I had the Vermona reverb which has the same filter, very nice but not really comparable to the AH.
Hey man, I’ve read in other post that you sold you old AH but bought another. What made you sell and buy it again?
I bought the first one when they came out, played around with it for a bit (not enough) then sold it for money and space reasons, I thought I’d get another later though and when I saw one for a good price I did.
I had both and still have the Vermona Retroverb lancet. Like the FIlterbank i would never part with it. It takes a bit of getting into it but it has a very nice sound to it. Can get aggressive too. I like it even a bit more than the filterbank.
Fusionbox sounds great as well but it was too limited for me. And the stereo mode was useless because it totally cancels the effected signal when listened back in mono.
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…ha…no worries…
but…never forget the first rule in all this gear slut addiction game / how deep is this rabbit hole fo real…?
and that rule is…if u go cheap in first place, u’ll end up more expensive…
dunno how much cheaper the vermona stuff is in direct comparison to the ah…but a bit more than 600 euros is no way near to be called too expensive for what u get with this solid box…
so if ur missing one or two hundred bucks in ur calculation for now…wait another moment and then go for it…only if u really know what vermona can do for ur sound and that’s exactly what ur diggin’ for, and nothing beyond that, it really makes sense to go any cheaper…
…but just to make sure one last time…and as an official warning…
ah is addictive…once u gotit in your signal chain, no matter what it might contain, u’ll never wann go without it again…
so any questions what might worx best with it, are senseless…
it worx on EVERYTHING…not only drums…not only synth…not only guitars…everything…literally.
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what about the Ebbe & Flut Filter?
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Bumping this thread because I went back and forth between these 2 forever. I prefer the sound of the Sherman, it is super warm and rich. I also want something I can send synths and samples to and process live while printing to audio.
Not sure how many of you have one, but my plan is to send mono signal into it and then use both outputs from the sherman back in. Could be insane to chop a break in the OT and send that into the Sherman.
Seems like a piece of gear that is super powerful for dance music, but not as discussed for as much as it gets used in studios.
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Both would be the best option as sometimes you need stereo and the Sherman can only take a mono input. That’s the path I took, and I already had a Niio which does stereo saturation with envelope and filter. All have different flavours and strengths. Can’t go wrong with a Sherman though imho. It’s a classic. It just manages to do subtle but most of its range goes to nasty and unpredictable places, which makes for more happy (and unhappy) accidents than the others.
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Yep thats what I’m thinking. I can only really have 1 rigt now and the Sherman seems the more creative for my type of sound design. I can see myself doing things like running a stab through it and just adding a ton of movement and shape to it across the track.
The Niio looks incredible, I just cant track one down and they are twice as much as the Sherman. Figured I’d start with the Sherman for now…
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Yeah every producer needs to try a Sherman at least once. Has to be one of the longest running items of electronic gear in continuous production ever. Currently have mine being used as a guitar effect.
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Best would be to just buy two shermans imo!
I sold my AH mk2 because it sounded lifeless to my ears, not at the beginning but after using it for some time, testing it vs plugins and especially after I bought better speakers that i realized that it’s nothing better than an average plugin. Good enough speakers are crucial for this!
But i generally have this problem with analog from elektron that it doesn’t sound as good as others’ …
2 Sherman’s isn’t an option. I don’t mind mono in though. I never have. I just widen the sounds back up in the daw. I do believe I can do 2 outputs on the Sherman if I want to track in something with crazy stereo movement so i reserved 2 inputs for it on my interface.
I found the Sherman to have a very narrow sweet spot and limited use in my regular productions (at the time I was working professionally as a sound designer and producing drum&bass as a side project).
It can go crazy gnarly, and you can find some hidden sonic gems when/if you get there, but it’s a very specific tool with a very specific sound (and a pretty bad S/N ratio IMO).
If you consider it more as a distortion box than a filter, maybe you won’t be disappointed.
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This is about right, IME too. It can sound glorious, but the range between “glorious” and “awful” are really narrow. There were times spent just staring at the box asking myself “why am I now getting no sound, it was awesome 2 minutes ago”.
And yes, it’s noisy (SNR). As a distortion filter it can be amazing though
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Those are some traits I definitely have thought about. I know you can use MIDI to open the gate more and get it more subtle. I will just have to see what I can generate with it. Seems like one of those hardware pieces that you have to get hands on to understand.
I wouldn’t count on that.
I’ve seen people do what Im talking about so I’m not too concerned. Subtle for me is still quite dirty, just not an all out assault all the time.
I would. It is pretty easy to do with some experience (e.g., parallel processing, sidechain controlled activation etc.).
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