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Rig Rundown: Nine Inch Nails

Robin Finck and Alessandro Cortini create the perfect drug for NIN fans with a bevy of heavy-hitting custom guitars and basses and a high-tech hybrid setup that marries digital with analog.

Tessa Jeffers
By Tessa JeffersNov 07, 2018
Tessa Jeffers

Tessa's career in journalism has taken her from the Midwest to the Middle East and back. In addition to writing about music for publications like SPIN, Tessa has worked as an arts editor and investigative news reporter. She currently lives in Music City, Tennessee.

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Robin Finck has a unique slide-guitar station consisting of an Electro Hawaiian lap steel tuned to C–G–G–D–G–C. He uses an Electro-Faustus Guitar Disruptor with an EBow or slide bar on “God Break Down the Door.” Other effects at the station include a Boss volume pedal, a DigiTech Whammy, and a JHS Kilt. A Big Joe Stomp Power Box Lithium power supply makes everything wireless and seamless onstage.

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