Octover 2006 Gravecast #10 – Halloween Night MP3: 139 Mb

This isn’t the first time. Life comes in cycles and in the past, a good dose of music can help make a day tolerable enough so that you don’t go totally off the deep end.
For almost 5 years, I created mixes of music with a Halloweenish theme and place them on Gravecast.com. I quit doing that a while back but once in a while, I need a good dose of Halloween energy to make the day a little less bright. I need a little darkness to make everything better. Here is a mix I did a few weeks ago that I had set aside for just such a day as today. I had no idea I would need it this soon. The file is pretty large and I don’t have a list of artists or songs. It is just 2 hours of music I am using to save my sanity… just because.

Gravecast – Just Because

Treat #01 – The Asylum

A prison, a mad house, a hostel, an Asylum. Enjoy the screams of the tormented as they face their final days in torturous nightmares.
Treat 01: The Asylum

Treat #02 – Ghosts

I am sorry but you simply CANNOT have a Halloween collection without some ghosts. You have to cover the basics. Most of the time you hear high pitched people yelling “Wooo” so I tried to make mine just a hair darker.
Treat 02: Ghosts

Treat #03 – Funeral

I noticed that with all of the Halloween related sound effects out there, not many do scenes of a funeral. Seemed like a natural to me.
Treat 03: Funeral

Treat #04 – Monster Baby

Watching the behind the scenes for the movie GHOST, I heard that the really cool sounds used for the creatures from the darkness were actually sounds of a baby crying. I had to try it myself. I would love to take this sound deep into the woods and let some unsuspecting campers think that bigfoot was close to their camp.
Treat 04: Monster Baby

Treat #05 – Below

The dim flashlight cuts into the darkness that surrounds you. The cave seemed like a fun idea this afternoon but now it is getting late and you think you might have made a wrong turn. The exit has to be here close by but every turn seems to take farther down below.
Treat 05: Below

No, this isn’t a recording from (insert boy band of choice), it is my audio version of Hell. Both are the same except Hells Gates uses more flame… for those of you who like your victimes well done.

 Just the sound you need for those Satanic scenes or Hell Mouths out there.

Treat 06: Hells Gates
Treat 07: Purgatory

Treat 09: The Hound

Treat 08: Lone Wolf

Treat 15 – Evil Guy Voice

Treat 14 – Geeves the Butler

Treat 13 – Silly / Clown voice

Treat 12 – Robot Voice.

Each of these is one file with a pause in between each comment to give you room to edit them. You can use the program of your choice to cut them up into the files you need. If you don’t have the software, Audacity is a free program that will do just fine. Again, if you need help, just ask.
Each voice covers the same basic themes.
1. No Smoking or open flames.
2. Actors will not touch you on purpose, please show them the same respect.
3. Do not touch anything or anyone.
4. No alcohol, drugs or weapons allowed.
5. Enter at your own risk.
6. If you don’t follow the rules, you will be removed without a refund.
7. All sales are final.
8. No external lights of any kind.
9. Children under the age of 13 must have adult supervision.
10. This event may be too intense for young children.
11. We are not responsible for lost or damaged clothing or personal items.
12. Turn off all cell phones.
13. No photography allowed inside.
14. Warning, this haunt contains fog, strobe lights, and loud noise.
15. If you do not want to be frightened, don’t come in.
16. Threats or harm to our actors could result in criminal prosecution.
17. This event uses surveillance equipment.
18. Have fun but be safe.

A little story about my making “haunt rules” for the first time. When I made the audio rules for a local haunted house, I also added music and sound effects in between the rules. Like many haunts, this was to be played outside while people stood in line to enter the event. The first time I made a CD for them, they used a lot less rules and it worked out that you wouldn’t hear the same rule for 15 min. I had different sounds and music between the rules so that they would not repeat for over an hour. This worked out fine but I made each rule and sound its own track on the cd. I told the owner that he needed to use the repeat function on the cd player and he said he understood. Good to go!

Jump ahead to the first night of event. I pull up to the haunt. I hear the first rule being blasted over and over and over with no sounds or music. I felt sorry for the ticket people sitting there and hearing that thing half the night. The people working the line didn’t know there was more to it and the people inside hit “repeat one track” instead of “repeat all” on their player and never came out to listen.

Lesson learned: From then on, I mixed all of my haunt tracks into one huge, single track. That way, repeat one or all will work. This cuts out one chance of something going wrong. I also made several copies of each cd needed for backups. People would walk away with the cds, people would scratch them, ect. This was just a couple of years ago and mp3 players and computers were not used as much then as they are now. Many haunts and home haunts still use cd players and there is nothing wrong with that. Still, always try to think about things like that and plan ahead for what can go wrong. It saves a lot of trouble when you are busy trying to haunt.