Editing Dwayne Goettel (section)

==Musical style==
[[File:Ensoniq Mirage DSK.jpg|thumb|right|alt=A photo of the Ensoniq Mirage, which proved vital to Skinny Puppy's sound|Goettel's experience with the [[Ensoniq Mirage]] proved vital to Skinny Puppy's sound]]
Goettel spoke to ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' on how being in Skinny Puppy helped him jump outside the musical boundaries he had felt confined to in the past, saying "[Key] showed me that when you start on a C, you can play more than just these certain notes, that you can do whatever the moment demands of you, instead of looking blindly backwards".<ref name="24hours" /> Ogre recalled in 2007, "cEvin had a good sense of melody, but Dwayne was classically trained ... It was part of their duality in that Dwayne shared his vast knowledge of music, and cEvin showed him how to fuck it all up".<ref name=Emusician>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emusician.com/gear/1332/skinny-puppy/37723|title=Skinny Puppy gets respect|access-date=29 January 2019|website=[[Electronic Musician]]|date=April 1, 2007|last1=Kleinfeld |first1=Justin |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323143336/http://www.emusician.com/gear/1332/skinny-puppy/37723|archive-date=23 March 2017}}</ref> Goettel's experience with the use of the [[Ensoniq Mirage]] [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]] proved to be pivotal to the band's evolving sound,<ref name="IDW6:07" /> with Key dubbing him "the master of sampling".<ref name=Emusician /> Goettel told the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' in 1992 that he felt joining Skinny Puppy helped to liberate him from the normal conventions of music making:<ref name=Apocalyptic>{{cite journal |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Technology Expands Skinny Puppy's Apocalyptic Sound |journal=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=May 21, 1992 |page=8}}</ref>

<blockquote>In all the music I had played before, there wasn't anything about expressing yourself, just rigid lines ... I came into the band with all this knowledge, but that knowledge was very limiting. These guys were sitting around listening to tapes and going: 'Yeah! We can make new sound! We can do anything!' It was a doorway to all these possibilities.<ref name=Apocalyptic /></blockquote>

He discovered an interest in synthesizers early in his life and began listening to electronic acts such as [[Kraftwerk]], [[Devo]], [[Soft Cell]], and [[Yello]] while in high school.<ref name=Black /> With Skinny Puppy, he used [[Steinberg]] Pro 24 software run through an [[Atari Corporation|Atari]] computer to mix and edit their music.<ref name="Mondo">{{cite journal |last1=Tywoniak |first1=Edward |title=Skinny Puppy |journal=[[Mondo 2000]] |date=1991 |issue=4 |url=http://litany.net/interviews/mondo2000.html |access-date=21 February 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506020748/http://www.litany.net/interviews/mondo2000.html |archive-date=6 May 2015 }}</ref> In addition to the Ensoniq Mirage, his equipment included the [[Akai S1000]], [[Yamaha SY77]], [[Yamaha SY22]], and the [[E-mu Emax]].<ref name=Black>{{cite journal |title=Interview with Dwayne Goettel |journal=Black Market Zine |date=1992 |issue=10 |url=http://litany.net/interviews/drg_blackmarket |access-date=21 February 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923023937/http://litany.net/interviews/drg-blackmarket.sp |archive-date=23 September 2016 }}</ref> Goettel told ''[[The Tampa Tribune]]'' that Skinny Puppy was attempting to "provide something that makes you question the things you sense", and was uninterested in pushing the band's music towards something more trendy. "It's not like we have to do the things we do, it's more that everything else is already taken care of on the radio - love, relationships, people".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perez |first1=Steven |title=Skinny Puppy Unleashed |journal=[[The Tampa Tribune]] |date=November 30, 1990 |page=25}}</ref> Key said in 2001 that he believed Goettel's later work was at the forefront of the "pre-[[The Prodigy|Prodigy]] style".<ref name=Terrorizer />