Editing Quake (video game) (section)

=== Audio ===
{{Main|Quake (soundtrack)}}
[[File:American McGee at id Software, 6 October 1995 (by Ian Mapleson, administrator of the Doom Help Service).jpg|thumb|American McGee at id in October 1995, with a Nine Inch Nails shirt]]
''Quake''{{'}}s music and sound design was done by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Nine Inch Nails]], using ambient soundscapes and synthesized [[drone (music)|drone]]s to create atmospheric tracks. In an interview, Reznor remarked that the ''Quake'' soundtrack "is not music[;] it's textures and ambiences and whirling machine noises and stuff. We tried to make the most sinister, depressive, scary, frightening kind of thing... It's been fun."<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 1995 |title=More Pictures |magazine=Maximum: The Video Game Magazine |publisher=[[Emap International Limited]] |issue=2 |pages=126–7}}</ref> The game includes an homage to Reznor in the form of ammo boxes for the "Nailgun" and "Super Nailgun" decorated with the Nine Inch Nails logo.

The idea to use Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack was raised by American McGee, who had been listening to their album ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' during his work on the game. Romero was initially skeptical as he had envisioned a more ambient tone, but was open to the idea of the band composing with that tone in mind. id approached the band's agents, and the group had agreed to do the soundtrack by the following day as they were ''Doom'' fans and excited by the project. McGee handled the delivery of the soundtrack from there on. A legal issue that rose late in development with the record company meant that the code to play the audio from the CD was among the final changes made before release.<ref name="doomguy 214-235" />

Some digital re-releases of the game lack the CD soundtrack that came with the original [[shareware]] release. The 2021 enhanced version includes the soundtrack.<ref name="quake-remaster-gamespot">{{Cite web |last=Koch |first=Cameron |date=August 19, 2021 |title=Original Quake Is Back, This Time On Consoles And With Its Original Soundtrack |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/original-quake-is-back-this-time-on-consoles-and-with-its-original-soundtrack/1100-6495354/ |access-date=August 19, 2021 |website=[[GameSpot]]}}</ref>