![]() What can I get that will blend in them to feel authentic, but still be structurally sound, and meet code?" That's another thing: Some things they did were fine back in the day, but today, with modern electricity. You look at an old home and see how they built something or something. Hodges: I enjoy the puzzle-solving factor. So I said, "I could buy an old house and renovate it myself." I didn't realize how much work it was actually going to be, but hindsight is 20/20.Ĭraddock: Have you found that you enjoy it? Aubrey Hodges. Then you build another home and do the framing. Life is so weird: You end up building a home, and you help do the electrical work. I decided to do it by hand since I have these trade skills for some reason. It's nice that we're all relatively close to one another. And my other sister is about four hours away. My brother lives about five minutes away. I'm kind of right in the middle.Ĭraddock: My oldest sister is about 20 minutes away. Once I secured some remote jobs, my wife and I decided we should just move back home.Īubrey Hodges: My brother lives in Cincinnati another lives in Indianapolis and my sister lives in Washington, D.C. That's where I build a Rolodex of freelance clients and did interviews for box. Now I don't have to worry about retirement as much.Ĭraddock: Yeah. I got tired of the high cost of living and decided I wanted to retire and build a studio out here, where the cost of living is reasonable. Like, "Who works in games out there?"Ĭraddock: But I guess today, in the world of remote work, there are more people out here than you'd think.Īubrey Hodges: Yeah. People in the industry are always surprised when they find out I'm in Ohio. Hodges and I talked for over an hour about the creative process, how Doom PSX's and Doom 64's soundscape was something of a happy accident, the credit Taco Bell deserves for making the rogue's gallery of Imps, Pinky demons, and other horrors even more terrifying than they were on the PC in '93, home renovation, and more.ĭavid Craddock: I didn't realize you live in Ohio. Immediately after that project, Midway moved on to Doom 64, which combined larger levels with new visuals and Hodges' soundtrack, slightly modified to take advantage of the Nintendo 64's more robust hardware. Hodges composed brand-new effects and tracks for the port of Doom that came to PlayStation One. As it turned out, however, I and countless other Doom fans came to his work in reverse. By the time you reach Hell, you feel as tortured as the souls of the damned wailing and moaning around you.Īubrey Hodges, one of Midway's composers, wrote the fantastic soundtrack for Doom 64. While still heavy on action, it boasted darker visuals, a richer lighting system, and an eerie soundtrack that starts out low and eerie, and builds dread second by second, level by level. ![]() Yeah, Doom's OST really highlights a lot of the sins of MP3s.Midway's Doom 64 took Doom in a more horror-focused direction. ![]() I hold onto what I learned years ago, to always verify that lossless was actually lossless and not just transcoded MP3. The horrible MP3 artefacts on the guitar pull-offs are gone. ![]() You can really hear it on the heavier tracks like Rip & Tear. The horrible MP3 artefacts on the guitar pull-offs are gone.Īnd, perhaps the most important, in the good old listening test, it's definitely far better than the MP3s. Spectrogram - top is FLAC, bottom is MP3: Īnd, perhaps the most important, in the good old listening test, it's definitely far better than the MP3s. I can confirm they're 16-bit 44.1kHz decent-bitrate (~800k - ~900k) FLAC.įile properties: (for some reason the dbPoweramp plugin isn't parsing the bitrates correctly there it says they're all 1411k - for the correct bitrates, see: ) I went ahead and bought them (though it's pretty steep at $18, especially since I've already bought the MP3 OST, but whatevz). Originally posted by rawWwRrr:Is it actually lossless? Have you been able to decode one to WAV and open it with something like Audacity to check the Spectogram? That is assuming you bought FLAC.
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