michael833 posted:

Love_Revenge posted:

Hey avidwave ! i really like your videos !
Do not left this project !

I have a question ; i'm looking forward to be able to get the kind of guitars sounds there is in year zero. I really don't know where to start. Anyone?

are you referring to the guitars in general? i read somewhere he used some weird tuning, more than one track, and a lot of distortion/fuzz. just from listening to Survivalism, the guitar outro riff is merely two guitars but one is brighter than the other. i would like to know however the "ableton" effect or plug in that is used in God Given and other songs.

also, to look back on Happiness In Slavery... anyone know how trent achieves that feedback-y, drone like guitar "solo" after the breakdown? maybe an e-bow?

AvidWave posted:

IAmErik posted:

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I actually have a few guitar rig presets that sound similar to it. If i have time i'll make a video showing the sound, how to make it, and a link to the file. To be honest, i'm losing interest in making videos due to a lack of activity in this thread and only a handful of views on my videos.

zoostation posted:

My first question is about the guitar solo in Ruiner. It sounds like the beginnings of a lot of notes are cut out somehow, with kind of a quick fade-in feeling. How is this done?

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The bridge of this song features a rare guitar solo by Reznor. In the April 1994 issue of Guitar World, he was asked about it in the following section of the interview:

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. I'm not a soloist. I was just laughing when I was playing with this ridiculous sound, recording into the computer saying like, "This is so cheesy," you know? I later realized that I basically tried to play a "Comfortably Numb"-type solo with this sound. I played the song for Chris, our drummer, and I was thinking, "He's going to start laughing. It's silly." But he goes, "Man, that guitar section was fucking great."

neofrost posted:

Does anyone know how to create the synth lead in Terrible Lie that begins at 3:27 in this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNEH8csGwk

also,
non-NIN related, the main synth lead in the beginning in We are Rockstars,
[www.youtube.com]

i'm working with Massive, FM8, and Razor, so if anyone has any info as to get similar sounds thru these soft-synths, it'd be much appreciated

Dustin Pastorius posted:

Hey, does anyone know what the vocal effect used by Charles Clouser (is that who it was?) in Heresy (Version) off of Further Down the Spiral. Near the beginning, it sounds almost reversed, but not. It sort of sounds like each word is reversed while a quieter track of the forward vocals is put right on top of it. But I don't know. Does anyone know?

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Heresy remix = Studiovision triggering 2x NuBus Samplecell-1 8mb cards and 4 audio tracks of Protools-16.

1 track lead vox, 2 tracks gtr fx, 1 track for preachers and misc. Yes, 4 tracks of audio. First SampleCell loaded with drums and stuff, second one loaded with chopped gtr riffs. 8 megs each.

No Xpander. Bit-crushed "pox" arpeggios and distant descending melody from Emax SEHD rack with modwheel filter control. All guitars chopped into riffs and put in samplecells then retriggered from keyboard. Wild pitch fx on guitars by HyperPrism standalone (no plugins in those days). Backwards vocal fx by... it's a secret. Outboard filtering on guitars by Arp Solus via MPU-101 and maybe Peavey Spectrum Filter. Lead vox flattened with L1 offline in SD2 (again, no plugins in DAWs back then).

Mixed on Mackie 32x8 with no compressors or outboard eq. Send fx (incl. vox verb and delay) from QuadraVerb+ and maybe DP4. The phasey sound on guitars is either DP4 or else it's just an artifact of the HyperPrism pitch fx.

Yes, Alesis Quadraverb and a Mackie 8-buss.

Portamento sound...? Are you sure you're not thinking of "Ruiner" remix? That had a sine-wave portamento sound that was actually "Init Voice" on the original DX-7 put through Arp Solus filter for gating fx.

... I loved that "Init Voice" patch. I wonder who programmed it?

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the cutup vocal effects on the Further Down The Spiral remixes were done with a Boss RPS-10 half-rack pitch-shifter/delay box. I reversed the vocal, ran it through the RPS-10 set to "reverse delay" mode, and recorded the output. This resulted in a chopped-up vocal that was now forwards, since the reversed vocal had been reversed again by the delay. The RPS-10's delay time setting controlled the length of the chopped bits (I think), and also crossfaded all the bits back together without any nasty clicks and stuff. I recorded a few takes of this and edited the result into a final performance. The crazy-pitched guitar solos were done by manipulating live guitar tracks in HyperPrism, which was a standalone audio processor with an early implementation of the now-common X/Y control grid - L>R controlled playback speed and up/down controlled pitch. I think I set it so that there was no variation in playback speed, but mouse up/down would control pitch over a very wide range. Played a click at the right tempo on a drum machine while performing wild pitch sweeps with the mouse and recording the output to DAT, then bounced that back into StudioVision. All of these remixes were done on StudioVision on a Mac Quadra 950 (I think) with 4 tracks of ProTools and a pair of 8meg SampleCell cards. Lead vocal was one audio track, vocal effects were tracks 2+3, and HyperPrism guitars on track 4. An Emax I did the bit-crushed keyboard arpeggio, a Nord Rack on bass, and some SampleCell guitar snips went out to the filter input on an Arp Solus (my first synth ever). Mixed on a Mackie 8-bus with no compressors or external eq, and only a DP4 (though I might not have had that yet) and definitely a QuadraVerb for outboard fx - probably just ping-pong + reverb. No plugins in those days!