"80s Video Arcade Nostalgia"
The idea behind this ambient sound project was to try to make the listener actually feel like they are in a space. It is designed for headphones...so please listen to this using headphones with your eyes closed,
I took samples from various arcade games from MAME as well as sampled some sounds at Dave & Busters for the air hockey sounds. I also took the audio from the attract mode from Dragons Lair. The Journey song is an mp3 that I added a lot of GVerb to make it sound like it was playing in a large room.
If you listen to it with headphones you will get a sense of 3-D space as I took advantage of stereo and sound volume and placed the sounds within various places of the stereo soundscape. I actually used a map to orient the sounds in relationship to the listener based on an old arcade I used to hang out in back in 1982.
The end result is what our Arcades used to sound like back in the early 80s.
80s Video Arcade
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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