The infamous Sherman filterbank

[mindsetAUS]

Had one since 2011, the manual is written in second language English.... have managed to get heaps of good sounds from it but only through trial and error.

Tried the search function on here, tried YouTube, google etc. there's not much info out there on it.

Anyone know how to use the thing properly?

Usually I get too much noisy toneless crap from it

And im not trying to make Reeses with it, that is quite easy. Trying to get cleaner sounds from it, I've seen people do it on YouTube but dunno how.

[DrastikMeazures]

I've never used one, but I'm assuming the one you got in 2011 you bought used, as they've not been in production for years and years, is it possible yours is in need of some repair? You should be able to get usable sounds by just fiddling long enough if it's working correctly.

[mindsetAUS]

I've never used one, but I'm assuming the one you got in 2011 you bought used, as they've not been in production for years and years, is it possible yours is in need of some repair? You should be able to get usable sounds by just fiddling long enough if it's working correctly.

The filterbank 2 is still being made, u can buy one off ebay for 700us.

Anyway i seem to have fixed this situation.

I re-read the manual and set up a lowpass on both the channel sending out to the sherman and the one receiving it, so the crazy peaks dont shred my ears..,the thing is a wild beast!

Still keen to hear others' experiences with this or any other analog gear, is there a thread dedicated to analog?

[fragments]

There isn't really a proper hardware thread...I think there is a gear lust thread, pictures of your studio, that kind of thing. There are some hardware threads occasionally.

I've not owned a Sherman Filterbank, but I'd just work slowly with it. Tweak knobs slowly and one at a time. That way you can be sure of what is causing the nasty frequencies. But from the demos I've seen and what I've read about them that doesn't sound unusual. It's a sound destruction tool to be sure.

[AxeD]

Could you explain what your setup's is like?

[Undrig]

Owned a Sherman filterbank 2 (before I sold it to help fund a road ready drumset)
It's a pretty wild piece of kit. subtlety is key if you don't want it to go batshit. Dry/knobs works wonders towards taming it. Lovely filter tbh. One of those bits of gear I really miss.

[mindsetAUS]

Could you explain what your setup's is like?

I run a minibrute into the Sherman and then into Cubase. and also run sounds out from Cubase into the Sherman and back into Cubase again.

BUT - I have sorted the problem out! turns out the if the input volume knob is past 50% the unit applies exponential amounts of overdrive to the signal.

the manual actually isn't too bad, im re-reading it and its kinda helpful.

regarding hardware, I cant believe more people don't get into it