexibility of working with computers and the DAW was beginning to dominate, some manufacturers sought to buck the trend.
Enter UK-based Thermionic Culture, a small company committed to the belief that valve-driven gear couldn't be beaten on sound. In 1998, they released The Culture Vulture, an all-valve stereo distortion rack unit, designed to counter the increasingly sterile world of digital music production.
Offering up a proverbial rainbow of saturation, coloration, and distortion applications, this unassuming piece of handwired gear ultimately became one of the world’s most coveted bits of studio hardware, used by everyone from Deadmau5 to Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. Now you too can explore this modern classic, faithfully emulated and tastefully enhanced.
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Effects you'll actually use
This effect is part of FX Collection, a suite of essential audio effect plugins empowering musicians, producers, and artists to get creative with their production. From iconic recording gear modeled with breathtaking accuracy, to cutting-edge contemporary effects, the collection includes the most sought-after studio tools, rare guitar pedals, modern mix enhancers, and beyond. Elevate your production and add color to your mix like never before.
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The exclusive analog modeling technology that makes our emulations indistinguishable from the originals.
By accurately mimicking the characteristics of analog oscillators, filters, and soft clipping, we can provide astonishing component-accurate detail and authentic analog charm in equal measure.
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Main Features
- Stereo distortion and saturation effect with emulated vacuum tube character
- 4 modes of tube configuration: Triode 1, Pentode 1, Pentode 2, Pentode 3
- Drive and Bias controls for customizing your distortion character
- 2-mode Presence switch
- Analog ammeter (switches to digital when Advanced controls are in use)
- Stereo mode selector: L-R, Mid, Side
- Added Dry/Wet control for parallel processing
- Dynamics control to add Gate/Compression to incoming signal
- Input & output filters module with Tilt EQ
- 2 Oversampling modes for supreme audio quality or lower CPU usage
- A/B comparison
- NKS-ready
Platforms specifications
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- ARM processors not supported on Windows
Required configuration
- VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Apple
- Mac OS 10.13+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
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