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File credits
-Inon Zur for writing Fallout 3 and Fallout 4's score -Mark Morgan, composer of Fallout 1/2 for "My Chrysalis Highwayman" -The Ocean, Ramin Djawadi, Alan Silvestri, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Jeremy Soule, Cradle of Filth, and numerous other musical influences. Specifically: -Devin Townsend, "Terminal" (featured on the album "Ki") -Pink Floyd, "Is There Anybody Out There?" (from 'The Wall') -Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori - "Overture" (Halo ODST) -Pond5 for countless sfx samples. -The fine makers of Roland, Studio One, and Waves plugins.
*All music composed, mixed, and mastered by Pat Mahoney.
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Added a quiet ambient nighttime track called "All Quiet On the Wasted Front."
Fixed an error where 2 songs weren't assigned a playlist.
Further improved location and night/day settings for certain songs.
Attenuated a few tracks that were 1db too loud.
Version 5.0
Reconstructed plug-in from scratch on a clean game installation. Tracks have all been re-mastered and volume-matched to vanilla music
20 new compositions replace the least-immersive and low-quality covers of pop songs from previous entries.
Combat music triggers have been lightly tweaked to achieve a similar result as "Dynamic Music Overhaul." Yes, Deathclaws will still trigger epic fight songs.
Night and Daytime conditions have been enabled for half the soundtrack, adding more variety.
Version 4-1
Uploaded 3 songs accidentally left out of version 4-0. Now the mod has 76 songs as stated.
Fixed the file path for the song "Tunnel of Love," also lowering the volume for "Is There Anybody Out There?" by 1db.
Version 4-0
Added 10 songs to the list, for a total of 76.
Re-wrote and recorded "A Bullet for My Valentine" as a keyboard-only blues track.
Version 3.5
Removed all previous Fallout 1, 2, and 3 samples/songs.
Replaced with 4 stronger original compositions
Increased total track count from 52 to 66.
All music is now original and copyright free. At least, until I upload this album to Spotify and iTunes.
Version 2.4
Polished up "A Bullet (For My Valentine)" and added 3 new songs for urban exploration.
"Stranded"
"Is There Anybody Out There?" (Pink Floyd Cover)
"War Pigs" (Soft, Black Sabbath Cover)
Version 2.3
After all my hard work on it, I took one listen to "My Chrysalis Highwayman" in-game, and realized 'oh my god this sounds like a rejected muppet show theme.' Replaced it with a new, original pink floyd-esque composition, "A Bullet (For My Valentine)."
Remixed "Emergence" to be a fully original composition, removing the mashup/backup track "Vault of the Future" upon realizing the keyboard clicks and radio chatter sounded way too 90's.
Reduced the volume of all tracks by about .6db to more closely match vanilla music volume.
Version 2.2
Final change for a while. Made some minor improvements to "Dreams." Boosted Percussion and Sitar on "My Chrysalis Highwayman."
Version 2.1
Mod is nearing completion!
I fixed the EQ on a few tracks, and improved the "grunginess" on the cover of "My Chrysalis Highwayman," because I felt it was too clean for Fallout. Sits much better in the mix. It's a public track now (Diamond City, Goodneighbor, Vault 88)
Version 2.0
A complete restructuring; better shuffle, more silence. EQ'd and adjusted the volume for about half the tracks.
Removed the Fallout 1/2 tracks because they compromised the integrity of my playlist. Performed/mixed 5 new songs instead, all covers of said tracks.
For DLC users, Vault 88 playlist is quite improved. Added a few tracks to Nuka World and redid Far Harbor's bonus music.
Version 1.6
Added 6 new tracks, 5 of which are remixes/remasters of classics from Fallout 1 and 2.
Made a vanilla/Non-DLC version for users who do not have any of the expansions.
Version 1.5
Major update: mod NOW REQUIRES ALL DLC's. Added select tracks to Far Harbor and Vault 88. No longer will your vault be silent and creepy! Only ambient and creepy...ish.
Tracks added to Vault 88 are 5 vanilla tracks from exploration and public regions, as well as about half of my faded glory album.
Added another song, an instrumental cover of "Terminal" by Devin Townsend.
Version 1.4
Added some layers and finally made a proper mix out of my new song "Scouring the Wastes," which replaced the FO3 music. Sorry, the lack of professional polish on it was bugging me. Also performed a piano solo at the end to pay homage to FO3.
Version 1.3
Removed 2 Fallout 3 ambient tracks upon realizing the music isn't public domain yet.
Replaced with 2 original, high quality (but unfinished) compositions.
Version 1.2
Fixed the clipping on "Demons of Industry," and remixed/mastered "Reprieve" and "A Farewell"
Version 1.1
Rebuild the .esp from scratch, as I had unintentionally edited NPC attack radius as part of this file, instead of separately.
Remastered/EQ'd 2 tracks that were too loud, and added 1 more institute track.
Version 1.0
Initial upload. 26 songs total, complete with an enhanced gothic glowing sea experience free of combat music!
Region-specific Wasteland exploration tracks have new conditions. Songs played in Sanctuary Hills by night will be entirely different from those played in Downtown Boston by day. This also affects vanilla music. _____
Tweaked music dynamics prevent rad-roaches from immediately triggering combat tracks. In the Glowing Sea, Combat Music has been disabled entirely to enhance the eerie atmosphere of the Commonwealth's graveyard. _____
Faction-specific tracks give the Brotherhood, Minutemen, and Institute a new sound, while preserving the original soundtrack. _____
Town/Public tracks are heavily inspired by old-world jazz, with soft piano, saxophones and downtempo time signatures. It's less immersion-breaking than you'd expect, but you can be the judge of that. _____
4 ambient white-noise tracks help to break-up the orchestra. _____
A new 'Vault 88' playlist was compiled to find just the right balance between spooky and inviting. ______
My style is inspired by prog-rock, jazz, classical music, and film scores. You may recognize a few notes or bars here and there. Full song list and musicians-cited are included in the ReadMe. I admire Inon Zur's work, as well as Bethesda's original art direction. For that reason, this mod DOES NOT REPLACE THE VANILLA SOUNDTRACK, and never will.
This collection of songs began as a passion project during a dark period of my life. Several years ago, I lost my mother to cancer. Devastated, I sunk into an alcoholic depression. Eventually, I became so disgusted with myself that I took up weightlifting. My personal fitness journey soon blossomed into a fulfilling career as a Personal Trainer. There, I met a wonderful woman who guided me out of my darkness. After the wedding, we sold my mother's estate and moved. And as icing on the cake, I became part of a community Shakespeare troupe.
So life got better! And I am reminded of the love others bestowed upon me. Nothing good in life happens without effort, and as the saying goes, it take a village to raise a child. The world keeps turning, despite everything that's been hurled at us. These tracks are not quite chronicle of my journey; but rather, they are abstract pieces of a tapestry.
Music heals.
So go forth into the cold of nuclear winter, wrapped in the warm blanket of my music and deadly radiation.
