Composer no longer wants to work with id

As in his soundtrack, Doom Eternal itself is not very squeamish.

Doom Eternal is very popular among fans for his music, among other things. It is a little surprising that the official soundtrack – as you hear it in the game – from music professionals strongly criticized becomes. The reason, according to composer Mick Gordon, is that he only mixed a few pieces himself. However, there is a more complicated story behind it.

What is wrong with the soundtrack?

It started when the Twitter channel Doominal Crossing: Eternal Horizons publicly denounced the soundtrack in a long chain of messages. He explains that the Do not harmonize instrumentsbut fight against each other.

While the Doom OST from 2016 had a large dynamic range, the instruments at Eternal were compressed so much that they all played at the same volume become. The result is that the music sounds very bad.

Here's a comparison between the original BFG Division from Doom 2016's official soundtrack (left) vs. the BFG 2020 remix on Eternal's soundtrack from today (right).

Notice how the wavelengths in BFG 2020 form a nearly perfectly straight bar vs. the original with more definition pic.twitter.com/TCJRdOe1Yf

– Doominal Crossing: Eternal Horizons? (@thatACDCguy) April 19, 2020

Dispute between Gordon and id

Mick Gordon personally replied to this tweet and explained that he would never have done any compression. So you can still recognize the tracks that he personally mixed.

This is not the composer's first criticism of Doom Eternal and how it looks a dispute between him and the developer id software. Several months ago, Gordon wrote in response to a remix of the OST that someone from marketing without music knowledge had put together the track "The Only Thing They Fear Is You".

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