Changes

The European and Japanese legs of this tour featured a flowing, gauzy backdrop that could be backlit as needed, and large chandelier-like lighting fixtures pods that hung down over the band, with PAR cans and narrow light strips (presumably LED) tubes that glowed and flashed during certain portions of songs in the set.

It also had a projection screen for three songs in A notable piece of gear was Clouser's custom keyboard stand, similar to the middle of custom stand used by Reznor on the show, "[[La MerSelf Destruct Touring Cycle]]," "[[The Great Below]]," which could rotate in different directions and "[[The Way Out Is Through]]"was fitted with a motorcycle shock absorber. "The Great Below" rough design was accompanied done by footage of Clouser, and the oceanstand was built by metal fabricator Tim Ralston, "The Great Below" by microscopic footage of things such as cell division or a heart valve who specializes in actionmovie props.[https://www.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/81j2mg/obscure_gear_question/] Reznor also had several custom guitars during this tour, and "The Way Out Is Through" by reflected water ripples that would distort and pixelate with imagery from the musicalbum artwork on the bodies.The guitars were not painted, but instead had skins applied to them.[https://www.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/pjlc3d/the_fragile_les_pauls/]

There was also a projection scrim in front of the band for three songs in the middle of the show, "[[La Mer]]," "[[The Great Below]]," and "[[The Way Out Is Through]]". "La Mer" was accompanied by footage of the ocean, "The Great Below" by microscopic footage of things such as cell division or a heart valve in action, and "The Way Out Is Through" by reflected water ripples that would distort and pixelate with the music. In April 2018 a tape with a portion of the ocean footage made by David Carson for the tour was bought on ebay and shared on [[Echoing The Sound|ETS]]. The footage was not used in its original form as handed in by Carson, but small portions of it were, such as shots of a Great Star Coral used at the beginning of "The Great Below", closeups of underwater bubbles used during "La Mer", and the reflected water ripples that were used in distored form during "The Way Out Is Through". It can be watched [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEzyMluf-q4 here].