perkristian
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It's more than 2 years since the last update, yet this update only includes 8 new sounds and a couple of them are just improvements. Most of these sounds were made possible by using sounds from the iPad version of Doom, so many thanks to "Urban Space Cowboy" who made them available a while back. When I got my hands on the iPad Doom sounds I was really excited, maybe I finally would hear a better version of the Cacodemon/Baron of hell sounds, but sadly I was in for a big disappointment. Most of these sounds are no better than the default Doom sounds, however, there were a few exceptions:
dsbospit - Icon of Sin cube spit
This sounded slightly better, although quite noisy, and judging by the look of the waveform it does not appear to be the actual sound used in Doom. I've found the source for this sound anyway so I didn't bother with it.
dsbossit - Icon of Sin greeting
Some sort of noise reduction process had obviously been applied, but to my ears it had also muffled the entire sound. I didn't bother with this sound either, but it inspired me to try do something with the original Doom sound. I managed to remove most of the noise and added some reverb to make it sound more evil.
dsbspsit - Baby spider sight sound
dsbspact - Baby spider idle
These two sounds were the most valuable of the iPad Doom sounds as they are significantly better then the default ones. They were only 22kHz, but after upsampling and some tweaking they sounded on par with the rest of the sounds in the pack.
dspedth - Pain Elemental death
dspepain - Pain Elemental pain
These sounds are only marginally better than the default ones, but got a bit better with some tweaking. Still, in a in-game situation they are hardly noticeable as better sounding, but since they are original Doom sounds I've included them. I already had a recreation of the Pain Elemental death, but that is now replaced.
dsmanatk - Mancubus attack
I didn't bother with this as the improvement over the default sound is just a fraction, and I've already found the source for this sound.
That was the iPad sounds and here are the rest:
dsplasma - The plasma rifle
Yes, I've been so bold as to include a new plasma rifle sound, but it's not a total makeover like on the other weapons. I've tweaked the original sound and mixed it with some others to make it sound "better" while maintaining character of the original. It's not as loud and annoying anymore, which was my biggest problem with the default sound.
dsmandth - Mancbus death
This is also one of those "divided into 3 parts" sounds:
1. Death moan - didn't find this so I borrowed from the original and tweaked it.
2. Hit the ground thump - this is the same sound as pinky makes when hitting the ground, only slowed down to half the speed. I only had this in 22kHz, so it ended up at 11kHz anyway :P
3. The sloppy part - this I've found the hi-res source for.
dsdshtgn - Super shotgun fire
This is just edited to sound more like the original.
And here is the updated sound pack:
http://www.perkristian.net/sounds/pk_doom_sfx.zip
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02-12-12 12:51 
