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Home Recording Acoustic Guitar

Hi everyone, Just a quick post to help speed up your process when recording guitar, specifically acoustic, in your home studios. (I also added a “Random Thoughts” section at the bottom with some tools I’ve been liking a lot lately.) Of course, there’s a million variations when doing this type of recording (type of mics, [...]

Write Better Songs – Songwriting tips part 1

In This Edition We Need Quality and Quantity of Songs. Why? How Your Song’s Message, Ideas and Intentions Are Communicated How can I write better songs that consistently connect with listeners? Unlocking the songwriting lessons that live inside all successful songs Click to Download Free Report – Anthony Ceseri’s Techniques From the Hits Vol. 1 [...]

Nice Easy Trick for Playing Solos On Guitar

I was recording at my home studio (For home recording tips sign up over on the right), when I got a surprise visit from guitar great “Davy Boy” Fitzsimmons. We went outside to catch up and we started chatting about some easy tips he has gathered for playing guitar solos. Luckily I had my iPhone [...]

Tips on Covering Songs and How Do You Get Copyright Permission?

  (Blueprint to Getting Heard and Easy Home Recording Blueprint Special Feature) PART 1. How Do You Get Copyright Permission? Should You Even Bother? PART 2. Choosing the Best Songs to Cover So You’re Found by More New Listeners ( *Find out the song we chose to cover below) A tip to increase exposure for [...]

How to EQ Vocals Using a Simple Graphic Equalizer

EQ Vocals – How to use simple graphic eq settings for recording and mixing vocals for professional sounding home recordings by Owen Critchley, LoudThud recording artist/producer and creator of the bestselling Easy Home Recording Blueprint “Become a Blueprint recording artist and find out how to simply and affordably get your songs sounding the way they [...]

A Song About Escape – A Song Promotion Showing How to Market a Song Using the “Getting Heard Gold List Method”

by Owen Critchley Warner/LoudThud recording artist Song: “Taste An Escape” This page is a real time test song promotion targeting the phrase “song about escape” as described in The Getting Heard GOLD LIST music promotion method.   What’s on this page? “About the song Taste An Escape“ “Listen to Taste An Escape“ “Licensing and Download [...]

Compressing Vocals and Other Vocal Mixing Tips

Want to cover a song and need the license? Clear that song with Limelight today. Compressing Vocals: Tips from the Easy Home Recording Blueprint method Well before I even consider compressing vocals, the first thing I do is to use volume/mix automation to adjust each unnatural sounding volume spike (also areas that are too quiet) [...]

Buy Beats, Share Beats – Will You Be Part of the Golden Age for Home Recording Artists?

// by Owen Critchley Warner/LoudThud recording artist Author of Easy Home Recording Blueprint Buy Beats – Worldwide Collaboration Era Has Now Begun My Beats365 Test: I’ve been having a ball messing around with the over 100,000 beats over at Beats365 created by top hip hop producer Nebula 3. We took a straight up beat and [...]

New Beat Making Programs – A Very Quick Way to Write and Record a Studio-Quality Home Recording

// by Owen Critchley – Warner/LoudThud recording artist/ producer -Creator:Easy-Home-Recording-Blueprint Tweet A Pro Quality Home Recording in 1 Hour? New Online Beat Making Program Tested: Watch video of the session below You can download the DubTurbo software here. I believe they are still offering the entire software and soundbank package for $29.95 which I think [...]