A Better Arcade Ambience mp3?

this is the 1st negative thing I have ever heard about these files......

Don't get me wrong, they are great, just a bit much, sounds like you are surrounded by 30 machines in a tight circle. Some should be quieter to give a sense of depth. Also the defender blaster (I think) sound in the 84 file sreames over everything else, and there is no break in it. Gives the whole file a static sound.

I am not looking for something that is all Zen, just something a little more sedate.
 
Don't get me wrong, they are great, just a bit much, sounds like you are surrounded by 30 machines in a tight circle. Some should be quieter to give a sense of depth. Also the defender blaster (I think) sound in the 84 file sreames over everything else, and there is no break in it. Gives the whole file a static sound.

I am not looking for something that is all Zen, just something a little more sedate.

I love the ambience files, but I do know what you mean. It would be perfect ambience if you have a larger collection of games, but it could seem a bit out of place if you only have 3 or 4 games like me. I am handy with audio mixing/editing, so I maybe one day I'll put something together myself that's more along the lines of a smaller arcade/game room.
 
I love the ambience files, but I do know what you mean. It would be perfect ambience if you have a larger collection of games, but it could seem a bit out of place if you only have 3 or 4 games like me. I am handy with audio mixing/editing, so I maybe one day I'll put something together myself that's more along the lines of a smaller arcade/game room.

I am too, the problem is getting a nice variety of samples, I don't have enough games to make a good file, and I have too many 90's games.
 
are these just mixes of the samples? I have some hi fidelity recording equipment if someone in the baltimore area wants to make a live recording!
 
I was going to use it, but I didn't like it either--too busy.

what about making your own music files with M1 from mame roms and mix them?

http://www.emuhype.com/index.phtml?s=misc&ss=files

I thought about that, but the samples in MAME are limited to just games that don't emulate sound well.

are these just mixes of the samples? I have some hi fidelity recording equipment if someone in the baltimore area wants to make a live recording!

That would be AWESOME!
 
I was going to use it, but I didn't like it either--too busy.

Same here... I listened to them a while ago, hoping it'd be kinda cool to just have sorta playing quietly in the background, but I thought it was way too "noisy".

DogP
 
The sounds were created using MAME and then mixed IIRC. Ask ahofle about it I believe he is a member here, if not here then BYOAC.
 
It's good for what it is. I've used the sound files at parties in the past, but turned 'em off after about a half hour. This was when I had around 3 or 4 machines and wanted it to seem like there was more. Now that I have 7 machines and a pinball in one section, I'd rather have '80s music playing and hear the machines themselves played in the foreground.
 
It's good for what it is. I've used the sound files at parties in the past, but turned 'em off after about a half hour. This was when I had around 3 or 4 machines and wanted it to seem like there was more. Now that I have 7 machines and a pinball in one section, I'd rather have '80s music playing and hear the machines themselves played in the foreground.

That makes sense actually, I have 8 mahcines so they make pleanty of noise. I need to get a nice lib of 80's music!
 
Maybe get some samples from video snaps. I have Mala set to rotate through the video snaps in screensaver mode and most of them have decent sounds.
 
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