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ESSENTIAL VIEWING // Doom: Behind the Music


I’ve been wanting to find a way to nicely share videos (whether a music video, documentary, live presentation etc) and of course my blog here is the perfect way to do that. Starting with this post I’ll be posting a series of things I consider “essential viewing”. As that grows this link – https://bit.ly/divkidessentialviewing – will contain all of those posts.

Here’s a talk from GDC (Game Developers Conference) from 2017 with the composer Mick Gordon who “provides a detailed look into the compositional process, production techniques and creative philosophies behind the hell raising soundtrack to the 4th instalment of the seminal first person shooter franchise, Doom.”

Doom is a game I know from playing the original 1993 release, but I don’t know the other titles other than this 2016 4th instalment of the series. It’s rare I get to play games, so a simple way to blast some demons on mars set to some intense music played in short periods worked well for me at the time. This video is a great look at the process of finding the sound and the right tone to fit the game. It also mentions other audio designers involved, “weird Wednesdays” that the team would engage with and plenty more.

For those interested in the technicalities I’d simply say – watch the video – but interestingly the tones generated for the music production come from a case of destructive distortion all based on core sine waves and noise tones ring modulated at the frequencies of the sub notes processed heavily through chains of pedals and hardware. There’s also demonstrations of adding high frequency parts to subs so that they’re audible across the spectrum, talks of rejection and dealing with failure, talk of gated reverb techniques with multiple mics for dynamic reverb with David Bowie … a massively interesting video, just watch and listen!

Added for those really wanting more of Mick Gordon talking Doom. Here just one of the videos from his own YouTube channel.

And also looking at the newest instalment of the Doom game series DOOM Eternal and putting together a heavy metal choir for the new soundtrack. Bit of a promo video but nice to see some familiar faces.

Finally … here’s an extended interview with Mick Gordon that starts by answering the question “how do you get into audio and music for games?”

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: distortion, DOOM, essential viewing, game audio, GDC, mick gordon, sound design, soundtrack

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SUBMISSIONS OPEN! If you’re a Patreon supporte SUBMISSIONS OPEN! 

If you’re a Patreon supporter and want to take part in our FEATURED SYSTEMS activities submissions are now open! 

Go read the post on patreon or head to the link in bio for information. 

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Heading off to Coventry for CFON @the_city_is_full Heading off to Coventry for CFON @the_city_is_full_of_noises held by and around @the_herbert_cov. It’s going to be the first time modular bleeps, washes and clangs of sound have surrounded Dippy, the huge diplodocus from the National History Museum and there’s all sorts of great things happening. Have a scan through the images for the overall schedule. 

Lots of great people involved with performances, talks, a drone bath, maker fair and synth meet up. Come long if you're close or can get to Coventry, it’s free or pay what you can for everything.

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My modular best buddy has another sibling! Can’t My modular best buddy has another sibling! Can’t get enough DATA and it’s looking nice in silver. 

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Here we have the last FEATURED SYSTEMS post before Here we have the last FEATURED SYSTEMS post before we take a break for a week to open up new submissions from the DivKid community, collect those up and resume posts again the following week. 

This week we have @lukesnarl and we can see a great mix of @befacosynth , @xaocdevices , @wntrblm , @rabidelephant , @audio.damage , @4ms_company , @dnipro.modular , @intellijel , @busycircuits , @wmdevices , @instruomodular , @joranalogue , @acidraintech , @vermonagear , @noiseeng and more. It looks to be a great tidy performance style system to get music happening! 

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Wobbler2 from @rocket_not looking mighty fine alon Wobbler2 from @rocket_not looking mighty fine along with its packaging. Beep! 

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A new Monday brings a new FEATURED SYSTEMS post. T A new Monday brings a new FEATURED SYSTEMS post. This time with have @heckseven and their studio combining the @lookmumnocomputer KOSMO format, Eurorack and other goodies all hooked together as one big performance instrument. 

Featured Systems is a community activity where we featured a DivKid community members system, be it a small case or whole studio then spend a whole week in our Discord discussing it. Talking about musical approaches, patch ideas, module choices, performance techniques, recording ideas, expression your own creativity with the gear and more.

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Does your Eurorack case also double as a phone hol Does your Eurorack case also double as a phone holding, guitar video recording device? 

Didn't think so, mine just about does for that ropey second camera angle for guitar into modular stuff. But I don’t recommend it! 😂

This is in the @steady_state_fate state fate Steady State Gate video on my YouTube channel if you want to see the results. 

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Thanks to all involved that made the first SYNTH E Thanks to all involved that made the first SYNTH EAST event last weekend a great success which will hopefully be a new annual event going forward for the synth calendar. 

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Here’s a quick video to show some of the gear, feel free to go new module spotting! 

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