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This is a soundboard recording from this tour. Complete with David Bowie's set as well. Terrible Lie does fade in. This recording was highlighted on RITC's Recording of the Week. It was rumored this was an ALD recording. But September 2015 saw the release of the actual transfer from the master DAT tape. This is a mono soundboard recording, as many PA systems are mono and hard for you to distinguish when hearing a live performance. Older versions of this recording that have been circulating were fake mono. Which means they created two channels to resemble it. An amazing piece to add to the archive!

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The recording is tracked wrong. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) and Burn are in the same track. Amazing recording, as you can tell by the sample. This has the full NIN and Bowie set. This recording was highlighted in RITC's Recording of the Week.

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Notes from Mr. Fang: I borrowed this DAT clone from Rudy. This version on the archive is tracked and no EQ or normalizing was done to this recording. This is the straight transfer from the DAT clone.

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Another fantastic recording. The longest set out of the 4 nights at the Universal Amp. and ijwthstd's recording captures it 100%.This recording was highlighted on RITC's Recording of the Week.

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This is the best video version that was also reworked by Kevin C. This is the best picture you will get for this performance, unless they release the original footage they captured. Blown away by the quality of what has been called NIN's best performance.

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Recently purchased a PAL VHS off eBay that had both the first and third night recordings on it. I initially bought it so that I could get the DAT master audio off one of the recordings. It's a bit confusing which one it is. Is the DAT master audio the first night? or the third night that is the soundboard audio? There are a lot of errors on the cover of the bootleg VHS, which was presumably bought in the Camden market. Both audio sources have some hiss to them. So I am not sure which one it really could be. The video itself is a 1st gen video of both shows. The soundboard audio is synced to this night, but the video does not sync up and drifts throughout. After listening back, this sounds the best out of all the versions of this London 94 soundboard. One thing that is off putting is that this seems to be mono sourced. But as I said, it has the least amount of tape hiss on it and sounds very clear. This video has an audience audio recording for Pinion and the encore break, which I swapped the 'Pinion' and encore break audio soundboard track from "Hammering It Home." So again, it seems like there are a few versions of this recording and I would love to find a definitive board feed of this show that would include Pinion and the encore break. Like mentioned below, the silver CDs are missing all of 'Happiness In Slavery' due to keeping it to one CD. The encore break is also truncated on this and does not include Trent's, "thank you" right before they start Dead Souls. Which I also added to this release. Makes me think this is why the video has drift issues because the audio itself is too short at points. Overall, I believe this is the most full recording of this show. If you know who may have the master tape of this soundboard recording, please get in contact. I have a few things I would swap for the definitive copy of this recording, if so. It has been noted that NIN did record all of these London Forum shows, maybe for the release of 'Closure' as I assume some of this footage did make it in to it. But I can't be certain.

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A silver CD release. Sometimes this is mistaken for one of the Atlanta shows from late July (misprint on the back sleeve), but this is not true. It's a pretty long story and was investigated by TheBang thoroughly. When you download the recording, the text file has all the reasons why it is from the NOLA show and not Atlanta. Also, new infromation from the taper has confirmed that this is the NOLA show. One of the best recordings of this early tour.

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Another PERFECT audience recording. Pinion fades in at the beginning. This recording has been highlighted on RITC's NIN Recording of the Week.

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Uncirculated up until 01/2011. Thank you Mr. Fang for sharing this recording. An excellent recording.

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This recording comes from the pressed CD called "Crossed Nails". It is a great recording and one of the best sounding from the Downward Spiral tour. This recording has been highlighted on RITC's NIN Recording of the Week. This recording is mislabeled! Its said to be the 04/21/1994 Portland show but it is indeed not! This news article from the Oregonian from 4/23/1994 states that Trent was not mad at the crowd at all this night. But in this recording you hear him yell about how the fans were in their seats during "Sin". The article states that in Portland, Trent Reznor talks about how lame the 04/20/1994 crowd is. In this recording you don't hear it because this is the 04/20 recording! Thanks to Chris R. for digging this out. This is taped by Ed Phernetton, the same person who did the 04/19/1994 show. We've later come to find out that Ed purposely mislabeled this recording for certain reasons with the venue. Would love to get a DAT clone of this recording if anyone has a copy.

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This is the same recording as below on the Silver CD, but this is the superior source coming from a DAT clone of the DAT master. Sound is amazing. This recording was transferred at 16/48, same rate as the master tape for archival purposes.

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Probably the best recording from the Lollapalooza tour. This recording supposedly was from the master tape as an assortment of master tapes were auctioned off and this one was one of them. Unfortunately there is no information regarding equipment or the taper's initials. Sad that this information was not kept. This is a great recording.

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I came across the Sacramento Music Archive and I am always blown away at people's commitment to preserving music. Awesome stuff there and just sent some pleasantries to Shayne. I got a message back saying that he recorded the show! It sounded like it hadn't been transferred so I was excited to hear it. I did think it was uncirculated but this is actually SOURCE 2 on the archive with some misinformation. Probably lost in the pipeline along the way. Originally we had this from a cassette dub to DAT and a few generations from the master tape. This is an exceptional upgrade for this tape and sounds a lot better! Great to have the right source information as well for this one. Big thanks to Shayne transferring and sending over their tape!!! Notes from Shayne: Ryan Jonik (Nine Inch Nails Archive website curator) messaged me and let me know that my NIN DAT recording from Lollapalooza was uncirculated. This was the first big show I taped with the DAT- I got it less than 4 weeks before the show. I was all stressed out with trying to sneak the gear in, but it was easy. I snuck in the TCD-D3, 2 battery packs, Sony ECM-909 mic, Marantz PMD-430, 2 nakamichi CM-300 mics, and a hundred feet of mic cable. We put the battery packs in the bottom of snack cracker boxes, and the PMD430(which is HUGE) rolled in a blanket. So funny. I did not remix this- it has a surprising amount of low end, considering the mic. I was super sick at the show, so you can hear me coughing at times.

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The master tape upgrade was posted to DIME a few months ago. Great recording, and worth getting because its one of the best versions of "Now I'm Nothing" from the Lolla tour.

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This recording was highlighted on RITC's Recording of the Week.

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The best recording of the Hate 1990 tour. There are silver CD's to this show called "Misslewister". It is taken from source 1a. This recording has been highlighted on RITC's NIN Recording of the Week.

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This is the only soundboard available from 1990 and notably the earliest soundboard recording of NIN. This is from the silver CD's "Hammer Hard." There is some hiss in the recording. I am guessing because this audio source is ripped from the Pro-Shot video that they did this night as well. I bet if you got this from the actual DAT/Cassette soundboard master it will sound flawless. Another note is that many list this as being the Detroit, St. Andrews Hall show in July of 1990. This is not true and its mislabeled. But nonetheless this is an essential tape to own if you are a NIN fan. Highlighted on RITC's NIN Recording of the Week.

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Back in 2018, The Master Tape Network released the "new" master tape transfer of this tape. It was upscaled to 720p as well as to 60fps. I reached out to the MTN (it hasn't been updated in a handful of years) for a copy of it. They wanted money, but they'd throw this in if I bought a few other tapes from them. Thinking I would get the raw trasfner of it. I just received the YouTube rip of it. Very disappointed. It is great to know that the master tape exists somewhere. This definitely is the better version of the two.

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Thanks to JLW for sending over this master copy transfer! Although this is the master copy, it is not known who the taper is or which mic they used. It's a massive upgrade from the 1st generation copy I had transferred back in 2014. It was way too fast and I never got around to playing with the speed. This is the definitive tape, obviously. We can now confirm that NIN did not play Head Like A Hole this night, knowing that this was the full recording. There were many issues with equipment not working at this show to open for Peter Murphy. Drum samples not working, guitars not connected for one reason or another. Trent talks with that fans for a few seconds while they try to get a few things fixed on stage. I would assume with all the technical issues and having a strict set time for the opener. They had to scratch HLAH from the set.

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JB's first NIN recording. Amazing recording and the best one from 1990. The intro and the first 15 seconds of Terrible Lie are distorted but the rest is fantastic! Check the sample you will not be dissapointed!