It's definitely a recognised voice. But I've heard a lot of his instrumental/soundtrack stuff without even knowing it was him and instantly thought, is this Trent Reznor? He has a very particular approach to atmosphere, melody, drum grooves and synth sounds.
Doing something in the style of Nine Inch Nails or at least influenced by them is kinda easy when you're referring to certain things. I like industrial music because the electronic sounds are diverse and you'll rarely hear a electronic noise that sounds similar to another electronic noise but sometimes you do which happens sometimes.
Now that's goated tutorial!!! I wish me and my friend had this kind of tutorials 10 years ago xD There were kostly tutorials for "normal" metal and electronic subgenres
@@RichiiWainwright if we're both referencing the pad type sound, then yeah. that whole album was full of great sound design. the K2000 series had hit the market a few years prior and was a staple instrument on that album. not just the synthesizer, but also the sampler. it was crazy powerful for the early 90s, heh.
@@RichiiWainwright sorry, homie, my dumb ass didn't even think to go back and rewatch the video, haha. now i know what sound you're talking about, the lead synth with the percussive front end. yeah, that's a super cool sound. almost like a revamped sample from PHM, yeah?
NIN may seem chaotically dissonant, but there is purpose in it. He tends to use not-quite-major and not-quite-minor scales, like Mixolydian, Aeolian Dominant, and Dorian
Oh for sure. Especially on the Fragile. I feel like the best way I’d describe Trent’s approach with that is that he likes to find the beauty in dissonant/atonal scales and the dissonance in pretty sounding scales
This guy did a good job emulating trents sound (albeit making fun of trent) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VIYUEE9Latk.htmlsi=XgLYpFGlGRp9SULz
Love this mate! i learned so much from this, i would love to see a detailed breakdown though on some of the effects settings your using.. either way! good job man!
I love the track! Although I thought the end result was much more aligned with Mick Gordan and his Doom soundtrack-as Trent Reznor tended to deviate from the Dorian mode. Still, great job.
Thank you so much for doing this, The Fragile is my favorite album ever. Please do more videos like this, and if you made a NIN Vital Preset pack I would buy it immediately
I produce industrial techno… So some of these techniques like bit crushing the fuck out of a drum loop layered on the main drums .. something I wouldn’t have thought of Thanks for the influence
This sounds more like the recent work of Gary Numan, who has been heavily influenced by NIN for the last 20 years. But great job capturing the '90s industrial rock feel. The acoustic guitar elements of 'Fragile' always sounded like heavily compressed piezo pickups with funky robot-like strumming.
Honestly, you could have kept the drums as they were prior to the bit-crushing effect and it would've had Fragile/With Teeth era vibes. Sometimes people lean too hard into the "idea" of industrial music and forget that so many NIN songs have a live drum sound, even if it's several different samples put together and looped. That blend of garage-y, punk rock with the industrial synths and guitars. Very well done on the bass part, the acoustic guitar and ring modulation though.
Daft question, but can i add vsts to audio files ? For example, can i record a guitar track and put serum on the track ? Like is there a way to mix both? In real time or after its recorded.
Fragile is probably my top album too, and I'm getting "The Big Come Down" vibes on this when you started laying down the bass. Edit: Called it, now you pulled out the acoustic. Lolol I love it
May i suggest the following bands, any one of these would make my day! Motionless in white Thirty Seconds To Mars (A beautiful lie era) HIM She Wants Revenge
Doesn't sound like NIN. Sounds more like what mason's industrial producers would do and also some modern industrial bands like 3Teeth or something like that. Can't remember the name
Really cool, but I feel like advertising it as a breakdown of iconic nails sounds is a little misleading. What you show is your own nails-inspired sounds, which is really cool, but not what I was expecting. One other nitpick: I don’t want to assume your age, but I’m guessing 1999 was a little before your time. There was tons of bass-heavy music from that time and earlier. Vegas by The Crystal Method springs to mind. I was in high school in 1999 and I had friends with giant subs in their cars, and they blasted all kinds of crazy stuff so loud it was hard to breathe.
I mean I said at the start that they’re my own presets. And I meant bassy for rock. Hard to compare to fully electronic music when the approach for NIN is so inherently different to stuff like the crystal method
I really try hard to cram all the most important stuff in there but it's a difficult balance. If I showed the whole process it'd be hours long and boring af haha
Sounding like NIN is not something u will get from a tutorial. I knew Trent from Ytown days. He was a genius with a passion. If ur that, then u can sound like NIN.
idiot talk. he has production collaborators (Alan Moulder & Atticus Ross mostly) but he's been writing & producing his own records for 35 years, producing other peoples records, and composing film & television scores for over a decade.
You ever listen to breaking Benjamin? ive tried a million times to get the guitar tone from Saturate but never successfully. Id love to see a video on them, checkout “Polyamorous” if u get the chance to
Yeah great band! I don’t know if I’ll do a specifically Breaking Benjamin themed vid but the Saturate tones are very typical late 90s/early 00s tones, which I will probably do a vid on at some point 🤘
It's basically a PRS into Mesa sound. Keep in mind that bands during that era had a bit different tone for L and R channels - they had "bright side" and "beefy side". They used Marshall amps for the "bright" and Mesa for the "beefy", and all through the same Mesa 4x12 cab.
@@StanSinitsky Duude thats so cool you’re totally right. I feel like I can hear this in Pain by Three days grace. left side is brighter right? Do you know a good source to learn this kind of production from?
