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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 [...]

The Cell Ring Tone – How Indie Musicians Can Take Advantage of New Earning Opportunities

Get Your Ringtone in the iPhone Ringtone Store with Tune Core Cell ring tone? New opportunities? What am I on about? For indie musicians, something interesting is happening on your way to a career in music. Instead of heading down that age old road with the single goal of getting signed to a record label, [...]

Recording Multitrack Audio for Professional Sound at Home

by Owen Critchley Warner/LoudThud recording artist Author of Easy Home Recording Blueprint Recording Multitrack Audio – Part 1 (For part 2,  go to Home Recording Tips) 3 goals you should be setting before you record Professional quality sound Simple to use recording tools and software Affordability Although, everyone successfully guesses the first of the goals [...]

Learn to Produce Music – How to Speak the Language of Sound

Becoming a Music Producer You’d like to learn to produce music. Before you start, it’s important that you understand that good producers do not start their careers by learning how to use a ton of studio equipment. They do not even start by learning all the studio tricks. Instead, a good producer is someone who [...]