CIRCLE OF TONE. | 3 years ago

Why you can't get the classic NIN guitar sound today?

To become a Patreon of tone:
https://www.patreon.com/circleoftone

Instagram for mic positions etc:
https://www.instagram.com/circle_of_tone/

To support the channel please visit here:
http://www.circleoftone.com

To join the facebook group please go here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1710152262614319/

Rough notes on NIN gear:

Free waveshapers:
https://vstwarehouse.com/d/m3/

Sample of all parts
https://youtu.be/fVheDYD6TTI

Les Paul had "Loudest pickups that exist."installed in them.

9030 cab sim here in the comments:
https://youtu.be/zT72rEO5Shw

Gear used on Downward Spiral
a White Gibson Les Paul
Fender Strat
Moog
Ovation acoustic.
Jackson
Demeter tube preamp
ZOOM 9002
ZOOM 9030 FOR CAB SIM and Vocals
Zoom 9050
Mutron envelope filter. The one that gives you the Bootsy


Produced by Trent and flood from the Jesus and Mary Chain

Guitarist of a Perfect Circle was a tech.

Assorted Jackson and Gibson guitars.

REZNOR: 9030 is the one I use a lot for the vocals. That and the mic preamp from an old Neve board. We also went and got an old Mutron envelope filter. drums on "I Do Not Want This" was just one two-bar loop that Steve Perkins played. We just ran it through every effect we had in the studio--the Mutron, [Eventide] H3000 Harmonizers, a Digitech Whammy Pedal... Flood and I just went crazy.

GW: What kind of guitars do you play?

REZNOR: Mostly an Eighties' Les Paul Custom. I also used an Explorer, and a Jackson I have, for which I just told the company, "Put the world's loudest pickup in this." But to be honest, I process the guitar tracks so much that it doesn't really matter what guitar I'm playing. Since the guitars are usually recorded into the computer we import them into the Turbo Synth program [Digidesign's signal processing software for the Mac], which totally turns them into other things. I've come up with about four patented tricks that I use in Turbo Synth, all of which are really dependant on the input sound. If you process the sound on the bridge pickup versus the neck pickup, it'll be totally different--not even remotely similar. Because the program finds certain frequencies that it accentuates and distorts. A lot of the sounds on "Mr. Self Destruct" that seem like guitar performances that no human being ever played are actually real performances that have been processed to unknown depths using Turbo Synth.

Another thing I'll sometimes do is play the guitars twice as fast as the song's tempo, recording them at 30 ips [inches-per-second] on the multitrack. Then I'll slow it down to 15 ips. I'll play the part an octave high, too, so when I slow it down, it's in the right register and at the right speed. But if you saturate the tape real hard when you record it at 30 ips, it takes on a really clear, thick, warm, and bizarre quality when you slow it down. The guitar on "Suck" [Broken]--which I think is the best guitar sound I've ever gotten--was done that way.

GW: I wanted to ask you about the solo in "Ruiner." How did you get that really nasty, ultra-quantized sound?

REZNOR: Ah yes, the great, Pink Floyd-esque, Seventies- sounding section of the song. That's just a preset on the Zoom. I think I accidentally called up the wrong patch.


GW: You created many of your drum loops by recording Porno for Pyros drummer Steve Perkins live in the studio. Is that one way you've retained some humanity?

REZNOR: Yeah. He just played a bunch of beats. We recorded them and made some loops of his playing. 

xists. He'll get a cable-ready television set, but he won't get a DAT machine because "Ooooh, that's digital recording. I heard Neil Young say that doesn't sound good." Like Neil Young would know his ass from a hole in the ground about digital recording. Nothing against Neil Young, but people get these archaic notions.

Turbosynth on guitars
https://youtu.be/_yHJ8fEJgf0

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/classic-tracks-nine-inch-nails-closer

Listen to turbo synth
https://youtu.be/ME7SGVeZbN8

Backwards Bryan Ferry
At the end of closer:
https://youtu.be/eEJLElyejaU

The studio was equipped with a 56-input Amek Mozart console with Rupert Neve modules
two Studer A800 Mk3 multitrack machines, Mac-based Pro Tools and a host of outboard gear, in addition to Akai S1100 and Kurzweil K2000 samplers; Prophet VS, Digidesign Turbosynth, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim Expander, Oberheim OBMx, Roland MKS80 and Minimoog synthesizers; Doepfer and Oberheim sequencers; a Mellotron MKIV polyphonic tape replay keyboard; a Roland R70 drum machine; and assorted Jackson and Gibson guitars.

Cheesy band
https://youtu.be/iWccbyICM_A

Decided against a new NIN album to produce Halsey.

COMMENT, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE OR ELSE!!!