Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral album favorite synth sounds

[@tacticaljunk1608]

The Downward Spiral motif has got to be my favorite motif in all of music.

[@qfix]

always in my head

[@jaysharpESQ]

I love it too, and with that even only recently realized its ALSO playing during Heresy! Literally been listening intently with headphones since it's releases and my dumb ass didn't spot that til recently It's Trent wearing his classical composers' influences on his sleeve there

[@tiemmusichun]

It was quite hard but so much fun to do this short video, so I hope some of you will enjoy it....

[@BobSacamano666]

Must have been hard to choose, so many killer effects on that album.

[@JuliusLC]

I missed the ending stab sound in Hurt... That Obi-moogish sound

[@northlanedarko771]

Whay do i need ti be able to creat these sounds plus the beats Im a guitar olayer long ling time nin fan and this is the kikd of muci u want to play and recreate

[@Frankie-rp3ko]

How did you do it?

[@cratesclouds]

The Becoming has always been my favorite NIN song & consider Ruiner one of the best on this record. Really nice to see them here.

[@dreamlandtapes]

its def the best one

[@ayewhaddupdoe]

Ruiner is one of the best SONGS no matter the artist. I don't even mess with electronic/industrial stuff much, but that track goes so fkn hard.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

Never understood why Ruiner didn't become a single. At least we got that amazing remix on Further Down the Spiral V2!

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

And yes, whenever anyone askes me for an example of "industrial", i point them to The Becoming.

[@sokolov0]

tomorrow i'll perform the becoming in a show

[@Danny-wv8ec]

Ruiner and The Becoming are my fav synths sounds off this masterpiece of an album.

[@frankcarver8912]

Holy shit, Closer sounds so fucking good dude. I got chills.

[@nazarenovillar2263]

the synth at Closer always gave me goosebump...

[@galeweathers2627]

These are so perfect! Please make a tutorial, i would love to recreate these in vital

[@snardash_1197]

0:14 ah yes, the piano. My favorite synth sound. These ar insanely accurate! Great job man

[@NathanielSkinnerMusic]

Marilyn Manson and NIN were my two favorite bands in high school. Excellent nostalgia vibes across your channel. And, being a music producer, I (and maybe we) really really would like to see how to configure your VSTs for these patches 😁

[@themiraculous0447]

I'm not as much of an expert as this guy but here are a few I know off the top of my head. -MotP bass is a SCI Pro One through a distortion pedal -Pianos are almost all from the Kurzweil K2000 with various effects in front of it. Same for the tone wheel organ on Piggy. -Closer bassline is from an old Akai sample cd called Poke In The Ear Volume 2 -Synth during the Closer Bridge is a modified version of the volkanic patch off of the SCI Prophet VS -The Becoming bass is an extremely rare prototype synth called the OberMoog that never went into production (there were only 3-5 prototypes made) but can generally be recreated with modern plugins

[@InfectiousGroovePodcast]

The Downward Spiral is one of those albums that I thought I loved when I first heard it. As the years went on, I found out that I just really liked it at first. The more I dug into the layers of the sounds, the more I was absolutely stunned (in a good way). It wasn't until a couple years after it's release that I really wrapped my head around everything happening on it and thought "ok.....NOW I love this album"

[@Element115-75]

Great job and nice to see the term nailhead used! Old school days

[@CADJewellerySkills]

On the documentary Sonic Highways, they said the computer software which made the original sounds for this album is gone, and the sounds couldn't be replicated again. And here in less than 3 minutes you proved them wrong.

[@ferropop]

You underestimate how interested people would be in seeing these sounds broken down and shown how you made them!

[@naren842]

🤩 wow, this is so incredible . Thank you so much for this . Your content is just crazy . Please do breakdown videos on how you did these sounds

[@TheFarfanugan]

Definitely for me, Ruiner has the best chorus out of the synth sounds. My favorite song of "The Downward Spiral."

[@jsauce666]

That was awesome. Nice work and Thank You!

[@dickeymckay8289]

Bravo! I can play the drums to March of the Pigs if you're ever in the Philadelphia area and want some percussion! Haha. Nice video! Ever notice a warm place is just Bowie's Crystal Japan? Very ineresting.

[@AshleyTheBaleful]

The chorus of ruiner was... Glorious.

[@mbrande]

Dude people will pay 💰 for these presets

[@clownactivist]

THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL HIGHLIGHT REEL OF THE BEST SHIT I LOVE ... THANK YOU SO MUCH !!

[@Cleo-zi4tf]

I’m never going to be this talented

[@dokemusic]

Dude this is amazing!!! anyway to get you to make a NIN preset pack….I would happy pay for it!

[@luketheanomaly]

The synths for the chorus for Piggy are so beautiful

[@_OopsieDaisies]

great sounds! I'd be interested to learn how these were created/recreated

[@Mr2it3881]

samples

[@speaklowww5747]

i had forgotten how much variety there was. great video

[@articguana1]

TREMENDOO

[@mariuszbar2910]

GREAT JOB !!!

[@steveochs2227]

AWESOME!! I def subscribed!! I'd love to see your design tools & methods! Cheers!

[@7763s]

this is great

[@tarkenton3895]

Ah, a fellow man of culture

[@SoulDelSol]

This is awesome!!! I was so excited i spelled "this" wrong

[@potluck5896]

I just discovered Ruiner off this album (I'm new to NIN), I love that chorus so much

[@kellytostada9949]

God damn this is excellent. You are brilliant

[@JasonTARNER-p4q]

This is my new favorite channel 🎉😊❤...

[@jizmoglass4202]

I need this in my life. Thank you. Best album ever.

[@jizmoglass4202]

got it on vinyl still. sometimes I get really drunk and listen to it.

[@cwgunn]

Would love to see how you created these sounds

[@Divuar]

Nice! To be honest, the videos are great but their value will multiply hundredfold if you mention the instruments and/or their presets too! Thanks

[@jjkkjkkjl]

The ruiner chorus is my favorite synth piece of all time. I wish I could just listen to that on repeat 😂

[@amplethought]

Pretty cool man!

[@clydeg4274]

I always forget how fucking great this album is

[@vertigopulse]

Need a breakdown of what vsts you used!!! Diva, oddity 3?? Been looking for this kind of content! ⚡⚡⚡

[@TheMinishKid]

AWESOME! 🙌🏻

[@unwashedmime]

Awesome video

[@ASTROMEGA]

Super awesome 👍

[@rowemo]

Very nice

[@AbominusRules]

respect

[@bveracka]

Which plugins did you use? Arturia's legacy/classic synth clones? I know Trent used the MiniMoog/D a lot back then, as well as the DX7 if I'm not mistaken. Nice work with this. "Piggy" was always my favorite B-side on this record; glad you showed it some love.

[@lizaltman1200]

Excellent with ruiner

[@artemlyubchenko3022]

Great video, but I wonder why pretty much nobody plays the Closer bassline correctly, I'm pretty sure the end is Bb-C-F#-F

[@iximusic]

Yes last 3 notes are Bb, C, Gb. Big ol' tritone between the last two notes, really funky. I slowed it down 70% and studied it because it's just so watery and there are some sub notes that not everyone considers notes. I think he did a great job!

[@artemlyubchenko3022]

@@iximusic Hey ixi! Love your TDS analysis

[@davidlyon3185]

Just took me right back to my freshman year of college

[@mayfieldgage]

Badass!

[@brandon9271]

you should sell these patches :)

[@hobbified]

I'd love to know how the Closer outro is done.

[@Channel10334]

Upload this again but with the album track panned to the side and volume lowered so I can actually hear the synth please!

[@xw0ex948]

Nice

[@Hughenaz]

Amazing job! How did you recreate the piano sound from closer? I’ve tried many times but never got this close to the original

[@themanwhostolethetone]

nice!

[@Nobody18718]

Bad asss

[@defhoez449]

New subbie here! Lovin the NIN stuff keep it up!! Could it be possible to have some instructional NIN stuff like Copy of A ? Or...well...anything really...I dig it all

[@ReverendS3rvo]

Any chance you'll share these? Lol they're perfect.

[@JoyGrenade]

Just a couple of notes are off in spots, but the tones are absolutely dead on. Great job!

[@se7enmr]

What synths did you use for the ruiner chorus, especially the higher parts...I ve always looked for that sound cause it's in a ton of NIN songs.

[@masterofsparks22]

SAME! Been searching/trying to recreate this sound for years. Its in Pinion and the breakdown of Heresy as well.

[@Ullish1989]

Could you share what you're using to get the March of the Pigs and Becoming bass sounds as well as the Closer bridge??? Please!? I gotta know

[@JohnWayne-vf5bs]

The Synthesizer is one of a kind

[@Andrew-hf8vh]

I'd love to hear them isolated from the original track!

[@delta-9969]

I still listen to this album and PHM for the synth sounds. I'd be interested to know how these were re-created, since weren't a lot of the sounds on Downward Spiral actually samples? I seem to remember reading the bass sound from Closer was a bass guitar sample put through some kind of filter/wah effect. Are these sample based instruments or synth patches or what? I did discover after much digging that a lot of my favorite sounds on PHM were from the Prophet VS, so I've always wanted a vector synth.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

I read in an interview that the Closer bass was a modular patch he just randomly happed on, recorded it, and then it was lost to history. I did see a tutorial once saying it is heavy oscillator sync with lots of keyboard tracking on the cutoff. It is truly one of the greatest synth lines ever created! He also once said he always uses a Minimoog for bass, so take that as you will.

[@vagocochino]

I was waiting for "Big Man With A Gun" and that creepy and badass sound in "Reptile" which is very similar to an alarm or something

[@mcearlgrey]

A Warm Place deserves some love

[@JU-tt2zh]

I love this series-any way you can try some stuff for Kinda I Want To? I know they don’t play that song much at all live but always been interested in those synths and melodies

[@istayanonymous9070]

Is your band anywhere else besides Facebook? I don’t have FB and want to check you guys out.

[@garrold7123]

what bout the title track? that's pure gold. Aka outro of closer

[@riot057]

Consider creating videos teaching us how you get those sounds.

[@masterofsparks22]

Please tell me how you achieved the sound played by your right hand in Ruiner. Even just like hints on what the preset is called or like a description of the patch.

[@backtovoices5663]

F**king Great! Its sound is very similar. Could you make a tutorial for those sounds? We're all waiting for you😃

[@eoinhayes5025]

I want presets.. 😫

[@lionelhutz6582]

Which hardware and software are you using? Thx

[@510th]

Hi, well done! Is the Arturia just your midi keyboard and all sounds created from a pc or other? Cheers!

[@user-kx5fs9jy1g]

Can you make a video showing off how you made these patches?

[@Emcfree2084]

You should sell these patches mate

[@notyetskeletal4809]

All of the synths are all lined up I play for you all that you want Click subscribe and like Doesn't it make you feel better?

[@iximusic]

🐖 🐖🐖🎛 🎛🎛

[@mr.weirdness5970]

I wish you included the synth for Mr Self Destruct

[@joaorodrigues2335]

Great video! Which vst synths are you using for each sound?

[@Midiogre]

any chance you can show how to make closer sound or the bridge sound?

[@ghosthammer7774]

It's lucky I had Faith ano mores Angle Dust before this hit the shelves.

[@nopeekingjon]

So jealous of you!

[@shonuffLA]

What did you make these on and any tutorials?

[@tacodirtshield4323]

do you think you could upload these presets? id pay for them

[@juancarlosesparzarivera8690]

what plug in did you use?

[@lonec1777]

what keyboard is that?

[@dave-rodriguezs-world]

Are these samples? or is it a vst with nin sounds?

[@shonuffLA]

Tutorial on that closer bass ?

[@The_Beautifully_insane]

Where do you get that synthesizer, I want to get to use for my music.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

That's the Arturia Keylab 49- it's a controller. It doesn't make it's own sounds, it controls other things that do. It's hooked up to the laptop which is running synthesizer software.

[@Jaxonsyoutubechannel]

What synth are you use using?

[@d011p4rtz]

what make and model is that?😍

[@PANDRIUX]

BROKEN e.p. please! and.... solo happiness in slavery

[@PANDRIUX]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4CUfGB5a8hokLc (Trent Reznor showing a keyboard who's boss(Nine Inch Nails)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKWtmHqVe86Bfa8 (Nine Inch Nails happiness in slavery synth) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKOvna2Bhq-bq7s (Nine Inch Nails Happiness In Slavery Synth_solo)

[@leo-ip6di]

the hands that feets?

[@Alordard]

lol no one managing to redo the real bass melody from Closer, always different from the original

[@maggsvamp]

Kinda a let down this channel is not sharing the VST / synths / samples being used.

[@articguana1]

Presets PLEASEEEEE

[@dino_not_dyno]

Am I the only one that notices these are all blues scale lines?

[@electricsuitbatman]

Heresy?