How To Get -NINE INCH NAILS- Level Production 

It feels like a similar rhythm 'copy of a'

Decoding Reznor’s music charm didn’t degrade the myth, quite the opposite. Applying his technique to your own song, created a true inspiring force for all of us - bedroom producers! Wrapping everything up in your genius retro, almost satiric-ish ‘music video clip’, lifts up all the reznor-seriousness, to leave us with a unique sense of possibility and hope. Thank you for your great work!

Doesn't sound like nin at all.. it sounds like you! Love it!

I like it. Definitely still has a cool unique vibe.

Sleep deprivation ,stay awake for a couple ov days then record, you'll find that 'vibe' and that Reznor agresion that stops him sounding like Garry Numan...not that he's bad just different .

whoa, very nice explanation, thank you!

This honestly sounds amazing! NIN was my biggest influence making music I’m on my Murder Skillz channel. Them and Bjork.

Interesting subject for a video. Not enough NIN production content on RU-vid

Great Job Loved that Bass and Space music you used for its Intro (Plus everything else lol) Thanks

Woah this is awesome! Thanks for making this video, I was messing around with my guitar and played something that reminded me of NIN so I looked up how to make music like him and found you!

Thanks, sir-these are some interesting techniques to try out with my own music!

Wow! I wish I could produce music like this! amazing job

Awesome video, definitely learned some new techniques.

Definately check out Frontline Assembly's 'Wake up the Coma'. The production is mind blowing,IMO.

that includes a musicvideo that could have been on heavy rotation in the 80s

This video is so cool thanks!

awesome video man! thanks!

i’m very interested in the idea of different time signature overplayed. how do you squeeze the different time signature together in the daw ? what time signature do you set the daw to? and how do you squeeze 6/4 in a 4/4 pattern? time stretching the loop?

You are amazing broo

major "copy of a" vibes

this is so fuckin cool......

Nice! Maybe borrow from the "Ghosts" concept...

great video

What’s the music at the beginning of the video?

The intro music is much better than this ‘copy of a copy’ thing, a little disappointed that’s they way you went with it. The intro music was 100% better ✊

As far as production quality and techniques there is everything up to and including The Fragile and everything after The Fragile. Pre Fragile was pain staking and experimental. Post Fragile is more structured and polished. I blame Atticus Ross no offense to him but ever since With Teeth he's been the one recording and arranging tracks while Trent basically jams on different instruments. I definitely prefer when Trent isolated and did most of it himself over the course of 2 years even though i know it wasn't exactly healthy for him.

i think the only thing you missed out was the industrial, distorted eerie atmosphere.

Nine Inch Nails is the reason I’m a multi instrumentalist and writer. From Fugazi to QOTSA to Primus to The Beatles to Bowie and so many other musical legends. But Nine Inch Nails have been my 95%. And I still don’t know all of his work. It’s nature rather than nurture with TR. I play drums…I could play a NIN gig but Rubin is staggering. Nuclear Rubin is what I had in my mind last time I saw NIN in London. Lights were too bright for me though. I can play NIN songs on piano and guitar including a blues style version of Hurt played in the correct key (B) and also playing the high note in the verse…something RF doesn’t do. But he is NIN too. Bass, rhythm and lead aren’t too challenging. It’s the songs isn’t it. The writing is genius at a constant genius level. Even The Beatles ran out of juice. TR is still hitting those highest places almost every time. Erase the word “Almost”. I can’t think of a song of his that isn’t perfectly created. I don’t like every NIN song but they’re always perfect regarding mixing and production. Brilliant upload bu the way mate. TR always gets the darkness in his work. That is so fucking difficult to do. I use a omnisohere inside Bitwig with Soundtoys 5 effect rack, Reason Rack and some Izotope plug ins. Stunning products. The I.T guys who design these plug ins are the new ground breakers to me. The real pop stars me thinks too.

Dear Steven, that intro sounds absolutely mindblowing. For those who are into darker sounds (RU-vid algo sent us here!) - would you consider making a video describing your process of making that intro sound?

This is def hesitation marks style. I dig it. Not crazy about your lyrics but the chorus structure sounds great. The production is really solid.

Just a copy of a copy copy. Seriously, good job. I’ve been wanting to incorporate a bit of NIN styling into a down tuned baritone guitar project. Thanks!

God... I wish I could be just like you whom knows everything about creating or making music weather it's industrial music or electronic music..

Why do I feel like going to the video store and renting a copy of a pornographic film ? That was cool bub.

How the heck don't you have more views. This is awesome content. I found you via your Prologue video. I have one and I love it

Check out FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY you might enjoy it. Cheers

I have been trying to emulate Trent's sound, but hadn't really figured out how to do it. Thanks for teaching me on this!

Can you explain what I made a sequence in 3 or 6 means?

2:17 wtf is that comically large big muff?

Not even close to NIN. I'd assume it's some 80s revival synthwave track. Too happy and upbeat

This is awesome. I'm just getting into EDM/Industrial songwriting/producing, and there's a lot of good info in here. Thanks for sharing it!

this is really good man, but it just doesn't sound like NIN to me. that's not a bad thing, you created something unique.

I'm wondering how to create the disintegrating effect on vocals like in "The Wretched" at the 2:36 mark. I love the sound of things falling apart in music. It creates such a mood enforcement. Any thoughts?

This really reminds me of David Bowie.

I wonder... A Christmas song but it's NIN inspired lol..

bruh

I m afraid of Americans

In a lot of ways.. The remix albums and singles had more of an impact on me than his actual albums? Like his version called "the art of self Destruction part 1" check out the production on that, it's genius!

Reminds a little of softcell in a way, which is a band trent likes alot

That studder effect with the reverb peeking through kind of reminds me of that Radiohead track "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors," too.

Any info on the intro track?

This is awesome! Now you just need a big fat modular to make crazy sounds on.

I play technical death metal and i was looking up mixing videos and wound up here.... Holy shit your music is gnasty. Is this what NiN has been doin?!

What is the visualizer you used at the beginning of the video?

this song is closer to lady gaga than anything trent reznor has made. not sure what this has to do with nine inch nails at all.

Excellent work! Sounds pretty close to Hesitation Marks era. On my opinion the only thing which Trent would have done in a different way - is a structure of the song. What Trent would probably do - is delay the chorus and do the second verse right after the first one, introducing more instruments to the arrangement. And only then there'd be a chorus part. Trent likes to keep the tension...

What would you say your influences are? Interesting early NIN + mid-to-late stage NIN + late 80s/early 90s. In other words, delightful blend of generations and sub-genres. Thanks!

top!!!

Intro music fuckin' slaps

I completely disagree about that thought about "they never resolve". What you said about their rhythm is called "Polyrhythm" and they do resolve. Contrast to a 4/4 beats they actually don't resolved and always hang because there is no tension. Great case study will be Indian music rhythms since they are the masters at doing complex structure rhythms and do them naturally, they put a great emphasis on tension and release. Search for Konnakol concepts to understand more about what I'm trying to articulate and watch for their logic in the structure. Since it would take me forever to explain on one comment. (Note I'm speaking just rhythm not harmony in my comment.)

I would have loved if you went more into the inclusion of noise with distortion on gated intruments with overdrive and fuzz. And also the delay like you have in the intro. But I your version of a Nine inch nails song is also good. A bit too clean for my taste, but that's also what the music changed to past 1999. Captures the rythmic ambivalence very good, even though it's less like a waterfall for me, more like a forward motion, towards the chorus. The song itself resolves also instead of decomposing (like a downward spiral if you will). There's also a lot of ambient sounds on the old albums made from looped feedback and resonating delays of static pedals, filtered ambulance noises, sampled saws, quite precise detuning etc. going on. But again: it's hard to say "this is the definitive sound all of Trent Reznors mindscapes have common". And I think you captured a lot of the more recent stuff very well. Edit: I took the time to go through the albums again quickly and noticed I was wrong. There's a lot of songs I forgot about and the whole style is rather fluent.

But what about The Downward Spiral or The Fragile production? This was very post Year Zero style productions.

Is this a copy of a copy of a copy of? 😵

Just came across this because 1 I'm a big NIN fan and a guitarist/producer. Great song, great music, great lyrics, great production techniques, awesome video!! Truly a great video everything about it! thanks for your work!

this is just a copy of a copy of a copy

“Tumbling” “cascading waterfall” - great use of language

I prefer more darker tones if NIN

I subscribed to your channel because of this video/tutorial. So freaking awesome and informative. I'm a musician.. Saxophone/Drums/Piano...but I have little to nun music theory and just self taught production. That's why I love videos like this I was making cool beats and sequences all week. Anyways thanks man for lessons.

This was definitely closer to Exotic Birds era Trent, IMO. But still very cool to watch. Some things you might dive into if you make another one of these vids is most of Trent’s drums and percussion and bass are generally very heavily compressed and distorted, distortion likely on the front end of the chain. And everything else is drenched in reverb. lol, I know, I’m being hyperbolic but I was expecting a crunchier sound. Otherwise loved the vid and have I subscribed. Don’t mind my criticisms, I’m just an idiot on the internet.😅 -idiot on the internet.

Really impressive! Thx, I def subbed!

Bro really really really really really really thanks for making this. There isn't much videos out here that explains how to make the NIN sound or industrial music guide. IF possible could you also do how to make movie compositions like Trent Reznor? Like how he makes Gone Girl or The Social Network, That movie type production. In your convenience of course. Once again thank you for this and stay safe.

This is great man, thanks for the information. NIN tutorials are very hard to come by. Can you do one about Pretty Hate Machine? There are some very unique sounds on that record that I can't find anywhere else.

Great tips. 🤘

Sounds like if Steven Wilson collaborated with Hesitation Marks era Trent.

you should add tons of heavy gritty distortion guitars and distorted live drums. Without these, not exactly NIN 😬

Todd Rundgren meets Nine Inch Nails meets David Bowie for this track lol

That is quite a cool ass into , I am looking into starting my own solo project but before I actually do I am asking around for people’s opinion on which keyboard or synth that’s reasonably priced to get that will give me that dark industrial, industrial metal sound.

Trent is the reason I got into electronic music. Before NIN and ministry I listened to nothing but Slayer and shit like that.

Sounds really good, espeshly those distorted drums you have in each title sequence and the beginningof the vid, they sound alot like nin, the song though musically at its foundation def nin but overall yeah bowie fo shur

Your song was like a mix of Nine Inch Nails, Orgy, Duran Duran, and 1987 in general.

I don't know shit about making music, but that was really fun to watch and I'm diggin the end result 👍

how do they pull all this stuff off live with only 2 synth player's b4 computer's like in the 90's??

Sweet! This is really good work! Get some sleep now. Next stop: Talking Heads.

Wow. Sounds right off Hesitation Mark. Killer video

Man I really wish you would have lingered on the making of the main beat.

Dude this video is incredible. Love all the techniques you used.

Amazing! That must have been a lot of work. Even a retro video!

I loved it. Reminds me of Copy Of A.

This is A of a Copy of a! I had to say that. I very much enjoyed your video and song 🙂

Really great video man. LOVED the metaphor. "Building a house but starting with a chair"

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing this, and great production on that track. The channel has criminally few subscribers for the amount of effort you put into it. Would love more NIN-inspired content if you'd be open to it.

Cool music, but I got more of an Underworld vibe from it.

2:45 reminds me of “Copy of A”

Missed the mark on production style pretty wide, especially if you listen to the multitracks Trent has released, but got close to the hook formula NIN often uses.

One of the best tutorials I’ve seen in a long time.

Great Job Mr. Peak!

Good shit. Thanks for.the info

Ah you mean the new NIN sound. Not the old school sound.

Does sound very Nine Inch Nails ♥

This is incredible !

i ALWAYS get stuck in the rhythm part... lord help me