Originally Posted by
jubilee
I have three questions -
1. Around the peak of YZ fever and the band starting to perform TGD and Me, I'm Not live with Alessandro, Trent and Aaron on stage there was a lengthy (iirc) interview where Trent (or Alessandro) discussed how the three "nodes" set-up worked, what the hell they were all doing at each console and how they all worked together to make the music. I still can't seem to find this interview (it was text, not video) and would love to read it again. I know there was an element of miming during Tension and a few tracks that were played with Finck at a console and not behind a guitar but this interview went some ways to explaining what they were doing to play some of the more electronic songs live. Anyone remember this and have a link?
2. After listening to the thick, impenetrable guitar on Burning Bright (starts around 30 seconds) I started thinking about when Trent and co have used recordings of guitar then played them at different speeds / processed them in what seemed to me as very unique methods of music production. DISCLAIMER - I know very little about music production . I remember reading about how Physical was made by speeding up a guitar riff then playing that at a reduced speed to get that thick, gelatinous sounding riff, I would love to know more about when this sort of technique was used across the NIN catalog and if I'm right i thinking this is what's happening in Burning Bright.
3. Kind of related to question 2 - in the guitar solo bit on Closer from AATCHB, is Robin playing a riff that is then being played backwards or what is going on here? (3:14, then a similar sound resurfaces at 3:57- these time stamps are from the MP3) Is this something NIN have utilized either in studio or live and are there other examples.
Apologies for my ignorance if music production but I would love to know more!