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All Hell Breaks Loose

from Summer Spooktacular by Allison Fleischer

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This is the track I put the most work into, and the one that I started work on first. I actually made most of this before doing any of the tiles or level design for Hell, and tried my best to match the other elements with the music's intensity level. There's a lot going on here, it's kind of a lame synthy version of Mick Gordon's DOOM 2016 soundtrack.

The star of the show here is the growly bass synth, which is probably the most needlessly-complicated synth patch I've ever made. The input is just a sine wave, but tons of effects are applied in different parallel send tracks, like distortion, amp sims, lots of exciters, and weird sidechained reverb to fill in the gaps. A lot of the "knobs" are automated by a couple LFO's for good measure, to make it sound less stale and more analog-y. I put "knobs" in quotes because none of this is analog hardware. It's all digital! This thing is the primary Mick Gordon influence; it's kind of my own spin on "the DOOM array", which was a similar concept but with real hardware.

The other part of the track that really stands out is the choirs in the last third. These aren't nearly as fancy (just a soundfont with reverb run through some light distortion and sidechained to the kick) but I'm really happy with how much they add to the track. They really make the setting feel like the most hellish fucking metal place imaginable. I don't think I was able to capture this as closely with the tiles and design, but there wasn't really much hope of accomplishing that in VVVVVV. I approximated it about as well as I could have, so I'm pretty happy with it.

There are two easter eggs hidden in this track. One's pretty easy to figure out, the other is more difficult to uncover. Can you find them?

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from Summer Spooktacular, released October 3, 2018

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Allison Fleischer Maple Valley, Washington

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