DOOM Composer Mick Gordon Quits Id Software

<p>Mick Gordon should be familiar to those who have played the recent DOOM games&comma; seeing as he made the soundtracks for DOOM &lpar;2016&rpar; and DOOM Eternal&period; However recent events have made him decide to not work with id Software in the future&period; And once we look at what&&num;8217&semi;s happened&comma; it becomes clear why&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The DOOM Eternal soundtrack is something special&period; It features a broad dynamic range&comma; from crunchy industrial metal to serene choirs and ambience&period; So in Bethesda&&num;8217&semi;s infinite wisdom&comma; when putting together the official OST release&comma; they decided to compress the heck out of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Here&&num;39&semi;s a comparison between the original BFG Division from Doom 2016&&num;39&semi;s official soundtrack &lpar;left&rpar; vs&period; the BFG 2020 remix on Eternal&&num;39&semi;s soundtrack from today &lpar;right&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Notice how the wavelengths in BFG 2020 form a nearly perfectly straight bar vs&period; the original with more definition <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;TCJRdOe1Yf">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;TCJRdOe1Yf<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Doominal Crossing Remastered &lpar;&commat;DoominalCross&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DoominalCross&sol;status&sol;1251690243389927424&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 19&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not only that but it was apparently put together entirely without any input from Gordon&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Mick&lowbar;Gordon&sol;status&sol;1251828567882600448&quest;s&equals;20" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">According to a tweet<&sol;a>&comma; he only mixed a handful of tracks on the official release&period; The rest were mixed by someone else entirely and have been pretty much compressed to the point any dynamic range is gone entirely&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"wp-image-157257 size-jnews-360x504 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;23033150&sol;jzij5jf7wst41&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Mick Gordon Declines Working With Id Software" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Understandably&comma; this has really pissed off Gordon who&comma; in response to a question whether he would be working with Id Software in the future&comma; said it was unlikely after this incident&period; The composer is known for putting a lot of effort into his soundtracks&period; So a move like this would undoubtedly come off as really disrespectful towards his work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-large wp-image-156287" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;04160347&sol;20200320101044&lowbar;1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"DOOM Music" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">The Bethesda Curse<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Bethesda is no stranger to showing laziness and lack of effort&period; Not only did their game Fallout 76 receive almost universal hate&comma; but the merchandise as well&period; The company has been involved in a lot of false advertising over the years&period; So it may come as no surprise that their release of the DOOM Eternal OST was handled the same&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While it is no new thing that OST composers have little control over their soundtrack in the game industry&comma; this is still a sign that publishers need to take things more seriously&period; It might be easy to blame it on time constraints&comma; but the utter lack of care put into the soundtrack release still comes off as disrespectful towards the artist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Luckily this does not seem to have been reflected in the game&period; As you may recall from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;doom-eternal-review-the-celebration-of-a-legacy&sol;">our review<&sol;a>&comma; DOOM Eternal plays wonderfully and sounds amazing&period; So you should still buy the game if you haven&&num;8217&semi;t&period; And remember to check out Mick Gordon&&num;8217&semi;s own mixes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Cu61qgp6XoE<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcgamer&period;com&sol;uk&sol;doom-eternals-official-soundtrack-wasnt-mixed-by-its-composer-and-you-can-tell&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PC Gamer<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;