I said on a guitarist forum that Reaper is really easy to get started with. One member didn’t really agree and challenged me to make a tutorial to prove it, so – here it is! My first video tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdHnhd-sHM The tutorial covers really basic stuff and only assumes that you have installed Reaper on […]
Read more The newest version of Reaper (4.10) has an amazing new feature, found in some other DAWs – track freeze. Freezing a track means rendering it to a static sound file, the point of which is to save a lot of precious CPU cycles. I’ve done this manually before, mostly to be able to work on […]
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I’m usually singing the constant praise of Reaper in this blog. This time I’m going to point out a big weakness, in my opinion. The bundled VST effects are either too complicated for me or not very good. After numerous attempts with ReDelay and Reverberate I get only crap results. What I want is more […]
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This might be the coolest thing I’ve seen in… well, a long while! A hardware pedal you can load your regular VST amp sims into and bring to rehearsal or a gig. To quote the manufacturer SM Pro: It’s no secret that some of the very best guitar tones and effects are now being created […]
Read more Last week the editors of Audio Geek Zine, SoundHow and DIY Recording Equipment posted almost 100 tips and tricks for my favorite DAW Reaper. A few samples: #REAPER tip: The Dynamic Split function can be used to chop up media at transients, remove silence and turn audio to MIDI #REAPER tip: Every media item has […]
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Redwirez is one of the most famous impulse response makers. They have a catalog of 49 cabinets that have been sampled with lots of mics in all possible positions. The full bundle is $125, but they’re giving away one of their cabs for free. And it’s a famous one – and the perfect complement to […]
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If you have a Reaper project that won’t load or that makes the application crash, chances are that the cause is a brokenVST plugin. An example of a plugin that often causes problems is LePou’s otherwise excellent impulse loader LeCab2. If LeCab2 can’t find its selected impulses it crashes Reaper on load. This is particularly […]
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1. Filter out the low end When recording guitars some inaudible discord is always included in the low end. The only thing it does is collide with the bass, so filter it out. One way of doing it is adding a filter and raising the cutoff frequency until you hear a change in sound, and […]
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Have you ever noticed that songs played on the radio sound more powerful than when you play them from a CD (on the same sound system)? Are your own songs sound less powerful than professionally mixed songs? Why are ads on TV much louder than the actual programs? (at least on Swedish TV). The answer […]
Read more I’ve already dubbed Reaper the best DAW – functionality, ease of use and value for money. Another cool thing is that you can do a portable install to a USB stick or a cloud file service, like DropBox. This can be very handy if you, like me, use Reaper on more than one computer and […]
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