# PSS Battle!

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-10-23
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/10/pss-battle/

The fun continues here at Analog Industries, where (despite all evidence to the contrary) we know how to fucking party! It seems our friend [J. Robert Lennon](http://www.inverseroom.com/) unwittingly threw down the gauntlet when he posted [a link](http://www.helstab.com/music/inverse/Christmas%20Afternoon.mp3) to his PSS-only track in the comments of the last post.

Well, I'm certainly not going to be outdone on my own website, so I've gone and penned a four-minute (and change) PSS-470 Odyssey, a bizarre mish-mash of IDM, progressive house, and what could only be described as dubdustrial. As if I had nothing but time on my hands, really. So grab yourself [an MP3,](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.analogindustries.com/samples/PSS-chmod.mp3) and lean back and enjoy a powerful combination of a $2.00 yard-sale keyboard and several thousand dollars worth of outboard. Take that, Mr. Lennon!

Who's next? Who wants to join the PSS Battle? Two men enter, one man leaves!

## Comments (11)

**FromSynthToReal** (2005-10-23):

You're definitely winning at this point! That doesn't sound at all like a $2.00 keyboard!

**googoobaby** (2005-10-23):

You're definitely winning at this point! That doesn't sound at all like a $2.00 keyboard!

**Wade Alin** (2005-10-23):

Better watch out, I'm hitting the thrift stores tomorrow.

W

**Chris Randall** (2005-10-23):

Heh. Now I'm in trouble. There's half a dozen on eBay right now:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=Yamaha+PSS-470&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&ebaytag1=ebayreg&srchdesc=n&maxRecordsReturned=300&maxRecordsPerPage=50&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

-CR

**Chris Randall** (2005-10-23):

Also, it's worth mentioning that the PSS-460 is almost exactly the same, as far as I can tell.

-CR

**inverseroom** (2005-10-23):

OK, you win!!!! But it's Inverse Room to you suckas. ;-)

**Suit & Tie Guy** (2005-10-24):

good track.

**neB** (2005-10-24):

HA! That rules...Thrift stores and yard sales here i come...

**Heretic_D™** (2005-10-25):

That hammering/tinging sound is very neat. That's a built-in sound? It sounds rather taped.

**Chris Randall** (2005-10-25):

There are a _lot_ of effects on that track. That particular hammering sound is one of the stock noinks in the keyboard->Blacet Klangwerk->Blacet Time Machine->Neumann PEV EQ->TLA tube d.i./pre, then a little taste of the Princeton 'verb. So, that $2.00 sound ran through about a grand and a half worth of shit to get to the point where it was "neat."

-CR

**Heretic_D™** (2005-10-25):

I figured as much. It has a very real feel to it. Once I'm rich, I'm definitely going to have to pick me up some of them Blacet devices.