Saved my life with this video man. I’m 38. I put the guitar down at 22 and regretted ever since but life happens. I just picked up an Ibanez S for $150 and decided I wanted to just do MY thing. No bands, none of the BS, just me jammin for me and recording it so I can track my own progress and growth. That’s it. This is the millionth video I’ve seen from all over RUclips and you’re instantly the first person to actually teach me how to do this without making it ridiculously complicated. Thank you man. I can just jam away now.
Same here man. Bands ruined it for me. I put my guitar down because of it. Lol. Just wanna play for fun and a personal challenge. 42 now and getting the fire again :)
Im on the same boat. I had 2 bands my whole life (from 17 till 38 - im 43 now) recently I moved to another city and stopped playing. Tried to start a band again, we rehearse 2 times and the guys just disapeared without saying anything, it let me so so so frustated that I think I got a little bit of a depression, didnt want to do anything! Now it's gone, I said to myself I will write an album and release it on spotify, it will be my "revenge"!
Thank you so very much for this easy to understand tutorial!! I've been racking my brain for a month on this and now after 20 minutes I've got all the right stuff and made a recording .I'm 54 and this is a great new hobby after playing guitar for past 30+ years..
Another great tip is to have different eq for each track to have even more wide stereo image. In general, I think that recording the double separately is better sounding and improves your playing overall.
I’m two weeks into Reaper and I am loving it. I was a touring musician for a long time and produced bands from behind the engineer because I have an ear but I never got the education on a DAW. So here I am. Next I’ll be getting into programming drums.
Awesome! For me, the key to programmed drums is humanizing velocity rather than humanizing timing. Also lean into how much drums can change a guitar riff. Listen to the chorus of No one knows for an example :-)
Super simple - melody panned to one side, harmony panned to the other. I made a whole video on harmonies (but that's more about creating hamonies than producing) Guitar Harmonies for Beginners [Reaper Tutorial] ruclips.net/video/aEtZ8EqV5Vs/видео.html
Just fantastic. Your video has been super helpful, man. Reading tons of long docs is not as helpful as your short video. It gives a nice start to Reaper. Thanks a lot. Keep staying young, doing "young stuff", like I try to do as well :)
Great tutorial, thank you! When you add the plugin effect for metal sound (at 10:14), you jump directly to the plugins window, but I can't see how exactly to get there.
Huh... I was very intimidated but curious to try this myself. I'm glad I found your video. You made it look simple and I understood everything perfectly. Thank you
Thanks! I haven't used windows in ages but I wish someone had told me about ASIO back then. And that I could have the hours I wasted on ASIO4all back 😅
Been on and off guitar for like 12 years now… I’ve had a gaming pc very cable for about 2 years now and I just watched and decided to get a focusrite and try to record some of the riffs I’ve created along the years. I’m sure it’s a learning curve ahead but thanks for simplifying as much as possible.
7:09 holy sh*t thank you thank you thank you! Dude I was about to pull my hair out because I couldn't understand why my FX weren't coming through, I had it under input one LOL! Earned a sub here
I recommend people have their 0 point of the session, not right on the zero for tracking. I have all my tracks start at around 5 secs up the timeline. It avoids cutoffs of the start. Then if you want, once complete, you can simply pull all your tracks back to 0 before you print.
Good advice! I'm almost always a little bit off when tracking, and if you're early you will just miss a tiny bit of your recording. Also when you are rendering your track for upload to Spotify etc you want a short silence (200-300 milliseconds) at the start of a track so it won't get cut off when it's streamed.
Thanks so much! I recently discovered Reaper. I only tried Ableton and FL, but Reaper seems more like it for metal. I will install it and try to record some stuff.
Great simple walk through. One change, a computer MIC input is usable with an adapter from instrument cable to 1/8” stereo jack. Although, it would be much better to just buy a used single input usb audio interface for a few bucks.
Osiris Guitar, Thank you so much! I'm new to home recording and this tutorial was very helpful. You have yourself a subscriber, sir. I would love to see a tutorial for adding/using EZ Drummer with Reaper. Thanks again.
Yup, same here brother! I spent more time trying to figure out the DAW than I did recording until I tried Reaper. I did ok with Acid but Reaper seemed to be better equipped for my needs so moved on to that many years ago. Great vid! Thanks
Great video. Idk if you still check these but when I record a track, put distortion on it, save it to my files on Mac, and when I listen to it it’s just clean guitar. 😵💫
Reaper uses what is called non-destructive editing, which is a great thing. No matter how much you cut up or manipulate a track, the original file is always left alone. This means, if you want to get an audio file with all of the changes applied (such as having a distortion plugin) you have to render it. Mark the time segment you want to export, select render in the menu (file -> render), set Bounds to "time selection" (or entire project if you want that), select format and then press the "Render 1 file" button.
One of the coolest, simplest and easy to follow tutorials I have ever watched on RUclips. But, do you have links for the plugins that you used? Also do you tutorial on how to mix that drums and how to do it? Liked and subbed!
Thanks! I haven't done any videos on drums, mainly because I'm... not great with drums :-D. But it's my biggest focus right now in my metal production, so it's not impossible there will be a video about it down the line. I'll update the description with the plugins I've used.
Just Done a Bit Experimenting With Track Panning Guitar After Watching Your Video. Yes, it's a Noticeably Different Sound, Much Fuller, Better. I've Been Recording On Reaper For Over 10 Years, With A Line 6 Pod Farm Interface, And Have The Basic Reaper License. I Used It Free For Years, And Find It Relatively Easy To Use For Basic Stuff...I love Finding New Stuff With Recording on there, I'm Learning New Stuff All The Time, Cheers!! - 👍
@@noelduggan72 Yeah, double tracking is magic! Just for the record, Reaper isn't free. You can use the full version for ever without paying, but if you use it you should really pay for it. You get two major versions for just $60. Best money I ever spent.
@@osiris-guitar Yes, I Used It For A Long Time Free, And Loved It!! I Bought The License 2 Years Ago, And Have Recorded Lots Of Songs, Which I Post On RUclips, And Sound Cloud. - I Love Listening To Metal And Heavy Rock, But I'm Not A Shredder, So I Usually Record Softer, Slower Stuff, But Still Enjoy Myself - 👍
@@osiris-guitar I'm A Lefty....And I years ago, I Picked Up The Black Sabbath Tony Iommi Power Chord Stuff Straight Away, With My Little Zoom 707 effects pedal . I Just Mirrored What He Was Doing.(I Watch RUclips tutorials now!! 👍) It's What Got Me Into Electric Guitars, I Just Had An Acoustic Before That.
For the double-tracking part: when you drag the recording from the parent track to the sub-tracks, are you actually removing the audio from the parent track itself and not just duplicating it on the sub-tracks? Is that why the audio on the parent track is grayed out after you drag it to the sub-tracks?
I'm dragging it away from the parent track. The gray waveform shown on the parent track is a sort of superimposed "shadow" of all the child tracks combined.
@@hargappelpie4845 Back then I never did anything outside a bit of tracker doodles. But that was the big selling point of the Atari over the Amiga right - MIDI. (I was an Amiga guy 😅)
Be sure to check Privacy settings on a Mac and give Reaper the proper rights if there is no input and everything else is set up correctly. Learnt the hard way.
Put the cursor where you want the split and press S on the keyboard. That's the standard cut command in Reaper. After splitting the clip into two parts, just drag and drop them to the sub tracks. Dragging a clip into an empty area will even create tge the track for you (as its own track, not a sub track)
Very true. You also can't control the volume on the channels separately if you do one plugin on a parent track (if you lower the volume on the left it will make the input lower on the left, not the output). So one completely separate track for each channel is safer. The only reasons I usually put the amp sim on the parent track is for better performance and to be able to make adjustments in just one place.
Can someone please help me? At 8:00, you can see that he goes through the input settings. He selects mono 2. I would like to record my guitar sound in stereo. When I click on this, my guitar sounds best through the headphones, and it also sounds stereo. This is true during recording as well. But when I listen back to the recording, I only hear the guitar playing in my right ear. This stereo setting sounds the best, so I would like to record my guitar in stereo. What am I doing wrong?
Recording in stereo does nothing helpful since the output from the guitar is mono (unless you have stereo effects like ping pong delay). It sounds better in your headphones since it's playing in both ears, but it's still mono. If you want an awesome sounding guitar tone record mono twice and put those as the right and left channels of a stereo track. Look up double tracking for more in-depth tutorial (haven't made one myself).
Oh, that's such a difficult question to answer depending on what you want to do. For instruments, I really recommend the NeuralDSP guitar amp sims and Superior Drummer. Also wouldn't make it without Izotope Ozone for mastering...
Hi, thank you for the video. I have an HX stomp and I use it as a user interface, however whenever I use the dry signal and load a plugin, I hear both, the processed and the dry one. How do I get rid of the dry signal?
You drag the track to a special position under the parent where the line indicating its new position becomes shorter. You can also press the folder icon on the parent track (bottom left) to make it into a folder (i.e. make the track under it into a subtrack)
I don't know any key bindings, but with a mouse: 1. Press the little folder icon on a track. That will make all the following tracks subtracks of the current one 2. Drag tracks like to reorder them, but drag them "inwards" (to the right). Then the line marking where the track will end up gets indented indicating it will become a subtrack.
for any guitar player out there that is looking to record his/her guitar parts and at the same time sounding thick and heavy i dont recommend to copy/paste your samples into another tracks, just play them by default that way you are getting the full benefits of the "stereo" recording if you do however copy/paste your samples into your guitar tracks than actually playing them, its still OK but you are basicly recording at "Mono" which is bad
I'm not copying the same sample. If you watch carefully I record the same part twice, split the recording in half and drag the second part to another track. There's no copying going on whatsoever. This is the most misunderstood part of this video, I'm thinking I should probably make a separate video about just that.
Thanks man, you clear so many things how to do it and do it easy. I have only one question, i have Emu 0404 USB and M-audio fast track pro sound card on each pc, so i need turn up the gain on sound card inst all the way up but keep under the clip before using VST plugins or i can leave gain all the way down?
Yes - gain should be up, but not clipping. The gain affects the input, not the output (to the computer), so if you turn it all the way down you won't get any signal at all into the interface and consequently nothing into the computer.
Awesome video!Can you please help me with the input gain,what do you click to set it up or down_When I click on my recording I cant increase or decrease the signal and I am always clipping? please help !!!!!!!
@@janbolkovac5296 Most important is to lower the input gain/volume on your audio interface. If your hardware delivers a signal that is too loud there is nothing your DAW can do. You can't unclip a clipped signal...
You are correct! But I didn't copy it, I just played it twice in the same recording and then split the recording in half. So that's exactly the same as recording the left, stopping and then recording the right. If I had copied the entire take there would have been no widening at all.
Thx for the time you put to explained everything its clear and very well done but i have a main problem.I have a Focusrite solo 3 rd Gen.Everything seems to be well set but i dont see the reaper bar at the bottom.The one where we see record button.Just the one in the left grey area.When i push record button and space bar,after i set the metronome,i dont see the waveforms while im playing.Do you have any idea why? I can hear my playing but not the wave of the sound.Like if it wasnt recording. Thx in advanced Mate great video.
Have you armed the track you are recording to? (it's the round button to the left on the track) The transport bar at the bottom (with play, rec etc) can be shown with View -> Transport in the menus. If it's enabled but you can't see it, you might have accidentally dragged it away somewhere...
@@osiris-guitar Yes i did armed the button but its good now i manage to record the track with control R thx a lot. And thx again now i can see the button rec with play,rec,etc with the transport in the menu you are a life saver :)
Hi, i just,purchased reaper V6, but i can t find any plug in for my guitar, for example i tryed to to find the neural DPS, but it doesn t appear in the list
Reaper isn't bundled with any instrument plugins. The Neural DSP plugins you have to purchase separately. There are free amp sims as well, links to them and tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/qCI6qJgRNy4/видео.html
Never mind, I realized that they actually weren't on the right folder location. The AU files on your blog ARE indeed 64-bit version of both VST and AU and they do work in Garageband, so it's safe to assume that they'll work on the latest version of Logic as well.
@@osiris-guitar I'm not sure if it's a software compatibility issue, but when I open on Garageband (latest version) it works but when I change amp channels (orange to red in Lecto) there is some lag. Also for some reason it does not give me an option between Mono and Stereo, so it's basically just mono. Just thought I'd share this in case someone is having a similar experience.
Hi I'm new to reaper so to do two seperate recordings and or extra effects to I need to have amp sim instances on all the tracks? thats a bit CPU intensive also how can I record over a certain part of a riff to play it better but also have a few bars before recording that I can have the guitar ready in my hands and not record over the track? I can't find any videos on this
You can do one parent track with amp sims and the two recordings on sub tracks panned 100% left and right. But it's easier to get right with effects put on both tracks, especially if you don't pan 100%, do volume changes on the sub tracks etc
Question: I have a Neural DSP Quad Cortex. I want to double track. Can I just record a left mono track and right mono track into my DAW with one play through. Then pan each left and right . I am also able to record in stereo on one track with two different amps. Help or do I have to always record twice meaning the same lines twice or can I record one line into two different amps that are on a left mono and right mono ?? Help thanks 🙏
I won't be true double tracking. For a live situation it would be good, but when you record you want two different takes. There's something in the subtle differences between to similar but not identical takes that creates width and smoothes over small mistakes. That doesn't happen with one take, even if it's split, hard panned and routed through different amps.
And now I need the funktion of Audio Quantize! And I use as a beginner 4 x Guitar 1 and 4x Guitar 2 for Wall of Sound. Chorus 8x Guitar 1 and 8x Guitar 2. I cant' copy becsuse of Phase and I will use my Valve Amps and no PlugIns.. Do you have a Video for me, please?
I usually do just 1 x guitar 1 and 1 x guitar 2 for rhythm (verse and chorus). That's double tracking. Rarely I do 2 x left and 2 x right (quad tracking). But for that you need four really really tight takes. 4 x of each will not give you a wall of sound unless you're exactly spot on with every take, it will give you a wall of mud. Make sure you're using the bass correctly to provide the right punch and low end including low mids. Guitars provide mids and highs, not lows.
When I play my two takes back to back in doubling I can't figure out to split them in half. When I play them play back together after doubling it's all out of time!
Not entirely sure what you mean... But you don't split the tracks, you pan them. One take to the right, one take to the left. When it comes to time sync, did you record with a metronome or a drum track so that the recordings sit right on the grid?
1792 sounds absolutely insane, I'm surprised you don't get a lot of latency. I'm at 64 :-o. What audio interface do you have? If you're on windows, are you using asio4all or an asio driver that is specifically made for your interface?
Subscribed...🤘 Thank for the video! I have a question,I have Boss Katana and how can I record dry signal and wet signal as I see a lot of guitaris after they record they play the recording and change the amp to hear if they can get a better sound..I hope it makes sense what I am trying to say Or this is possibel just with plug ins or things like Helix pedal board?
I don't know a lot about the Boss Katana, but I know that my old Line 6 Pod X3 had multichannel USB input. With that you could do stereo recording, OR you could select input dry for one track and input wet for another and record those two at the same time. What do the inputs from the Katana look like in your DAW?
@@osiris-guitar I use record out from Katana to Presounus interface and Reaper..sorry I don't know a lot about this type of recording I am new to this 😊
I don't know exactly how to do this in Windows.... You can change audio device in preferences to your system default audio device. But I'm guessing you want to use input from your audio interface and output to your regular sound card. In MacOS you do that by creating an aggregate audio device, in Windows... It's been too long since I used Reaper in Windows 😅
Yes, it's a commercial plugin, not included with Reaper. There are free ones too (search for NAM Neural Amp Modeler - similarly named but not affiliated), but the ones from NeuralDSP are amazing. 14 day trial if you want to test them out.
Im new to this so forgive me in advance. I have a peavy 6505mh that has a Input for my computer built in. Would i still need an audio interface or will that peavy act as that with the built in input?
The answer is a bit complicated. The USB on the 6505mh theoretically acts as an audio interface. However, if you're using Windows there is no low-latency ASIO driver for it. So you should be able to use it as an audio interface, but it might be lagging when you record. If you are not going to do monitoring via your DAW, it could be fine (i.e. if you listen to what you play through the amp while you're recording). If you want to use an amp sim in real time however, you need to monitor through the DAW and that means you need to get latency down for it work (down to something like 10 ms for you to be able to play and hear without lag). You could try installing ASIO4all to see if that works. That's a generic ASIO driver that sometimes works well enough to make a generic audio interface low latency.
Not entirely sure I get what your question is, but what I do in the video is: 1. record the rhythm twice in the same recording, 2. drag the recording to first subtrack 3. place cursor between the two takes (kind of middle of the recording) and press S to split the recording in two and 4. drag the last half of the recording onto the second subtrack.
I had to copy and paste the second track to the third track just to show three waveforms otherwise when I moved the second track to the third it left the second track empty. I have the parent track in stereo and the subtracks 2 and 3 panned hard left and hard right. I don't think you're supposed to do this.
You can't copy the same take to the two panned tracks. You have to make two separate takes. I know this is a bit unclear in the video where it looks like I'm copying the same take. What I'm actually doing is two takes in the same recording, and then cutting the recording in half..
thank you is it okay to use my Marshall guitar amplifier for the audio output, or is it necessary to have monitors or headphones for good sound clarity? there are multiple output ports in the focusrite interface.... which port should I use for getting clear recording? thanks again
Depends on what you are doing. For playing the amp is fine. I think that if you're mixing though, you'd want at least headphones to be able to hear small differences and get a more neutral output.
To hear the sound as you play, you need to arm the track and have monitoring (the little speaker icon on the track) activated. If the meters on the track aren't moving there's something wrong with your input (the wrong device or port selected for instance).
Hi am hearing my guitar single sound before I even open my daw...this is leading to a chorus kinda of effect when I click on audio monitoring in REAPER....PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS 😢😢 I even turned off the direct monitoring still cnt figure it Am using windows 10 super appreciate if you could help me figure this out
@@osiris-guitar @osiris-guitar well I have diabled direct monitoring aswell and still no go...well it's a generic audio interface (Vault solo A.I) I've installed ASIO DRIVERS aswell
@@osiris-guitar I have a Neural Dsp plug-in in a track, and i hear dry and plug-in at the same time, i tried to push the monitor button on my audio interface but still the sound :/
Regarding latency: What then, would I do in a situation where my latency is over 10ms and I simply MUST HAVE a guitar sound with plug-in effects running in real time in order to record my parts? Do I need a better computer with a faster processor at that point? I'm not sure what benefit setting the input/playback knob fully counterclockwise (full input signal only) would be unless I was recording completely un-effected mic or line signals in.
As you say, there's no point in direct monitoring unless you are working without plugins. But there's a lot you can do to mediate latency. Optimize your OS: stop things that are running that you don't need (applications and background services). Turn off any plugins you don't absolutely need when recording. Especially stuff like mastering plugins on the master track can be a real latency killer. You can also freeze the other tracks (= temporarily prerender them with effects applied). You can record in a separate project with a minimum of tracks, and then move the recorded tracks into your main project. Even with a crappy laptop you should be completely fine with real-time monitoring when recording a guitar with an active amp sim. Here's a blog post I wrote about it ages ago: www.osirisguitar.com/optimizing-audio-latency-reaper/ . There are also uncountable other videos and blog posts about this topic.
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Saved my life with this video man. I’m 38. I put the guitar down at 22 and regretted ever since but life happens. I just picked up an Ibanez S for $150 and decided I wanted to just do MY thing. No bands, none of the BS, just me jammin for me and recording it so I can track my own progress and growth. That’s it. This is the millionth video I’ve seen from all over RUclips and you’re instantly the first person to actually teach me how to do this without making it ridiculously complicated. Thank you man. I can just jam away now.
I did the same thing and I’m 48. It’s pretty common more then we think. I read this kinda thing all over the place.
Same here man. Bands ruined it for me. I put my guitar down because of it. Lol. Just wanna play for fun and a personal challenge. 42 now and getting the fire again :)
This is nice. I'm 29 and i'm kinda done with bands either. Let's just build ourselves into it :) wish you all a good journey, gentleman.
I go long periods without playing guitar, but I would say I played my whole life, off and on.
Im on the same boat. I had 2 bands my whole life (from 17 till 38 - im 43 now) recently I moved to another city and stopped playing. Tried to start a band again, we rehearse 2 times and the guys just disapeared without saying anything, it let me so so so frustated that I think I got a little bit of a depression, didnt want to do anything! Now it's gone, I said to myself I will write an album and release it on spotify, it will be my "revenge"!
This is probably the best tutorial I have watched, simple and clear unlike a lot or them!
Liked and subbed dude! 👍
Thank you so very much for this easy to understand tutorial!! I've been racking my brain for a month on this and now after 20 minutes I've got all the right stuff and made a recording .I'm 54 and this is a great new hobby after playing guitar for past 30+ years..
Awesome! Recording yourself really brings something new, and even more so when you start to make full songs.
Another great tip is to have different eq for each track to have even more wide stereo image.
In general, I think that recording the double separately is better sounding and improves your playing overall.
well explained! thanks a lot!
I’m two weeks into Reaper and I am loving it. I was a touring musician for a long time and produced bands from behind the engineer because I have an ear but I never got the education on a DAW. So here I am. Next I’ll be getting into programming drums.
Awesome! For me, the key to programmed drums is humanizing velocity rather than humanizing timing. Also lean into how much drums can change a guitar riff. Listen to the chorus of No one knows for an example :-)
This is the BEST tutorial on how to get started recording with reaper. Thank you sooo much!
Awesome, glad to help!
Best walk through, hands down. Saved me a lot of heartache. Well done sir!
Nice tips in there! By the way, what's your approach on tracking dual harmonizing guitars? Thanks!
Super simple - melody panned to one side, harmony panned to the other.
I made a whole video on harmonies (but that's more about creating hamonies than producing)
Guitar Harmonies for Beginners [Reaper Tutorial]
ruclips.net/video/aEtZ8EqV5Vs/видео.html
Just fantastic. Your video has been super helpful, man. Reading tons of long docs is not as helpful as your short video. It gives a nice start to Reaper. Thanks a lot.
Keep staying young, doing "young stuff", like I try to do as well :)
@@PascalP007 Great it was helpful. 18 years old trapped in a 50 year old's body 😅
Great tutorial, thank you! When you add the plugin effect for metal sound (at 10:14), you jump directly to the plugins window, but I can't see how exactly to get there.
Yeah, that's an editing trick :-). I actually clicked on the FX button on the track and then add in the plugin window :-).
@@osiris-guitar hi, thanks for that!
My plug in box is tiny and I use guitar rig, can barely make out the words it's a nightmare@@osiris-guitar
Huh... I was very intimidated but curious to try this myself. I'm glad I found your video. You made it look simple and I understood everything perfectly. Thank you
Glad to hear it!
7:50 - pure gold as far as troubleshooting! 👍👍👍
I've wasted a lot of time trying to figure these things out. 🤦
Haha, me too. Glad to give the rest of you some kind of shortcut.
Thank you for this really great well explained tutorial it was very helpful. Please keep the Reaper videos coming. I am now a subscriber 😀👍
Thanks! I'm working on a new video about guitar harmonies. There's a bit of work with tabs and fretboard diagrams for that one though...
Great job actually mentioning ASIO drivers. I've watched a dozen videos like this and yours seems to be the only one that hits all the major points.
Thanks! I haven't used windows in ages but I wish someone had told me about ASIO back then. And that I could have the hours I wasted on ASIO4all back 😅
Great tutorial!
Thanks! Use it well, would be awesome to see a song down the line!
Been on and off guitar for like 12 years now… I’ve had a gaming pc very cable for about 2 years now and I just watched and decided to get a focusrite and try to record some of the riffs I’ve created along the years. I’m sure it’s a learning curve ahead but thanks for simplifying as much as possible.
Thank you for sharing. Nice job! clear and easy to follow. Wish you great success with this channel!
Thanks man!
Thank you for such a clear video!
7:09 holy sh*t thank you thank you thank you! Dude I was about to pull my hair out because I couldn't understand why my FX weren't coming through, I had it under input one LOL! Earned a sub here
I recommend people have their 0 point of the session, not right on the zero for tracking. I have all my tracks start at around 5 secs up the timeline. It avoids cutoffs of the start. Then if you want, once complete, you can simply pull all your tracks back to 0 before you print.
Good advice! I'm almost always a little bit off when tracking, and if you're early you will just miss a tiny bit of your recording. Also when you are rendering your track for upload to Spotify etc you want a short silence (200-300 milliseconds) at the start of a track so it won't get cut off when it's streamed.
Simple advice & very foundational, really SOLID tips for all players. I appreciate you sharing your experience.
Great video! I also use Reaper. It's great that you are able to help a lot of people get recording guitars into DAW properly.
Thanks so much! I recently discovered Reaper. I only tried Ableton and FL, but Reaper seems more like it for metal. I will install it and try to record some stuff.
Reaper is not just for metal.... check out a few of the other channels with Reaper in their names.
Great simple walk through. One change, a computer MIC input is usable with an adapter from instrument cable to 1/8” stereo jack. Although, it would be much better to just buy a used single input usb audio interface for a few bucks.
Awesome video. Thanks for keeping it so clear and simple, I'm pretty much sold on going with reaper as my DAW for my own metal
Thanks man this was very helpful!
Osiris Guitar, Thank you so much! I'm new to home recording and this tutorial was very helpful. You have yourself a subscriber, sir. I would love to see a tutorial for adding/using EZ Drummer with Reaper. Thanks again.
Yup, same here brother! I spent more time trying to figure out the DAW than I did recording until I tried Reaper. I did ok with Acid but Reaper seemed to be better equipped for my needs so moved on to that many years ago. Great vid! Thanks
Thank you for this! Great info!
Thank you Mister!
Great video. Idk if you still check these but when I record a track, put distortion on it, save it to my files on Mac, and when I listen to it it’s just clean guitar. 😵💫
Reaper uses what is called non-destructive editing, which is a great thing. No matter how much you cut up or manipulate a track, the original file is always left alone. This means, if you want to get an audio file with all of the changes applied (such as having a distortion plugin) you have to render it.
Mark the time segment you want to export, select render in the menu (file -> render), set Bounds to "time selection" (or entire project if you want that), select format and then press the "Render 1 file" button.
Clear and to the point!
One of the coolest, simplest and easy to follow tutorials I have ever watched on RUclips. But, do you have links for the plugins that you used? Also do you tutorial on how to mix that drums and how to do it? Liked and subbed!
Thanks!
I haven't done any videos on drums, mainly because I'm... not great with drums :-D. But it's my biggest focus right now in my metal production, so it's not impossible there will be a video about it down the line.
I'll update the description with the plugins I've used.
Excellent Video... Good Stuff, Thanks!!!! - 🎸🤘👍😀
Just Done a Bit Experimenting With Track Panning Guitar After Watching Your Video. Yes, it's a Noticeably Different Sound, Much Fuller, Better. I've Been Recording On Reaper For Over 10 Years, With A Line 6 Pod Farm Interface, And Have The Basic Reaper License. I Used It Free For Years, And Find It Relatively Easy To Use For Basic Stuff...I love Finding New Stuff With Recording on there, I'm Learning New Stuff All The Time, Cheers!! - 👍
@@noelduggan72 Yeah, double tracking is magic!
Just for the record, Reaper isn't free. You can use the full version for ever without paying, but if you use it you should really pay for it. You get two major versions for just $60. Best money I ever spent.
@@osiris-guitar Yes, I Used It For A Long Time Free, And Loved It!! I Bought The License 2 Years Ago, And Have Recorded Lots Of Songs, Which I Post On RUclips, And Sound Cloud. - I Love Listening To Metal And Heavy Rock, But I'm Not A Shredder, So I Usually Record Softer, Slower Stuff, But Still Enjoy Myself - 👍
@@noelduggan72 Good man!
Definitely not a shredder myself... I can learn quite tricky rhythm stuff but leads always have me stumbling for some reason.
@@osiris-guitar I'm A Lefty....And I years ago, I Picked Up The Black Sabbath Tony Iommi Power Chord Stuff Straight Away, With My Little Zoom 707 effects pedal . I Just Mirrored What He Was Doing.(I Watch RUclips tutorials now!! 👍) It's What Got Me Into Electric Guitars, I Just Had An Acoustic Before That.
For the double-tracking part: when you drag the recording from the parent track to the sub-tracks, are you actually removing the audio from the parent track itself and not just duplicating it on the sub-tracks? Is that why the audio on the parent track is grayed out after you drag it to the sub-tracks?
I'm dragging it away from the parent track. The gray waveform shown on the parent track is a sort of superimposed "shadow" of all the child tracks combined.
Sir this video was a massive help. Thank you soo much for taking the time to do this.
Thanx for this and you are Right I was so puzzled in Cubase and it is so easy with Reaper
Woow this demystified metal recording in a quick video, Ive been struggling to understand stero mixing
i truggled all the day figure out why i can't hear anything. Then i pressed INS button and everything done :"))) thanks for this video
Good you found out what the problem was :-)
Great tutorial. Thanks.
Qubase on the atari 1024 was awesome. Could control my guitareffectpedal via midi, could even upload and change sounds & params during playing
@@hargappelpie4845 Back then I never did anything outside a bit of tracker doodles. But that was the big selling point of the Atari over the Amiga right - MIDI. (I was an Amiga guy 😅)
This has been a God send!! I also got bummed with Cubase till a friend suggested Reaper!!
Question for you - how did you adjust recording level..?
in the first min of this vid i had a suspicion this would be a really good tutorial and i was right.
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Killer info, thank you. Subbed.
Be sure to check Privacy settings on a Mac and give Reaper the proper rights if there is no input and everything else is set up correctly. Learnt the hard way.
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial .... very informative!!
Thank you very much for your superb explanation .
Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much! It helped me a lot!
Great to hear!
Thanks for sharing. This is really helpful for me. How did you separate the main track into two pieces?
Put the cursor where you want the split and press S on the keyboard. That's the standard cut command in Reaper. After splitting the clip into two parts, just drag and drop them to the sub tracks. Dragging a clip into an empty area will even create tge the track for you (as its own track, not a sub track)
@@osiris-guitar I really appreciate the help. Thanks!
great video! do you have, or can you make one about lead guitars? It would be nice if added to what you already did in this video.
Great tutorial, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
some amp plugins r not stereo. so u must put on each track
also havin a different amps on tracks r more fun)
Very true. You also can't control the volume on the channels separately if you do one plugin on a parent track (if you lower the volume on the left it will make the input lower on the left, not the output). So one completely separate track for each channel is safer. The only reasons I usually put the amp sim on the parent track is for better performance and to be able to make adjustments in just one place.
Amazing video. Super helpful
Can someone please help me? At 8:00, you can see that he goes through the input settings. He selects mono 2. I would like to record my guitar sound in stereo. When I click on this, my guitar sounds best through the headphones, and it also sounds stereo. This is true during recording as well. But when I listen back to the recording, I only hear the guitar playing in my right ear. This stereo setting sounds the best, so I would like to record my guitar in stereo. What am I doing wrong?
Recording in stereo does nothing helpful since the output from the guitar is mono (unless you have stereo effects like ping pong delay). It sounds better in your headphones since it's playing in both ears, but it's still mono.
If you want an awesome sounding guitar tone record mono twice and put those as the right and left channels of a stereo track. Look up double tracking for more in-depth tutorial (haven't made one myself).
Thank you!
You're welcome!
very well explained. thanks
Thanks for watching!
I wish I saw this video sooner. Do you have any recommendations/videos about the best plugins/VST for reaper?
Oh, that's such a difficult question to answer depending on what you want to do. For instruments, I really recommend the NeuralDSP guitar amp sims and Superior Drummer. Also wouldn't make it without Izotope Ozone for mastering...
thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Hi, thank you for the video. I have an HX stomp and I use it as a user interface, however whenever I use the dry signal and load a plugin, I hear both, the processed and the dry one. How do I get rid of the dry signal?
Hi! how did you put those two tracks as a subtrack to the 1st? @14:23
You drag the track to a special position under the parent where the line indicating its new position becomes shorter. You can also press the folder icon on the parent track (bottom left) to make it into a folder (i.e. make the track under it into a subtrack)
@@osiris-guitarthanks!
Very well done, my new friend.
Thanks for the video mate!, question, how do make a sub-track? is there any command on the keyboard+mouse?. thank you!
I don't know any key bindings, but with a mouse:
1. Press the little folder icon on a track. That will make all the following tracks subtracks of the current one
2. Drag tracks like to reorder them, but drag them "inwards" (to the right). Then the line marking where the track will end up gets indented indicating it will become a subtrack.
thanks men your videos are amazing, you speak so well thanks
Thanks! I'm a little bit annoyed my Swedish accent shines through so much :-D
@@osiris-guitar i didn't notice at all keep going thanks again
Wonderful reaper tutorial for very beginner in reaper. 👌👌
Just a question, how did you create subtract from main track? Just click on it?
Thanks
Do you mean how I split the recording? Click on where you want the split and press s
for any guitar player out there that is looking to record his/her guitar parts and at the same time sounding thick and heavy
i dont recommend to copy/paste your samples into another tracks, just play them by default that way you are getting the full benefits of the "stereo" recording
if you do however copy/paste your samples into your guitar tracks than actually playing them, its still OK but you are basicly recording at "Mono" which is bad
I'm not copying the same sample. If you watch carefully I record the same part twice, split the recording in half and drag the second part to another track. There's no copying going on whatsoever.
This is the most misunderstood part of this video, I'm thinking I should probably make a separate video about just that.
Thanks... a real helpful video...
Thanks man, you clear so many things how to do it and do it easy.
I have only one question, i have Emu 0404 USB and M-audio fast track pro sound card on each pc, so i need turn up the gain on sound card inst all the way up but keep under the clip before using VST plugins or i can leave gain all the way down?
Yes - gain should be up, but not clipping. The gain affects the input, not the output (to the computer), so if you turn it all the way down you won't get any signal at all into the interface and consequently nothing into the computer.
Awesome video!Can you please help me with the input gain,what do you click to set it up or down_When I click on my recording I cant increase or decrease the signal and I am always clipping? please help !!!!!!!
@@janbolkovac5296 Most important is to lower the input gain/volume on your audio interface. If your hardware delivers a signal that is too loud there is nothing your DAW can do. You can't unclip a clipped signal...
@@osiris-guitar Thank you!!!!!!!! I have figured it out +plus I have pad on my scarlett which helps me with the hot signals! You are awesome !
done subscribe. Please Do more about metal tips recording especially for Reaper 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I was taught it's always best to play and record the left track then play and record the right track it will sound more natural and wider..
You are correct! But I didn't copy it, I just played it twice in the same recording and then split the recording in half. So that's exactly the same as recording the left, stopping and then recording the right. If I had copied the entire take there would have been no widening at all.
How do you make the sub tracks for each guitar and make the initial track the “Parent”? Thanks
Great video thanks much!!
When I go to do custom action is seperates into the first guitar spot but with all the tracks not just one
@@lookforthegood1 Don't select all tracks / items, just the one you are changing
I tried using my katana 100 MK2 but whatever I do I can't get it to work. Brand new to this world. Can anyone help?
Windows or MacOS?
Thx for the time you put to explained everything its clear and very well done but i have a main problem.I have a Focusrite solo 3 rd Gen.Everything seems to be well set but i dont see the reaper bar at the bottom.The one where we see record button.Just the one in the left grey area.When i push record button and space bar,after i set the metronome,i dont see the waveforms while im playing.Do you have any idea why? I can hear my playing but not the wave of the sound.Like if it wasnt recording. Thx in advanced Mate great video.
Have you armed the track you are recording to? (it's the round button to the left on the track)
The transport bar at the bottom (with play, rec etc) can be shown with View -> Transport in the menus. If it's enabled but you can't see it, you might have accidentally dragged it away somewhere...
@@osiris-guitar Yes i did armed the button but its good now i manage to record the track with control R thx a lot.
And thx again now i can see the button rec with play,rec,etc with the transport in the menu you are a life saver :)
Hi, i just,purchased reaper V6, but i can t find any plug in for my guitar, for example i tryed to to find the neural DPS, but it doesn t appear in the list
Reaper isn't bundled with any instrument plugins. The Neural DSP plugins you have to purchase separately. There are free amp sims as well, links to them and tutorial is here: ruclips.net/video/qCI6qJgRNy4/видео.html
Awesome !!!! new subscriber :)
Question: The LePou AU files on your blog ... they're 32-bit correct? Garageband won't recognize them, and neither will Reaper.
I’m not sure, I never used the AU versions. But if they’re not picked up by Reaper it seems very likely they are 32-bit yeah.
Never mind, I realized that they actually weren't on the right folder location. The AU files on your blog ARE indeed 64-bit version of both VST and AU and they do work in Garageband, so it's safe to assume that they'll work on the latest version of Logic as well.
@@HaruSkage I don’t have Logic so I can’t say for sure, but I’d be very surprised if they didn’t work
@@osiris-guitar I'm not sure if it's a software compatibility issue, but when I open on Garageband (latest version) it works but when I change amp channels (orange to red in Lecto) there is some lag. Also for some reason it does not give me an option between Mono and Stereo, so it's basically just mono. Just thought I'd share this in case someone is having a similar experience.
Hi I'm new to reaper so to do two seperate recordings and or extra effects to I need to have amp sim instances on all the tracks? thats a bit CPU intensive also how can I record over a certain part of a riff to play it better but also have a few bars before recording that I can have the guitar ready in my hands and not record over the track? I can't find any videos on this
You can do one parent track with amp sims and the two recordings on sub tracks panned 100% left and right. But it's easier to get right with effects put on both tracks, especially if you don't pan 100%, do volume changes on the sub tracks etc
@@osiris-guitar found out how to punch in record on selected time thats a big help and thanks
Question: I have a Neural DSP Quad Cortex. I want to double track. Can I just record a left mono track and right mono track into my DAW with one play through. Then pan each left and right . I am also able to record in stereo on one track with two different amps. Help or do I have to always record twice meaning the same lines twice or can I record one line into two different amps that are on a left mono and right mono ?? Help thanks 🙏
I won't be true double tracking. For a live situation it would be good, but when you record you want two different takes. There's something in the subtle differences between to similar but not identical takes that creates width and smoothes over small mistakes. That doesn't happen with one take, even if it's split, hard panned and routed through different amps.
@@osiris-guitar ok great !! Yes! On the right track now ;) - see what I did there 🙂 Good Man thanks a bunch
And now I need the funktion of Audio Quantize!
And I use as a beginner 4 x Guitar 1 and 4x Guitar 2 for Wall of Sound. Chorus 8x Guitar 1 and 8x Guitar 2. I cant' copy becsuse of Phase and I will use my Valve Amps and no PlugIns..
Do you have a Video for me, please?
I usually do just 1 x guitar 1 and 1 x guitar 2 for rhythm (verse and chorus). That's double tracking. Rarely I do 2 x left and 2 x right (quad tracking). But for that you need four really really tight takes. 4 x of each will not give you a wall of sound unless you're exactly spot on with every take, it will give you a wall of mud.
Make sure you're using the bass correctly to provide the right punch and low end including low mids. Guitars provide mids and highs, not lows.
When I play my two takes back to back in doubling I can't figure out to split them in half. When I play them play back together after doubling it's all out of time!
Not entirely sure what you mean... But you don't split the tracks, you pan them. One take to the right, one take to the left.
When it comes to time sync, did you record with a metronome or a drum track so that the recordings sit right on the grid?
My lowest buffer size is 1792. Any lower and I hear crackles. But the latency is barely present. Trying to lower it without the crackles.
1792 sounds absolutely insane, I'm surprised you don't get a lot of latency. I'm at 64 :-o. What audio interface do you have? If you're on windows, are you using asio4all or an asio driver that is specifically made for your interface?
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Thank for the video! I have a question,I have Boss Katana and how can I record dry signal and wet signal as I see a lot of guitaris after they record they play the recording and change the amp to hear if they can get a better sound..I hope it makes sense what I am trying to say
Or this is possibel just with plug ins or things like Helix pedal board?
I don't know a lot about the Boss Katana, but I know that my old Line 6 Pod X3 had multichannel USB input. With that you could do stereo recording, OR you could select input dry for one track and input wet for another and record those two at the same time. What do the inputs from the Katana look like in your DAW?
@@osiris-guitar I use record out from Katana to Presounus interface and Reaper..sorry I don't know a lot about this type of recording I am new to this 😊
@@Nicolae8607 But the Katana has a usb port as well right? Connect that directly to your computer and you can use that to record dry/DI
@@osiris-guitar yes you are right. thank you,I will try that
Thank you so much! How can I reduce the level of the input?
There is almost always a volume control on the audio interface.
@@osiris-guitar I tried that, but the signal on screen is still too thick.
@@music4life173 What interface do you have?
@@osiris-guitar Audient iD4
@@music4life173 Are you using the hi z input?
Quick question - How can i change the output on reaper to my pc speakers? i can only get the output on my audio interface....
I don't know exactly how to do this in Windows.... You can change audio device in preferences to your system default audio device. But I'm guessing you want to use input from your audio interface and output to your regular sound card. In MacOS you do that by creating an aggregate audio device, in Windows... It's been too long since I used Reaper in Windows 😅
Hey man, I cant find the Neural plugging when I search it up. Am I supposed to download it ?
Yes, it's a commercial plugin, not included with Reaper. There are free ones too (search for NAM Neural Amp Modeler - similarly named but not affiliated), but the ones from NeuralDSP are amazing. 14 day trial if you want to test them out.
when i go to change the input on my track it is only giving me the option for input 1. how can i fix this?
What audio interface do you have?
Im new to this so forgive me in advance. I have a peavy 6505mh that has a Input for my computer built in. Would i still need an audio interface or will that peavy act as that with the built in input?
The answer is a bit complicated. The USB on the 6505mh theoretically acts as an audio interface. However, if you're using Windows there is no low-latency ASIO driver for it. So you should be able to use it as an audio interface, but it might be lagging when you record.
If you are not going to do monitoring via your DAW, it could be fine (i.e. if you listen to what you play through the amp while you're recording).
If you want to use an amp sim in real time however, you need to monitor through the DAW and that means you need to get latency down for it work (down to something like 10 ms for you to be able to play and hear without lag). You could try installing ASIO4all to see if that works. That's a generic ASIO driver that sometimes works well enough to make a generic audio interface low latency.
@@osiris-guitar will mostly be using it to just Jam, not recording for now at least. My apartment has thin walls and I could just use headphones.
12:36 how do you drag it>??
Hold down shift and then drag. :-D Recently learned that myself.
How are you copying the subtracks in the main track
Not entirely sure I get what your question is, but what I do in the video is: 1. record the rhythm twice in the same recording, 2. drag the recording to first subtrack 3. place cursor between the two takes (kind of middle of the recording) and press S to split the recording in two and 4. drag the last half of the recording onto the second subtrack.
Thanks man 😊
I had to copy and paste the second track to the third track just to show three waveforms otherwise when I moved the second track to the third it left the second track empty. I have the parent track in stereo and the subtracks 2 and 3 panned hard left and hard right. I don't think you're supposed to do this.
You can't copy the same take to the two panned tracks. You have to make two separate takes. I know this is a bit unclear in the video where it looks like I'm copying the same take.
What I'm actually doing is two takes in the same recording, and then cutting the recording in half..
@@osiris-guitar don't know how to cut recording in half my friend
Thank you
thank you
is it okay to use my Marshall guitar amplifier for the audio output, or is it necessary to have monitors or headphones for good sound clarity?
there are multiple output ports in the focusrite interface.... which port should I use for getting clear recording?
thanks again
Depends on what you are doing. For playing the amp is fine. I think that if you're mixing though, you'd want at least headphones to be able to hear small differences and get a more neutral output.
@@osiris-guitar thank you
hey man i have done everything but the audio i cant hear at all do you know how to fix it
To hear the sound as you play, you need to arm the track and have monitoring (the little speaker icon on the track) activated.
If the meters on the track aren't moving there's something wrong with your input (the wrong device or port selected for instance).
how do u get the neural dsp stuff? i dont have it
It's a commercial plugin, you have to buy it
Hi am hearing my guitar single sound before I even open my daw...this is leading to a chorus kinda of effect when I click on audio monitoring in REAPER....PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS 😢😢
I even turned off the direct monitoring still cnt figure it
Am using windows 10 super appreciate if you could help me figure this out
@@nostalgicgaming9336 You most likely have direct monitoring activated on your audio interface. What interface do you have?
@@osiris-guitar @osiris-guitar well I have diabled direct monitoring aswell and still no go...well it's a generic audio interface (Vault solo A.I) I've installed ASIO DRIVERS aswell
Thank u soo much for your time in assisting me on this...I just cnt figure out
@@nostalgicgaming9336 What audio interface do you have?
Well it's a generic one its a Vault AI SOLO closet comparison would be to a beringer urophia.
Hello ! I hear my dry guitar sound in reaper, it's not from my Audio Interface, do you know how to disable it ? Thank You !!
You have an amp sim on the track? Any other plugins? Do you hear a mix of dry and wet or only dry?
@@osiris-guitar I have a Neural Dsp plug-in in a track, and i hear dry and plug-in at the same time, i tried to push the monitor button on my audio interface but still the sound :/
That is... really weird. What happens if you record? Is the playback also dry + wet?
Regarding latency: What then, would I do in a situation where my latency is over 10ms and I simply MUST HAVE a guitar sound with plug-in effects running in real time in order to record my parts? Do I need a better computer with a faster processor at that point? I'm not sure what benefit setting the input/playback knob fully counterclockwise (full input signal only) would be unless I was recording completely un-effected mic or line signals in.
As you say, there's no point in direct monitoring unless you are working without plugins. But there's a lot you can do to mediate latency. Optimize your OS: stop things that are running that you don't need (applications and background services). Turn off any plugins you don't absolutely need when recording. Especially stuff like mastering plugins on the master track can be a real latency killer. You can also freeze the other tracks (= temporarily prerender them with effects applied). You can record in a separate project with a minimum of tracks, and then move the recorded tracks into your main project. Even with a crappy laptop you should be completely fine with real-time monitoring when recording a guitar with an active amp sim. Here's a blog post I wrote about it ages ago: www.osirisguitar.com/optimizing-audio-latency-reaper/ . There are also uncountable other videos and blog posts about this topic.
@@osiris-guitar Sounds good, thanks