Intentions; try it out, first non elektron workstation device. Octatrack froze, waiting for a reply (probably the CF card issue) so I’ve got little distractions.
Spoiled with the size of elektron gear. This thing is too big to sit between my mouse and keyboard & screens…
I’ve had an eBow buried in the bottom of a musical knick-knacks box for years, which is where my guitar skills have always been. This whole eBow line puts me in mind of the bass eBow I had back in the day, which I could never get to do anything; maybe it required certain FX to make it sing, but I play bass clean, aside from whatever’s my current favorite preamp. Now, though, I search on the web, and I find no existence of a bass eBow. I did see this post on TB that says a bass eBow never made it out of prototype, but I swear I had one, and it was branded the same as the eBow I had at the time, which was before the Plus. Am I dreaming?
Hahahaha that is so awesome. Make sure they sign it 
And finally (for a good while), I was missing this little fella after selling one before a house move a few months back.
This one turned up on Reverb for a very reasonable price. Not a combination of words you hear too often.
Welcome back!
Welp, not sure if I’ve actually bought this yet, made an offer for 50€ less than the asking price but I’ll probably pull the trigger regardless if the offer goes thru or not. Plan: make some sweet noise
Wow, hope you end up getting it! That’s on my (long) list of future purchases if I come across one for a decent pricw.
Yeah, made the offer on Reverb. It’s not like amazingly cheap, but cheap enough and I listed unused stuff from my cupboard for sale for around the same amount. Luckily I don’t really need it to make music, and I have a publisher for my next tape lined up so I’m in no hurry to make new music anyway. So if I miss it it’s not a huge deal, just wait for the next one or save up for a few months an buy it from Thomann.
This is for sure my next purchase. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. I saw John Weise using one and it sold me on it. Been wanting to try one out for ages
I know a bunch of big name noise dudes have one. I almost bought one a year ago, but decided to get an Analog Heat instead.
For sure. Its been a classic in that scene for a long time. Terror Cell Unit had one at the last show I saw of theirs also. Are you keeping the AH? I’ve gone back and forth on the two, but feel pretty decided on the FB2
Nice, I’m offering on the Bim on reverb…fella says he was selling Bim and Bam…I wonder if you grabbed his Bam…
Yeah, I’ll never let it go. If the Filterbank is like a storm in a bottle, the AH is much more precise. I’ve found that it’s great for mastering (with the Clean Boost circuit and EQ) or adding a controlled, subtle layer of crunch on top of a track, where as I suspect the filterbank will be better for just destroying a sound source completely. AH doesn’t really do over the top evil distortion or anything really crazy. Plus the AH is stereo and has LFO’s, I use it to create stereo cut ups. I don’t think they’re in the same ballpark at all.
Definitely different beasts. The AH as a mastering tool makes a lot of sense, and is for sure the most appealing part of it for me. I’ve never really used anything for mastering tbh, so I’m sure idk what I’m missing out on. I guess I just run everything through a tape deck and then into Reaper. I really just can’t justify both at the moment I guess.
How are you using the LFOs to do cut up type stuff? I do maybe something similar on the OT to hard pan different sounds to get a seemingly rando barrage of different samples
AH is nice because it doesn’t really color the track, unless you want it to, naturally. Saturation and Enhance drives are extremely pleasing to the ear and work well if you want gentle distortion instead of gnarly crunch. To my ears, Clean Boost works as a transparent compressor or a limiter, meaning it makes everything louder yet I’ve found it’s somehow better sounding than any VST I’ve used. Add the EQ and you can easily get rid of mud or brightness. I’m sure you could do all this with VST’s just as easily, but I’ve found the AH to sound great without any hassle, using VST’s always takes me a lot more time to achieve similar results. Like for example I’m mastering the A side of my upcoming tape, and I’m going to run it thru the preamp of a Tascam 4-track and the AH Clean Boost circuit, adding some high end from the EQ. Without the AH, I’d have to do a lot more to in Reaper.
LFO one set to random wave, affecting the master volume and alternatine between 0 and 127. Instant random cut ups, and you can affect the speed by changing the LFO speed. I’ve used that trick so much that I’m afraid someone will spot that it’s programmed 
Thanks for the detailed response! That sound like a very good workflow, and great use of the AH. I would probably use it similarly, and I definitely get the appeal. I’ve been doing a very shoddy mastering job in Reaper, and its probably largely due to just not wanting to work on a computer/VSTs aren’t something I’m too fond of. I do most things outboard and then make very minimal edits in Reaper and call it good. I’m sure the quality of my stuff would increase by a lot if I used something like that though
Care to link to an example of this?
I can put up an example on the current sounds thread and tag you later tonight.
I was on the hunt for a Sherman as well (used to have a FB1 years ago) but after getting the RML Jekyll n Hyde I found it could do a lot of the same evil noises, but in stereo. However I might get a Sherman down the road for the right price, it’s still a unique unit overall.
Can you really use it in stereo or just dual mono?
