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This clip has been AI-upscaled to 4K from the DVD source for better display on HD screens. This upscale is a personal experiment for my portfolio and is not affiliated with NIN or the record label. AATCHB is very hard to find these days, and I would love to see it get a release on streaming/digital. That is entirely up to Interscope/NIN, I am not involved. However, don’t hold your breath for a Blu-ray or any type of HD remaster: AATCHB was filmed with standard definition prosumer DV cameras, so a high definition source does not exist. Post-production software upscaling, as demonstrated here, would be the only way to improve the resolution of the original release. I used Topaz Video Enhance AI in two passes with a goal of preserving the raw DV look of the video at a higher resolution. More detailed information at https://www.patreon.com/posts/61430831

To those who have asked if there would ever be any bonus material from AATCHB: The DVD already is jam-packed with every song that we were happy with the video/audio for, and all the bonus material we had. Just because other songs were played/filmed on the tour doesn’t mean the recordings we got of them were up to release standards. What was released is all there is.

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Gonna see them in London this June!

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Noooo I refreshed the page at 10am and the tickets were listed as “unavailable” the entire time and now they’re sold out and being scalped for £150

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First I’m learning of this, apparently Craft Recordings dropped the Pretty Hate Machine remaster a few years back?

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Is there something special about this version, or is it just the remaster that came out a decade ago with Get Down, Make Love included on it?

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From what I could find, it’s just that but Craft have a good reputation on their masters and some consider it to be better, but I’m not an audiophile.

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Lots of effects has always been kind of a Nine Inch Nails thing; using lots of interesting and esoteric effects that we can get our hands on. We used the Zoom 9050, which was a secret weapon for Downward Spiral guitar sounds back in the day - super processed and super digital. Trent was never precious about, ‘well, i need a Marshall stack with a tube amp,’ he was like ‘I don’t give a f*** about a tube amp’ and ran straight into a pedal, straight into a board and let it go… ‘Perfect’

We were also doing a lot of bizarre sampling and just mangling it. During Mardi Gras one year, Trent gave me the portable DAT machine and a stereo handheld microphone and told me to just go for the day and capture sounds. We would capture all this weird shit, almost like sound designers would do for movies and games, and then just dump it into the samplers and tune it to a pitch that actually was a musical scale and that we could play it as melodies. A lot of those sounds are just hand sampled sounds that were then (scaled and mapped) across the keyboard to play in tune to a bass guitar or a piano or anything else.

That’s how all the Nails records were made back then and it worked really well for Quake. Those Quake beds are some of the coolest and scariest; when you listen to them now, they still hold up. There’s not a lot going on in them, there’s not a whole lot happening, they’re not excessively layered with stuff. Things come in at the right moment and they build and ebb and flow; they stay really subtle. I think that’s one of the reasons why they hold up so well. They’re not so overdone that it becomes a cliche or something else.

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Btw if anyone missed out on ordering the Quake soundtrack on vinyl from their website, I just got a text that they have it at their mech booth at the show in Cleveland tonight so maybe the leftovers will find their way back in stock online in the next day or so

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I heard it was going to be professionally shot! Looks like it was.

I wonder if however it’s released will be able to include Supernaut and Hey Man Nice Shot

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So sad that tickets for that show were way out of my price range, :frowning:

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have taylor swift fans taken down ticket master yet so I can afford to go to mainstream concerts again

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oh shit!!! I hated plunge, so I’m nervous about this one.

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