A Look At Nothing Studios

[@FutileGrief]

That guy's a great interviewer, I've randomly seen some directed by him and he always gets interesting answers from the artists. Love this interview

[@step2191]

With all those rack synths I would've loved to seen Trent's MIDI roadmap from the DAW to the instruments. So many record breaking songs were made there, sadly when traveling to Los Angeles, the van carrying his vintage synthesizers crashed in the desert and some were lost.

[@al112v4]

Didn’t know that. Pretty sad.

[@joedarrow5422]

Lol im just getting into synths drum machines and midis, and yeah reznor and nin do it the very best

[@geet77777]

whered you hear that? what sort of crash was it? what was the situation?

[@kylemundy2024]

I passed this building last time I was in New Orleans...it's now a gym I believe. But it was cool as hell to see in person.

[@SlyHikari03]

This guy’s studio is gear heaven for me.

[@clicheguevara5282]

"If there's a snuff movie, I wanna see it." - Trent Reznor

[@lxpnlxpn]

I wonder how he felt about Live Leak

[@theechothief5594]

“I’m not supporting it.. but I guess I aaaam. I am curious..🤷‍♂️”

[@bmarrero]

Not to forget that the tour following the Fragile was named the best live show of that time period - in the early 2000's by Rolling Stones magazine - and it certainly was.

[@JerryMain1]

yeah that's what made me a huge fan. Best live show I've seen and after the tour NIИ went to a whole different direction so that's how "and all that could have been" make sence to me .. no more drugs, no more destruction.

[@user-wb2yp5vv7m]

My man.. Eloquent, humble and talented

[@Stancanelli]

Un genio el tipo. Lo sé desde hace mas de 23 años, pero lo sigo sosteniendo. Y sobrevivió a toda la locura. GROSO!!!!

[@Abruzzo333]

Ahhh nice couple of E-MU E4XT samplers. Only the gear heads will appreciate.

[@screechandmoan]

Y'know, a lot of people might not view it like this, but I'm glad that Trent moved on from his emotional state during The Downward Spiral n' The Fragile. I mean, The Fragile's still my favorite NIN album, but for him as a person, I think where he is now is wayyy better than where he was then... plus he still makes the most unique music to date, what more could you ask for? "No Trent, get really damn sad again n' be in pain for the sake of making music I like!!!". Fukk that. lol

[@Abruzzo333]

I've been a fan of NIN since about 1991 and people really blow Trent Reznor's "emotional state" during the Downward Spiral out of all proportion. He was on top of the world, he was not in some desperate state and even he wouldn't say he was. He simply enjoyed darker themed music and art. He was never the suicidal character depicted in the album and he has stated that on many occasions. It's a concept album. The Downward Spiral will always be his greatest album...far and away. Not only commercially but influential wise as well. The only people who aren't aware of that are people who didn't grow up in the 90's, aka millennials and younger who like their music watered down, safe, no intensity, no passion, nothing with any edge to it. Hence why all music and art of the last 20 years is generic and sucks. These new generations have kool aid in their veins for blood.

[@TheValueOfN]

@@Abruzzo333 Not _all_ music and art, surely!?

[@zebra6092]

⁠​⁠@@Abruzzo333 and this kind of collective mentality made Kurt Cobain a commodity of media spectacle. All of you just wanted to see any hero suffers to end up in an epic tragedy, for the sake of ‘intensity’ or ‘raw energy’ or whatever. None of you can imagine that they’re still human because you’re just there sitting and watching someone going through breakdown only as a piece of broadcasted entertainment. Trent’s suffering was real thing just as the one any one of us would go through. Fuck all that justifying being an insensitive consumer of the cult of suffering, pretending it’s all an entertainment.

[@Abruzzo333]

@@zebra6092 Blah blah blah. Trent Reznor wasn't suffering during Downward Spiral at all. He was living his dream in real time. It was his most successful album for a reason. Because it was BY FAR his best....the album that is responsible for all of the success he acheived after. He tries to claim he was depressed in order to make his music seem more authentic. If you actually think Trent Reznor was suffering during the era of his first 3 albums then you're just a naive fanboy. Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself either so your entire argument is founding on BS. The absolute mountain of evidence of that fact is overwhelming. But keep living your fairy tale.

[@zebra6092]

Yeah, moan and cry about how an artist is faking his mental state just for the clout is totally not naive act. I agree.

[@murdermuseum8280]

Fun fact. He took the front door from the tate house and used it for the front door to nothing studios. You see it at the beginning.

[@NAzzTheHitMaker]

I come watch this every 2 Years

[@DanielJayUSA]

He kept the door from his old studio aka Sharon’s door

[@themadmattster9647]

End of the segment prophetic words "if i become a radically different human being". He has like six kids now, its crazy

[@ericlokishannonhouse2317]

thank you so much for posting this...I hope you dont care if I use it in presentation in school about electronic music pioneers...!

[@DungeonMasterINC]

The Downward Spiral was recorded at 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. (Also, home of the Manson murders.

[@Dukefazon]

5:35 - I literally laughed out loud! :D

[@TheValueOfN]

I did too. I was going to highlight Trent's statement but - 5 years later - I've just realised that I don't have to because you'd already done it.

[@aldomancilla7256]

"The Downward Spiral" was recorded in the Tate Mansion in California. "With Teeth" was also recorded at Nothing Studios.

[@karenbaird7402]

Trent you’re soo cool

[@Barefoot67]

I don't know if it was the Tate house or a regular studio, but it was done in LA for sure. Trent didn't relocate to New Orleans until after the tour behind DS

[@xxmaxexstreamxx]

most of Portrait of an American Family was Recroded in The Tate House he also had a studio their

[@Nihilatl]

Thanks for posting this

[@murdermuseum8280]

The front door in the beginning is the original Sharon Tate door from the house the murders happened, Trent took it to use as the front door to nothing Studio.

[@shirleenwells6415]

Yes he did I'm bout to go take a dump now

[@cathymeyer3760]

Reznor took the Ceilo Drive door with him to his new studio only to leave it behind when he left. It's going to auction in September 2023.

[@mexfiend]

In that studio, albums like "The Downward Spiral", "The Fragile". "Portrait of an American Family" and "Antichrist Superstar" were recorded. Wow. Just... wow.

[@kevinblanco2451]

Portrait of an American family was not in this house it was in the California studio where the Tate murder was

[@Arperture]

The Fragile is a sick album. Probably better than TDS in scope.

[@barad-dur9236]

i disagree. greatly.

[@Itzsfo0]

for me TDS is the premiere album of that generation, I enjoy Fragile as well, strong album in many ways, but I feel not as a concept album, a cohesive single-front, I feel TDS is more disturbing and has some of my favorite tracks by far. But hey its music and you know everyone likes what they like.

[@RetroAP]

@@Itzsfo0 wrong

[@Wiseone123]

How dare you

[@LibertyDIY]

It's true, I grew up with the downward spiral and so it took me a minute to warm the fragile, but in terms of content and face melting awesomeness, the fragile wins.

[@bobinchainz]

I thought he recorded the fragile in Big Sur California

[@MrPlaguedrummer]

POAAF was actually recorded at "Le Pig", but i understand. holy shit.

[@Shabbar3]

"Charles that is"..LOL

[@screechandmoan]

Oh yeah they are amazing, especially Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, i can listen to that for hours... because, well, it lasts for hours. haha

[@iNuchalHead]

4:58 No.

[@beyondbleak4415]

Anyone here feel like Missteps III by Conduit Closing is like.. the spiritual brother to all of this?

[@cldrules]

Reznor searched for and moved to 10050 Cielo Drive in 1992 for recording Broken and The Downward Spiral,[8] a decision made against his initial choice to record the album in New Orleans.[9] 10050 Cielo Drive is referred to as the "Tate House" since Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Manson Family in 1969; Reznor named the studio "Le Pig" after the message that was scrawled on the front door with Tate's blood by her murderers, and stayed there with Malm for 18 months. He called his first night in 10050 Cielo Drive "terrifying" because he already knew it and read books related to the incident. Reznor chose the Tate house to calibrate his engineering skills and the band bought a large console and two Studer machines as resources, a move that he believed was cheaper than renting.[10] The studio was also used for the recording of Marilyn Manson's debut album Portrait of an American Family, which Reznor co-produced. Marilyn Manson accepted Reznor's offer of signing a contract with Nothing Records.[11]

[@murdermuseum8280]

Fun fact. He took the front door from the tate house and used it for the front door to nothing studios. You see it at the beginning.

[@A.Netizen.Since.2010]

..I wonder where that door is right now & who owns it!!!! ..Is it still traveling across the country or destroyed completely??!?? 🤔

[@19ninetynine]

Trent is sober at this point correct? He had cleaned up for good by 2002?

[@山田太郎-s2i2n]

今のDTM時代よりこの新しいのか古いのかよくわからない機材で作った音楽がよかったよ。

[@Krebscast]

he recorded TDS in Le Pig didnt he?

[@Moochband]

Yeah and Phil Anselmo's vocals of Pantera's Great Southern Trendkill....

[@Juanvez]

If you don't know don't ask 🥺🖤✨

[@Seth6581]

Trent is GOD!

[@SirIntegra42]

Exactly. The Fragile is my favourite album I'm sick of people who seem to actually want him to get back to that state so they can get another The Downward Spiral. Plus his scores with Atticus are fantastic.

[@Abruzzo333]

I've been a fan of NIN since about 1991 and people really blow Trent Reznor's "emotional state" during the Downward Spiral out of all proportion. He was on top of the world, he was not in some desperate state and even he wouldn't say he was. He simply enjoyed darker themed music and art. He was never the suicidal character depicted in the album and he has stated that on many occasions. It's a concept album. The Downward Spiral will always be his greatest album...far and away. Not only commercially but influential wise as well. The only people who aren't aware of that are people who didn't grow up in the 90's, aka millennials and younger who like their music watered down, safe, no intensity, no passion, nothing with any edge to it. Hence why all music and art of the last 20 years is generic and sucks. These new generations have kool aid in their veins for blood.

[@inwex8350]

Nice, the SSL 4000g

[@hippa2dahoppa2]

u know what i was thinking of the video for "gave up" is in tates house, and i was thinking that was on downward spiral for some reason thats why i thought that. so im not sure

[@pedgaladnh]

@mexfiend Nah all of those, except the fragile and antichrist superstar, were recorded in the Sharon Tate house (Le Pig Studios) before Trent moved to New Orleans.

[@vanessao.4442]

I can see why Patti Tate would be upset she has a right to be. It is disrespectful especially if he knew what happened there. Its a good thing she opened his eyes because had it been my sister i'd be pretty pissed off too. I'm glad he moved out no one should've been living in that house.

[@Barefoot67]

not the downward spiral I think, actually only fragile i believe

[@Chi_95]

Trent is the type of guy that would tell you something that will physiologically fuck up your head

[@hippa2dahoppa2]

downward spiral was in the tate house right?

[@swingush2225]

7 years late - yes :)))

[@bigpapa9343]

Yes it was....10050 Cielo Dr.

[@trajiksin813]

The Downward Spiral was recorded at the TATE HOUSE 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. The guest house was made into Le Pig Studios. A "gave up" video with manson & richard patrick are in it. On day Sharon Tate's sis came up & asked him are you mocking my sisters death. He thought about it & moved out & had the house bulldosed!

[@fluffyantonych]

but Nothing Studio worked from 1997-2004

[@bickly777]

It's too bad that Manson and Trent can't get together and do something again.

[@bmparrish]

=\ nothing lasts forever. it's probably for the best too. he won't die the typical stereotype rocker who couldn't control himself. i respect that he can admit to being human without letting it become an excuse for being stupid and wasteful.

[@steelbrigadekory]

He knew 10050 Cielo drive was that house. He picked it. Guaranteed

[@DatBlueJJ]

Only his second (stage) name.

[@ДаниелТасев-ц9ю]

whats the name of the song from 5:53 to 6:10

[@crooningdog]

Даниел Тасев Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug from the Lost Highway soundtrack

[@myownme7772010]

In all the comments, not one mention of Year Zero and Ghosts I-IV, nor the mention of How To Destroy Angels; pity.

[@RussX5Z]

Because those albums suck except for Ghost I-V.

[@MEOWMEOWCATSCATS1010]

STROMBOOOO

[@kruns203]

wasnt the downward spiral recorded in the house that Charles Manson killed that pretty actress? in Beverly Hills?

[@brandyoctober5923]

I really don’t believe he didn’t know that was the Tate house.

[@JerryMain1]

Why he would lie for something like that it's lame

[@Abruzzo333]

I do because people renting such a house are not apt to tell potential renter such a thing up front.

[@500KINGOFKINGS]

you know they say marilyn manson was born right here in this house

[@st7728]

He knew that was Sharon Tates house!

[@glom_gazingo]

play @ 0.5 speed. lol. trent sounds wasted

[@fray3dendsofsanity]

hahhahh. this is fucking great, so glad i saw this comment

[@Oxing0000]

Rough patch beard trent

[@infinidominion]

Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of that studio

[@portal432]

Vicodin days?

[@michalus09]

With Teeth is my biggest music desappointment ever.

[@lysithea1098]

With Teeth is one of my top five fav NIN releases. You just gotta be in the right mindset to fully appreciate it.

[@michalus09]

True. ..but after The Fragile I was expecting....you know, sounds from another world and shit and all I get was a great songs.

[@royalnaz1]

cemetery turned into studio. whoa creepy

[@RyanB-lo6br]

Yeah, not a cemetery...

[@royalnaz1]

my fault I meant to say funeral home

[@Trevrz1]

back when Trent was cool......

[@bauhausera]

Hesitation Marks is my biggest disappointment from NIN

[@rickyg8462]

what the hell happened to The Fragile...u know Phil Anselmo n Trent were do a collaboration called Tape Worm then Phil backed out cause The Fragile was such a disappointment

[@tashaschneider1419]

This interview is disturbing and unsettling. "If there's a snuff film, I wanna see it!" Reznor has an arrogant and murderous spirit. Clearly he revels in death, misery and destruction. He thinks "we're all alone", but that is a lie. Jesus is always calling us home, and He has protected Reznor many times - including saving him from a nearly fatal drug overdose. Demons have been working in Reznor's life as well, and he welcomes them. His love for witch women has been a major part of his downfall.

[@MortSubitegoddamnit]

You're either a troll or a zealot, the likes of which no real follower of the teachings of Jesus would ever acknowledge as having healthy, truly Christian values and insights. That said, roundly half of Christs screentime in the bible features him either discussing the fate he know's he's destined for, or the explicit details of a brutal, grisly capital punishment and explicit torture scene carried out at the hands of the then Roman government, including the documented delight and glee of the officers and officials who, in all likelihood are torturing and taking their sweet time slowly murdering a mentally ill person (depending on where your opinion lands on the thousands of people who have claimed to be divine offspring throughout history, and whether or not Jesus was telling the truth, or just so happened to be one of a handful of paranoid schizophrenics history decided to put quite a bit of stock in). Regardless, your holy book is literally "snuff literature," mixed in with healthy doses of torture, murder, incest, rape, wild hallucinations and power mad rulers, not to mention a vengeful God who literally wiped out all life on earth except for a boatful of livestock and a family who questionably repopulated the earth with the offspring of their own offspring (despite scientific evidence that this would be a practical impossibility, given that bloodlines that mate with their own bloodlines become DNA Chronenbergs who literally can't sustain healthy offspring after generations of interbreeding, the children of whom eventually become riddled with defective mutations and catastrophic brain and major organ defects from birth). If anything, "demons" work in YOUR life, convincing you that the co-opted rhetoric of charlatans and crooks who only worship dollar signs are the stuff of religious authority. People like YOU are the true evil of the world, bending texts meant to be studied for the purposes of self and social betterment to the twisted will of your bullshit hypocrisy and crocodile concern for the "Satanic panic" and "sinners" whose fate is (as you would know if you actually read the document you claim to be the mandate of your life) the sole prerogative of Christ who will sit on the throne of judgement, if any of that is to be taken literally (which it is CLEARLY not meant to be). You would see little difference in behaviour of the modern religious fundamentalist if their holy texts were written by J.R.R Tolkien or the so called "divinely inspired" authors who various "Christian officials" have deemed "canonical" Bible contributors. Meanwhile a wealth of "apocryphal" texts exist by authors considered just as important to the history of Christianity, whose texts contain insights of far greater depth and relevance, and are purposefully ignored in favor of a book manipulated and mis-translated over centuries into something unrecognizable as a holy document, which now merely stands to enslave minds to the capitalism of theism, "fundamentalist Christianity." Congratulations, you and millions more are literally the very thing you rail against, and you're too blind and proud to see it. If there's a hell, you will most certainly occupy its depths, and its fitting punishment for your willful ignorance and hateful actions against your fellow man. You're no holy person, and your sanctimonious hogwash is cast among a sea of similarly worthless voices, all of whom will return to the cold earth with the rest of us mortals.

[@tashaschneider1419]

@a n t i m a t e r i a No - death is a part of life. Misery and destruction of the spirit are paths we choose. Moreover, wanting to watch someone get MURDERED, as in a snuff film, is wicked.

[@tashaschneider1419]

@@MortSubitegoddamnit Quite the novel you're writing. But yes, Jesus knew what His fate would be, and He endured all that for YOU, and for Trent Reznor, and for everyone else who spits on Him. His love and compassion for those who persecuted and ultimately murdered Him is quite astounding and surely not the product of a paranoid schizophrenic. As far as charlatans and crooks who worship dollar signs (that would cover the entire music industry and much of the contents of "Christian" bookstores), twisting the Word of God for profit is one of the most grievous sins a person can commit. And we already know what the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were up to - sacrificing their own children, brutalizing and raping one another. God gave them every chance to repent but they refused - read the text, God was broken-hearted to watch this. He allowed Abraham to plead with Him, and searched their hearts for any goodness, but there wasn't any. I suppose you think they should have gotten away with rape and child murder.

[@MortSubitegoddamnit]

Way to ignore roundly half of what I typed because your brain blue-screened on "stock xtian answer to obvious biblical contradictions #443." Just steamroll the whole thing with tautology, as your kind always do, accusing, judging, and smearing others with supernatural slander, performing the spiritual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "Nah-nah-nah-nah I can't hear you, I'm rubber you're glue!" Literally using "because God said so" to answer the question of "but what/when/why did God say so?" or even "are you 100% sure that's what that means?" You don't find it the least bit worrisome that, in order to prop up your beliefs in a literal sense, you have to break with every known law of physics and science, even after having cherry picked what's meant to be interpreted "literally" from the Bible, which also changes from denomination to denomination, holy speaker to holy speaker, ecen? That you need to enter conspiracy theory territory to back up your holy book isn't the least bit worrisome to you? That perhaps you may be taking something at face value that was never meant to be done so isn't at all a concern for you when you start telling people they're going to an alternate dimension of torture and fire if they don't ask a zombie/vampire demi-god to look the other way about the time you dateraped that Youth Group chick who always ate too many of the benzos she was prescribed on Bible tutoring night? Pop quiz, what happens to uncontacted tribespeople who die having never heard of Christ's little socialist soul insurance plan? They're just doomed to have their soul zapped to the eterna-fire/torture dimension because, aww gee whiz, industrialization got a bit high centered on some jungle mud and said "aw, fuck it... Maybe someone will airdrop them an informative pamphlet in a language they might be marginally familiar with? I didn't really feel like catching a tree frog poison arrow to the torso today anyway and you know how squirrley those little jungle oompaloompas get." Aa I recall, didn't God also tell Abraham, "Hey Abe -snicker snicker-! ABE, WAKE TF UP DUDE!" And Abraham was like "-zzzzrnt- Oh, shit, IAM, sup? Any word on whether or not you were serious about the dick mutilation thing, because I mean, that whole deal with my servant got like wayyy out of hand because you weren't really very clear about the whole... Nah, it's cool. Probably my bad anyway, what's up?" "Take your kid up that're mountain and gut him like a hog for me. Yall haven't invented Game of Thrones yet and shits been real boring without the internet too." "Haha, good one dude! So is this like the other thing where I should assume you haven't given me all the deets yet, and like... Well, I mean the last time I assumed some shit about what you meant, my wife kicked the crap outta by babymama slave after she said it was cool I hit that, so I'm still kinda trying to... Figure out what... That's really all about. I'll, uh, bring the kid up the MT and debone him, I guess. K, I'm here God, bout to plunge the knife into the belly of my child (after I mutilated his little baby dick at birth because you said so... Fn perv, but whatev) So, like... " "Abraham, stop! You've been punkd!" "Oh man, heh... Because I was totally about to..." "You should have seen the look on your face A-bro-ham! Haha, classic. Also, you and the Arabs will fight violently for centuries because you banged Hagar. "Greeeeeaaat. Hey God, can i maybe take some me time, or something? Maybe just cool it for a few decades? " lol, no... Plus, your descendants are in for a doozy." So it's not cool for Trent to joke (in poor taste, obviously) about wanting to see a snuff film, but it's totally cool for God to mentally torture, scar and endanger Abraham and his son to prove... That Abraham believes in him, like he already does, because he's literally communicating with him? Not sure what part of anything I said condones child sex or murder, but I'll tell ya, I've never tricked a dad into *almost* killing his kid like some kind of demented, Cristian Jackass stunt. Pretty sure God was involved in some pedo shit in the Bible too, so I dunno where you get off accusing someone who's never mentioned it when the book you live your life by *actually* has that shit in it.

[@tashaschneider1419]

@@MortSubitegoddamnit You are actively condoning child rape and murder if you honestly believe the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah weren't getting what they deserved.