Reaper is slowly starting to become a go to. I've owned it for a little while but never really utilized all that much mainly because for school, we're required to work in Pro Tools. But on my own time and personal projects, I'm really starting to love Reaper a lot especially for sound design purposes. The customization of it is fantastic. Have nothing but good things to say about it.
@@FrightboxRecording Yup! I have an old dell laptop from like 2012 (not my main computer), and I pulled Reaper up on that and did some work on there with zero issues which surprised the holy hell out of me.
I love Reaper. It's seriously the most versatile and feature packed DAW out there, from what I've seen at least. I've tried using other DAWs but always end up going back to Reaper. You can completely customize everything and design your version to fit your needs. Rather than adapting to the work flow of the DAW, Reaper adapts to your work flow. The only downside I have found is that its not very intuitive compared to other DAWs for beginners but there's tons of free videos online to teach you how to do pretty much anything inside of Reaper. You can even edit video O.o lol
Thank you once again man,you seem to read my mind when it comes to questions I have.As a reaper user I always think " I wish he was using reaper"watching people mix on other DAW can be confusing at times with layout I am unfamiliar with so thanks again my man
I am a Reaper user all the way. I really like your videos Bobby, there is always something good to learn. Thanks for all you do for us studio enthusiasts and metal/rock music lovers as well!!!
YES! LoL. I am a REAPER user. Hell yeah. It's no wonder why so many people like it. Of course I've made these comments of "why" before on your videos containing Reaper. Great sounding mix man.
Bobby's content rocks ! This free video here, together with the accompanying mixing template for Reaper is priceless IMHO. I previously bought his "Heavy mixing midi drums and amp sims" course. It is a real bargain. When it comes to simplifying things in mixing, Bobby is the man...
I’ve started using reaper and I know there’s a lot of potential to it and have been recording but haven’t even begun to scratch the surface this will help with my sessions thank you 🙏🏻
Solid video. I don't comment often, but have to for this one. Learning how to mix drums in Reaper, this video is a go to for newbs like me. Thanks for the concise tutorial/example!
I´m a Cubase user, but I chose it mainly for compatibility reasons because a former band member was using it as well. If given the choice again I would have paid for a Reaper license, since it largely does the same things, for cheaper.
Excellent tutorial as always Bobby, loving the fact that you only use stock plugins (which rocks anyway in Reaper) and you achieve great results. Thanks for sharing the mix template also!
These multiple snare bottom sends always triggers my inner autist. ^^ If you pull down the Dry fader in Reaverbate, you maybe don´t need that much sends. Than you can control the amount of reverb with the fader in the mixer. Keep up the cool vids!
Hi Bobby, how are you? Congratulations on the initiative, your videos are helping me a lot. Can you make a video showing which plug-ins do you use on the reaper master fader? Hug from São Paulo.
Excellent video, thank you! I have a question. I live in an apartment and can’t play a real kit or an ekit to record drums so I use Superior Drummer. Can I use the same techniques you use in the video to get similar results? If not, why? Again, thank you for the video sir!
That’s a good Snare sound Are use recall now are used to use ProTools ev but mainly for mixing back when we still had analog I use Reaper especially now because my ProTools seems to the trash all the time
@@FrightboxRecording Thanks for the reply I’ve been watching your videos nonstop ever since I found them just months ago I have a MacBook just like yours and upgraded it to its full potential 16 gigs of RAM and 1 TB I built my own PC and use reaper now
Reaper is a beast! Can you please do a similar video but for samples ?like mixing an EzDrummer set within a metal production.. or is it the same approach ?😅 Awesome video btw
Virtually same approach...just way less EQ and compression. EZ drummer is already compressed and EQ'd at the source. I've got one coming at the end of the month!
Wow! Those are some pretty large cuts, especially on the kick. Is that pretty typical or did this recording just call for it because the drum didn't sound that great or something? Also, just curious. I know you use the "behind the bookshelf technique" for your room mic. Do you typically only do mono room mic or do you go stereo? Thanks! Great video. I was a long time PT user and now use Reaper exclusively. Excellent program and can't beat the price.
Hello Matt! For some reason (maybe there's a way to adjust this) the graphic in the Rea EQ is shallow and makes the cuts look bigger than they actually are. I was only reducing those ranges by 6-8 dB which is relatively modest. I recorded this way back in 2011, so I was using 57's as room mics and placed them as far back in the room as possible. This was way before I came up with the "shelf" technique. Sometimes I use a mono room, sometimes I use a stereo pair...and other times I'll use all three. It depends on what mood I'm in. You can achieve a great room sound with a single mic.
Great sound! Question, in Reaper, how do you have your mixer window all the way to the top?? When I open up the mixer window in reaper it only goes up say 80% up the way but I notice you always have it 100% like in pro tools. How do you achieve this?? Silly question i know lol
Is there a particular reason you're using two mono tracks each for your OH and room? Or, phrased another way, is there a reason I shouldn't use stereo tracks for the OH and room? Thanks!
great stuff as usual, Bobby! I am a reaper user. I also don't really have a chance to record live drums so have been using stuff like EZdrummer2. What kind of different approach(es) would you take to mixing a completely sampled kit? It already sounds so close to mix ready to my ear which is, admittedly, still in training!
I use EZ Drummer 2 so I don't have the luxury of using a track for each kit piece..I've been using the ReaEq and ReaComp but can't get the drums to punch and be heavy..Basically I'm looking for a drum sound between Morbid Angel and Pantera..Any help or advice is appreciated..Thank you
I'm using EZ Drummer 2 in this tutorial, it can be done...just route each output to a new track in your DAW. Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/nSTRKzZNip0/v-deo.html
@@FrightboxRecording Subscribed and downloaded the template..A couple more questions: If I already have drums laid down, when I route each piece,would I have to record the parts again manually? Or can I use the EZ Drummer expansions such as Drumkit from Hell, etc...and just use one of the examples from the Search tab?
In other words, once I route the kit pieces, do I have to play the parts manually via Midi since it's a Virtual Instrument or can I use one of the examples from the Search tab? Thanks a million..:)
Agreed. Gear IS overrated, but also makes the difference when you actually have loud hi-fi in a roomy space (or nice headphones which we all have now). Still, for the price of that gear, you can rather add additional tiny samples and fx to enrich the mix.
Sorry for my english but I'm italian... anyway "I request to you" how have this guitars sound because I already see all of your mixing video tutorial👍 but for my ears this guitars definitely kick ass!
To send an INSANE amount of signal to the verb so that you mainly hear only the verb instead of the dry sound. You can't get that much signal to the send with only one instance.
Kick EQ is really cut a huge hole on visual....!! :eyes: What's the purpose of this? I mean... from personal experience I never cut a huge hole on it especially in low fqs.
You know how you have to learn a language before bothering to apply the grammar? Yeah, that's my problem with this awesome tutorial of yours. I wish I knew HALF of what you are trying to teach me, but I first have to go and learn what the terminology is and how to accomplish the submix part, routing, etc etc before I can even begin to know what you are talking about. 😂
Pretty condescending comment there. Reaper is made by the guys that made win amp, don't need the money cause they sold win amp to AOL for a fortune. They wanted people to have an awesome daw that wasn't expensive so they made the reaper. It's 13mb to download and install. Just because it's cheap doesn't make a poor man's choice. Yes i use it and love it as a one man hobby mixer. Because for me it gives me the tools to do things i couldn't afford In 2007 when i first got a licence and anything else was just crazy money. Sorry to rant but hearing it labeled that way does it a disservice.
@@scallionboy8679 Don't get me wrong! As I've mentioned. It's a smart choice. I am a self-confessed Reaper user. I tried other software but reaper does have a very competitive with their software. I've used ProTools, but the price is no budget-friendly. For all my personal projects I've used reaper just to make myself clear here. I think that is not a condescending comment at all. I don't want to argue at all. :)
@@SxMx69Metal hi Jose, thanks for taking the time to respond, i am not wishing an argument either and i see that i made an assumption that you were a pro tools user, my bad there! So my comment was flawed in that and yours not at all condescending. My apologies. Reaper is an awesome tool that is in the grasp of many and and any who choose to use it, so i still don't think it's a poor man's choice though. They are giving us premium quality stuff at a really excellent price and could charge a fair bit more of they wished in my opinion. We just get to decide what vsti and libraries we want and aren't stuck with gbs of stuff we don't use/want, what's funny about this to me is that i actually bought an air music bundle cheap, which has a lot of the protools vstis and plugins 😄 60gbs worth of libraries! which i only now have vaccumm pro synth installed from that right now! Cause i don't use the rest at then moment and i recently changed computer and saw no need to reinstall them as i wanted to keep the plugins i use to a bare minimum of what i actually use to get the results i want and an forced to use a more limited number. You maybe didn't need to hear all of that. But thanks for taking the time of you made it this far.
@@scallionboy8679 awesome! I have used the wrong word for that either. Hahaha... My bad! Yes, that is right. Tons of addons for the ProTools but we can't use them all. I keep my mix minimalist. I have a one-man project. I don't have any problem using Reaper in all of my projects. Reaper is a must-have tool for most recording musicians. Thanks for elaborating it further. This will give the viewers a better outlook on this software. It's underrated because of the size, but almost all the valuable tools are included. Reaper is on top of my DAW list. Thanks for your time as well. Good luck with all your projects!
@@scallionboy8679 awesome! I have used the wrong word for that either. Hahaha... My bad! Yes, that is right. Tons of addons for the ProTools but we can't use them all. I keep my mix minimalist. I have a one-man project. I don't have any problem using Reaper in all of my projects. Reaper is a must-have tool for most recording musicians. Thanks for elaborating it further. This will give the viewers a better outlook on this software. It's underrated because of the size, but almost all the valuable tools are included. Reaper is on top of my DAW list. Thanks for your time as well. Good luck with all your projects!
►► Download your FREE Reaper Drum Mix Template:frightboxrecordingacademy.com/reaper-drum-mixing-template/
im gonna use this for sure!
Reaper is slowly starting to become a go to. I've owned it for a little while but never really utilized all that much mainly because for school, we're required to work in Pro Tools. But on my own time and personal projects, I'm really starting to love Reaper a lot especially for sound design purposes. The customization of it is fantastic. Have nothing but good things to say about it.
Super rock-solid. I've used it on some of the cheapest laptops recording 16 tracks simultaneously and have NEVER had it crash once.
@@FrightboxRecording Yup! I have an old dell laptop from like 2012 (not my main computer), and I pulled Reaper up on that and did some work on there with zero issues which surprised the holy hell out of me.
I think many people overlook the important step of mixing - working in a sick beanie
😂
I love Reaper. It's seriously the most versatile and feature packed DAW out there, from what I've seen at least. I've tried using other DAWs but always end up going back to Reaper. You can completely customize everything and design your version to fit your needs. Rather than adapting to the work flow of the DAW, Reaper adapts to your work flow. The only downside I have found is that its not very intuitive compared to other DAWs for beginners but there's tons of free videos online to teach you how to do pretty much anything inside of Reaper. You can even edit video O.o lol
Reaper for life. I'm gonna try this exact approach on my bands up coming triple. Drums are tracked and it's time to edit!
Reaper is clearly getting more and more popular and for good reason, it kinda rules. This video was sure to be helpful to those new to it.
Routing the Room and overheads straight to the master bus is a very nice idea ! Definitely will try this !
Thank you once again man,you seem to read my mind when it comes to questions I have.As a reaper user I always think " I wish he was using reaper"watching people mix on other DAW can be confusing at times with layout I am unfamiliar with so thanks again my man
This video really taught me the benefits of using the JS Distortion rather than just go for Saturation.
Reaper user here. I plan on testing out these mixing techniques in my home studio with Steve Slate Drums. Thanks!
I am a Reaper user all the way. I really like your videos Bobby, there is always something good to learn. Thanks for all you do for us studio enthusiasts and metal/rock music lovers as well!!!
YES! LoL. I am a REAPER user. Hell yeah. It's no wonder why so many people like it. Of course I've made these comments of "why" before on your videos containing Reaper. Great sounding mix man.
This video just saved my sanity and my mixes. I am in your debt good sir.
I was expecting this video for so long!! Thx Bobby, your videos completely changed and helped me improve my aproach to mixing
Stoked to hear that, David!
Great tutorial as always. Here Reaper's user. I'm going use this trick on my Ezdrummer Metal machine preset without gate.
Bobby's content rocks ! This free video here, together with the accompanying mixing template for Reaper is priceless IMHO. I previously bought his "Heavy mixing midi drums and amp sims" course. It is a real bargain. When it comes to simplifying things in mixing, Bobby is the man...
I’ve started using reaper and I know there’s a lot of potential to it and have been recording but haven’t even begun to scratch the surface this will help with my sessions thank you 🙏🏻
Didn't know what parallel compression was, until now. I was using it all the time though. Thank you reaper!
The time has come 👀🙏
This is extremely helpful as I am mixing my first drumtrack! Thank you
Solid video. I don't comment often, but have to for this one. Learning how to mix drums in Reaper, this video is a go to for newbs like me. Thanks for the concise tutorial/example!
My pleasure, Kevin!
That snare tone is fantastic!
Great sounding snare + great drummer = easy snare mix.
I´m a Cubase user, but I chose it mainly for compatibility reasons because a former band member was using it as well.
If given the choice again I would have paid for a Reaper license, since it largely does the same things, for cheaper.
I use Reaper for tracking and whatnot, then mix in Harrison Mixbus, and then go back to Reaper for mastering.
Oh perfect timing, thanks 🙏
Excellent tutorial! Subscribed!
yeah im a reaper daw user... and i just smashed the red button!!! 😀
YO this has been just incredibly helpful thanks man!!!!
Thanks Bobby. This is a life saver
Awesome video , and thanks for the template dude!
Thanks for your information's, very good video
Excellent tutorial as always Bobby, loving the fact that you only use stock plugins (which rocks anyway in Reaper) and you achieve great results. Thanks for sharing the mix template also!
Anytime...enjoy!
Thx as always Bobby! Reaper is must-have!
Outstanding "cheap" sound!
Just want to say that you are amazing!
These multiple snare bottom sends always triggers my inner autist. ^^ If you pull down the Dry fader in Reaverbate, you maybe don´t need that much sends. Than you can control the amount of reverb with the fader in the mixer. Keep up the cool vids!
It's till not enough to the verb for me 😂
I have a question. Do u ever move ur room mics to put them in perfect phase with ur drums or do u leave them with that slight delay to add depth?
Now what I really want to know is how to do this amazing Keyboard Sound, Sounds so MMX like, how did you did it?
How may I Recreate it?
Hi Bobby, how are you? Congratulations on the initiative, your videos are helping me a lot. Can you make a video showing which plug-ins do you use on the reaper master fader?
Hug from São Paulo.
Dude... seriously you’re awesome. Thank you so much for these videos. I’ve learned so much from your channel!!
My pleasure!
Distortion on the Room and overheads are also a interesting idea.
Give it a shot! Extra analog vibe.
One more time you rock Bobby! Reaper is a powerful tool! Thanks bro!
Anytime!
Excellent video, thank you! I have a question. I live in an apartment and can’t play a real kit or an ekit to record drums so I use Superior Drummer. Can I use the same techniques you use in the video to get similar results? If not, why? Again, thank you for the video sir!
That’s a good Snare sound
Are use recall now are used to use ProTools ev but mainly for mixing back when we still had analog
I use Reaper especially now because my ProTools seems to the trash all the time
Yup, Reaper is rock solid compared to Pro Tools. Hopefully the newer versions of Pro Tools are more stable (I'm still on 2018.1).
@@FrightboxRecording Thanks for the reply I’ve been watching your videos nonstop ever since I found them just months ago
I have a MacBook just like yours and upgraded it to its full potential 16 gigs of RAM and 1 TB
I built my own PC and use reaper now
Dude you are the best
Reaper is a beast!
Can you please do a similar video but for samples ?like mixing an EzDrummer set within a metal production.. or is it the same approach ?😅
Awesome video btw
Virtually same approach...just way less EQ and compression. EZ drummer is already compressed and EQ'd at the source. I've got one coming at the end of the month!
@@FrightboxRecording cant wait ❤
Playing around with the dynamic split feature in Reaper can maybe speed up what you did to your toms manually.
It can, but it usually misses chunks of audio here and there. I've found that it's quicker just to do it by hand.
Thank you so much Bobby! Really cool stuff!
Thanks for watching, Alexey!
wow , thank you for sharing !!!
Thank you for this! Love your videos!
Paid Reaper user here!
Awesome content, exactly what I needed to see! You do phase flip on the way in? Or just happen to not need to on any of the tracks for this project?
I rarely have to ever flip the phase if the drums were mic'd properly at the source.
Thanks for this duder!
My pleasure Adam!
Wow! Those are some pretty large cuts, especially on the kick. Is that pretty typical or did this recording just call for it because the drum didn't sound that great or something? Also, just curious. I know you use the "behind the bookshelf technique" for your room mic. Do you typically only do mono room mic or do you go stereo? Thanks! Great video. I was a long time PT user and now use Reaper exclusively. Excellent program and can't beat the price.
Hello Matt! For some reason (maybe there's a way to adjust this) the graphic in the Rea EQ is shallow and makes the cuts look bigger than they actually are. I was only reducing those ranges by 6-8 dB which is relatively modest. I recorded this way back in 2011, so I was using 57's as room mics and placed them as far back in the room as possible. This was way before I came up with the "shelf" technique. Sometimes I use a mono room, sometimes I use a stereo pair...and other times I'll use all three. It depends on what mood I'm in. You can achieve a great room sound with a single mic.
Hi man, can I export from Guitar Pro? How does routing work for that?
Great sound! Question, in Reaper, how do you have your mixer window all the way to the top?? When I open up the mixer window in reaper it only goes up say 80% up the way but I notice you always have it 100% like in pro tools. How do you achieve this?? Silly question i know lol
You can undock the mixer so it can scale up to 100%. Just click the small pushpin docking icon in the upper right!
damn dude u look super great with beanie on !
😊
Is there a particular reason you're using two mono tracks each for your OH and room? Or, phrased another way, is there a reason I shouldn't use stereo tracks for the OH and room?
Thanks!
Yes. I want to be able to easily EQ, adjust and maybe even pan them independently.
great stuff as usual, Bobby! I am a reaper user. I also don't really have a chance to record live drums so have been using stuff like EZdrummer2. What kind of different approach(es) would you take to mixing a completely sampled kit? It already sounds so close to mix ready to my ear which is, admittedly, still in training!
Excellent question. I have a video on this coming out later this month. Stay tuned!
Reaper all the way!!
I use EZ Drummer 2 so I don't have the luxury of using a track for each kit piece..I've been using the ReaEq and ReaComp but can't get the drums to punch and be heavy..Basically I'm looking for a drum sound between Morbid Angel and Pantera..Any help or advice is appreciated..Thank you
I'm using EZ Drummer 2 in this tutorial, it can be done...just route each output to a new track in your DAW. Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/nSTRKzZNip0/v-deo.html
@@FrightboxRecording Subscribed and downloaded the template..A couple more questions: If I already have drums laid down, when I route each piece,would I have to record the parts again manually? Or can I use the EZ Drummer expansions such as Drumkit from Hell, etc...and just use one of the examples from the Search tab?
In other words, once I route the kit pieces, do I have to play the parts manually via Midi since it's a Virtual Instrument or can I use one of the examples from the Search tab? Thanks a million..:)
Filled in my details but didn't receive template?
Can this method be applied to ez drummer? I have the new will putney pack. I know the routing would be different but could I use the same processing?
Withou gates
Yes, just use waaaaayyy less EQ and compression. EZ Drummer is usually pre-mixed right out of the box.
how do i apply this to my DAW?
i downloaded the content package but have no idea how to use it. please help.
Shoot me an email at bobby@frightboxrecordingacademy.com and I'll point you in the right direction.
Agreed. Gear IS overrated, but also makes the difference when you actually have loud hi-fi in a roomy space (or nice headphones which we all have now). Still, for the price of that gear, you can rather add additional tiny samples and fx to enrich the mix.
Simply ass kickin sound!
Forgot to ask what physical mixer are you using?
None, I'm 100% in the box.
@@FrightboxRecording the box does it have a usb cord?
@@robjakala7177 "In-the-box" means in the computer, I don't use a mixer at all.
@@FrightboxRecording I’m sorry that was another video you had about recording physical drums….oops!
Another video about how to mix this guitars in reaper please...🙏🙏🙏
ua-cam.com/video/LPwQkl-8p5U/v-deo.html
Sorry for my english but I'm italian... anyway "I request to you" how have this guitars sound because I already see all of your mixing video tutorial👍 but for my ears this guitars definitely kick ass!
I'm confused as to why the snare bottom has all those sends...?
To send an INSANE amount of signal to the verb so that you mainly hear only the verb instead of the dry sound. You can't get that much signal to the send with only one instance.
What movie is in the intro? Been trying to figure it out for months
Night Of The Living Dead and Carnival Of Souls.
how did they record nine tracks on an eight input device?
I had a cheapo Presonus Digimax LT connected to my Digi002 via adat. It pipes in an additional 8 channels.
Kick EQ is really cut a huge hole on visual....!! :eyes:
What's the purpose of this? I mean... from personal experience I never cut a huge hole on it especially in low fqs.
I do if it needs it...and this kick needed it. Also, it's not as big of a cut as it looks on this particular plugin. Only around 6dB or so.
Those snare drums sound better than Lar's in St. Anger....oh wait...any drums do.
You know how you have to learn a language before bothering to apply the grammar?
Yeah, that's my problem with this awesome tutorial of yours. I wish I knew HALF of what you are trying to teach me, but I first have to go and learn what the terminology is and how to accomplish the submix part, routing, etc etc before I can even begin to know what you are talking about. 😂
snare tone kinda sounds like a glenn fricker mix
man i give you like in order you get a 667 and not 666 thank you!
there is no free template!!!!
The link is in the description box, I checked and it's there.
Reaper is the poor man's ProTools but with almost the same functionality. Reaper is the smart choice for budget musicians!
Pretty condescending comment there. Reaper is made by the guys that made win amp, don't need the money cause they sold win amp to AOL for a fortune. They wanted people to have an awesome daw that wasn't expensive so they made the reaper. It's 13mb to download and install. Just because it's cheap doesn't make a poor man's choice. Yes i use it and love it as a one man hobby mixer. Because for me it gives me the tools to do things i couldn't afford In 2007 when i first got a licence and anything else was just crazy money. Sorry to rant but hearing it labeled that way does it a disservice.
@@scallionboy8679 Don't get me wrong! As I've mentioned. It's a smart choice. I am a self-confessed Reaper user. I tried other software but reaper does have a very competitive with their software. I've used ProTools, but the price is no budget-friendly. For all my personal projects I've used reaper just to make myself clear here. I think that is not a condescending comment at all. I don't want to argue at all. :)
@@SxMx69Metal hi Jose, thanks for taking the time to respond, i am not wishing an argument either and i see that i made an assumption that you were a pro tools user, my bad there! So my comment was flawed in that and yours not at all condescending. My apologies. Reaper is an awesome tool that is in the grasp of many and and any who choose to use it, so i still don't think it's a poor man's choice though. They are giving us premium quality stuff at a really excellent price and could charge a fair bit more of they wished in my opinion. We just get to decide what vsti and libraries we want and aren't stuck with gbs of stuff we don't use/want, what's funny about this to me is that i actually bought an air music bundle cheap, which has a lot of the protools vstis and plugins 😄 60gbs worth of libraries! which i only now have vaccumm pro synth installed from that right now! Cause i don't use the rest at then moment and i recently changed computer and saw no need to reinstall them as i wanted to keep the plugins i use to a bare minimum of what i actually use to get the results i want and an forced to use a more limited number. You maybe didn't need to hear all of that. But thanks for taking the time of you made it this far.
@@scallionboy8679 awesome! I have used the wrong word for that either. Hahaha... My bad! Yes, that is right. Tons of addons for the ProTools but we can't use them all. I keep my mix minimalist. I have a one-man project. I don't have any problem using Reaper in all of my projects. Reaper is a must-have tool for most recording musicians. Thanks for elaborating it further. This will give the viewers a better outlook on this software. It's underrated because of the size, but almost all the valuable tools are included. Reaper is on top of my DAW list. Thanks for your time as well. Good luck with all your projects!
@@scallionboy8679 awesome! I have used the wrong word for that either. Hahaha... My bad! Yes, that is right. Tons of addons for the ProTools but we can't use them all. I keep my mix minimalist. I have a one-man project. I don't have any problem using Reaper in all of my projects. Reaper is a must-have tool for most recording musicians. Thanks for elaborating it further. This will give the viewers a better outlook on this software. It's underrated because of the size, but almost all the valuable tools are included. Reaper is on top of my DAW list. Thanks for your time as well. Good luck with all your projects!
Big help man! This was very helpful thank you! 🤘