Technique for producing recording of musical works whose beat simulates arcade-game sounds

A technique for recording a performance of a rhythmic musical work, such as rock music, having a persistent accented beat, said work being performed by a group of performers divided into sections, one section producing the sounds of the beat which accompany the musical sounds produced by the other sections of the group, said technique comprising the steps of:

• (a) recording on corresponding tracks of a multiple-track recorder the sounds produced by said sections of the group, one of the tracks having recorded thereon the beat, the other tracks having recorded thereon the sounds produced by the other sections;
• (b) simulating in a music synthesizer for audio duplication sound effects associated with a particular arcade electronic game and reducing these sound effects to a single keystroke to produce, when the key is operated at a time coincident with that of the beat recorded on said one track, a percussive audit pulse whose constituents are the sound effects;
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• (c) recording in a master recorder the audio pulses yielded by the synthesizer in place of the beat together with the sounds recorded in said other tracks to produce a master recording of the work, whereby when the master recording is played back, it incorporates these pulses to define the accented beat of the music whereby a listener thereto receives an acoustic impression in which the music is heard in an arcate-like environment, the recordings on said other tracks of the multiple-track recorder being fed to a mixer whose output is applied to said master recorder, to which mixer is also fed the audio pulses from the synthesizer.