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What DAW does Pet Shop Boys use?

Pet Shop Boys have been seen using a studio rig of Akai S1000 and S3000 samplers, a Roland JD-800, Juno-106 and MKS-80, a Prophet-5, a PPG Waveterm and Korg M1R modules, with Dynaudio monitors. Neil Tennant's vocals went through a Neumann TLM 170, and Chris Lowe wrote at home on a PowerBook with Logic.

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What synths do Pet Shop Boys use?

Music Technology's 1993 studio feature listed their own Roland JD-800, Juno-106, MKS-80 and MKS-50, a Prophet-5, a PPG Waveterm, an Oberheim Matrix-1000, Korg M1Rs and E-mu Proteus modules.

What DAW do Pet Shop Boys use?

Sound On Sound reported that most of Bilingual was recorded into Logic Audio, and that both Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe had Logic at home for sketching ideas.

What MIDI keyboard does Chris Lowe use?

Sound On Sound reported that Chris Lowe wrote at home on an Apple PowerBook with Logic, a Roland SC-88 and a Roland PC-200 keyboard.

What studio monitors do Pet Shop Boys use?

Music Technology reported that they bought an ABES subwoofer for their Dynaudio monitors because Chris Lowe likes to hear a lot of bottom end.

What mic does Neil Tennant use?

Engineer Bob Kraushaar recorded his vocals on a Neumann TLM 170 into UREI 1176 compressors, avoiding a U87 because it accentuates sibilance in his voice.

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Pet Shop Boys are the London synth-pop duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. This guide covers their synths, samplers, monitors, vocal mics and home writing setups, from Sound On Sound and Music Technology studio features.

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