Trent Reznor

From a Trent Reznor testimonial on the Ohm Force website: "I bought the Oddity [...] a few months ago and couldn't believe how great [it was]"

Original source here.

“An installation of the Soundtoys bundle is the first, mandatory step I take on all the platforms I use. Composing in Maschine or Live, performing live with Mainstage, or recording with Pro Tools… for every stage I rely on the incredibly useful, musical and inspiring tools Soundtoys provides. FilterFreak, EchoBoy and Decapitator are all over Hesitation Marks and used live throughout the TENSION 2013 tour.” - via soundtoys.com

"You chose to use Reaktor rather than Guitar Rig?

Well, eventually Guitar Rig worked its way into the process. Sometimes we'd make a very clean patch that only utilized the amp simulators or different arrays of speakers and then take whatever we might be using as the front head and run it through the amp simulator in Guitar Rig." - via the archived NativeInstruments.com

In this interview, Reznor talks about his use of Native Instruments Reaktor. He says, "In the studio we had two Apple G5's, one running Pro Tools hosting Guitar Rig, and the other one with Logic hosting Reaktor, so we could suck as much horse power as we needed and then just digitally transfer it to the computer with the main Pro Tools system," and "For a large portion of what we did, we treated Reaktor like a guitar pedal, like the ultimate distortion box. Instead of having an array of pedals on the floor, a lot of the pedals became virtual in Reaktor."

In march 1994 interview he explains: "Broken, for example, had a lot of that super-thick chunk sound. Almost every guitar sound on that record was me playing through an old Zoom pedal, direct, and then going into Turbosynth. Then I used a couple of key ingredients to make it sound unlike any real sound in the world, and layered about four of them together. By then, it wasn't a guitar anymore. It's an awesome sound."

Trent Reznor: "When I got my hands on it I was blown away..."

On the Ohm Force website, on the QuadFrohmage page, Trent Reznor is quoted:

"Alan Moulder shows up to work with me and immediately demands I check out the Quad Fromage (which somehow I was unaware of) and well, the rest is history. Really excellent tools that have been inspiring to work with" (original source here).

“The Waldorf Attack is a good little thing to use a lot.”

This entire short video shows how Trent transitions from the studio to a live show using Apple's Mainstage.

ImpOSCar is included in the "Software Instruments" list.

M-Tron is included in the "Software Instruments" list.

From this interview with Trent Reznor: "–What other software have you been experimenting with?

–I have gone down the path with Spektral Delay a lot and really like messing around with Vokator…"

He also deployed the use of the previously PC-only Trash plug-in extensively for “With Teeth.” “But don’t even try using Trash on a Mac without saving your song first,” he cautions.

"Calling EchoBoy a delay plug-in is doing it a disservice. It has become the first thing I turn to for treating a wide variety of sources. An EXCELLENT sound / space shaping tool and the most flexible and musical delay out there"

Arturia Moog Modular V is included in the "Software Instruments" list.

From this interview, with Trent Reznor:

"–What other software have you been experimenting with?

–I have gone down the path with Spektral Delay…"

1994 interview: "TR: Pretty much any real instrument like guitar or vocals or bass was recorded into the computer first; I use Opcode's Studio Vision all the time now for sequencing. Usually I'd loop something and then play along with it for a while, then I'd go back and listen. If anything was decent, I'd cut it together into something cool. All the guitars I played were cut up and put together like that."

Audio Ease Altiverb is included in the "Software Effects" list.

Calling EchoBoy a delay plug-in is doing it a disservice. It has become the first thing I turn to for treating a wide variety of sources. An EXCELLENT sound / space shaping tool and the most flexible and musical delay out there

Line 6 Echo Farm is included in the "Software Effects" list.

Waves Diamond Bundle is included in the "Software Effects" list.

MOTU MachFive is included in the "Software Instruments" list.

Trent Reznor uses the Arturia Prophet-5 V, as detailed on the Arturia website: "When I got my hands on it I was blown away."