Editing Pretty Hate Machine (section)

===Samples===
[[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[Jane's Addiction]], and [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] are listed in the liner notes as artists whose music was sampled on the album. Segments of Prince's "[[Alphabet St.]]" and Jane's Addiction's "[[Nothing's Shocking|Had a Dad]]" can be heard in "Ringfinger". Other samples were edited or distorted so as to be unrecognizable, such as the introduction to "Kinda I Want To". "Something I Can Never Have" features unused backing tracks created by John Fryer for [[This Mortal Coil]].<ref name="Doerschuk" />

Reznor stated, "I was tempted to lay in more of other people‘s stuff, but I thought that would lend a real dated quality to the record, seeing where that has gone the way it has in [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]]."<ref name="Doerschuk" /> Time constraints similarly prevented him from accumulating "good sounds" as he wanted.<ref name="Doerschuk" /> He obtained "weird percussion tracks" by sampling loops from artists like Public Enemy, playing them backwards and modulating them in [[Avid Audio|Macintosh Turbosynth]] with an oscillator tuned to the pitch of the song, obtaining "this weird flanging-type thing that's in key".<ref name="Doerschuk" /> He said that "every drum fill on 'Terrible Lie' is lifted intact from somewhere. There are six other songs playing through that cut, recorded on tape, in and out, depending on where they worked."<ref name="Doerschuk" />