Alan Moulder on Working with Nine Inch Nails | Andrew Talks To Awesome People

[@Boperatrix]

Flood and Alan Moulder are the sound of my generation. The nineties would not have been what they were without them.

[@Exaltation-heliacal]

And the 80s

[@Unorthodox666]

the fragile is my favorite album of all time

[@susiepattinson3031]

Mine too. Brilliant piece of work.

[@bradleyb4920]

Yes

[@WhispersOfRuins]

Me dos

[@Rhuggins]

yep me too

[@BullyMaguire4ever]

Alan has his fingerprints on so many incredible records.

[@adamblister6005]

MOULDER: "What in the buggering crumpets is this BZZZ! BZZZ! thing?!" TRENT: "We're in This Together."

[@hiabex]

Really enjoyable interview. Great to hear some extra background info about Alan's part in those legendary NIN albums. Thanks

[@GimmeJimmy23]

I'm sure everyone who heard this interview thought the same thing, but, I knew exactly what song he was talking about, as soon as he described the snare. The fact that the genesis of that song was just a repetitive buzzing sound is mind-blowing. One of my favorites!

[@marshalsea000]

Curve... enough said.

[@cathyjones4702]

Wish Alan would put some of his mixing tips online

[@Qliphirot]

Can you recommend me some great online mixing lessons or classes?

[@tedpedersen123]

Alan is a master, his humbleness is inspiration. What a fantastic interview. Thanks for this

[@jamesmaurimusicvideo]

‘We’re not going to go through the entire NIN catalogue … *for now’

[@GimmeJimmy23]

Prince must have lived in the studio. I swear, this must be the 5th random story I've heard about someone recording an album, and Prince happened to be a few doors down. Sheesh!

[@justinwilliam4644]

You asked some great questions, great interviewer!!

[@KarlRock]

Thanks was epic. Thanks!

[@michaelkonomos]

what a great interview. great questions, great discussion, great insights and storytelling.

[@Clefargle]

What an incredible interview

[@andrewtalkstoawesomepeople5721]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@Rhuggins]

Holy crap! Its no wonder this is the most popular episode of all time!! How cool!!

[@sonnioffice6439]

Still the best mixer out there.

[@voodoodolll]

This was brilliant. Thank you so much

[@flinchey6962]

He also worked on the Jesus and Mary Chain's 1989 Automatic, what a record the rest is history NIN also opened up for the JAMC on their 1990 tour. The guitars and drum machine on Automatic are really good if you haven not heard

[@BuzzaB77]

Alan please tell us how the 3d vocal was achieved on Ruiner!! I've been studying it for 20 years and it still eludes me. especially how it might have been done in the early 90s.

[@Rhuggins]

ixie music has a great video of ruiners vocals, they are heavily layered with whispers, screams, and combinations thereof

[@BuzzaB77]

@@Rhuggins ixie? can't find that. does it go through the 3d effect though? context: I'm a professional audio engineer of decades I understand the layering fully, its the 3d process that I want to know about at the "how'd it get so hard" section where there is no layer, single voice only that leaves the left speaker by several feet, unheard of since.

[@Rhuggins]

@@BuzzaB77 sorry, its ixi music - its a good half an hour focused entirely on the vocals for the most part. Shes not an audio engineer, but she does lend some insight as a music theorist as well as isolating the vocals from the track seperately

[@BuzzaB77]

@@Rhuggins ah right nah that's not what i need no worries

[@mcal27]

their was a NIN song on the Doom score which Alan worked on. the credit is likely because of that

[@matiasmoulin2126]

Love it! Extremely valuable stuff! Thank you!

[@samjimenez8713]

fantastic interview

[@lizaltman1200]

Talking w his agent now. Hope we can work together

[@PoboyMusic]

Going to listen to We're in this together to hear the funny snare now.

[@BullyMaguire4ever]

It’s a great snare in the context of the song, for sure.

[@aboveaxis]

id love to hear him talk about making mbv loveless

[@leeahare]

Brilliant

[@MMMlewis5592-q1b]

Cool channel lotta bands I like such as nine inch nails, qotsa

[@kizmu2003]

Loved it :)!

[@chinmeysway]

Aw I’d love to hear all the tracks without vocals that didn’t make it on as the vocals are fine but not NINs best attribute exactly, for myself good portion of the time retrospectively.

[@songspire]

The running order of The Fragile always seemed incoherent to me. The first 4 songs work then i think Bob was just throwing darts and got away with it becuse Trent respected Bob so much.

[@stopit2964]

....there were 172 unfinished songs for the fragile. wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaaattttttttttt?

[@stopit2964]

@@trembling3674 well then you've gotta ask yourself: what is a song? is it lyrics, verses, and choruses? or is it a piece of music thats at least 3 to 5 minutes? is a song only a song to tool if it's at least 15 minutes long? as far as I'm concerned, its 172 songs left off of the fragile

[@Qliphirot]

That's mad work

[@sugarsore]

​@stop it key word is unfinished.

[@clownactivist]

@@stopit2964 trent has stated they are all sketches, nothing that he even saw worth being songs. artists make paintings, btu also have sketchbooks, yakno?

[@stopit2964]

@@clownactivist holy shit, nobody is just letting me have my youtube comment on here. trent was at one of his musical peaks on this album, so a "sketch" from this era be a million times better than most other people's finest hour. and what makes a song finished? verses, choruses, and lyrics? or is music still music without a singer sining? i would love to hear the songs left off of this album. and even with the metaphor of a sketch in a sketch book, its still way more than an empty piece of paper with nothing drawn on it. the fragile is one of those albums that brings your mind to place it can only get to when listening to the fragile, so yeah, i would love to hear these other songs. it would let me kind of explore more of that world, so to speak. as soon as i get a vinyl player I'm gonna try and get that deluxe version of the fragile with that extra disc's worth of songs left off the original double album. i've been holding off from listening to any of those songs on youtube.

[@theAristocrap]

Ye, funeral home, murder house. Coincidence. They were the cheapest. Right...