If you have not heard the music from the new Doom video game then check it out here.
It's pretty gnarly (in a good way)..
The videos about the production of the music is here, and has lots of great sound design tips.
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Doom 2016 Soundtrack "behind the scenes on how it was made"
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- KVRist
- 236 posts since 18 Mar, 2003 from Jacksonville, FL
Absolutely awesome. These kinds of vids always inspire yet intimidate the hell out of me. Such thickness without the really nasty edges that hurt your ears. Dude has a real gift.
Even I was offended by what I was going to put here.
Newest Release, retro EBM, Brute Opposition - Unity of Command, released Sept '22 bandcamp link
Newest Release, retro EBM, Brute Opposition - Unity of Command, released Sept '22 bandcamp link
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- KVRian
- 719 posts since 17 Aug, 2015 from Finland
Couldn't have said it better myself.Chemik wrote:Absolutely awesome. These kinds of vids always inspire yet intimidate the hell out of me. Such thickness without the really nasty edges that hurt your ears. Dude has a real gift.
Not only that, but just his style is one of the reasons he's currently one of my favorite composers.My solo projects:
Hekkräiser (experimental) | MFG38 (electronic/soundtrack) | The Santtu Pesonen Project (metal/prog)
Hekkräiser (experimental) | MFG38 (electronic/soundtrack) | The Santtu Pesonen Project (metal/prog)
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8413 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Alesia
Mick Gordon is a genius! I absolutely love this f**king soundtrack!
It's actually got me sold on diving into Eurorack and getting back into guitar again.
It's actually got me sold on diving into Eurorack and getting back into guitar again.
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- KVRian
- 596 posts since 28 Apr, 2004 from not where I want to be...
Love the game, love the soundtrack.
He did really well with the Wolfenstein roo.
That's my favourite track so far:
He did really well with the Wolfenstein roo.
That's my favourite track so far:
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- KVRAF
- 14740 posts since 19 Oct, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
Mick Gordon is a crazy madman that full understood the concept of the game, the history, the soundtrack... he's a fan, and that shines through. He put a lot of thought and love into "Killer Instinct" (2013) - the same happened for "DOOM" (4) - which is a great reimagination of the old Doom games.
I mean... he did not just use one or two famous tracks from the first game and then redid them (e.g. the famous E1M1), he did that with several tracks from the OST - bits and pieces from old versions by Bobby Prince are randomly thrown into the current productions where you least expect them. Speed up, slowed down, dropped by two octaves... doesn't matter... It's metal, it's glitchy industrial - it fits the mood of the game and accelerates the ride even more.
The OC Remix and VG Mix communites did their re-imagination years ago (Doom: Dark side of Phobos, 2005 and Doom 2: Delta Q Delta, 2008), and I loved these reimaginations - but Mick Gordon was recently setting the bar so high, it's not even funny!
And Bethesda Softworks? Think about them what you will, but they revived the "Fallout" series in a good way, they put the same love and effort into Doom and helped the already somewhat damaged (and abandoned) id Software back to their old glory - albeit without their founding members. The whole game is a frigging love letter even without John Romero, John D. Carmack and Adrian Carmack, Bobby Prince, etc. Then again, Romero and Adrian Carmack are currently working on an own shooter again - called "Blackroom", and John D. Carmack is the CTO of Oculus VR.
I really hope the OST is available soon - and it's not as over-compressed like the Killer Instinct release.
And I also hope that we see a part 3 of the documentation... I want to know more about the sound design, if he sent the signal "parallel" out to FX pedals, how much an Eurorack was involved (only for pulsing beats, or also for "sound design" (glitching, distortion, etc), ...
But I'm more interested in what content will be released with the upcoming DLC's ,and if we will see a "Doom II: Hell on Earth - Reimagined" (Doom 5). Would be stupid not to continue the series after the positive reviews so far.
I mean... he did not just use one or two famous tracks from the first game and then redid them (e.g. the famous E1M1), he did that with several tracks from the OST - bits and pieces from old versions by Bobby Prince are randomly thrown into the current productions where you least expect them. Speed up, slowed down, dropped by two octaves... doesn't matter... It's metal, it's glitchy industrial - it fits the mood of the game and accelerates the ride even more.
The OC Remix and VG Mix communites did their re-imagination years ago (Doom: Dark side of Phobos, 2005 and Doom 2: Delta Q Delta, 2008), and I loved these reimaginations - but Mick Gordon was recently setting the bar so high, it's not even funny!
And Bethesda Softworks? Think about them what you will, but they revived the "Fallout" series in a good way, they put the same love and effort into Doom and helped the already somewhat damaged (and abandoned) id Software back to their old glory - albeit without their founding members. The whole game is a frigging love letter even without John Romero, John D. Carmack and Adrian Carmack, Bobby Prince, etc. Then again, Romero and Adrian Carmack are currently working on an own shooter again - called "Blackroom", and John D. Carmack is the CTO of Oculus VR.
I really hope the OST is available soon - and it's not as over-compressed like the Killer Instinct release.
And I also hope that we see a part 3 of the documentation... I want to know more about the sound design, if he sent the signal "parallel" out to FX pedals, how much an Eurorack was involved (only for pulsing beats, or also for "sound design" (glitching, distortion, etc), ...
But I'm more interested in what content will be released with the upcoming DLC's ,and if we will see a "Doom II: Hell on Earth - Reimagined" (Doom 5). Would be stupid not to continue the series after the positive reviews so far.
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- KVRian
- 853 posts since 3 Nov, 2006 from Poland
Wow - that was really, really good. Short, but gave me many ideas to try out!
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- KVRAF
- 4314 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
Very cool! I see FL Studio and Pro Tools there, it's amazing what he's able to accomplish! The bar is indeed very high now.
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- KVRAF
- 14740 posts since 19 Oct, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
He also used Ableton Live - it's one of the dark skinned host's.
I'd still love to know how he pulled off the pulsating and glitching beats. Is it really just a sine and a white noise run through a distortion device? But where does the high frequency noise come from? Parallel bitreduction? Or Bitreducion -> Distortion (of of his pedals seems to be able to do that).
(see track "Mastermind")
I'd still love to know how he pulled off the pulsating and glitching beats. Is it really just a sine and a white noise run through a distortion device? But where does the high frequency noise come from? Parallel bitreduction? Or Bitreducion -> Distortion (of of his pedals seems to be able to do that).
(see track "Mastermind")
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
Yup. Love his rhythmic stuff, hell all of it.
Plus the game is... well let's just say it "takes me back."
Plus the game is... well let's just say it "takes me back."