Mixing concept behind industrial music

[Zandt]

Hey all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I think it is. I was jumping around through itunes and after listen to Abbey Road I switched to Nine Inch Nails (yeah, interesting jump) and it occured to me that overall industrial music has this specific style of mixing. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on just what it is about the mixing in industrial music that makes it, well, industrial?

Are they equalizing everything low and the vocals at 0db? Are they using a ton of effects and reverb after recording? Maybe it'd be simpler just to ask if I had tracks and wanted to make them sound industrial like NIN, what would I do for that sound?

I don't actually have tracks or any recording software, I'm just curious to the process behind it.

[pitchfork]

Experimentation is your freind dude, theres no specific way to mix anything becuase of the massive amounts of variables.

Just **** around till it sounds how you want basically.

[Moseph]

Typically speaking, industrial is characterized by saturated drums/metallic percussion and rhythms that exhibit no swing or other playing variance.

Beyond that I can't help you. Both because of the inherent variety in musical styles, but also because I'm not really a fan of industrial and I'm not going to pretend like I'm an expert on the sound.

[Zandt]

That's what I was thinking (with the saturated drums that have that distinct pattern). It makes a lot of sense that with that alone the music sounds the way it does