Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor's Gear
MOTU 896 is included in the "COMPUTERS, DAWs, RECORDING HARDWARE" list.
Kenton Pro-2000 MIDI-to-CV converter is included in the "Modular Hardware Synths" list.
this is mentioned to be used on a prs custom 22
During the 2009 concerts, Trent Reznor used the Roland RD-700 on stage, as seen in the Nine Inch Nails performance of "Cars" with Gary Numan in London.
at 2:24, this tambourine is seen next to Trent
Featured on Reznor's official Akai artist page.
Reznor uses an APC40 in studio and on stage he often uses the MPK49 and MPD32 during live performances.
at 0:18 in the video, you can see the model 15 by the white voyager
at 3:43 in the video 3 Tocantes are visible
Before Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor was keyboarder in a group called “Slam Bamboo” and in the live video is featured a SCI Prophet-5
Seen in this photo of Trent, in the background, just in front of him.
Seen above the keyboard workstation in this photo.
Spotted at 2:14 in this video, installed in a Eurorack, besides a Make Noise DPO module
Spotted at 2:14 in this video, installed in a Eurorack, beside a Mutable Braids macro oscillator .
Seen at 7:20 in the Archetype of a Synthesizer video.
I've seen the ARP in the background of several videos showing Trent's studio. But you get a nice clear shot of it behind Trent and Alessandro in this video, time mark 7:50. You also get a nice view of too much Eurorack gear to possibly list out.
Trent Reznor is seen playing a Yamaha Grand Piano in an image featured on a Pinterest page curated by Wendy Ramirez.
Trent Reznor's Cwejman S1 in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Cwejman rack to the right side of the image.
Trent Reznor's Doepfer MAQ 16/3 in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Doepfer rack to the center of the image.
Trent Reznor's Korg DTR-1 in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Doepfer rack to the center of the image.
Trent Reznor: What else do I have lying around in the studio right now... I'm currently kind of into the Prophet 6, which has been around for a long time as a go-to.
TR: I've got Dreadbox Nymphes, it sounds great. I don't know why I love it, but as soon as I plug it in, I like the imperfection of it.
TR: Eventually, I got a Korg Mono/Poly... chords! And I don't know, I just thought I'd throw that little bit of history in there.
Trent Reznor's Vermona DRM1 in his "Nothing Studios" is seen on a Doepfer rack to the center of the image.
I’m this interview Trent states:
“ I had a PPG when they were out, and I have a Waldorf MicroWave now. If I go about trying to program that thing in a logical way, it comes out sounding like mid-1980s synth pop--kind of dated, digital-sounding. But just through randomly generating stuff with Opcode's Galaxy, and I did this a lot on the Xpander and the VS, I'd generate thousands and thousands of programs. Then I'd hear an element of one that was cool, and fine-tune it.”
Atticus and I make a point to keep everything in flux in our studio, with gear always changing to keep us rethinking things and never getting too comfortable. The LYRA-8 is one of the few “permanent” hookups.
Text from the revolvermag: " The Nine Inch Nails leader steps into the hallway and crouches down to show off the Apprehension Engine, an unruly, all-angles nightmare simulator co-created by Mark Korven, composer of the score for the claustrophobic arthouse-horror film The Lighthouse — retail price, $10,000. The wooden monstrosity looks like H.P. Lovecraft designed a steampunk's double-necked guitar. Reznor puts on his glasses and shows off its various cranks, rulers, springs, strings and coils.
"You can bow these things." Boiiiiiing. "There's no right or wrong way to use it." Slapapapapapap. Eeeeeeeee. "And they tell you when you get it, it really requires you learning how to play it and figure it out. It pissed us off 'cause when we got it ... it sounds shitty. I'm not instantly good at it."
" The Apprehension Engine lives in Reznor's new studio space, its surfaces lined with various noisy electronic doodads that you brush or bow or touch or chomp with banana clips. Though there's no shortage of traditional synthesizers, Reznor and longtime musical co-conspirator Atticus Ross often use bespoke, small-run noisemakers, glitchers and squawkers from boutique companies and independent designers. There's the "fairly unplayable" Swarmatron (used to help create their score to 2010's The Social Network), the weed-like Luminist Garden (used for rhythms on 2014's Gone Girl) and the teeny touchpads of the Organismic Synthesizer from Moscow's SOMA Laboratory (it didn't come with a manual, so Reznor pulls out printouts of text messages from the lab's founder)."
At 4:19 in the video, the Virtuoso 2000 is discernible on top of the rack behind Trent.
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."
According to a compiled list of stringed instruments used on "The Fragile" as detailed by NinWiki, Trent Reznor utilized a Fender Bass VI.
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Discography
The Social Network
2010
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2011
Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
2014
Before the Flood (Music from the Motion Picture)
2016
Patriots Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017
The Vietnam War (Original Score)
2017
Bird Box (Abridged) [Original Score]
2019
Watchmen: Volume 1 (Music from the HBO Series)
2019
Watchmen: Volume 2 (Music from the HBO Series)
2019
Waves (Original Score)
2019
Watchmen: Volume 3 (Music from the HBO Series)
2019
Mank (Original Musical Score)
2020
Album Credits
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Challengers [MIXED] by Boys Noize
Boys Noize & Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross · 2024
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Even It Out (Frost Children Remix)
Frost Children & Fever Ray · 2023
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Original Score)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross · 2023
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Empire of Light (Original Score)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross · 2022
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Bones and All (Original Score)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross · 2022
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