blisscats's 100 Most Recent Forum Posts

How much time does it take you to create a song? 2 months ago
It usually takes me about 15 minutes to create a new song, and 2 months to finish it!
Need MAC Program for Creating Album Artwork 7 months ago
Photoshop is absolutely best, Illustrator is way too hard for a novice, check out Adobe Creative Suite Cloud, you can pay monthly and access all sorts of great apps as you need them.
Panning Problem 1 year ago
If you want it to sound centered, pan it at the same spot on each side.

I do what Eidolnia does: pan slightly different (3 and 8 for example), or play two separate rhythm guitar tracks with different amp presets (all Blisscats songs are recorded this way. Rhythm guitars at 9 and 2, lead guitars at 10 and 1, bass, vocals and drums at 12. Anything else like the occasional synth gets 3,9 or lower. Fudging with eq helps as well. It's a great exercise to listen to Stranglers (particularly Black and White lp, first Ramones lp and anything by Stereolab: these are recordings with some really distinctive instrumentation pans.
YouTube pimp'n thread 1 year ago
I use it to further get our music out there. We don't have time to make videos, so they aren't really videos, just song files with cover art. But I got a couple ideas from looking at the links in this thread, so thank you!

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBlisscats

And a funny thing happened... I found this link to one of our YouTube videos on the NME website!

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/KTqArFiGvw8
When did you first realize that life is short? 1 year ago
When did you first realize that life is short?

When I bought a goldfish and he died the next day.
Big guitar sound? 1 year ago
I pan rhythm left and right, then play it separately using different amps. Not this clean, but that's not the scrubbed sound I go for.

You using GB? Several git presets are good starting points, I also add CamelCrusher plug-in which has some phat crunch.
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Thanks Olympus, he does have it.

I did find a program called MPEG Streamclip that works perfectly for this as well.

It downloads video from the web to your desktop. Then you change the file name extension to .mp3 and voila! You have an audio track that you can drop into GB and use/edit any way you see fit. It works great. A couple caveats: don't paste the URL of the video that shows up in your browser address, you must first select the Share/embed option to get the SPECIFIC link to the video, and use that one.
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Hey DJ!

The time allotment is approx 30 seconds. I'm thinking about 10 reports (or snippets of reports).

My name is Cam and you can email me a file at

villarcreative@gmail.com

I can't wait to hear what you've got! Thanks very much.
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Yes olympus, that sounds good.

I would like the bits to overlap onto one another until it is a cacaphony of voices building to a noisy climax. A "whoosh" building up to the end would be good in there as well.
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Thanks Mike, DJ seems to be up on it so I'll see what he does.

I really need news clips, so maybe Quicktime Pro can extract audio from a vid clip.
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Yes exactly DJ!
Looking for sound designer 1 year ago
Hey guys and dolls, I'm wondering if anyone would care to contribute a non-musical piece to one of The Blisscats songs.

What I'm looking for is a piece that features a blend of radio or tv news sound bytes from recent/current world events (think Arab spring, suicide bombings, any kind of conflict)that builds up in layer and intensity (until the hard guitars/bass/drums kick in).

I would try to do this myself but don't know how.
Hopefully someone will think this is easy and/or fun.

I only need about 25 seconds. Effects are cool, make it sound any way you think is interesting.

What I'm hearing in my head is start with a single announcer, then add another on top of first one, and so on, building in intensity to the end which should hit the loudest level.

Please contact me if you can help.
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