the psb sound
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symco
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DJ Pat
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Re: the psb sound
He must have something useful, a good ear for sound, obviously. He's always programming despite their use of these so-called top producers so he's gotta be classed as the 3rd Pet Shop Boy!
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glennjridge
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Re: the psb sound
when I listen to the demo's....which I assume is totally chris's playing and doing...they sound like the PSB. so if anything from what I can tell,pete simply makes the tunes sound not as clumsily put together as the demo's usually are.
either via playing, or editing what chris plays. I think he proabbly knows how to make one section seque into the other effortlessly. but in the end, I think the PSB's sound is chris and not pete. I think pete just takes the baton from chris and goes from there.
either via playing, or editing what chris plays. I think he proabbly knows how to make one section seque into the other effortlessly. but in the end, I think the PSB's sound is chris and not pete. I think pete just takes the baton from chris and goes from there.
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Re: the psb sound
I would say that, when they worked together, Pete Gleadall was immensely responsible for how great-sounding those songs came out.
PSB songs tend toward the layered and intricate, musically. Someone has to do all that programming and layering and sequencing, and making it perfect, and for years that person was Pete Gleadall. I used to get annoyed on his behalf a bit- PSB would go into the studio, Chris would nap on a couch, Neil would do a vocal session for twenty minutes. Gleadall was the one who put it all together before PSB went off for a four-hour lunch. (I may be exaggerrating here, but that seems how it went.)
I wouldn't say Gleadall defined the PSB sound in any way. I can imagine they were very particular, "We want this, we don't want that." But like, think of all the layers of tracks, like the pumping video-games sounds, computers, synths and sequencers happening in "Young Offender" on Very, say. Someone had to be the one in the studio putting that together. Every layer. It wasn't Neil and Chris at the computer and soundboard, it was Pete. Of course Neil sang and Chris played. But, putting it all together is harder than it seems.
(Anyone tried assembling a song in GarageBand or something? Trickier than you'd think. And you can't listen to music while you're doing it! Seriously, repetitively dealling with beats and samples and layers of music are just, brain-trying. It's not fun. But that was Pete Gleadall's job with PSB, and he was excellent at it, from what I can tell. )
PSB songs tend toward the layered and intricate, musically. Someone has to do all that programming and layering and sequencing, and making it perfect, and for years that person was Pete Gleadall. I used to get annoyed on his behalf a bit- PSB would go into the studio, Chris would nap on a couch, Neil would do a vocal session for twenty minutes. Gleadall was the one who put it all together before PSB went off for a four-hour lunch. (I may be exaggerrating here, but that seems how it went.)
I wouldn't say Gleadall defined the PSB sound in any way. I can imagine they were very particular, "We want this, we don't want that." But like, think of all the layers of tracks, like the pumping video-games sounds, computers, synths and sequencers happening in "Young Offender" on Very, say. Someone had to be the one in the studio putting that together. Every layer. It wasn't Neil and Chris at the computer and soundboard, it was Pete. Of course Neil sang and Chris played. But, putting it all together is harder than it seems.
(Anyone tried assembling a song in GarageBand or something? Trickier than you'd think. And you can't listen to music while you're doing it! Seriously, repetitively dealling with beats and samples and layers of music are just, brain-trying. It's not fun. But that was Pete Gleadall's job with PSB, and he was excellent at it, from what I can tell. )