DOOM E1M1 music comparison on various sound cards - Part 1

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  • @nunavyourbiznas8660
    @nunavyourbiznas8660 8 років тому +475

    Installing all these damn sound cards so I could watch this video was a pain in the ass.

    • @99stem
      @99stem 7 років тому +28

      In the description is says he did not record these just so you know. They came from other people.

    • @nunavyourbiznas8660
      @nunavyourbiznas8660 7 років тому +76

      @99stem No amount off smart assery on my part will ever be able to lampoon how horrendously off topic that reply was. So, ladies and gentleman I present to you the most out of butt sex middle of nowhere reply I've read this year! I quote: "In the description is says he did not record these just so you know. They came from other people." Bravo Jack!

    • @99stem
      @99stem 7 років тому +84

      Thank you, thank you, I was tired and didn't read properly and this was an award winning experience.
      I also would like to thank my mother for raising me, my teacher for teaching me to read, my friends and family for using the internet and God for making this opportunity possible.
      Ladies and gentlemen, it has been an honour providing you with this excellent dumb comment, now I'll just disappear into the shadows...

    • @nunavyourbiznas8660
      @nunavyourbiznas8660 7 років тому +20

      @99stem .... your okay.

    • @renegadeblade2673
      @renegadeblade2673 7 років тому +4

      It's easy most source ports allow you to emulate other sound-cards through sound-fonts.

  • @controlleronahanger
    @controlleronahanger 6 років тому +135

    40:00 = DOOM on a tuba

  • @generalrubbish9513
    @generalrubbish9513 4 роки тому +81

    38:24 That goofy-ass wOoOoO sound is going to be the end of me, my god

    • @ShwappaJ
      @ShwappaJ 3 роки тому +5

      That's called a whammy my friend

    • @tranquility6789
      @tranquility6789 2 роки тому +1

      Goofy ahh sounds

    • @inqmusician2
      @inqmusician2 11 місяців тому

      Thats what's called a flanger and a tremolo my friend.

  • @TorutheRedFox
    @TorutheRedFox 4 роки тому +84

    I love how the SCD-15 has the stereo backwards

  • @Iamdemensentis
    @Iamdemensentis 9 років тому +284

    27:13 - Gravis UltraSound PnP Pro Patches is obviously superior. That angry, jazzy drummer is really going for it.

    • @CharlesVanNoland
      @CharlesVanNoland 7 років тому +4

      hehe

    • @justanotheryoutubechannel
      @justanotheryoutubechannel 5 років тому +27

      Iamdemensentis Is it just me or does it sound really awful, like the audio is oversaturated?

    • @hibachi-robo4789
      @hibachi-robo4789 5 років тому +18

      I’ve never heard that sound so shitty on that card before. It’s absolutely hilarious.

    • @CoTeCiOtm
      @CoTeCiOtm 5 років тому +23

      Sounds like the snare has some sort of delay effect, sound pretty funny heh

    • @boinkus-doinkus
      @boinkus-doinkus 5 років тому +4

      NAH 51:14 is where its at

  • @polybius223
    @polybius223 4 роки тому +29

    35:12 "Needs more cowbell..."
    40:20 "ah, that's better."

  • @kosmosyche
    @kosmosyche 8 років тому +243

    Best:
    1. 9:39 - Yamaha WaveForce DB60XG (4 MB)
    2. 46:28 - X Technology TopWave-32 Korg (4 MB)
    3. 35:11 - Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII (sound module, original intended sound of the DOOM music)

    • @NoobaGutt
      @NoobaGutt 8 років тому +17

      kosmosyche holy shit the third one sounds exactly like the cd version.

    • @Alianger
      @Alianger 7 років тому +8

      27:13 is also good with proper echo on the drums. /watch?v=figScJtkQk8&t=4m59s

    • @fr33kSh0w2012
      @fr33kSh0w2012 7 років тому

      Agreed!

    • @plasmaastronaut
      @plasmaastronaut 7 років тому +11

      listened to them all to see if you were right. I thought the TopWave-32 Korg is the best guitar shred, the Yamaha has best drums and reverb. When god listens to doom music, he mixes the TW32's guitar with the Yam WF's drums and reverb.

    • @bitchlasagna4720
      @bitchlasagna4720 6 років тому +8

      @@Alianger that echo is shit

  • @Eragonsm
    @Eragonsm 8 років тому +179

    Awwww yiiiis, 33:35 - Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 was my card. Damn, and I recognized it right away...

    • @marcinpodstawski6225
      @marcinpodstawski6225 8 років тому +5

      jak tę kartę to chyba wszyscy w Polsce mieli :D

    • @Eragonsm
      @Eragonsm 8 років тому +3

      ***** Well, now I'm not so certain, but I'm sure, that I had an original SoundBlaster.

    • @gctechs
      @gctechs 7 років тому +1

      Marcin Podstawski najczęściej klona Sound Blastera Pro, np. Aztech

    • @federicobrunner9420
      @federicobrunner9420 6 років тому

      So mine!!!

    • @KartKing4ever
      @KartKing4ever 6 років тому +2

      I'm sorry. Sounds like the Genesis sound card hahaha

  • @notrandomtypek
    @notrandomtypek 5 років тому +95

    0:00 - Ensoniq AudioPCI (2 MB)
    1:36 - Ensoniq AudioPCI (4 MB)
    3:12 - Ensoniq AudioPCI (8 MB)
    4:50 - Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 ROM (1 MB)
    6:26 - Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu (8 MB)
    8:03 - Yamaha WaveForce DB50XG (4 MB)
    9:39 - Yamaha WaveForce DB60XG (4 MB)
    11:16 - Dream CW (4 MB)
    12:51 - Dream Roland (4 MB)
    14:28 - Dream GS (10 MB)
    16:04 - Dream GSWave (4 MB)
    17:39 - Edge3D NV1 (1 MB)
    19:15 - Edge3D NV1 (6 MB)
    20:52 - ESS ES1869 AudioDrive (Sound Blaster/AdLib FM synthesis)
    22:28 - Gravis UltraSound 1 MB (5.6 MB GUS classic patch set)
    24:04 - Gravis UltraSound PnP (4 MB RAM)
    25:38 - Gravis UltraSound PnP UTOPFS (8 MB)
    27:13 - Gravis UltraSound PnP Pro Patches 1.50
    28:48 - Gravis UltraSound PnP ROM (1 MB)
    30:23 - OPL4
    31:59 - Orchid SoundWave 32 (512 KB)
    33:35 - Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (Sound Blaster/AdLib FM synthesis)
    35:11 - Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII (sound module, original intended sound of the DOOM music)
    36:47 - Roland Sound Canvas SCD-15
    38:23 - Ensoniq SoundScape (2 MB)
    40:00 - Ensoniq SoundScape Elite FM
    41:36 - Ensoniq SoundScape Elite (2 MB)
    43:12 - Ensoniq SoundScape Opus (1 MB)
    44:52 - Ensoniq SoundScape VIVO 90 (1 MB)
    46:28 - X Technology TopWave-32 Korg (4 MB)
    48:04 - Turtle Beach RIO Rev 2 (4 MB)
    49:39 - Creative WaveBlaster Rev 1 (4 MB)
    51:14 - Wave XTable (16 MB)

  • @CodeWeaverCW
    @CodeWeaverCW 8 років тому +133

    31:59 Orchid SoundWave 32
    I love how this thing sounds comparable to the video of E1M1 being played on a dot matrix printer

    • @tostie3110
      @tostie3110 7 років тому +3

      CodeWeaver Wow you're right, not exactly good listening at hifh volumes.

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 4 роки тому +3

      Good ear, It sounds almost identical to that popular printer cover of E1M1..!

    • @camulodunon
      @camulodunon 4 роки тому +3

      I actually like it TBH.

    • @ShwappaJ
      @ShwappaJ 3 роки тому +3

      When your MIDI software consists of fax machines, dial-up modems, and a manual drummer

    • @SockyNoob
      @SockyNoob 2 роки тому

      God damn it really does lol

  • @Raichulegend
    @Raichulegend 8 років тому +150

    27:13 oh man! hadn't practiced Drums in awhile! *butters up hands and puts tambourines on my wrists* you guys ready?! *flails arms while kicking drumset while the band plays, albeit very disturbed*

    • @NoobaGutt
      @NoobaGutt 8 років тому +6

      Raichulegend holy fuck that was funny. xD

    • @CharlesVanNoland
      @CharlesVanNoland 7 років тому +3

      My abs are still sore from my new year's gym visit the other day.. Suffice it to say, this did not help.

    • @rapappathepepper3996
      @rapappathepepper3996 6 років тому

      British Army with drums going to mars

    • @boinkus-doinkus
      @boinkus-doinkus 5 років тому

      the army version of E1M1

    • @ThatGreenLED
      @ThatGreenLED 5 років тому

      @undyne and @brownie LOL!

  • @2ndPyleOfVinyl
    @2ndPyleOfVinyl 6 років тому +119

    30:23 I think we could have done with one more rehearsal. This version reminds me of those cheap cover records from the 1950s to the 1990s where an unnamed group would cover popular songs of the time. This would be the result of musicians who just did not have the talent of the original artists.

    • @Malamockq
      @Malamockq 5 років тому +9

      The tempo is off, not sure how it got approved because the sound quality ain't bad.

    • @markc5413
      @markc5413 4 роки тому +7

      Some swear words omitted in the music? Should have added BLEEPS from the PC speaker to fill the stuttered gaps.

    • @polybius223
      @polybius223 3 роки тому +10

      Sounds like half the wave table is missing

  • @Nivec217
    @Nivec217 6 років тому +33

    33:35 **flashbacks of me playing DOOM Shareware 4 years ago**

  • @JustAndre92
    @JustAndre92 8 років тому +35

    Also, 40:00 is completely hilarious. It sounds like a piece of _Doom_-ified elevator music. 😆

    • @canocohen4218
      @canocohen4218 2 роки тому +2

      It sound like someone’s playing a flute🤣🤣

  • @iammaybeabro4598
    @iammaybeabro4598 7 місяців тому +1

    33:35 This is the one I'm most familiar with, being the DOSBox default. Gotta say, sounds like the Floppatron or a dot matrix printer.

  • @wesleybcrowen
    @wesleybcrowen 8 років тому +14

    It's neat how the hardware makes the difference of the digital notes being played almost as if they were a CD record with actual instruments, or just sounding like a choir of drumming ostriches.

    • @Mrshutter
      @Mrshutter Рік тому

      Right, because it's controlling a fm synthesis chip.

  • @Deathknight50000
    @Deathknight50000 8 років тому +51

    Holy shit, I thought I would never hear this song the way I remembered it. Very first on the list is the sound card I had back then. Good times playing through the game.

  • @zenniththefolf4888
    @zenniththefolf4888 3 роки тому +8

    27:13 I like how it seems someone just decided to put an echo on the drums because that doesn't sound like a mess at all

  • @ihavewaited90daystochangem51
    @ihavewaited90daystochangem51 7 років тому +77

    35:11
    This is the best one.

    • @hazycosmicjive8174
      @hazycosmicjive8174 6 років тому +16

      Sounds familiar

    • @ゴーストガイ-j8z
      @ゴーストガイ-j8z 5 років тому +4

      Nope, Yamaha is better

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 5 років тому +35

      This is the objectively correct version. This is exactly how it sounded as Bobby Prince was composing it.

    • @PALMA06
      @PALMA06 4 роки тому +3

      That is definitely the most accurate depiction of the song

    • @Whitecat372
      @Whitecat372 4 роки тому +1

      yes

  • @JinnaiT
    @JinnaiT 3 роки тому +11

    I think the one that stands out the most is 20:52 - ESS ES1869 AudioDrive. It has a weird sort of synthesizer sound.

    • @pjavilla
      @pjavilla 2 роки тому +1

      It's the same for us Sound Blaster peasants as well - the AWE cards were high end, this is what the rest of us had. I vaguely recall the other brands, but back in the day Creative was in the spotlight (I'm not from the US/EU), so most of us bought the "regular" SB card.

    • @UltraZombie115
      @UltraZombie115 Рік тому

      This is the one retroarch uses for their doom emulator.

  • @pcorf
    @pcorf 7 років тому +50

    The best versions are at 20:52 / 33:35 and 35:11

  • @colossalpoot7094
    @colossalpoot7094 6 років тому +9

    33:55 was the soundcard I first played Doom on. I've still got this sense of nostalgia attached to it despite several other versions being superior.

    • @ObsidianDragon7030
      @ObsidianDragon7030 2 роки тому +2

      Same dude, had a Soundblaster card for the longest time.

  • @Microwave414
    @Microwave414 4 роки тому +2

    20:52 Now that brings me right back, it's like I'm sitting in front of a packer bell PC with an IBM model M keyboard all over again just with better speakers this time around.

  • @Ss0oUuLl
    @Ss0oUuLl 6 років тому +8

    40:00 this card makes sick guitar licks sound like mariachi trumpeter having a seizure.

  • @NikoD239
    @NikoD239 7 років тому +6

    14:28 - Dream GS is so fucking metal.

  • @OneManPizzaParty
    @OneManPizzaParty 4 роки тому +26

    Doom: 27:13
    Terence Fletcher: "Not quite my tempo."

  • @boinkus-doinkus
    @boinkus-doinkus 5 років тому +19

    51:14 - Wave XTable IS my favorite version it actually sounds like i'm at dooms gate i'm gonna try to emulate that one

  • @TheDoomMaster
    @TheDoomMaster 3 роки тому +2

    22:28 Hey it's the sound card used in the Doom 3 Limited Collector's/BFG Editions!

  • @wales2k4747
    @wales2k4747 9 років тому +79

    43:12 is legit

  • @polybius223
    @polybius223 4 роки тому +2

    27:05
    "Ok, so, how much 'ting' shou-"
    "BANG THAT TRIANGLE LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW."
    30:24
    It sounds like half the wave table is missing.
    27:14
    When you play the Doom theme but the drumming is from the "clehe running across the beach" music.
    20:52
    Either A: Aladdin on the Genesis has invaded your soundcard.
    Or B: It's a floppy drive cover.

  • @2ndPyleOfVinyl
    @2ndPyleOfVinyl 6 років тому +24

    31:59 Rock that electric accordion!

  • @KamenProwler
    @KamenProwler 4 роки тому +9

    40:00 Reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D

  • @Retrohertz
    @Retrohertz 4 роки тому +5

    As a kid at the time, with an Adlib compatible I think, I had no idea how many different sound cards there were and frankly how Doom's music was experienced so differently. I've just created a retro PC with a Soundblaster Live card, and I just heard the midi music for the first time in my life with some good quality speakers. Wow, I was missing out.

  • @paulunga
    @paulunga 7 років тому +6

    My personal favorite is the Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu. That chorus/delay effect on the guitar is amazing and so is the "thump" of the bass drum. The cymbals are great, too. Just love the overall clarity.

    • @Lackesse
      @Lackesse 5 років тому

      very much agree on this. don't know why others don;t see that(or hear) :)

  • @EvanYoungMusic
    @EvanYoungMusic 3 роки тому +4

    Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu - 6:26 best drum sample by far. That tom and splash cymbal sounds great!

  • @gratuitouslurking8610
    @gratuitouslurking8610 5 років тому +3

    Good lord, I forgot about this aspect of my childhood, where the audio experience could vary so damn drastically.

  • @ericksheldon3870
    @ericksheldon3870 3 роки тому +1

    9:39 literally sounds like the album mix for “…And Justice For All”
    It’s the same snare and everything.

    • @MrTrickBrick
      @MrTrickBrick 3 роки тому +1

      The bass was ripped and torn.

  • @Kppot
    @Kppot 7 років тому +10

    9:39 - Yamaha WaveForce DB60XG (4 MB)

  • @thomassynths
    @thomassynths 5 років тому +3

    The drive on this bad body is great!
    46:28 - X Technology TopWave-32 Korg (4 MB)

  • @RileyKestnerisactuallyladarius
    @RileyKestnerisactuallyladarius 3 роки тому +3

    The Roland Sound Canvas is the unmistakable cut.

  • @terrapinflyer273
    @terrapinflyer273 4 роки тому +2

    43:12 Pretty epic pinch harmonics emulation

  • @vh9network
    @vh9network 3 роки тому +1

    16:04 - Dream GSWave (4 MB)
    is the best one.
    As I was rocking my head to this on my headphones, I kept thinking if only SEGA had managed to get that type of audio in to their 32X game back in the day. 32X would have been a success.

  • @JuHraj
    @JuHraj 5 років тому +6

    31:59 - Orchid SoundWave 32 (512 KB) is my favorite.

  • @awesomegamercz
    @awesomegamercz 4 роки тому +2

    I like how 16:04 sounds almost normal until you hear whatever that backing percussion is

  • @Mastran77
    @Mastran77 8 років тому +2

    6:26 - Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu (8 MB) LOVE IT !

  • @MegaRazorback
    @MegaRazorback 8 років тому +3

    i remember the first soundcard we had in our family PC, a Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu (8 MB)...god it makes me feel old lol. our PC actually came bundled with DooM 1 as a promo for the store we bought it from, that particular store having just gotten a new range of the new Pentium 1 compatible PC's in.

  • @Znuffle
    @Znuffle 9 років тому +56

    Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (Sound Blaster/AdLib FM synthesis)
    I Approve

  • @jotaropinochet3671
    @jotaropinochet3671 3 роки тому +4

    36:47 the classic we all know

  • @videotape2959
    @videotape2959 8 років тому +69

    40:00 is freaking fantastic. Ensoniq SoundScape Elite FM huh... Anybody knows where I can get this card? I'd like to hear the whole OST through it.

    • @ravengaming4143
      @ravengaming4143 8 років тому +3

      lol

    • @CarterG4Y
      @CarterG4Y 8 років тому +21

      It's a jazz cover.

    • @BenHelweg
      @BenHelweg 7 років тому +2

      The Soundscape VIVO is a joke.

    • @videotape2959
      @videotape2959 7 років тому +1

      It sounds pretty normal, just that the pitch bend effect is severely messed up.
      Also I like this comment from EpicPigmasks. It's funny because the track was actually inspired from a Dave Brubeck Jazz composition called Blue Rondo a la Turk. Thought it was an original air from the Doom developers huh? Nope. My proof? The similarities should be enough.

    • @FPSGamingShot
      @FPSGamingShot 7 років тому +10

      Lmao XD XD I went to 40:00 to hear this “amazing sound card” and the first thing I hear is a quite and depressed trumpet. That is amazing XD I was expecting an actual good card but this just tops it

  • @worroSfOretsevraH
    @worroSfOretsevraH 3 роки тому +1

    Back in the 90's I would have been happy to have any sound card at all...

  • @tgj-toximatt
    @tgj-toximatt 3 роки тому

    I don’t know why but I can fall asleep to 90’s sound cards playing doom E1M1

  • @kingsfield3945
    @kingsfield3945 9 років тому +2

    Thanks for this awesome video, and all the work you put into it! I must say E1M3/Dark Halls has always sounded vastly different on different cards as well, a video comparison on that one would be awesome.

  • @CoTeCiOtm
    @CoTeCiOtm 5 років тому +14

    40:00 so suddenly all guitarists replaced their guitars for fretless basses

  • @virginiaafentoulis9432
    @virginiaafentoulis9432 4 роки тому +3

    This is great. It's weird, I thought the Dream Roland sounded like what I remember, but I'm pretty sure I had a SoundBlaster card of some sort (of course, it has been over 20 years since I played on a 486 or Pentium now).

  • @cypherking5546
    @cypherking5546 5 років тому +3

    41:36 "Doom Theme" (Remastered 2004)
    By: Megadeth
    Album: Rust in Peace (Remastered 2004)

    • @reigninspuds8418
      @reigninspuds8418 5 років тому

      Cypher King Actually they ripped it from the chorus of "No Remorse" by Metallica and played it at Megadeth speed, but considering Dave practically wrote Metallica's first two albums, you aren't wrong.

    • @cypherking5546
      @cypherking5546 5 років тому

      @@reigninspuds8418 Oh, thanks! I was trying to figure that out for the longest!

  • @Notactive157
    @Notactive157 3 роки тому +1

    Fun Fact: the Gravis Ultrasound 1 MB is the music used in the XBLA version of doom

  • @PH96Official
    @PH96Official 10 місяців тому +1

    My favourite ones:
    • Ensoniq Audio PCI (4MB)
    • Soundblaster Awe32 (8MB)
    • Yamaha DB50XG
    • Dream Roland
    • Gravis PNP (8 MB)
    • Orchid 32
    • Roland Soundcanvas Pro MK II
    • Ensoniq Opus (1 MB)
    • TopWave 32
    • Wave Xtable

  • @ap3productions81
    @ap3productions81 5 років тому +4

    46:28 is the best version, hands down. Not to discredit the Roland SC-55 MKII, though.

  • @RoryCONeill
    @RoryCONeill 10 років тому +1

    This is awesome. SoundBlaster ftw, what I had back in the day.

  • @white_mask13
    @white_mask13 8 років тому +2

    I haven't hear this music for yearsThanks man make a part 4 if you can

  • @angeljaguar09
    @angeljaguar09 4 роки тому +1

    51:14/22:28/9:39 these is my most favorite versions of at the Doom gate's.

  • @CoolTI-Daniel
    @CoolTI-Daniel 2 роки тому

    I didn't realize how massively different soundcards affected audio back in the day.
    Fell on this as I am trying to pick a soundcard for a vintage K6 I am slowly building.

  • @andyp123456
    @andyp123456 3 роки тому +1

    DB60XG sounds awesome!
    I played Doom on PC speaker for the longest time, and I never apologised to my Mum for those sounds. I probably should make sure she knows I'm sorry.
    Eventually I got a Sound Blaster 16, which was probably the best upgrade I've gotten for any PC in my life now that I think about it. The second best was a 64GB SSD for my boot drive back on Windows 7 and I guess the third best was a 3D accelerator (though not the shitty Power VR I had, which was my first one).

  • @tetsujin_144
    @tetsujin_144 4 роки тому

    48:04 - I got some Turtle Beach cards around the time the older ISA cards were mostly being clearanced... Kinda wish I'd held on to them - though I haven't owned an ISA system in years. But I think they were pretty good MIDI gaming cards.

    • @canocohen4218
      @canocohen4218 2 роки тому

      Sounds like the song was recorded underwater🤣🤣

  • @nevermore6171
    @nevermore6171 6 років тому +2

    wow 9:39 sounds someewhat better than original

  • @Alianger
    @Alianger 7 років тому +8

    27:13 It seems the echo on the drums is way too loud. I think it's supposed to sound like in this upload: /watch?v=figScJtkQk8&t=4m59s

    • @BruhMoment93_
      @BruhMoment93_ 4 роки тому

      Yay a link that doesn’t work

    • @Alianger
      @Alianger 2 роки тому

      @@BruhMoment93_ Except it does if you're not an idiot

  • @QuakedoomNukem
    @QuakedoomNukem 9 років тому +5

    22:28 Anyone recognize it´s sound card from Doom 3 BFG Edition one?

    • @YakawssSeb
      @YakawssSeb 9 років тому +1

      ye yea

    • @zalk256
      @zalk256 4 роки тому +1

      It sounds wrong. I'm late I GET IT!! It's not meant to be that fast. So is 48:04.

  • @zoey_fumo5288
    @zoey_fumo5288 9 років тому +10

    Best Sounding
    Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII

    • @Folsomdsf2
      @Folsomdsf2 7 років тому +1

      Well to be fair that's what it was intended to be played on. And damnit, I was so happy this was how I experienced it back in the day.

  • @tetsujin_144
    @tetsujin_144 4 роки тому

    22:28 - That classic GUS is nowhere near the top of the list quality-wise but that was my card. And can you believe they sold this without even the full 1MB of patch RAM? This is what you'd get *after* upgrading it... Card was a pain due to compatibility issues but I'm still glad I went for it rather than a more typical PCM+OPL card.

  • @space_gamer9146
    @space_gamer9146 4 роки тому +1

    20:52 was the first one i ever played on

  • @hopecat7466
    @hopecat7466 7 років тому +18

    12:51 it's sounds near identical to the original

    • @hopecat7466
      @hopecat7466 7 років тому +6

      and so does 16:04

    • @Aa0-n8p
      @Aa0-n8p 6 років тому +10

      I don't think there's "an" original. How it sounded on your computer was highly dependent on what sound card you had.

    • @damagedandbruisedpear
      @damagedandbruisedpear 6 років тому +7

      the original was the one it was developed on*

    • @damagedandbruisedpear
      @damagedandbruisedpear 6 років тому +6

      35:11

    • @KarjamP
      @KarjamP 5 років тому +4

      It was composed on the SC-55, but since it's a General MIDI song, it's actually meant to sound like anything and everything.
      It's called "General MIDI" for a reason.

  • @Halon1234
    @Halon1234 2 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this. I’d love to hear Into Sandy’s City on the ESS 1869’s FM synthesis.

  • @cosmic8713
    @cosmic8713 9 місяців тому

    40:00 *tapes a frying pan to arm and starts hitting a toilet with it*

  • @AndrejusDovidaitis
    @AndrejusDovidaitis 4 роки тому +1

    40:00 It's like if the 32X version was on the SNES!

  • @conkkerxd
    @conkkerxd 3 роки тому

    40:00 Sound cards had trashcan drums before St. Anger existed, I'm surprised.

  • @GustavoMsTrashCan
    @GustavoMsTrashCan Рік тому

    20:52
    Aww ye! Thats mine good ol' baby.

  • @mtnnoonan
    @mtnnoonan 10 років тому +3

    Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0/ESS ES1869 AudioDrive Is the best. Love that tinny heavy metal sound. No uncanny valley MIDI effects.

  • @qwerty42069
    @qwerty42069 2 роки тому

    22:28 The music used on the bfg edition

  • @bunkerbuster0118
    @bunkerbuster0118 9 років тому +1

    Ensoniq AudioPCI (2 MB) --> This is what I remember Doom sounding like. The same card played wolf3d with a different tone. I wish someone would make a similar video like this for wolfenstein.

  • @logansorenssen
    @logansorenssen 8 років тому +3

    The SC55 sounds the most "authentic", but honestly, the OPL3, OPL4 and ESS1869 produce an appropriately vintage feel, too. The Soundscape Elite's FM synth is downright odd. I can't decide if I like it or not - it changes the entire feel of the piece.

  • @gonk2277
    @gonk2277 5 років тому +2

    9:39 sounds like my yamaha piano

  • @Siarawaszympanemjest
    @Siarawaszympanemjest 6 років тому

    And back in the day I was surprised why all my friends wanted to play DOOM at my house. I had that second Yamaha card :D

  • @Inivican
    @Inivican 7 років тому

    There is something so satisfying about this

  • @ravengaming4143
    @ravengaming4143 8 років тому

    Cool beans. So many soundcards and almost each sounds different.

  • @xosece
    @xosece 10 років тому +1

    First of all, I gotta say I am surprised at some of the synths listed there. I hadn't heard about many of them until now. Classic MIDI music awesomeness.
    I've listened to this video yesterday, from what I remember from the top of my head and re-listening to it while I write.... (I am skimming through for the most part now, yesterday I left the sound in the background while I was writing other things)
    Ensoniq 4 and 8 sound fine, and surprisingly enough they just sound exactly the same! Ensoniq 2 MB sounds bad to me.
    Both AWE32 and AWE32 8MB don't sound that good to me --love the AWE32 ROM drums kick. In fact I am surprised at the poor sound coming from the 8MB sound bank.
    Both Yamaha Waveforce are sheer love! So awesome. The kick sounds spectacular, so do the guitars. Very MIDI like, yet kind of professional. Wish I hadthe money to buy of those back in the day.
    Dream sounds also very original, the high notes of the guitar are to my liking. I mean the ones from Dream 4 MB CW. It is far from the quality of the Dream 10MB though.
    The Dream GSWave 4 MB has a very nice spatial sound none of the others have, although I have a feeling the bass has too much presence, while the guitars sound left and right.
    I wonder how the Edge3D NV1 1 MB was actually a professional product because it sounds kinda so so to me. Well, it's not that bad once you warm up to it, but still.
    The Edge3D NV1 6 MB doesn't sound much better me taking into account its size. It sounds good to me just at the end of the song though.
    I think that that Gravis UltraSound 1 MB sound is also the same in Doom, Xbox 360 version!!! :) Gotta investigate that since I have the game.
    The engineers that worked on that soundcard are my heroes. How good it sounds using that little amount of memory.
    Very beautiful tone overall from those Gravis soundcards --save for the UTOPFS, it feels as if its sounding from a pipe --perhaps who recorded it did that on purpose and the soundcard is not to blame, taking into account how nice Gravis soundcards soun.
    LOVE the sound of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP Pro Patches 1.50!!! :D It's amongst my favourites in the entire video (being my favourite the original SC-55 sound), which says a lot.(the drums seem to have a bit of delay effect, but they sound cool anyways..)
    The Gravis Ultrason ROM sounds finer to me than the AWE32 ROM, save from the drums.
    Orchid SoundWave 32 512 KB ROM sounds horrible to me, since the drums don't even exist, it seems.
    What's not to love about the original? The Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII sounds sooooo beautiful.
    The Sound Canvas SCD-15 doesn't sound particularly enticing to me, especially coming from Roland. Pass.
    Ensoniq SoundScape 2 MB has good drums and the Chorus like effect adds a lot of the originality to the sound. Not that I'd like to play Doom with that sound in the background.
    Ensoniq SoundScape Elite 2 MB could be better.
    Ensoniq SoundScape Opus 1 MB sounds like tin plate to me. Not the worse Ensoniq anyways, it's kinda bearable.
    Ensoniq SoundScape VIVO 90 1 MB sounds to me like a loop of the SoundScape Opus 1MB.
    X Technology TopWave-32 Korg 4 MB = spectacular, on my top 3 from the songs you listed.
    Turtle Beach RIO Rev 2 4 MB, not bad.
    Creative WaveBlaster Rev 1 -- I expected a better sound from a Creative card, especially taking into account that it was an external card which you could connect to your AWE32 and the like.
    Wave XTable, okay chorused sound. Kinda average but I've seen worse.
    Thanks for sharing Ultimate, as usual.

    • @xosece
      @xosece 10 років тому +1

      Ah, by the way, I just published Musyng yesterday, which is a very extensive overhaul of Evanessence, where I fixed everything I could fix in a year and 3 months ever since Evanessence was published in March 2013.
      All in all, hell, time flies like an arrow. It has been three years since I started with this soundfont.
      I removed some of the dud sounds, added better snares to the Standard Drum Kit (which was very nice save for the snares, but I had a personal deadline then and never make it in time for release of Evanessence)
      It wasn't my initial intention to publish Musyng, and I just fixed things at home, taking one step at a time, sometimes without realising.
      The instrument I am the most proud of is the Distortion Guitar (I just don't like have so many layers for an instrument anymore and my idea was to remove as many layers as possible).
      So I removed the layers I had in the original Evanessence 2 version, borrowed a layer from what I considered some of the best guitar sounds I ever seen in a Distortion Guitar soundonft and modded them.
      The result was a guitar I LOVE to death, with a single layer for the most part, a layer for the low notes, and a very subtle one to enhance the distortion effect.
      The Warm Strings is also another one of my favourite melodic presets.
      So is the Electric Piano, based on the XP50 --similar to the one in Arachno Soundfont, but also quite different, using other samples.
      It has many balance fixes, especially in the last presets, which were kinda abandoned before --it takes a lot of time to balance each sound, especially when the samples aren't always yours and come from many different sources, as you mentioned days ago in a comment regarding soundfonts
      I wrote a README here (I'd recommend you to skim through it, as I wrote a thesis, but anyways), all the info is here:.
      www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=351893
      If you ever use Musyng for one of your Doom E1M1 videos or similar, fell free to do that, and in fact I'd be honoured!!
      Musyng sounds a lot better now than Evanessence sounded before in Doom, (though it was never one of my focus, I just wanted to fix the issues Evanessence had, add new and only samples, remove duds, etc etc etc).
      Especially with the new guitars (I also removed as many layers from the Overdriven Guitar and just kept the sounds I liked the best) and the many tweaks and fixes it went through in this last year and 3 months.
      I can only compare it to Evanessence, since the soundfont was originally called Musica 7 when it was just a beta.
      Then I published it as Musical Box as some kind of advanced Beta, and finally Evanessence in March 2013.
      But I lost the original Musica 7 and Musical Box forever, I think (gotta check in an old exernal HD I have, but I don't think I copied those there).
      Anyways, Musyng is just much better, I think. 3 years of evolution, after some mistakes and trial and error, I think it went from being a decent soundfont (Evanessence) to actually good. :)
      Ah, this is the download link:
      1drv.ms/1hNqVWl

    • @RetroReviewYT
      @RetroReviewYT 8 років тому +1

      +xose vi I have a SoundBlaster Live (5.1) (PCI) with the plastic contacts. Could you please give a download link to the sound font? The computer that has it is an old Pentium 4 Gateway Performance 1400 Workstation from 1999, I play doom on it via ZDOOM and my old school SideWinder game pad (I originally had one, probably got sold at a garage sale years ago, but I eventually found one at a Goodwill for 5 dollars, so nostalgic to me to actually get to use one, as my old HP Pavilion from the same year had a faulty modem/ game port card and thus never worked).

    • @xosece
      @xosece 8 років тому

      ComputerJunkie2013 you can download it here --the name is different nowadays, it's called Musyng Kite
      drive.google.com/file/d/0B6caGN_QlJVEUzVtX0tKOWVoWXc/edit

    • @RetroReviewYT
      @RetroReviewYT 8 років тому

      +xose vi thanks!

  • @Truescreen
    @Truescreen 8 років тому +3

    32:20 Ow mah ears

    • @NoobaGutt
      @NoobaGutt 8 років тому

      John Bigless SOUND TO MY EARS

  • @CharlesVanNoland
    @CharlesVanNoland 7 років тому

    A lot of people forget that back then we didn't have AWE32 and stuff, and think that when they listen to a midi on their computer they're hearing what it was really like... No no no no, it was much worse.. In fact I was trying to figure out a way to play midis that emulated the older hardware a year or two ago, and couldn't find a program that let you load up different instrument tables or anything.

  • @Spartanwall
    @Spartanwall 2 роки тому +1

    46:29 is my favorite

  • @Incompetent_Hero
    @Incompetent_Hero 4 роки тому

    I'm 90% certain the version I played as a kid used the Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 E-Mu chip, it sounds exactly how I remember it

  • @ELSTINKO.
    @ELSTINKO. 4 роки тому

    I watch this video like 30 times a year now

  • @josephfrye7342
    @josephfrye7342 6 років тому

    yep that how the creative sound blaster awe32 and 64 sounded at 4:05

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel 5 років тому +3

    Man! This is amazing! Some of these sound brilliant, some sound worse than my brother singing! Which sound card does modern windows through DOSbox emulate?

  • @meowsandstuff
    @meowsandstuff 7 років тому +4

    The first one played me like a damn fiddle.

  • @ashkirby8896
    @ashkirby8896 4 роки тому +5

    Imagine a mashup of every single one of these versions.😏

  • @TeionLeeIRL
    @TeionLeeIRL 5 років тому +1

    Because each guitar is panned slightly away from each other, it makes me tilt my head for some reason lol

  • @taylortotter1579
    @taylortotter1579 4 роки тому

    the first one sounds like a mix between a phone ringing, a type righter and a 3d printer

  • @user78405
    @user78405 5 років тому +1

    the 8MB ECW waveset...sounds AWESOME ...it plays good for soundblaster audio128...and for 512 and live only on 98 .. but it died on XP os due to missing reverb effects and chorus ...why CREATIVE remove it on their cards except AUDIO128 drivers for XP ??? but it was crap cause it keep crashing on tunes

  • @LunaOfTheStarsMusic
    @LunaOfTheStarsMusic 4 роки тому +4

    40:00 Mother of God It’s all toilet sounds

  • @woofyhound
    @woofyhound 2 роки тому +1

    40:00 E1M1 - Doot Skeleton Cover

  • @TruecarioZ
    @TruecarioZ 3 роки тому

    The Ensoniq SoundScape sounds like that weird audio distortion edit, the one they use in memes