ABUSER COMMENTS


Edge Of Dawn wrote :
The Sherman Filterbank II is one of my favourite sound-mangling tools - I just love the gritty distortion it can add to drum sounds. I've used it quite a lot on our upcoming album "Enjoy The Fall". The Filterbank can also add life to digital synth sounds and is a recommendable addition to analog synths. I found its built quality pretty impressive as well – solid like a tank!
www.edgeofdawn.de

WAJID wrote :
2ndGen, with albums released on Mute, PIAS, Quatermass, Blast First etc....and the other project in which i used the sherman a lot on tracks is Uniform (collaborating with lydia lunch, barry adamson, sleazy from throbbing gristle/coil...etc....a long list of em but enough of it !)
Check out some of our tracks at www.2ndGen.net, Uniform.adnoiseam.net, www.Dirthole.org...

The Chemical Brothers wrote :
" We've had a version 1 Sherman Filterbank and a Quad Modular Filter for a few years now and are still one of the most used (and abused!) pieces of technology in our arsenal. Both feature heavily on our fourth album, which we're presently recording. The Filterbank is incredibly flexible and the potential for really extreme processing is unique in a product with such a high quality signal path. (That Limit switch comes in handy, though!)"

Charlie Clouser, keyboard-player with NINE INCH NAILS wrote :
" I have owned a few analog filters in my time, but none have the capabilities for complete sonic destruction that my Sherman FilterBank has. It is a most evil and wicked device that creates sounds I can't seem to coax out of any other gear. I won't go into battle without it. Highly recommended."

Pat Mastelotto, drummer with KING CRIMSON wrote :
" I love my Sherman! When mixing the King Crimson ProjeKct 3 material we put them on almost everything- in fact the trio was sort of a quartet with Sherman being the fourth member ! Lots of Sherman on Crimson 'Construcktion of light', "Heavy Construcktion" and 'ProjeKct X' CDs. I like to rhythmically twist the knobs so the growls, squeals, and fuzz bubble to the beat. Wonderful for fattening up electronic tom toms and kick drums. and wait till you hear the BPM&M record! This record is Bill Munyon and I building tracks from outakes of Fripp, Tony Levin and others in the Crimson family. Several track have dub mix coda elements sometimes built around Sherman moans that we looped. "

BIOHAZARD's Billy Graziadei wrote :
" Every time I use the Sherman Filter bank I'm amazed with the simplicity of use and the range of sounds I can achieve. I've used it all over our new album UNCIVILIZATION; for incredible filter sweeps, as a powerful eq, or for special effect sound designing. I can't imagine a world without SHERMAN! "

Mike Dred / Kosmik Kommando. 2001, wrote :
"The Sherman Filterbank: A Specialist in 'Grievous Bodily Harmonics'. Five minutes with this little monster and you realise that you are in the presence of a piece of hardware that is as essential as your speakers. The Manual is excellent. The transition from novice to master is swift".

Dr. Walker, Cologne, Germany, wrote :
" Wir benutzen die sherman filterbank um mehr leben in unsere samplez und digitalen sounds zu bringen. im mixdown von "acid"trax vollbringt sie wahre wunder. " (rei$$dorf force / air liquide - remixe u.a. fuer can, fm einheit, eternal, emf, dr.acid&mr.house, neu!, spearhead, ...)

David Morley (also working with Andrea Parker), wrote :
" I find the Sherman Filterbank to be one of the most useful studio pieces I own. I generally use it in combination with my modular synths. It functions perfectly as an additional module, but one that can perform many different and unique functions. Also, it really is analogue, unlike others which say "analogue", and you can really hear the difference. It has real power, not virtual power "

Adrian Johnson from RUSTCYCLE wrote :
hey guys! this is Adrian from Rustcycle. i just wanted to let you know that i posted a new sample track from my upcoming CD on my site that might be useful for you. the track features 5 layers of guitar, 4 of which are heavily filtered - the track is a guitar and drum composition: http://cs.uccs.edu/%7eabjohnso/html/Daisho.mp3 (or access "Daisho" from the front page at rustcycle.com) thanks again for all your hard work - the FB2 completely changed how i write music :)

Datach'i wrote :
hi, my name is joseph fraioli aka datach'i. ive been a sherman 1 user since 1998 and have used it extensivly both for performing live and on my albums ... i must say it is my favorite piece of hardware, im always finding new ways to incorperate it into my sound, each time experimenting and finding new textures..even though i use mostly software these days, the sherman is always in the chain, proper beat filtering or even just to grit up a mix. you can hear sound clips from my latest album coming out on the UKs planet mu label this winter entitled "mmale and ffemale" here...

DIRTY ACID wrote :
I just wanted to let you guys know the filter bank 2 is a work of art.
The sounds that come out of that box are amazing.
I filter my TB 303 thru it. Its a whole new ball game now.
Check out some of our tracks at www.dirtyacid.com...


KNOWN SHERMAN FILTERBANK ABUSERS :

ABBA
ABBEY ROAD STUDIO'S (London)
ABN (website) (e-mail Beatcreator ABN)
ADRENALINE JUNKIES
ADRIAN SHERWOOD
A-HA guitarist PAAL WAAKTAR (QMF user) (website)
ALEX MEIN SMITH "Little Thief" (website)
ANDY GILL
ANTON PRICE (e-mail him)
ANTRAX (producer Daniel Spitz, e-mail him)
APOLLO FOUR FORTY
ANTHONY J. RESTA (Guster / Duran Duran) (website)
ARID (website)
ARKARNA
BATCHAS (Aka. FREQ63 & MYIASE) (website)
B.J. COLE
BILLY CORGAN
BIOHAZARD (website)
BJÖRK
BLÖF
BLUR
BOMB JACK (website)
BORIS BLANK (ex Yello)
BOWERY ELECTRIC
BRUCE GILBERT (ex-guitarist Wire)
CANDY DULFER (Sax) (website) (e-mail her)
CARL CRAIG
CASSEOPAYA (website)
CHARLIE WATTS & JIM KELTNER
CHEMICAL BROTHERS (see pictures below)
CHICKS ON SPEED
CJ BOLLAND
CMS PRODUCTIONS (website)
COIL (website)
COLDCUT
COOLER
CHRIS ECKMAN (website)
CYBERMOTION
DAAN (see pictures below) (e-mail him)
DA GOOSE (website)
DAVE CLAYTON
DAVID ARNOLD (James Bond Composer etc.)
DAVID BOWIE (and producer Tony Visconti, use old Filterbank)
DAVID MORLEY (e-mail him)
DEAD MAN RAY (website)
dEUS
DE MENS
DEATH IN VEGAS
DEEP PURPLE (website)
DENKI GROOVE (Takkyu Ishino and Marin)
DEPECHE MODE (on album Ultra)
DERRICK MAY
DIRTY ACID (website)
DJ D
DJ DONOTASK (website)
DREADZONE
EAR CANDY
EAVESDROPPER (e-mail him)
EELKE KLEIJN (website)
ETIENNE DE CRECY
ETON CROP
FLUKE
FRONT 242
FUNKSTÖRUNG
GARAGE SAUVAGE (website) (HG contributed with his gear in the conception and sound shaping of this new band)
GARETH COUSINS (website)
GARY HUGHES
GO EAST STUDIO'S (Vienna) (website)
GORKI (website) (HG contributed on Sherman filters on ‘Joeri’ ‘Homo erectus’, their latest album)
GROOVE ARMADA
HARD WAX
HEAD DRILLERS
HUMAN LEAGUE (e-mail their studiomanager: David Beevers)
JAMIROQUAI (Rick Pope / Jay Kay)
JMX (see pictures below) (website) (e-mail him)
JUAN ATKINS
KEN ISHII
KINYA YAMAKAWA (website) (e-mail him)
KIRK DEGIORGIO
KMFDM
KLOOT PER W (website)
LEE PERRY - MAD PROFESSOR
LEFTFIELD (e-mail their management)
LENNY KRAVITZ
LOCUST
LONDON ELECTRICITY / HOSPITAL (website)
LOU REED - ZELJKE MC CULLEN (website)
LOWPASS
MARK BELL (LFO)
MARTIN GORE (website)
MICK GLOSSOP (engineer Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, Lloyd Cole)
MID&RIC (mideric@hotmail.com)
MIKE DRED / KOSMIK KOMMANDO (website)
MIKROKNYTES (website)
MINIMALISTIX (website)
MIXMASTER MORRIS
MOBY
MOGWAI (website)
MORGAN FISHER (website)
MOUSE ON MARS
NEO
NICK CAVE
NICK McCABE
NINE INCH NAILS (website)
NOCORE (website)
NOORDKAAP
NORMAN COOK (aka Fatboy Slim)
NOT BREATHING (Dave Wright) (website)
OGI B.
OLIVER LEIBER (Rod Stewart band)
ORBITAL
OVALSOUL (website)
OWEN MORRIS (Producer Ocean Colour Scene)
PAT MASTELLOTO (King Crimson / David Sylvian / Robert Fripp) (website ) (e-mail him)
PEPE DELUXÉ (e-mail him)
PETE TOWNSEND
PHATS & SMALL
PHIL VINALL
PLACEBO (website)
PLASTIKMAN - RICHIE HAWTIN
POROUSHER (website) (e-mail)
POWERTONE - WOUTER VAN BELLE (website) (e-mail him)
PRAGA KHAN
PROJECT 2000
QUEST STUDIOS (website)
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (Brendan O'Brien)
RAVEN (website)
REPUBLICA
RIGUELLE & HAUTEKIET / RED HARMONY (visit the website) (redharmony@lipsticknotes.com)
ROB ACID (website)
ROBERT CHIARELLI (Final Mix ; remixes)
ROBERT LEINER / THE SOURCE (visit Fleebite Recordings website) (e-mail him)
RODOLPHE BURGER (e-mail)
ROLLING STONES (producer Nick Lowe)
RUSTCYCLE (website)
SALT TANK
SASKIA LAROO (trumpet) (website) (e-mail)
SEAN BEAVEN (Guns 'n Roses / Marilyn Manson)
SOULWAX (website)
SPARK: Belgian pop band (website) (HG contributed on sherman filters on their album ‘ I like it’)
SPARKLEHORSE (Scott Minor) (website) (e-mail him)
SPEEDY J
SPOOF
STEREOLAB
STEVE ARGUELLES (drummer Squarepusher, Katherine, etc.) (e-mail him) (website)
STEVE D'AGUSTINO
STEVE HILLAGE / SYSTEM 7
STOCK, HAUSEN & WALKMAN
STRONGROOM STUDIOS
SUBBASSCONTINUUM (website)
SUBSKAN - Jean-Marc Murphix (industrial ambient from Liège)(website)
SVEN VAN HEES
TEARS FOR FEARS
TECHNOTRONIC
TIME CONTROL (Sunao Inami) (website)
THE ADVENT
THE BASIC CHANNEL GUYS (HARD WAX - Germany)
THE CRYSTAL METHOD (website)
THE DANDY WARHOLS
THE GRID
THE HIGH LLAMA'S
THE ORB
THE PRODIGY
THE THE (Matt Johnson)
TONY BLACK (website)
TORTOISE (BRIAN DECK / CASEY RICE)
TRISH & KASH (www.samostyn.com & www.trishvaneynde.com)
TROPOSCATTER (website)
U2 (in 3 songs on their album : POP)
UNDERGROUND
UNDERWORLD (website)
URBAN DANCE SQUAD
VIVE LA FETE
WAJID (www.2ndGen.net & Uniform.adnoiseam.net & www.Dirthole.org) (e-mail him)
WILLIAM ORBIT (album Ray of Light)
WOUTER VAN BELLE (website)
ZAZIE DE TRUCHIS
ZIGGY MARLEY

and about 2400 more …. (we will be gratefull if you keep us updated)

Here are some famous abusers using the filterbank live:


PHILIP Oakey, from HUMAN LEAGUE, showing his 2 Sherman Filterbanks:
below the PROTOTYPE (only 40 were made in '95)
and above the more recent FILTERBANK 2.


Sherman demonstrates his new Sherman Quad Modular Filter
to Tom Rowlands (Chemical Brothers).

live show
Here you see Herman Gillis and
Daan Stuyven performing with just Filterbanks
and the prototype of the new Sherman VideoSynth.
Daan Stuyven is also the graphic designer of Sherman :
see our logo, and the lay-out of the abusers manual.
Contact him at : daan@deadmanray.com


POPVERDORIE Workshop
Leuven, April 15th 2000
Jean-Marie Aerts & Herman Gillis.


JMX (featuring Herman Gillis) "Experimental set".
Pukkelpop, Kiewit (Belgium) 28-08-99.
(Backdrop by V. Mazimpaka)


Here you see Mike Dred, wearing a Sherman T-shirt.
ALBUM TITLE: LAPTOP DANCING
ARTIST NAME: KOSMIK KOMMANDO
LABEL: REPHLEX RECORDS. CAT108.
Website: www.rephlex.com
Contact him at : info@rephlex.com


Here you see a picture of Pat Mastelloto, drummer of King Crimson (& David Sylvian),
with the Sherman Filterbank using live on drums. Spot it at his right side.


Pilot Picture : here you see Carl Craig performing at a design University,
with Harry Bertoia artwork, using the Sherman Filterbank 2.


Andrew Phillpott = technician from Martin Gore.


Ross Hogarth (Grammy award winning producer/engineer)
Produced: Jewel, Melissa Etheridge, Black Crowes,
John Fogerty, Roger Waters, Ziggy Marley, etc



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