its not car audio but its close anyone who's into hard electronic or industrial music should know what this is B)



its insane the only piece of equipment that sounds broken when its new this thing can destroy anything! gotta love the spec's to, has a freq response of 0hz! - 30khz

I know what it is and WTF have you got one for I want one I want one

mmm the ability to make almost any imagineable filter setup mmmmm sooo much analogue goodness. I am jelous. did you work out your midi issues u were having earlier this year cause u'll wanna use midi with this baby :D

Its soo true it does sound broken when new and can make other things sound very wrong (and very right mind you) as well LOL

So are you using it to make electronic music or are you using it as a raw state fitering unit?
I havent been this excited about a piece of rack mount equiptment in years

i actually just unpacked it a few hours ago so im still trying to figure it out you've got to love true analog equipment though! so warm sounding.

i pluged the guitar into it and its pretty wild, actually i found it quite interesting to just have the guitar pluged in and just humming...freaky, also just banging the bare plug or sticking my tounge on it makes for complete wierdness

Make us some brown noise!!!

The Analog Brothers would be impressed
Now get yourself an ADAT and 3 bands of dynamic playback to connect console and poetics

I have no idea what that is or what it does. Does that make me an elitest?

Nice gizmo!

LMAO @ tounge on plug comment thats one of the funniest things ive heard in a long time what made you decide to try that?. Whats the maximum input voltage sensitivity like?

Thats quite a nice little toy you have there, and it looks liek there are some more hiding out of shot, come on give us some pics and specs of that set up!

care to elaborate on that a bit more im stiil trying to work out the best way to set it up, i am at the moment running just a tone or a bunch of different ones from my keyboard to the main input and using the spare output from my pc setup wilst playing a beat etc to trigger its filters ... or something similar to that

haveanyone here had experience with one of these?



up to 10volts of input voltage, what is cool is that if you turn down the occilator to minimum it cycles about every 5min! to get a true bypass you have to use a foot switch
what made me try this? i was after something different, for those who don't know its a sherman filterbank 2, a true analog distortion unit and freq occilator, here is more info sherman at first inspection it seems like just a bunch of knobs and you fiddle with them and make cool sounds but its not untill you really start using the triggering inputs etc that you realise its real power! its sound is incredible, rich and it can go from a warm clean tube sound to crunchy 'marshall' sounding overdrive to a full on screaming mess, enough high freq to kill any tweeters(thank god for horns ) and lo freq that can go to below 1hz!! if you want them to, then with then by feeding a music or beat to the triggering inputs you can crate rythmic type tunes very industrial/heavy acid style dirty sounds, it great!

there a bit expensive though but there is one left in aust that can be had for a good price once its gone you have to wait till they make more, there only made in small batches by like 3 people in a small company in belgium or something

Ok - I'm curious - what is it exactly?

DAMN


that one funky looking vibrator

ADAT is a recorder deck, you'd typically use it for backing vocals or whatever.. or play back into it for the final cut.
3 bands of playback and you can mix vocals, a backing track and mess around with the Sherman in realtime Hope you've got fast fingers tho. You could also get someone on "the wheels" and have some serious fun

Sherman are Ice T's favourite analog toy

An ADAT is an 8 channel recorder, used in alot of smaller recording studios still.

Whats cool is when you have 3 synched up and you press eject on one and all 3 tapes pop out at the same time.

I'm guessing you do your recording straight onto your computer?

You can get ADATs in different track sizes. ADATs are pretty powerful whem playing in the analogue domain however with careful integration with a digital studio can yeld some fantastic results. They arent really used that much these days for much other than home studios (who bought them 2nd hand when most studios went digital) and bluegrass recording artists. You can do some really weird crap if you offset tapes etc. but nothing yoiu cant do using filters on a multitrack PC recorder.

But I think Tuneman wants to know how to integrate the Tape with the Digital - that I'll leave alone cause i have my own thoughts on that and they arent conventional to say the least

a dat might be handy, im currently looking for something simple and portable that can capture sounds and do analog equipment justice.

it also seems that the sound of the sherman seems to lose something when i record it direct to HDD, am i correct in assuming Dat records at 48khz instead of 44.1?

i can also sync them to my recording program which is cool cause i can hit record on the pc and a Dat will do the same

I actually dont know but yes i think you are right!

Thats awesome that means you could loop the main feed back into the DAT via the Sherman to get all your feeds at post fade and EQ and run a track of shermanated and a track of presherminated hrmmm im dizzy

And if you had a portable DAT you could use it as a portable recording device to get samples to be triggered on a loop by the Sherman - can you set the Gates on the Sherman in a... ...nah that wont work cause its analogue. have you got a digital gate that you could use in reverce opperation IE its triggered but the gate actually isnt opened until the threshold is pasted on the down cycle of the sine? does that make sence or are the drugs talking too much again

It probably has more to do with the DAT having better adc's than different sampling frequencies.

ADAT is an 8 channel magentic tape format (mostly SVHS) but stupid companies like alesis refer to their new HDD recoders as ADATs too, despite the fact that there is no tape in sight.

If your after something good see if you can get yourself something like a Motu 828 and record 8 channels straight into your computer.

For portable there are many hdd based or dvd based small 2, 4 and 8 channel recorders currently on the market, and are getting better and better.

i was just thinking of the alesis cause of the top of my head there the only ones i know of still being made, so that explains it.

the HDD recorders are good but to gets lots of memory there still pricey!

it probably would make a sweet vibrator to! think of the different vibration patterns you could achieve...

i actually just bought myself a copy of reason 3 so lots more toys to play with