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New Ambience: Car Chase!

Added 2017-11-21 15:55:53 +0000 UTC

There must have been some kind of weird synergy happening in the rpg/game world last month. I received 4 separate requests for car chase ambiences. As I didn't really have one of these specifically, I thought I'd give it a try.

This was a tough one to get right. Early on I decided that I wanted it to have a 70s/early 80s type vibe. I grew up on old cop shows that always featured car chase scenes: CHiPs, TJ Hooker, Magnum P.I., and Knight Rider. I tried to capture some of that spirit in this track.

I mixed this with the cars/ambience forward and the music slightly back to be more film like, less music video. I tried about a dozen combinations of this - music forward, music down 3db, 5db, music up 3db, 5db etc etc. However, as every audio engineer knows, you always second guess yourself. I left this alone for a full week and then revisited it.

Naturally, I hated it, tore it all down, and remixed it.

In another post I'll be including 2 alternate versions of this track. An ambience-only version and a music-only version. Note: the music only version will have 10 seconds of silence at the beginning as it's taken straight from the original mix.

Thank you all for your continuing support.

best,

Tim

https://tabletopaudio.com

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