Trent Reznor

seen playing this synth towards the end of this music video (3:06) as well as in the alternate video for 'into the void' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8UjkiTZCo at 3:07

In this picture from a booklet included in the Definitive Edition release of The Fragile, an image can be found of Trent Reznor holding a Gibson ES-335 Gothic in his arms and resting.

It can be told that this is an ES-335 Gothic due to the single Crescent Moon Inlay on the neck.

The Fragility Tour program contains a partial list of equipment used to record The Fragile.

Included in this list is the Danelectro Cool Cat

Bryan Gardiner from Wired writes in this article, "Reznor and other band members use Lemurs during the 'electronic set." The touchscreen devices can be used to control a range of audio and visual aspects of the show on the fly.'"

Trent Reznor in his studio with an Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Synthi model A under the computer screen.

Trent Reznor's Metasonix TM-2 Vacuum-Tube Dual BandPass Filter Plus VCA in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Metasonix rack to the right side of the image. Here is a closer look at the rack.

1994 studio: "The studio was equipped with a 56-input Amek Mozart console with Rupert Neve modules, two Studer A800 Mk3 multitrack machines, Mac-based Pro Tools and a host of outboard gear..."

The 1994 studio was equipped with a 56-input Amek Mozart console with Rupert Neve modules, two Studer A800 Mk3 multitrack machines, Mac-based Pro Tools and a host of outboard gear, in addition to Akai S1100 and Kurzweil K2000 samplers; Prophet VS, Digidesign Turbosynth, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim Expander, Oberheim OBMx, Roland MKS80 and Minimoog synthesizers; Doepfer and Oberheim sequencers; a Mellotron MKIV polyphonic tape replay keyboard; a Roland R70 drum machine;

"Our effects were created mostly from the ground up on the Kurzweil K2000 — which we even used to distort vocals — and on the Eventide H3500. " "...due to Trent being so meticulous and wanting us to come up with vocal effects that had never been used before. That often meant getting out the Eventide H3500 to achieve things like the crazy, almost ring-modish vocal at the end of 'Closer'. "

TR had used Wurlitzer 203W Electric Piano for Sound City's Albums.

"So Trent bought the building, and moved all of his studio gear into it. Studio A has an 80-input SSL console in it, two Studer 24-tracks, a Digidesign Pro Tools and Macintosh system, and a massive collection of keyboards and guitar pedals. Studio B in the back is equipped with Mackie digital consoles, a bunch of [TASCAM] DA-88s, and a lot of synths."

Trent used a Linn 9000 on the album "Pretty Hate Machine."

Apogee DA-16X is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.

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

In the left middle of this pic, you can clearly see 2 Empirical Labs Distressor Compressors, just above the LA-2A Compressor/Limiter!

Trent Reznor's Metasonix TM-1 Vacuum-Tube Waveshaper/RingMod in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Metasonix rack to the right side of the image. Here is a closer look at the rack.

The 1994 studio was equipped with a 56-input Amek Mozart console with Rupert Neve modules, two Studer A800 Mk3 multitrack machines, Mac-based Pro Tools and a host of outboard gear, in addition to Akai S1100 and Kurzweil K2000 samplers; Prophet VS, Digidesign Turbosynth, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim Expander, Oberheim OBMx, Roland MKS80 and Minimoog synthesizers; Doepfer and Oberheim sequencers; a Mellotron MKIV polyphonic tape replay keyboard; a Roland R70 drum machine; and assorted Jackson and Gibson guitars.

The 1994 studio was equipped with a 56-input Amek Mozart console with Rupert Neve modules, two Studer A800 Mk3 multitrack machines, Mac-based Pro Tools and a host of outboard gear, in addition to Akai S1100 and Kurzweil K2000 samplers; Prophet VS, Digidesign Turbosynth, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim Expander, Oberheim OBMx, Roland MKS80 and Minimoog synthesizers; Doepfer and Oberheim sequencers; a Mellotron MKIV polyphonic tape replay keyboard; a Roland R70 drum machine; and assorted Jackson and Gibson guitars.

The blue Moog Voyager can be seen in the background multiple times throughout the video, and occasionally in close-up shots.

Analogue Solutions Vostok is included in the "Hardware Synths" list.

"My Dad got me a Wurlitzer 200a electric piano as a preteen, and it pretty much changed the trajectory of my life. That piano is long gone, but I did recently pick one up, which I love."

In the middle left of this picture, you can see an LA-2A Compressor in the rack.

Building on top of this substructure, Reznor and Ross spent two days recording ancillary melodies on a Moog Minimoog Voyager

Photo from 1994: This Timeline Micro Lynx was the unwitting victim of Trent Reznor's sometimes brutal vocal recording technique.

"while on another occasion he (Trent Reznor) got so carried away that he sheared the knobs off some [Lexicon] PCM42s. There were three PCM42s in a row and he took the feedback and modulation knobs off every one of them. I was thinking, 'Fuck!'"

Trent Reznor uses the Analogue Systems French Connection, as seen in the video for "Keep it together" by How To Destroy Angels.

Apogee AD-16X is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.

Big Ben 192K Master Digital Clock is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.

Digidesign 192 is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.

Lavry 4496 is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.