What does everyone listen to while making wads/playing doom?

[Rei is now real]

Andrey Avkhimovich's Remake of the Dn3D Soundtrack.

specifically Gotham, cuz that's my favorite song from Duke Nukem 3D

[Lucky_Edie]

Nightcore / techno and japanese music. 

[leodoom85]

Listened to smooth jazz, rock, anime, game soundtracks, spanish music (can be any genre except reggaeton)......classical music......geez, I can listen to any genre that pleases me.

Heck, I'm listening to Saint Seiya by now and I'm mapping a bit too.

[PeterMoro]

Spacemind. ("space - ambience")

 

 

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15 hours ago, Bridgeburner56 said:

Metal, heavy metal, and heavier metal. Sometimes with a side of metal. 

Jokes aside, 95% of the time I go for metal(any sub genre)/heavy rock. The more energetic the better. High energy music  = high energy mapping for me. 

That's pretty awesome, sometimes I listen to Metal too, something like Sodom!

[Toilet_Wine_Connoisseur]

The only album worth listening to when doin all things doom.

 

but in general, something that will put in the headspace of the kind of map I am aiming to make, so usyally weiord dark like Aubrey Hodges or Electric Wizard.

 

 

[Fluuschoen]

While playing: the wad's MIDI.

 

If it's a wad that I have played through already, then either SIGIL's MIDI, or deep house, darkwave/cyberpunk (Nigel Stately mixes, Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, something along these lines), same with mapping, but with more feels blending in (Timecop1983 for example, even some old school uplifting trance from the late '90's/early '00s), when I finally get back to it. On a side note, I found this a few days ago, I think it's awesome;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHejFx3GMc

 

If I'm practicing something, then no music, sound effects only and glaring at the screen like a madman. : D

Dream Theater doesn't really suit this kind of stuff, maybe except Stream of Consciousness or Acid Rain. But now that I think about it, I might try Mick Gordon, that should be quite decent for carnage as well.

 

[HQDefault]

I actually typically have livestream VODs playing in the background while I'm working. Usually something from the vinesauce crew, or Jerma.

 

If not that then usually some chill video game soundtracks.

[JustCallMeKaito]

I listen to various game soundtracks while mapping, depending on which one fits the mood. Final Fantasy, Persona, Cave Story, Castlevania, Duke Nukem 3D, Perfect Dark, Shadow Warrior (1997), Sonic The Hedgehog, Diablo, and Quake are generally what I have on while mapping.

 

While playing, I just listen to whatever music the wad has, unless it's absolutely horrid or has a steel drum somewhere in it, both are equally likely to make me shut the music off.

[joepallai]

Half of the time I listen to nothing, the rest of the time it's metal or a soundtrack from a favorite movie.  It really depends on my mood at the time.

[Xyzzу]

Playing WADs: Whatever soundtrack the WAD has; if there is none, IDMUS is still a thing c:

 

Making WADs: Loads and loads of lofi, sometimes chiptune music!

[LordEntr0py]

Varies a lot.

I have a playlist of "Doom Mapping Music" on YouTube Music, which is mainly metal, but I only occasionally put it on. I also put on hip-hop, or various kinds electronica (anything from ambient to techno).

I sometimes watch long-form reviews or banter-style podcast shows on Youtube, on the other monitor.

Sometimes a twitch stream (preferably also Doom mapping) if it's on while I'm mapping. If I want a mapping stream and there isn't a live one, I'll find an archived mapping stream. @Bridgeburner56 and @Major Arlene map in a very different style to me (they use UDMF and I like Boom format), but the general group banter and discussion are a perfect mapping environment.

I was lucky enough to catch Bridge's recent Wrestlemapia event live and it's some of the most productive mapping I've done.

 

Also, I usually dabble around in UDB during our weekly (remote) tabletop RPG game.

[Retro Dino]

23 hours ago, joepallai said:

Half of the time I listen to nothing, the rest of the time it's metal or a soundtrack from a favorite movie.  It really depends on my mood at the time.

How?? I couldn't stand that tbh. Just silence.

[joepallai]

39 minutes ago, Retro Dino said:

How?? I couldn't stand that tbh. Just silence.

 

I've found that the more deeply I'm into editing (or even playing) the less I need an outside distraction once I'm in that zen-like flow state of working/playing; besides after 25 years of listening to music all day in the factory, it's just noise at this point--it may help me get started but I don't really need it once I get going.

[Retro Dino]

14 minutes ago, joepallai said:

 

I've found that the more deeply I'm into editing (or even playing) the less I need an outside distraction once I'm in that zen-like flow state of working/playing; besides after 25 years of listening to music all day in the factory, it's just noise at this point--it may help me get started but I don't really need it once I get going.

ah i see. you're lucky! The factory I worked at hated us listening to music, drove me crazy just sitting there listening to BUZZZZZZZZZZ lol. Still, i couldn't help but feel lonely without music.

 

[snapshot]

I usually just listen to whatever tracks I decide I'm going to use for what I'm working on, whenever I hit the test map button, I keep it silent when working, helps me stay focused.

[Doom-X-Machina]

Metal

[TheEvilGrin]

I usually use the "My Mix" thing on YouTube. Honestly I have eclectic taste in music and usually it's a weird mix of wad soundtracks, Harbinger, film music and other videogame osts (like sometimes stuff like quad machine will pop up for some reason). Of course YouTube does not put it in any particular order, and I can remember getting "Going Down The Fast Way" right after "Day Of Mourning". Suprising but motivating.

[DRM-MAN]

The hundreds of music playlists i've created on youtube.

[CivilianM91]

Usually just some interview, podcast, or Ted Talk on YouTube but occasionally I’ll crank the Apple Music. When those moods hit it’s specifically angry, fast paced hip hop (some Eminem, RTJ, etc...) or metal (Korn, Slipknot, Rob/White Zombie)

[roadworx]

it tends to be what i listen to in general, which is usually some sort of prog rock from the 70s. pink floyd, el&p, king crimson, etc

 

probably not the best fit for doom but idc

Edited January 21, 2021 by roadworx

[Fluuschoen]

18 minutes ago, roadworx said:

probably not the best fit for doom but idc

If you are having fun with it, it's just perfect.

[ChopBlock223]

There's so much. I have this huge playlist of heavy metal and rock, consisting of songs which Doom's and Final Doom's soundtrack was based on (including some of the more dubious claims as listed on that shitty wikia), often with lots of different songs from the same bands. I've had a lot of the obvious ones for a long time (particularly the Dirt album, Black Sabbath with Dio, Slayer, Pantera, Stone Temple Pilots, and the older Metallica albums), but I also discovered wonderful stuff like Body Count. I've further stuffed a lot of other things into that list that I love, such as W.A.S.P, Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Nine Inch Nails, Megadeth, and Accept.

There's also a little bit of stuff by bands like AC/DC and KISS, they've made some good songs, and songs from some of my very favorite movies, like Return Of The Living Dead.

 

Back during summer, I realized I had neglected looking further at Judas Priest's discography all this time, and wow, goddamn, I was spellbound by Rob Halford's vocals and lyrics, as well as the rest of the band's performance, I felt a sense of pain for having taken so long to check out what I realized then was one of my very favorite bands, coming close to my all time idol Alice Cooper. I listened extensively to Judas Priest while engaging in my first serious mapping efforts with 2048 Units Of /vr/.

 

I sometimes just listen to an album or so, or one artist at a time. For Alice Cooper, I never listen to him mixed in with other bands, he's too distinct and special to me.

There's also various game, anime, or movie soundtracks, and I have a large collection of .midis as well.

[lognifii]

Nine Inch Nails or the Doom soundtrack

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On 1/12/2021 at 11:40 PM, Bridgeburner56 said:

Metal, heavy metal, and heavier metal. Sometimes with a side of metal. 

Jokes aside, 95% of the time I go for metal(any sub genre)/heavy rock. The more energetic the better. High energy music  = high energy mapping for me. 

Me too, also have you tried Blues music? Something like Stevie Ray Vaughan, I really love this stuff and his style.

[Retro Dino]

3 hours ago, 0o0[ULTIM4TE]L1FE[F0RM]0o0 said:

Me too, also have you tried Blues music? Something like Stevie Ray Vaughan, I really love this stuff and his style.

ngl i've really been getting into the blues lately. I really wanna get a bass guitar and start making some blues of my own.

[iUsuallyDie]

The Stranger Things soundtrack is my latest favourite.

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2 hours ago, Retro Dino said:

ngl i've really been getting into the blues lately. I really wanna get a bass guitar and start making some blues of my own.

Damn that's awesome! I always imagine how I would get a guitar and make my own Thrash Metal songs...

[DiR]

I try putting some smooth jazz on to drown the d_runnin out of my head since I've had the intro burned into my ears from the amount of testing I've done across various mods, it alleviates the pain but doesn't drown it out completely.

[xvertigox]

99% of the time it's the midi. Otherwise it'll be post-hardcore (Senses Fail, Saosin, Thursday etc) or deathcore (Carnifex, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, Hate Priest etc).

 

If I'm mapping I don't listen to anything. Maybe a podcast (2 Bears, Bad Friends, Tigerbelly, Your Moms House etc) but rarely.

Edited January 28, 2021 by xvertigox