46bliss
Blissed Out on Sony Creative Software
46bliss—Clare Veniot, David Cooper, and Jack Freudenheim—began in a spirit of collaboration twelve years ago and continues that way today. After being signed as a songwriter to Warner Chappell, David Cooper missed the atmosphere of a band and sought out friends Veniot and Freudenheim to help him. Often working from different cities, the group has recorded two CDs and is working on their third. "All songs are written by the three of us," says Freudenheim. "We usually start by jamming on something one of us has started on our own, mold and massage the results, sometime for months until we have a finished product."
Vegas, ACID Pro, and Sound Forge have been instrumental in that process. "We often use Vegas for capturing a performance, liking the way you can set a loop point and record multiple takes on top of each other. ACID Pro has been our go-to tool for loop-based composition. Sound Forge is where we do all our destructive editing. If we're going to do a little pitch correction or cut out extraneous noises from a performance, we'll bring it into Sound Forge and do the job there. Plus if there are final mastering touches to do, even post-mastering, that's the place to do it." We lay out the final CD with indexes and crossfades in Vegas software to burn a master for manufacturing.
ACID lets us do things with our music that are hard or impossible to achieve with any 
Jack Freudenheim, 46bliss
Though 46bliss has been making richly textured ambient pop in the music industry for years now, recently they've gained a much wider audience. Two of their songs, "The Way You Are" and "Desire Give Way," have been featured on several network television programs including "CSI: New York." "The Way You Are" was featured in a scene in the teen-hit show "Veronica Mars," snaring it a place on the show's TV soundtrack CD on Nettwerk Records. 46bliss also contributed a song to a compilation given to guests of the Conrad Luxury hotel chain, and remixed gospel legend Mahalia Jackson's "Silent Night" for a Christmas CD which was sold at Old Navy stores - the remix was featured in a front-page story in the Washington Post. Their latest work, "46bliss," reached No. 1 at the internet music store mp3tunes.com.
Sony Creative Software products are rock-solid. I can't remember one of them crashing. Because they are so intuitive, our projects run smoothly and are accomplished with
Jack Freudenheim, 46bliss
For more about 46bliss and to listen to their music go to www.46bliss.com.
