the secret behind DOOM's chainsaw guitar tone

If you're a DOOM fanatic or a guitarist looking to unleash your inner DOOM Slayer, this is the video for you! Follow along as I recreate the sound that has fueled your demon-killing spree, the chainsaw guitar tone!
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[@Tonepusher]

Did you guys tried it!? Would be cool to try it with different samples!

[@ShitStaindGod]

I bought Morph 2 on sale a while back. I may have to dive back into it now. Have you ever played around with the “Argent Compressor”? It’s basically an OTT/Upward Compressor hybrid that really DOOM’s up anything you throw in it.

[@Tonepusher]

@@ShitStaindGod Hey! no I did not. I was using OTT most of the time. But I'll try it for sure. I feel like you can have the same result without it. But it's a cool plugin to save some time. 👌🏻

[@nunchukGun]

I love that Mick is so open about how he creates his sounds.

[@Tonepusher]

Because he knows that nobody will be able to copy it lol

[@crisscrossam]

3:03 "...recreate that sound as faithfully as possible" well, you missed the step where he said that the sample of chainsaw he took was the chainsaw from the original DOOM game, and not just a random chainsaw sample. that said, the sample you used with EQing did lend a close enough sound to the original. good rendition.

[@scrummyvision]

oh thanks

[@diegorincon4673]

Excellent use of the chainsaw, and good video overall.

[@Tonepusher]

thank you :)

[@brannanvitek1035]

Loved this!! Straight to the point and very well done. Great job finding Gordon’s talk and sharing that with us as well. :) I’m gonna try this!!

[@Tonepusher]

hahah thanks man!! 🤘

[@Neruomir]

It's no cranked HM-2 but it's nice.

[@Tonepusher]

Haha yeah that classic swedish tone! It's a whole different thing though!

[@MattRanks]

pretty sure its more than just that song! i think its most if not all of the ones in doom 2016, since bethesda said "no guitars" he used a loophole

[@Tonepusher]

Yeah 100%... I think it's the song where you hear it the most though. I think we also hear it pretty clearly in BFG Division at the end of each bar when the drum stops.

[@jaqrus6184]

Great video man, amazing demonstration

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man 🤘

[@thallsohard]

Neat idea, I'm gonna have a whirl at this with my AxeFx. It has a synth that can track the guitar pitch quite well and I bet I can get something that gets me into the chainsaw zone like this.

[@Tonepusher]

yeah 100% if you can upload a sample into the AxeFx, it could sound almost the same!

[@ruslan_kvtvnv]

Exelent job, man.

[@Tonepusher]

Thanks 🤘🏻

[@SpacemanChannel]

very high quality video! you deserve way more subs

[@Tonepusher]

hey! thanks a lot :) working on it haha the algorithm gets in the way 🤣

[@Sulfurico]

Awesome 🔥🖤🔥

[@Tonepusher]

hell yeah 🤘🏻

[@illin1289]

That was very nice, thank you

[@Tonepusher]

thanks to you for watching :) 🤘🏻

[@JbToner]

Great video! 😁 just subbed, keep up the great work

[@Tonepusher]

Thanks man 🤘

[@nikodemsulowski9625]

I really like your stuff, but i really think you could build a niche for your channel with less typical ,,millenial youtuber'' edits. Maybe try being yourself but going deep on stuff? Thats just a suggestion, i already bought some SERUM presets of yours and i think youre very talented so please, dont stop.

[@nikodemsulowski9625]

Also, do you do lessons on mix&master online?

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man I' trying stuff tp see what works 🤷🏻‍♂️ I'll really take that advice 😊 Yeah on my Patreon I have a few hours on sound design with Serum. I'll also probably start doing some Live Streaming here on youtube soon 🤘🏻

[@georgew.douche26yearsago65]

​@@nikodemsulowski9625 I second that opinion!

[@Thexpertoneverything]

Well done!

[@Tonepusher]

thanks :) 🤘

[@akivisko]

I thought you were a much larger channel, you just got a new subscriber : )

[@Tonepusher]

Haha! I wish! Slowly but surely haha thanks for supporting 🤘🏻

[@TheKyleman999]

This is awesome

[@Tonepusher]

thanks :)🤘🏻

[@kamilkamykrecordings2096]

Good Job !!

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man 🤘🏻

[@JarrahTheCreator]

Super well made video! remember me as that one person who always believed in you, that commented on your video that one time! gtg now to purchase a chainsaw!

[@Tonepusher]

Hahaha thanks man 🤘🏻 a chainsaw with a Jack 1/4? 😂

[@dev8484]

Thanx man !!!! 🤘 stay metal

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man 😊🤘🏻

[@dev8484]

@@Tonepusher Now I'll try to apply 😇😁

[@ProfitZero]

Really good video, thanks for this

[@Tonepusher]

hey thanks 🤘🏻

[@gabrielreis7319]

bravo! hugs from Brazil

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man! :)

[@mornewessels8723]

well dude,love it.

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man :) 🤘

[@Randomrobot-fs4du]

very yes

[@Tonepusher]

much wow!

[@AlexKosSaheli]

I blended Saw with guitar with Morph plugin for my Meathook cover ^^

[@Tonepusher]

nice! is it on spotify?

[@AlexKosSaheli]

@@Tonepusher it is 😊 saheli - meathook

[@ChristopherHallett]

The "secret"? Mick recorded a fucking chainsaw. He recorded a CHAINSAW. There's no secret.

[@Tonepusher]

It's that simple?! Damn. Should've been a tutorial on how to buy a chainsaw at the store then.

[@stianchrister]

Insane.

[@Tonepusher]

hell yeah 🤘

[@locki_dos]

You almost got it but he did specify that he used the sample from the chainsaw sound effect from the original 1993 doom. (so it was a mix of the idle and the 'fire' sound of the chainsaw) So you probably would've got better results with that since It's a stock sound effect.

[@Tonepusher]

Yeah I learned about it after recording! I'll try it with the right sample 🤔

[@SlyHikari03]

Definitely

[@scrummyvision]

cool bro

[@heidenbarrel]

that is so fucking cool

[@Tonepusher]

haha thanks!! 🤘

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Mick Gordon uses a ton of distortion and fuzz pedals. He did a walk thru of his tone.

[@Tonepusher]

The focus of this video was more about the Morph plugin and the blending technique than the ''guitar tone''. I know, his process and techniques are MUCH more complicated than that hehe 🤘

[@oscarcastellon7398]

Do you have any link for his walkthrough?

[@Tonepusher]

@@oscarcastellon7398 Here's the most detailed video I could find. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2Wpf3WDj9ikqLs I don't think there's a video where he's doing a complete walkthrough of his tone though.

[@apoplexiamusic]

Caliss que c’est cool ça! Excellente vidéo! Je viens de m’abonner!

[@Tonepusher]

hey merci man! un confrère Québécois c'est rare! hehe 🤘

[@apoplexiamusic]

@@Tonepusher je fais surtout du DnB mais aussi la prod électronique dans un projet métal et je suis fortement influencé par l’esthétique de Mick Gordon 🤘

[@apoplexiamusic]

Je regrette de ne pas avoir enregistré une chainsaw quand je travaillais chez home depot

[@Tonepusher]

🤣🤣🤣 ouais Mick Gordon c'est next level sa musique, un magicien! C'est quoi le nom de ton groupe?

[@apoplexiamusic]

@@Tonepusher As Oceans Devour On a juste 2 tracks sortie pcq c’est comme un side-side project pour tout le monde 😅

[@scrummyvision]

gonna stick this in a pedal and make a mint nice vid

[@Tonepusher]

haha the chainsaw pedal, that's a good idea!

[@scrummyvision]

@@Tonepusher thanks! I had an idea to make a boss HM2 but there's no knobs, everything is at 10 and there's nothing controls but the footswitch. I built one but it can get kinda whistle-y at high treble and high gain, so I need to think about it a little more. it's a more complex pedal than I initially thought.

[@Tonepusher]

@@scrummyvision haha yeah well HM-2's at max level need a noise-gate for sure. And there's a reason why Swedish Death Metal bands never stop playing! 🤣they can't! haha

[@richardspillers6282]

What drums were used in the argent metal pack demo? I love that snare. (you in the discord group?) Also, I never could get morph to work. That's why I just use fuzz.

[@Tonepusher]

Drums are samples from Splice that I processed quite heavily. I might make some sample pack with it pretty soon hehe

[@Groovvy81]

Va falloir que j'essaie ça, merci pour le vidéo. Drôle d'adon, j'ai la même guit!

[@Tonepusher]

haha yes! J'adore cette guit. 🤘🏻 Ouais c'est vraiment un cool plugin. Même pour faire d'autres trucs, genre blend deux drone ensemble, leads etc.

[@moonbyul873]

Sounds like if you fiddled with it a bit more, you could get it closer, but it's a cool sound nonetheless. I actually forgot one of the other more important things he said during his presentation and that was that he used the chainsaw sounds from the original Doom 1 and 2 games as the chainsaw, so he didn't even use a particularly good-sounding chainsaw sound for the official track. I'm curious to see what results you could come up with using that particular sound.

[@Tonepusher]

Thanks! Yes you're right I think he used the old game sound. But seeing how he works he probably processed the shit out of that sound before even sending it through Morph! So I figured I would use a modern chainsaw sound hehe ....next in line, the lawnmower haha

[@moonbyul873]

@@Tonepusher Oh yeah, he used a lawnmower too didn't he? lol I'm incredibly envious at his knowledge and ability to work with sound design. I'm very much cave man brained when it comes to dialing in tone, so I aim for the less is more approach, but it's impossible to get the sound you got in this video and the sound he just gets in general with a more simple approach.

[@Tonepusher]

@@moonbyul873 Yeah, I think after 20 years of producing music, sound design and experimenting. I came to the conclusion that less is more like you said. There IS some people that will put 32 plugins and end up with insane tones and sounds, but it's not for everybody. Mick is certainly alone in his world. Sometimes it sounds even better to come back to the root...simple stuff. I mean most of the time, artists that creates iconic sounds are the ones that had the less gear!

[@noahferrante]

Je me souviens d'avoir réussi à obtenir en tone similaire une fois en passant ma basse dans le plugin ruina de noise engineering (plugin gratuit !) et en jouant avec la multitude de paramètres proposés. Malheureusement je n'avais pas enregistré haha

[@Tonepusher]

Haha oui, y a tellement de façon d'avoir un son similaire. C'est la beauté du sound design! Je vais essayer ce plugin, je ne connais pas!

[@LucasJohn0723]

thats a crazy tone. too bad i dont have 200 bucks to spare or i would definitely pick the plugin up. maybe next paycheck? 👀

[@Tonepusher]

Yeah it's a pretty costly plugin. Sometimes it's on sale over at PluginBoutique! 🤘

[@FreddyGaming]

Mom I want DOOM music. Mom: we have DOOM music at home. lol

[@Tonepusher]

lollll on the shelf in the garage

[@aquarius5264]

you could've probably just used the plugin parallax for a similar enough tone

[@Tonepusher]

The Neural DSP plugin? It's for bass. Here I'm using Morph to blend my guitar with the chainsaw sample. Btw the bass sound IS parallax in this video haha 🤘🏻

[@eVGEGENY_AF]

It's very nice, the sound of everything but you got the riff wrong, I understand that the video is about soundesign but I can't just not mention that. There is the tab. D- 0 _ _ _ 12 _ 0 _ 12 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ 14 _ _ _ 0 _ 14 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . (1/2 bend) (1/2 bend)

[@Tonepusher]

Thanks man, I looked it up online before recording, probably found an incorrect tab hehe (how surprising) Low tuning guitars like that are fuuuucking hard to figure out by ear. Like you said, I'm more of a sound designer/producer than guitar player haha Although I can play, it's not my forte! haha Thanks for commenting dude 🤘

[@vikproductions]

I think you got the notes wrong but it still sounds very similar

[@Tonepusher]

thanks 🤘

[@vikproductions]

@@Tonepusheryeah i don't play guitar but I do make music and I think the 1st long-rising note should be maybe 1 note higher than the previous one.

[@SlyHikari03]

The chainsaw sample that was used is the original DOOM '93 chainsaw. So maybe try that if you ever go about it again, it would be even more closer.

[@Tonepusher]

Yeah I realized after recording that it was the old doom93 chainsaw. Idk why I didn't think about it haha🤦‍♂

[@scrummyvision]

wow nice catch

[@SlyHikari03]

@@scrummyvision no problem

[@kilianward7853]

That was disgusting. I Love it

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man :))

[@winterfall82]

Honored to be 666th like

[@Tonepusher]

haha thanks man! I think you opened the gate 💀

[@DretLort]

зачем так близко к камере, жесть. будто в моё личное пространство вторгаются(

[@Tonepusher]

Sit further away from your screen 😂

[@u731]

Tu sonnes québecois

[@Tonepusher]

C'est parce que je le suis! haha 🤘🏻😅 Est-ce que c'est l'accent GSP qui me trahis? 😂

[@Schiborr]

Not violent enough. Good try though! :P :-)

[@Tonepusher]

haha thanks I know it's never going to sound like him, but practice makes perfect! 💪

[@Schiborr]

That shit is not easy, I know 🙂@@Tonepusher

[@karmazone1525]

Damn that shit is good. Sorry to be that guy but its not Teer but tear like in "i will tear you in half with my bare hands"

[@Fancylvania]

its an accent guy

[@Tonepusher]

thanks man haha yeah french is my first language! But it's all good, thanks for telling me :) I'm learning 🤘🏻

[@Tonepusher]

Exactly haha 🇨🇦