I know you're here to show us how to use Reaper--and you most certainly have in the most helpful, pedagogical way--but you have also inadvertently (perhaps not so inadvertently), shown me what I've been wanting to see but could never afford as a solo songwriter/musician/producer: an actual producer just messing with a mix, in their own informed way. This is an incredible series that has taught me not only how to use Reaper, but also given me ideas to better approach EQ and mixing in general. Lots of producers on the internet horde their approach and knowledge behind a wall of subscription or pay-per-view. So, thank you for your philanthropy.
Dude, your knowledge and ability to make things understandable will be sorely missed. I think I speak for everyone in wishing you the best in your endeavors. Thanks for everything. I was relieved that I would be able to continue with your Reaper videos.
Dude I studied a four year music degree and I've learned more about studio techniques in these passed two videos than the entirety of that course, thank you so much for this series!
Amazing! I did a 4 year music tech degree, but at the same time I produced about 5 albums... they don’t sound great now, but hey.... and I graduated well over a decade ago, ay carumba...
Hey Adam, just want to say thank you so much for taking the time (and lots of it I suspect) to put these tutorials together. Not only are you showing us what Reaper is all about, but also how you can apply some of the tools within Reaper. That's often missing making it hard for newbies like me to understand. Keep it coming, Cheers mate.....
I got a masters degree in electrical engineering which was really a math degree in signal processing. It was totally lost on me, mostly because I couldn't find the motivation - what was the purpose. There are probably classmates of mine that work on DAW effects like these. Without a clear path to a reason to learn, I mustered through. I was more of an embedded hardware/software designer which I did very well by for a solid 15 years.
On to part two, and more questions. I'm glad you touched on drums early. I get what compression does. I also played with a few really good drummers. Compressing peaks across the board doesn't significantly change playing dynamics when recording, and I want to replicate a good live drummer when programming digital drums when recording. I recently first loaded Cakewalk as my DAW because it has a "click-to" tool to raise or lower impact level on each track to replicate a live drummer (or piano, etc) for dynamics, but is a discontinued product (that's a drag), so I'm here on your tutorial series to research Reaper. I was a bass player back when, so I was very much in touch with what the drummer was doing. I can play dynamics on bass and guitar, and to a degree on some keyboards. I can fake it somewhat on a drum set, but don't have room for them here, and I left my Ludwigs to someone else decades ago. My last Roland drum machine twenty years ago honestly didn't cut it. Compressing every snare hit to a set level isn't going to cut it if one wants real drum sounds on a recording. A double snare hit as demonstrated on your example would be ba-DAP, with the second hit a higher velocity impact, compressed or not. It happens every time by a real drummer, in my lengthy experience. I want to replicate that if I want this DAW. More questions coming...
Yeah, for dynamics, a drummer would impact the crash after the double snare hit. It wouldn't be buried, or he wouldn't play it. That spot would be a focus point, volume increased, or it wouldn't be a crash. It wouldn't happen every measure, but the drum track is isolated for the example. ....as for the tutorial, all I want to know is if I can set the accent levels on this kind of part. Maybe I haven't gotten to that part yet. Every note (including drum) dynamic is important to me, as a former live venue musician.
Dude, Bravo. You have a keen sense of teaching. Your style is right on, easy to follow, sometimes humorous but always informative and never boring. I am 2 into your sessions....continuing on. I love how you break Reaper down and make real world scenario just a part of the curriculum. I am treating these like classes, I follow with my own hands on after each video now !
idk how to thank you more for this whole series of actual good content, ive been diging shit on abelton for a whole year by myself getting no where and now im switching to reaper and this man just explains stuff in a way u dont know if its for beginner or for intermidate since he says the terms so causally but same time got a tight explainiton on it, ngl this is very epic
I really loved the part on Reaper compressors. Other tutorials don't explain each parameter in great detail. I usually don't hear much of a difference, or don't know what it's doing. Your tutorial explained it perfectly! I can't wait to watch the rest of the video.
Hello from USA. Lovin your tutorials on Reaper. You do an excellent job. Great to see the monitor up close because we can see what you are clicking on. It can be quite overwhelming for my little pea brain. Bravo Hop Pole ! Yuma,Arizona
You are an Amazing teacher, I am just starting with Reaper and I am so glad that I found your channel because I watched a video on the Reaper vlog channel and hardly pickup anything because he was going way to fast. Keep the good work, Kudos 😍😍👍👍🤗🤗🎸🎸
I am new to producing and I've started with Reaper. These tutorials are the best. Only on the second one and I am learning so much and you explain everything so well. Thank you for doing these!
This is an excellent, excellent series Adam - thank you for putting it together. I've been away from Reaper for so long and the package has changed enough that I desperately needed a refresher - this level of detail was just perfect. Also, considering you "weren't going too deeply into compression", that was a great explanation of the rudiments. Cheers!!
As a beginner I spent about 3 days trying to record basic enough drum, vox, guitar tracks to manipulate. There was a big gap in my knowledge from finishing the first video and starting this one because I needed a rock track at the start. Some of the stuff that blocked my progress of recording things one by one: Not knowing how to manipulate metronome, metronome routing into my recording, takes, loops, syncing. I'm know you'll cover these topics soon, but I though I'd let you know where I got hung up before starting this one. Thank you for everything. These videos are my favorite.
I have been mixing analog for years and got reaper 3 years ago it was a little overwhelming at first. i have learned so much from these videos that i never knew reaper could do. This is very informative and i will use this on next project. thanks so much you have a great way of showing and make it easy to understand. didnt know some of these things were built in. just got the thx package plugins and wandered about covering it in a video.
I just bought a comp, At2020, and scarlet solo gen3. For now, I'm just working on my vocals over premade beats but hope to make my own music one day. This foundational knowledge is going to make the initial startup so much easier! *Thanks!*
been using Reaper for a couple of years so I am not a total newbie but still have to admit I am learning a lot from this amazing tutorial .... thing is Reaper's user manual has over 900 pages but I have as I assume majority never made it pass page 50 :-)
excellent EXCELLENT tutorial. the D essr trick is just phenomenal. I didn't know what a De-esser was but now I can uninstall my freeware plugins and just start understanding multiband compression. Subbed and belled. Great stuff keep going on the reaper tips
I love you Adam Thank you so much for all the effort you put on these tutorials, they really cover up all little questions and possible doubts I may have with this program. You're great man
This tutorial and others are amazing. Thank you as new to reaper and been using cubase. I wanted to use a different DAW so wanted to try this and picked up some good tips.
Thanks for this 101 videos. I was looking for a sotfware to record guitar and voice and someone reffered me Reaper. You are seriously helping me figure the DAW out. Keep up.
Dude you are appreciated sooooooo much! I was so confused at first like why does this only have a couple hundred views and then I saw it was uploaded TODAY. You guys are the best and are truly helping people find their muse. only love!
Thank you so much for these videos. I am waiting for my interface to arrive and already learning so much about Reaper before I even download it. Cheers!
Big thumbs up! Easy to watch, very easy to understand. Perfectly done. I am finishing the series and hope there are more tips and tricks to find :) Thanks!
I am very inclinado to say that your Reaper vídeos are better than all those "traditional" guys use to do. They are cool, ok, I know but... ....this is what a really well do e vídeo should be. Thank you very much!!!
Oh my god I've been looking for a plugin that does the same thing that ReaFir subtract does but I had no idea what it's called and didn't want to spend any money. THANK YOU for showing me this holy graal of a plugin
I'm really having fun with this series. I'm just tracking some parts of songs that I had stacked and working on them as I watch the tutorial. This really helped a lot!
reaFir subtract: when you have built the noise profile you can hold down ctrl and use the mouse pointer to drag the profile outline up or down while playing the track to preserve as much of the recorded sound and eliminate as much noise as possible.
Thanks for this series man your a great teacher enjoying this series I’ve come from ableton so I’m a bit confused still never knew about impulse response files.
Really fantastic! I almost skipped this one - I mean - I understand the FX plugins, right? I'm glad I didn't cuz I learned a ton of really useful tricks that use some of these plugins in ways I had never even thought of before. Thanks for putting this all out there!
I would just like to say thank you for making these videos I have been a musician all of my life but literally never even so much as touched any type of recording anything lol... after deciding to put together a budget studio I was very intimidated when actually looking at reaper the first time however after watching part one and two I was able to record myself singing any playing guitar and do some basic editing and doesn't sound half bad........ Thank you so much very helpful and not boring teaching vids
Im here watching this, even tho i don't use Reaper. Im a bedroom guitarist just getting started in recording with my buddy who is well versed with pro tools. Im currently using pro tools intro. Gives me 8 audio, instrument and midi tracks. Im kind of annoyed by it tho cause pro tools intro only supports aax plugins, reaper seems way better in this case because there are more countless vst plugins than proprietary aax plugins.
This series is very helpful, but like many guitar oriented videos, the comparison of tones is blurred by using guitar tracks that are already fuzzy, distorted or otherwise crunched. You need a clean tone to make comparisons.
I do a lot of dub so the delay points were useful, i use a lot of effects as you'd expect. ReaFir is good for old type radio sounds on vocals. At the end of track recordings I use, split at cursor and delete the noisy non recorded bit I don't want
I know you're here to show us how to use Reaper--and you most certainly have in the most helpful, pedagogical way--but you have also inadvertently (perhaps not so inadvertently), shown me what I've been wanting to see but could never afford as a solo songwriter/musician/producer: an actual producer just messing with a mix, in their own informed way. This is an incredible series that has taught me not only how to use Reaper, but also given me ideas to better approach EQ and mixing in general. Lots of producers on the internet horde their approach and knowledge behind a wall of subscription or pay-per-view. So, thank you for your philanthropy.
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Well put mate, how great is it!?!!
So much actual and useful information all in one place, we're very lucky indeed.
Dude, your knowledge and ability to make things understandable will be sorely missed. I think I speak for everyone in wishing you the best in your endeavors. Thanks for everything. I was relieved that I would be able to continue with your Reaper videos.
Dude I studied a four year music degree and I've learned more about studio techniques in these passed two videos than the entirety of that course, thank you so much for this series!
Amazing! I did a 4 year music tech degree, but at the same time I produced about 5 albums... they don’t sound great now, but hey.... and I graduated well over a decade ago, ay carumba...
@@adamsteelproducer Wow that's nuts man! How did you find the time? haha
This is a truly excellent tutorial series. Saved me days or weeks of dicking around trying to figure stuff out. Thank you for your efforts!
Thanks! Part 4 comes out tomorrow so the series is coming together nicely :)
agreed. these are fantastic. thank you very much for breaking this all down so much.
shame he didnt talk about takes...
Anybody else binge watching?
I am now lol
Yes!
He's "Fitz" for Reaper!
Yup.
YESSSS!
Absolutely love the compressors and delay. Been using them for a decade at this point. I don't really use the EQ but it's really good as well.
Hey Adam, just want to say thank you so much for taking the time (and lots of it I suspect) to put these tutorials together. Not only are you showing us what Reaper is all about, but also how you can apply some of the tools within Reaper. That's often missing making it hard for newbies like me to understand. Keep it coming, Cheers mate.....
I got a masters degree in electrical engineering which was really a math degree in signal processing. It was totally lost on me, mostly because I couldn't find the motivation - what was the purpose. There are probably classmates of mine that work on DAW effects like these. Without a clear path to a reason to learn, I mustered through. I was more of an embedded hardware/software designer which I did very well by for a solid 15 years.
Thanks so much for this. There just aren't that many people focusing on Reaper and bringing us along from the beginning. Good stuff!
On to part two, and more questions. I'm glad you touched on drums early. I get what compression does. I also played with a few really good drummers. Compressing peaks across the board doesn't significantly change playing dynamics when recording, and I want to replicate a good live drummer when programming digital drums when recording. I recently first loaded Cakewalk as my DAW because it has a "click-to" tool to raise or lower impact level on each track to replicate a live drummer (or piano, etc) for dynamics, but is a discontinued product (that's a drag), so I'm here on your tutorial series to research Reaper. I was a bass player back when, so I was very much in touch with what the drummer was doing. I can play dynamics on bass and guitar, and to a degree on some keyboards. I can fake it somewhat on a drum set, but don't have room for them here, and I left my Ludwigs to someone else decades ago. My last Roland drum machine twenty years ago honestly didn't cut it. Compressing every snare hit to a set level isn't going to cut it if one wants real drum sounds on a recording. A double snare hit as demonstrated on your example would be ba-DAP, with the second hit a higher velocity impact, compressed or not. It happens every time by a real drummer, in my lengthy experience. I want to replicate that if I want this DAW. More questions coming...
Yeah, for dynamics, a drummer would impact the crash after the double snare hit. It wouldn't be buried, or he wouldn't play it. That spot would be a focus point, volume increased, or it wouldn't be a crash. It wouldn't happen every measure, but the drum track is isolated for the example. ....as for the tutorial, all I want to know is if I can set the accent levels on this kind of part. Maybe I haven't gotten to that part yet. Every note (including drum) dynamic is important to me, as a former live venue musician.
I love this tutorial where you've elaborated and proved that in-built effects can do as much as a premium plug-in or hardware
Dude, Bravo. You have a keen sense of teaching. Your style is right on, easy to follow, sometimes humorous but always informative and never boring. I am 2 into your sessions....continuing on. I love how you break Reaper down and make real world scenario just a part of the curriculum. I am treating these like classes, I follow with my own hands on after each video now !
idk how to thank you more for this whole series of actual good content, ive been diging shit on abelton for a whole year by myself getting no where and now im switching to reaper and this man just explains stuff in a way u dont know if its for beginner or for intermidate since he says the terms so causally but same time got a tight explainiton on it, ngl this is very epic
Loving your Reaper tutorials 😊 thanks Adam 👏👍
I really loved the part on Reaper compressors. Other tutorials don't explain each parameter in great detail. I usually don't hear much of a difference, or don't know what it's doing. Your tutorial explained it perfectly! I can't wait to watch the rest of the video.
Hello from USA. Lovin your tutorials on Reaper. You do an excellent job. Great to see the monitor up close because we can see what you are clicking on. It can be quite overwhelming for my little pea brain. Bravo Hop Pole ! Yuma,Arizona
This is what I was missing five years ago when I started using reaper!
After messing around with it for half a year I learnt most of what you've covered in these two lessons. I should've looked into video lessons sooner!
I have to say thank you for understanding how to teach us new folks the real process. I really appreciate you.
You are an Amazing teacher, I am just starting with Reaper and I am so glad that I found your channel because I watched a video on the Reaper vlog channel and hardly pickup anything because he was going way to fast. Keep the good work, Kudos 😍😍👍👍🤗🤗🎸🎸
I am new to producing and I've started with Reaper. These tutorials are the best. Only on the second one and I am learning so much and you explain everything so well. Thank you for doing these!
It's nice to hear someone (a Brit) talking sense and more concerned with the process than him or herself.
This is an excellent, excellent series Adam - thank you for putting it together. I've been away from Reaper for so long and the package has changed enough that I desperately needed a refresher - this level of detail was just perfect. Also, considering you "weren't going too deeply into compression", that was a great explanation of the rudiments. Cheers!!
As a beginner I spent about 3 days trying to record basic enough drum, vox, guitar tracks to manipulate. There was a big gap in my knowledge from finishing the first video and starting this one because I needed a rock track at the start. Some of the stuff that blocked my progress of recording things one by one: Not knowing how to manipulate metronome, metronome routing into my recording, takes, loops, syncing. I'm know you'll cover these topics soon, but I though I'd let you know where I got hung up before starting this one. Thank you for everything. These videos are my favorite.
I have been mixing analog for years and got reaper 3 years ago it was a little overwhelming at first. i have learned so much from these videos that i never knew reaper could do. This is very informative and i will use this on next project. thanks so much you have a great way of showing and make it easy to understand. didnt know some of these things were built in. just got the thx package plugins and wandered about covering it in a video.
I just bought a comp, At2020, and scarlet solo gen3. For now, I'm just working on my vocals over premade beats but hope to make my own music one day. This foundational knowledge is going to make the initial startup so much easier! *Thanks!*
love these tutorials - I never have the energy to watch tutorials, but these are so clear and helpful - thanks so much
You, sir, are a goddamn hero.
Lol. Tums up.
been using Reaper for a couple of years so I am not a total newbie but still have to admit I am learning a lot from this amazing tutorial .... thing is Reaper's user manual has over 900 pages but I have as I assume majority never made it pass page 50 :-)
Love the concept of using IR for amp simulation. Didn't even know that was possible... Makes sense, so why not? Cool ! Great tutorial
That is the clearest explanation of drum compression I have ever heard. Thank you.
Finally have decided to make the switch to Reaper and you are making that transition so much easier. Thanks for all you're doing.
Thanks for the series. What an excellent teacher!
Man, so much resourceful content !
Thank you so much.
excellent EXCELLENT tutorial. the D essr trick is just phenomenal. I didn't know what a De-esser was but now I can uninstall my freeware plugins and just start understanding multiband compression. Subbed and belled. Great stuff keep going on the reaper tips
I love you Adam
Thank you so much for all the effort you put on these tutorials, they really cover up all little questions and possible doubts I may have with this program. You're great man
This tutorial and others are amazing. Thank you as new to reaper and been using cubase. I wanted to use a different DAW so wanted to try this and picked up some good tips.
Thank you so much for your 101 series on Reaper. Best tutorial I've seen by far.
Thanks for this 101 videos. I was looking for a sotfware to record guitar and voice and someone reffered me Reaper. You are seriously helping me figure the DAW out. Keep up.
These tutorials are really quite clever
Cheers, Mr Steel, very helpful, as before, bless your heart, thanks for sharing, really appreciate it.
Amazing work, my friend!
Wow, so much information. I have to watch, listen and learn this video many times. Thank you!
Loving this series dude, thanks! Really awesome content and presentation style.
Dude you are appreciated sooooooo much! I was so confused at first like why does this only have a couple hundred views and then I saw it was uploaded TODAY. You guys are the best and are truly helping people find their muse. only love!
Thank you so much for these videos. I am waiting for my interface to arrive and already learning so much about Reaper before I even download it. Cheers!
You have great tutorials...... very helpful
I appreciate your dedication and educational verve - cheers, Reaper truly is amazing value.
^AGREED
Probably the best reaper effects tutorial I’ve ever seen! Thank you :)
Keep doing this man!! I ve seen lot of videos about reaper and you are the best without discussion!! Greetings From Argentina!
Another excellent video Adam, thank you so much!
Looking forward to the drums vid, you give me hope!
Amazing tutorial you’re teaching me way more than just reaper this is gold! Cheers
Just wonderfull tutorial, thank you so much for such a detailed explanation! Keep it up man!
Thanks for sharing this gold with mere mortals!
Big thumbs up! Easy to watch, very easy to understand. Perfectly done. I am finishing the series and hope there are more tips and tricks to find :) Thanks!
these are great. im a mixer but wanted to learn reaper and really appreciate your detailed explanation
These are excellent videos. Thank you very much
I am very inclinado to say that your Reaper vídeos are better than all those "traditional" guys use to do.
They are cool, ok, I know but...
....this is what a really well do e vídeo should be.
Thank you very much!!!
Oh my god I've been looking for a plugin that does the same thing that ReaFir subtract does but I had no idea what it's called and didn't want to spend any money. THANK YOU for showing me this holy graal of a plugin
Wow, really just wow and this is barely intro #2... thank You!
Ive been using for a few montths, but this just schooled me, great watching!
Love your videos. These tips are presented really well and I find them to be extremely easy to understand and follow!
I'm really having fun with this series. I'm just tracking some parts of songs that I had stacked and working on them as I watch the tutorial. This really helped a lot!
Dude, the greatest videos of Reaper! Congrats and thanks!!!! Greetings from Argentina
reaFir subtract: when you have built the noise profile you can hold down ctrl and use the mouse pointer to drag the profile outline up or down while playing the track to preserve as much of the recorded sound and eliminate as much noise as possible.
Fantastic video you are teaching people the right way.😊
Another excellent video. Thanks Mr. H. Pole.
Oustanding again, brilliant
I am learning so much from this series. Thank you.
Like the previous episode, excellent job, didactic, clear, and full of content!!! Many thanks!!
Thanks for this series man your a great teacher enjoying this series I’ve come from ableton so I’m a bit confused still never knew about impulse response files.
You are the BEST. I love everything about this video series. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
absolutely delightful. The amount of knowledge packed into this is insane. Thank you so much for doing this
Your videos are so helpful. I have decided to download Reaper rather than Pro Tools First, when my Interface arrives. Cheers!
I echo (echo...echo...) what others have said that this is a brilliant series. Many thanks.
Really fantastic! I almost skipped this one - I mean - I understand the FX plugins, right? I'm glad I didn't cuz I learned a ton of really useful tricks that use some of these plugins in ways I had never even thought of before. Thanks for putting this all out there!
Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorial! I am a beginner and this series is very helpful ❤️
Thank you! You are the best. I’ve just discovered the channel, it’s amazing!
This video is really quite clever!
i see what you did there
And you really must admit that it is quite powerful too...😂
Great tutorial, many thanks.
Oh my God.......its really good!!
I would just like to say thank you for making these videos I have been a musician all of my life but literally never even so much as touched any type of recording anything lol... after deciding to put together a budget studio I was very intimidated when actually looking at reaper the first time however after watching part one and two I was able to record myself singing any playing guitar and do some basic editing and doesn't sound half bad........ Thank you so much very helpful and not boring teaching vids
Great, clear teaching. Thank you.
Amazing instructor! From Chicago and I would love to see some vocal tracks specifics and a track layering effect to make a choir effect.
Great video, thank you!
Dude! You just made EVERYTHING better! My sword is yours.
This tutorial is really CLEVER! 😁😜
Im here watching this, even tho i don't use Reaper. Im a bedroom guitarist just getting started in recording with my buddy who is well versed with pro tools. Im currently using pro tools intro. Gives me 8 audio, instrument and midi tracks.
Im kind of annoyed by it tho cause pro tools intro only supports aax plugins, reaper seems way better in this case because there are more countless vst plugins than proprietary aax plugins.
This series is very helpful, but like many guitar oriented videos, the comparison of tones is blurred by using guitar tracks that are already fuzzy, distorted or otherwise crunched. You need a clean tone to make comparisons.
AWSOME! thx so much! PLEASE do one on the s88 komplete kontrol midi
This deserves millions of views, great Adam! Thanks for spending your time on us popcorn-eating wannabe-you nerds with just a simple laptop ;)
Cheers! Hey the setup is attainable for anybody willing to put in 10 years and be obsessed....
ReaVerb 4 the win!
instant subscribe. great tutorial
What a great teacher. Subscribed.
Thanks for these tutorials Adam!
I do a lot of dub so the delay points were useful, i use a lot of effects as you'd expect. ReaFir is good for old type radio sounds on vocals. At the end of track recordings I use, split at cursor and delete the noisy non recorded bit I don't want
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!
Excellent tutorial! Like and subscribed. Cheers from Argentina.
You are the man. Thank you so much for this.
very well made tutorial, I agree with about everything you said and learnt some new things :)