| The sherman is a lot more than a distortion. It is basically a badass monosynth sans oscillators. As far as the ditortion goes, it is all contolled by the input knob, but it sounds idfferent at different levels. It also has a high boost/high cut switch that changes the sound, and it has a pad/sensitive trigger switch so you can get any distortion level at any volume level. The filters certainly interact with the distortion to produce a wide variety of sounds, but I honestly havn't spent that much time with just the distortion. It sounds nice though. I have an ion, which is a nice, but not particualrly ballsy synth, but it screams when I run the oscs through the filterbank.
There are probably some mail order places that will let you return it if you don't like it, though I don't think that's very likely with the sherman. I've had min for a couple months, and I'm only beginning to get a handle on what it can do. If you can't find a place that has a good return policy, and you have access to some server you could use to upload files, you could send some of your sounds to me, and I would be happy to run them through just the distortion at a variety of representative settings and send them back to you. I could really only do this for just the distortion though, as once you add in the filters and the modulation it has far too many possibilities to do any kind of effective demo. It will take you months to really get a feel for it. |