Exactly my thoughts! I was going to protest, wanted to write about how great it was Kenny always shows you how to make great music even if your wallet is empty, and how this was such a shame, and... 😂
I was thinking the same thing. I'm going, these must be uber dope fire fly plugins to beat what he's already shown us. I was so trolled I was looking for the bridge it came from.
Nobody talked about constant what about dynamic EQ? Or transient shaping? Or a clipper? A top notch reverb/delay/chorus/flanger/phaser/glitch plugin? Hm? Oh, you only need inspiration. I see.
@@nkronert nah man he's not being rude. You just chose to look at it that way. Because I know exactly what he's talking about. Personally I was like- 'WHAT!? KENNY HAS A FACE!? AND HE'S MAKING AN APPEARANCE!?'... .. But... to match the voice to a face.... THIS FAR INTO OUR (albeit one way) RELATIONSHIP!? Haha! Its like.... uhh... I dunno.... putting a face to a pen pal after years of correspondence! 😂🤷♂️ I dunno. Something like that. Anyways, you know what I mean, stranger. Perspective is often respectively selective, friend.
That, of course, is true of essentially every DAW. Stock plugins are excellent across the board. If your mixes suck its not because you didn't buy Waves Mercury. 😉
There are lots of great free plugins out there, the vast majority of what I use is free. I don’t worry about whether it’s the Reaper plug-in or something else that’s free and good. But sometimes the Reaper plugin is the best of its kind (for me)
Guilty of that...Felt really bad for my stingy-ness after watching this particular video! Gonna pay up soon! And hat's up for Master Trainer Kenny Gioia...
Given the full experience is totally free, I'm more than willing to pay the ridiculous amount of 70 (€/$) to support the developers. I've paid 60 for version 5.xx and 6.xx for years, including the free updates nearly every week. I've tried crippled versions of others, and found no reason whatsoever to use anything but Reaper. As a major bonus, we get the excellent tutorials on all the features of Reaper by Kenny Gioia, straight from the website of Reaper. No need to search Google.
Kind of funny, one reason I chose Reaper is I didn’t want to pay a premium for GBs of plug-ins I didn’t need, figuring I’d slowly build a library of specific ones I wanted. So far, I’ve only used the Reaper plugins after learning how to use them from watching Kenny and a few free ones to experiment with. The only plug-ins I’ve bought are a couple of instruments (MT Drum Kit and a contrabass). For MIDI guitar my favorite ended up being the built in sampler plug-in with samples I recorded of my guitar).
Hahaha ... "unfortunately they come free with Reaper". Loving it! ❤ Btw.: it is always ALWAYS a joy to watch your videos. I am always learning something new. In this case I didn't know Reaper can do pitch correction. Veryy appreciated! All the best!
Kenny please make a new full fledge mixing series like the one you used to do on groove 3. All of us will be grateful if you show us mixing with stock plugins. Learning from you has been a game changing experience for the reaper fraternity. Please take notice of my request as it is also the request of millions of reaper users out there! Thank you. :)
Reaper is obviously designed with the utmost importance being placed on the customer. I've invested over $1,000 over the year in Pro Tools for all the upgrades and new additions. I have totally switch to Reaper. And I used to follow you Kenny when you would give tutorials on Pro Tools and I'm loving your tutorials now Reaper is all I need. You are a great sensei
Some people complain that Reaper ‘s plugins don’t have “character”, but that’s exactly why I like them. Plus, they don’t fool my ears with analogue look.
Some JS plugins have a lot of character, like the 1175 compressor that Kenny mentionned or Bad Buss Mojo, the Fairly Childish compressor (Fairchild), the Major Tom compressor or Huge Booty. There is about a dozen JS plugins that add character and distortion, some are very good. The only problem I find with them is, the ranges are often way too large, so it's just a matter of editing the script to reduce the range to more reasonable values and boom, done.
It's only been out for a few weeks, but it's BETTER than the third party limiter that I've been using!! It gives you a graphical representation of the wave form as the signal is processed!! I swear to god, REAPER RULES!!! **F** protools!!! All protools wants to do is rape your wallet!!
Hi Kenny amazing vid as usual! When you were explaning theReaeq features I noticed that you said something about the phase that is introduced when we aply an eq boost or cut, could you make a video explaning what is this and why is important to ajust or how to correct phase issues?
Finally bought Reaper the other day after a lot of use and a lottt of Kenny's videos- thanks for all the excellent lessons! I probably wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't learned how to use it so well. The large selection of well-designed plugins really helps you learn how to put the pieces together and focus your time, rather than bouncing around buying and trying out plugins based on recommendations when you don't even really know enough yet. And all the other available free plugin packs give you a lot of room to explore and try out other things. If you end up buying some plugins at some point, you've saved money already in my mind
I was a little disappointed by the title, but - as you mentioned before - the Reaper installed plugins are more than sufficient for most recordings. I have a few other that I prefer while mixing, but whenever I start mixing, I still find myself starting off with the Rea plugins (and often end up using them). To my idea they also blend in with the workflow and learning curve of Reaper itself. Which is a bonus imo. Also, you provide us with enough lessons to get the most out of the Rea plugins. Thanks, Kenny and never stop doing this 😅
Reaper is seriously the best DAW out there, I have used it for years and love it. I have spent a lot on plugins only to realize later I have wasted A LOT of money!!!
Love reatune for finding notes played in a track but never used them to pitch correct. Will be fun try it out next time I'm putting together a melody. Thanks.
How many of you have paid the $60 recommended fee? I love Reaper and want it to continuously improve so I paid before I ever even recorded anything. My conscience is clear :-) I love Reaper. Did I say that already?
Hello. Kenny! I am a Korean Reaper user and a fan of you. Through your videos, I am learning little by little how to use the reapper and how to approach the sounds. Of course, I can't understand everything in your video as I'm not a fluent English speaker. However, your videos are helping to understand a lot just by looking at them. All of my music is made using Reaper. thank you! Always be healthy and happy. 😁
I would suggest you to turn on the RUclips automatically generated subtitles. Even if they are automatically generated, Kenny speaks very clearly. It must be easy for RUclips to recognize what he's saying. :)
I agree these are great, but I just bought DearVR to mix in the box with headphones. This is my go to to monitor Reaper. You only have to see, if you don't put this plugin on your master channel. Because if you render your project, the sound will differ from what you really want. So put it in your monitor tab, in the upper right of Reaper. There is another product that's new from Eventide, but this out of scope of Reaper.
At first I was like "oh, that's new. I hope that he explains clearly what's the gain of each of these". Then I got it when you bring ReaEQ. Clever way to set the point about expensive plugins that do basic stuff. Edit: Ooooh, I forgot it was Black Friday stuff. That explains a lot!
I might go broke buying these. But after talking to a friend I might seriously consider going back to Garage Band because I like how its effects look like a digital representation of rack mounted equipment, where I can just turn a knob or two until it sounds good. It is a little frustrating that Reaper's plugins are all sliders or boxes to manually punch in say your delay time. I'd rather just turn a knob until it sounds good. But I do love Reaper and all of its capabilities. For now I'm re-amping vocals into a standalone Fender Tube Reverb Tank and adding the effect to a new track, then blending the original dry vocal with the re-amped spring reverb vocal. It's fun, but it's time consuming, and if you get it wrong you have to do it again.
Gotta love that price point. Reaper really is an all-in-one solution and the only thing standing in the way of you and amazing results is the amount of time you're willing to put in to learn what I consider to be relatively easy software once you understand the principles of recording and audio production. For what is a staggeringly low price, anyone can be a master with a little inspiration.
one of the commonly used Reaper plugins I use comes from the JS section: Channel Time Delay. Great for a single guitar track to be spread out Left and Right something like a double Pan (how I can best describe it). I also use it with synths, backing vocals.
Less is more. Learn the tools you have at your disposal. Trust your ears not your eyes. It's not because a plugin looks cool that it sounds great or better. Thanks Kenny. Great video.
The more REAPER tutorials I watch, the more am loving. I installed the evaluation version 15 days ago but I think the amount of knowledge base is available is insane and will take more than 60 days to finish. But thank God I Found REAPER, I was collecting money for Ableton Live and am still 500$ short of buying it and REAPER is my savior. This DAW is insane.
I have used these plugins for years with the purchase of Reaper! I only bought one plugin separately all the years I have been using this software. I highly recommend it if you are considering buying it. I pay $60.00 every two years.
What a damage have you done to all these people wanted to buy new plugins and had all that money ready on the side now they have too much money don't know what to do with it, big problems ! Kenny is killer ! Awesome !
Wow Kenny, I'm kinda late to the game and I am so impressed with these plugins. Just so well made. I had a commercial license for REAPER because I used it for work but not musically, and so I didn't really explore all the things you can do with it. Now that I'm not using it for work I've downgraded to a personal license and actually playing around with musical uses. REAPER has always been reliable and solid for all my work-related mixing purposes, so happy to see how good these utilities are. PS -- I used REAPER to mix down and clean up multitrack spoken word recordings, and I found the most useful tool in my arsenal for that was REAfir, which didn't get mentioned here.
I am a sucker for vintage looks but i am aware about the quality of Reaper plug ins. I use a lot Abbey Road stuff like compressor, tape emulator and reverbs. But on the master bus i always use realimit, such a handy and simple to use tool.
Now we just need a new Groove 3 Mixing Course just showing us, mixing only with stock plugins by Kenny Gioia or is there already some kind of these stuff? But why inside Groove 3. A mixbreakdown inside RUclips would be nice. Greets
Now that I’m on the other side of healing and feeling lots better, I’m getting back into recording again. This video has stirred my creative juices once again. Thanks again mr gioia 🎤🎼🥁🎧🎹🎸🎻🎯
Was thinking about that for a while now and after seeing this video , I get your point. I will do that .It's well deserved . Thanks again for what your doing Kenny -cheers
You got me Kenny... 🤣😂😅 I was wondering what effects you favoured that WEREN'T already in Reaper.... I would still love to see you do a video on Reeq which comes in the Reapack extentions with its mid side functions etc..
These 5 FX's needed for all DAW's out there.The FX missed to be allready installed is an Rea Mix FX to give presets for transform any mix without any loss of time!!That needs to buy it as external plugin.
I bought Softube's Amp Room, as it's very good for (rock/metal) amp sims and cabs it contains and was on offer as a Black Friday deal @ 69 éuros. However, on trying their version of reverb and delay, it did NOT match up at all to Reaper's own plugins. Following your tutorials on 'Recording your band' episodes 10 and 11 I think, on adding Reverb and Delay, I have yet to find anything to surpass those plugins and/or your tutorials. Note that those have been saved as track templates for me, for every scenario :) Thank you for your continued support.
Long time subber. Thanks for all your concise and informative tutorials on using this wonderful powerful DAW. Your work is helping to produce the future artists and engineers. And let's not forget guys like me who like to record in the man cave in sweatpants.
Thank you for the video! It's 32-bit but Bionic Supa Delay (free) is my go-to because I do a lot of live performance stuff and I love the controls. I use the FRComp87 limiter/compressor. These are nice plugins, Reaper is such an awesome tool. Love it.
reaper's EQ and compressor are mostly fine. I'm not a fan of the setup and interface for the reverb at all though. It's free so no big deal. I still use an old Sony DX reverb on drums because it's super light on cpu. I have a few other inexpensive ones that work well for specific things.
Reaper has some great stock plug-ins. No offense, but if you limit yourself to these, you're missing an entire universe of sound sculpting possibilities.
I had my credit card out and ready to go, but now I wont get to build my credit score :( lol. Thanks for the awesome explanation of these FX, I have skipped over them because they look simple but now I have added them into my template to use in my process, so thank you.
Other have been slapping the camera for a long time, he just ripped it off. And you're right about the UI too, but don't tell the fanbois, they'll get mad. ruclips.net/video/q_zrgBobQV4/видео.html
Great video as always Kenny. Although I like the Reaper plugs, they as good as high priced plugins on the Market. For me, they are not the nicest visually... Are there any GUI skins available to download?
Could you explain the effects of the "window size" and "overlap" parameters? I have been using ReaTune with my guitar, with the MIDI output going to a synth. It was not very responsive until I turned down the window size. Have you any other advice please.
I love it buddy. I'm a fan! K.G. RESPECT. you've made my learning experience really easy and amazing. Thank you so much for your time and knowledge!!! I'm getting pretty good with this d.a.w. Love brother!!!!!!!!
wow the bonus plugin was reatune..spent a few hours today messing about with an acoustic in open tuning in Reatune getting baritone guitar sounds, of late reatune is my favourite...great minds think alike, im so getting white frames on my next pair of bifocals lol
Sometimes using a certain plugin is like using your non dominant hand to write. You can learn to do it. But using another plugin for the job might be more natural for you. I really like the free Kilohearts filter and 3 band eq for instance.
Valhalla Supermassive is free and does the job pretty well. I never knew you could model room by adding files in the ReaVerb, gotta try that to see if it still weak.
Love the minimalism of this plugin lineup! Just a quick q, would you say some 3rd party compressors give you a certain "character" that the Reaper plugins can't? I'm fresh enough in the mixing game to doubt if my ears are fooled by eye candy GUIs.
In short YES. However there are some work arounds that can be used to emulate certain things. Say you want a compressor that gives a certain character. If you Google it you'll find that by experimenting with ReaComp specifically in the use of the RMS and Knee controls and the switch that makes it use feedback vs the normal settings that you can emulate other compressors like an SSL, or 1176, or Fairchild...not exactly but fairly closely. You may find that some effects can get closer to the paid plugin you want to emulate by stacking plugins. For instance if you want to emulate tape delay or older circuits you could use ReaDelay and set the setting to something like 4-16 bits. Bits are effectively the quality of the delay. Obviously an older vintage tape delay will have less quality. But there's other things to consider. Tape delay provides saturation, so enter JS Saturation and set it to taste. But what about tape properties like warble, wow and flutter? Enter JS Phaser or JS Flanger or JS Flange Baby... The point is, your limitations in Reaper are only that of your imagination. But in some instances you might find the need to purchase the odd paid plugin for ease of use or for workflow, or for something specific. But the point here is, that almost anything you can imagine is doable with the right knowledge. My suggestion for the next great Kenny video is focusing on things like this. Show us some advanced use of ReaComp to start off with and show how it can sound like favorite paid plugins. Keep it up Kenny! You are shining the light and we are following! Great stuff!
Yes, if they are emulators of analog compressors (because of saturation, distortion, etc.). If they are just digital compressors, then all they provide is a different interface and it's up to you whether that's worth the money. The only noticeably missing feature is control over the stereo linking, however, you can recreate that by creating 2 copies of your compressor and routing the left/right channels to them separately.
Dan Worral has some good perspectives on this, like ruclips.net/video/3OoVnTO3AB4/видео.html or this devastating review: ruclips.net/video/U9eySYxwDXI/видео.html
I love your tutorials and advice. While I use Reaper plug ins I also use a few outside ones but I have learned that the Reaper ones generally sound just as good as the ones I bought. I think I'm just happier with the look of the interface on some of my other plug ins.
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Reaper is the only program that brings me joy when they request payment for the next version. They truly deserve it.
So true...
I was like, no way is Kenny gonna promote plugins other than reaper plug-ins.. Kenny you troll 😂 I love it 🙂
Exactly my thoughts! I was going to protest, wanted to write about how great it was Kenny always shows you how to make great music even if your wallet is empty, and how this was such a shame, and... 😂
I was thinking the same thing. I'm going, these must be uber dope fire fly plugins to beat what he's already shown us. I was so trolled I was looking for the bridge it came from.
It still freaks me out to see him when he's talking. But it's still very cool. Thank you Kenny. You bring me great joy.
Please take a moment to think about how you would feel if someone would say the first part of your reply about you.
Nobody talked about constant what about dynamic EQ? Or transient shaping? Or a clipper? A top notch reverb/delay/chorus/flanger/phaser/glitch plugin? Hm? Oh, you only need inspiration. I see.
@@whitex4652 if you've purchased those because you didn't know that they also come with Reaper, that's really sad 😢
@@nkronert nah man he's not being rude. You just chose to look at it that way. Because I know exactly what he's talking about. Personally I was like- 'WHAT!? KENNY HAS A FACE!? AND HE'S MAKING AN APPEARANCE!?'... .. But... to match the voice to a face.... THIS FAR INTO OUR (albeit one way) RELATIONSHIP!? Haha! Its like.... uhh... I dunno.... putting a face to a pen pal after years of correspondence! 😂🤷♂️ I dunno. Something like that.
Anyways, you know what I mean, stranger. Perspective is often respectively selective, friend.
@@nkronert but, with all that being said - your gesture of empathy is not wrong. Good day, or a Goodnight. And a good life 👋🙏🏼
It is absolutely inspiring to use Reaper. No need for constant plugin shopping.
No need, but I still do. LOL! I love plugins, even if I have to pay.
That, of course, is true of essentially every DAW. Stock plugins are excellent across the board. If your mixes suck its not because you didn't buy Waves Mercury. 😉
There are lots of great free plugins out there, the vast majority of what I use is free. I don’t worry about whether it’s the Reaper plug-in or something else that’s free and good. But sometimes the Reaper plugin is the best of its kind (for me)
I just wish White Tie made some pretty designs for the plugins.
@@lolilollolilol7773 yup
For those of you still "evaluating" Reaper, it's time to pay for the "free" plug-ins.
Guilty of that...Felt really bad for my stingy-ness after watching this particular video!
Gonna pay up soon!
And hat's up for Master Trainer Kenny Gioia...
Anyone who can’t afford to buy the full version of reaper needs to reassess there priorities, it’s not even expensive ffs
@@bhimhansdha2053 damn shame..clearly you aren’t doing music professionally
Given the full experience is totally free, I'm more than willing to pay the ridiculous amount of 70 (€/$) to support the developers. I've paid 60 for version 5.xx and 6.xx for years, including the free updates nearly every week. I've tried crippled versions of others, and found no reason whatsoever to use anything but Reaper. As a major bonus, we get the excellent tutorials on all the features of Reaper by Kenny Gioia, straight from the website of Reaper. No need to search Google.
Kind of funny, one reason I chose Reaper is I didn’t want to pay a premium for GBs of plug-ins I didn’t need, figuring I’d slowly build a library of specific ones I wanted. So far, I’ve only used the Reaper plugins after learning how to use them from watching Kenny and a few free ones to experiment with. The only plug-ins I’ve bought are a couple of instruments (MT Drum Kit and a contrabass). For MIDI guitar my favorite ended up being the built in sampler plug-in with samples I recorded of my guitar).
I hope they come on sale this black friday, I really need to get these.
I see what you did there.
My wife sends her love, Kenny, as you kept me from spending money during another tempting Black Friday sale.
Hahaha ... "unfortunately they come free with Reaper". Loving it! ❤
Btw.: it is always ALWAYS a joy to watch your videos. I am always learning something new. In this case I didn't know Reaper can do pitch correction. Veryy appreciated!
All the best!
Oh man he got me good haha! I just started looking at Reaper and was like wait I have to buy what now?
I bought reacomp and it came with a daw, now I need to figure out how to use it, does anyone know any good tutorials for it?
LOL
I almost peed in my pants with your answer. Lol
ReEQ is a great third party EQ for Reaper.
This is a simple and effective explanation. You don't have to spend more money to enjoy good musical creations. Reaper is great and so is Kenny
Thanks Kenny for your continued vids on Reaper, I'd be lost without your stuff
Kenny please make a new full fledge mixing series like the one you used to do on groove 3. All of us will be grateful if you show us mixing with stock plugins. Learning from you has been a game changing experience for the reaper fraternity. Please take notice of my request as it is also the request of millions of reaper users out there! Thank you. :)
Yes please
Reaper is obviously designed with the utmost importance being placed on the customer. I've invested over $1,000 over the year in Pro Tools for all the upgrades and new additions. I have totally switch to Reaper. And I used to follow you Kenny when you would give tutorials on Pro Tools and I'm loving your tutorials now Reaper is all I need. You are a great sensei
Good to have you here.
Hey Kenny.. After all these years of hearing your voice.. Amazing to see you in person! Thanks for the incredible tutorials over so many years!
Hi Kenny, thanks that you regularly remind us we do not need any fancy plugins and can do most of the work with built-in ones.
Some people complain that Reaper ‘s plugins don’t have “character”, but that’s exactly why I like them. Plus, they don’t fool my ears with analogue look.
We should be creating "character" with our music. :)
Some JS plugins have a lot of character, like the 1175 compressor that Kenny mentionned or Bad Buss Mojo, the Fairly Childish compressor (Fairchild), the Major Tom compressor or Huge Booty. There is about a dozen JS plugins that add character and distortion, some are very good. The only problem I find with them is, the ranges are often way too large, so it's just a matter of editing the script to reduce the range to more reasonable values and boom, done.
As always, Kenny provides an inspiring reminder of how great the pre-installed Reaper plugins are and how easy they are to use.
These are all great effects. The only one I haven’t used is ReaLimit which I’m going to try out now. Thanks, Kenny!
It's only been out for a few weeks, but it's BETTER than the third party limiter that I've been using!! It gives you a graphical representation of the wave form as the signal is processed!! I swear to god, REAPER RULES!!! **F** protools!!! All protools wants to do is rape your wallet!!
@@theeouapolal7262 I agree! Have been trying out out this afternoon and it’s now my favourite limiter by far
Hi Kenny amazing vid as usual! When you were explaning theReaeq features I noticed that you said something about the phase that is introduced when we aply an eq boost or cut, could you make a video explaning what is this and why is important to ajust or how to correct phase issues?
Finally bought Reaper the other day after a lot of use and a lottt of Kenny's videos- thanks for all the excellent lessons! I probably wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't learned how to use it so well. The large selection of well-designed plugins really helps you learn how to put the pieces together and focus your time, rather than bouncing around buying and trying out plugins based on recommendations when you don't even really know enough yet. And all the other available free plugin packs give you a lot of room to explore and try out other things. If you end up buying some plugins at some point, you've saved money already in my mind
I just wish more reaper stock reaper had presets.
Thanks for the reminder that I don't need to keep searching for that magic button, it's always been there right under my nose.
I was a little disappointed by the title, but - as you mentioned before - the Reaper installed plugins are more than sufficient for most recordings. I have a few other that I prefer while mixing, but whenever I start mixing, I still find myself starting off with the Rea plugins (and often end up using them). To my idea they also blend in with the workflow and learning curve of Reaper itself. Which is a bonus imo. Also, you provide us with enough lessons to get the most out of the Rea plugins. Thanks, Kenny and never stop doing this 😅
Why do one need plugins for recording? Do you print them directly? Or just to hear a more finished version? (I don't record anything)
Reaper is seriously the best DAW out there, I have used it for years and love it. I have spent a lot on plugins only to realize later I have wasted A LOT of money!!!
I got a good giggle as I kinda knew already what you going to say when it started! Thanks as always, Kenny!.
Love reatune for finding notes played in a track but never used them to pitch correct. Will be fun try it out next time I'm putting together a melody. Thanks.
Always a fan of kenny but always wondered how he looked..😬
Keep up your work..you are the premier reaper resource
I LOVE the FFT EQ+Dynamics Processor, in Reaper. IMO-NOTHING is better than that!
I love the new intros so much! You work so hard at looking creepy - it cracks me up every time!
How many of you have paid the $60 recommended fee? I love Reaper and want it to continuously improve so I paid before I ever even recorded anything. My conscience is clear :-) I love Reaper. Did I say that already?
Hi Kenny, nice to see you and not just the voice!! Thanks for all the great tutorials over the years!! I always come back to Reaper if I stray!!
This is the first plugin video I have watched where I ACTUALLY have all of the plugins mentioned!!! Thanks for the Rea-ssurance Kenny!!
I use all of them regularly. Love the new limiter!
Finally to see the face behind the voice of "Hi, I'm Kenny Gioia" 👍😉
So the title could be "Top 5 FX Plugins You Get For Free When You Buy REAPER" 🙂
The anti-clickbait technique...very rare... but effective. (-:
Another title could have been Top 5 FX Plugins You DON'T Need To Buy !
@ Or the top 5 FX plugins you never knew you had....that could work as well.
I think in these crazy Black Friday sales the chosen title works way better. Good job Kenny!
Kenny totally got me with this one, it wasn’t until the second or third plug-ins that I realized it and had a good chuckle about it.
Hello. Kenny! I am a Korean Reaper user and a fan of you. Through your videos, I am learning little by little how to use the reapper and how to approach the sounds. Of course, I can't understand everything in your video as I'm not a fluent English speaker. However, your videos are helping to understand a lot just by looking at them. All of my music is made using Reaper. thank you! Always be healthy and happy. 😁
Thank you. :)
I would suggest you to turn on the RUclips automatically generated subtitles.
Even if they are automatically generated, Kenny speaks very clearly. It must be easy for RUclips to recognize what he's saying.
:)
@@Baal90 Thanks your suggestion. 😍
A personal thumbnail appearance? Getting bolder by the minute, Kenny! You'll be doing home visits next!
You sir, are a living legend.
I agree these are great, but I just bought DearVR to mix in the box with headphones. This is my go to to monitor Reaper. You only have to see, if you don't put this plugin on your master channel. Because if you render your project, the sound will differ from what you really want. So put it in your monitor tab, in the upper right of Reaper. There is another product that's new from Eventide, but this out of scope of Reaper.
Gonna be hearing "As a user of Reaper, this plugin is already included" in my nightmares
Best tutorials in the internet, period.
So funny we use reaper but never use some of these. I didn’t even know they were even there. Thank you for this.
At first I was like "oh, that's new. I hope that he explains clearly what's the gain of each of these". Then I got it when you bring ReaEQ.
Clever way to set the point about expensive plugins that do basic stuff.
Edit: Ooooh, I forgot it was Black Friday stuff. That explains a lot!
I might go broke buying these. But after talking to a friend I might seriously consider going back to Garage Band because I like how its effects look like a digital representation of rack mounted equipment, where I can just turn a knob or two until it sounds good. It is a little frustrating that Reaper's plugins are all sliders or boxes to manually punch in say your delay time. I'd rather just turn a knob until it sounds good. But I do love Reaper and all of its capabilities. For now I'm re-amping vocals into a standalone Fender Tube Reverb Tank and adding the effect to a new track, then blending the original dry vocal with the re-amped spring reverb vocal. It's fun, but it's time consuming, and if you get it wrong you have to do it again.
I love your videos. The best information on the reaper. Fast and interesting
Everytime I see one of these videos, I feel like someone out there, somewhere, loves me. It's like a hug through space and time.
Gotta love that price point. Reaper really is an all-in-one solution and the only thing standing in the way of you and amazing results is the amount of time you're willing to put in to learn what I consider to be relatively easy software once you understand the principles of recording and audio production. For what is a staggeringly low price, anyone can be a master with a little inspiration.
Great tutorial, Kenny! You showed me some other options and how to use them. So helpful. Thanks.
one of the commonly used Reaper plugins I use comes from the JS section: Channel Time Delay. Great for a single guitar track to be spread out Left and Right something like a double Pan (how I can best describe it). I also use it with synths, backing vocals.
Your posts always make my life easier, Kenny.
you freaked me out with this title! after i just watched your QnA saying you ONLY use reaper plugins!
You had me at "need to buy"... wonderful stuff!
Less is more. Learn the tools you have at your disposal. Trust your ears not your eyes. It's not because a plugin looks cool that it sounds great or better. Thanks Kenny. Great video.
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head Ian...
The more REAPER tutorials I watch, the more am loving. I installed the evaluation version 15 days ago but I think the amount of knowledge base is available is insane and will take more than 60 days to finish. But thank God I Found REAPER, I was collecting money for Ableton Live and am still 500$ short of buying it and REAPER is my savior. This DAW is insane.
I have used these plugins for years with the purchase of Reaper! I only bought one plugin separately all the years I have been using this software. I highly recommend it if you are considering buying it. I pay $60.00 every two years.
Thanks Kenny. Your videos are of great value.
What a damage have you done to all these people wanted to buy new plugins and had all that money ready on the side now they have too much money don't know what to do with it, big problems ! Kenny is killer ! Awesome !
Wow Kenny, I'm kinda late to the game and I am so impressed with these plugins. Just so well made. I had a commercial license for REAPER because I used it for work but not musically, and so I didn't really explore all the things you can do with it. Now that I'm not using it for work I've downgraded to a personal license and actually playing around with musical uses. REAPER has always been reliable and solid for all my work-related mixing purposes, so happy to see how good these utilities are.
PS -- I used REAPER to mix down and clean up multitrack spoken word recordings, and I found the most useful tool in my arsenal for that was REAfir, which didn't get mentioned here.
I am a sucker for vintage looks but i am aware about the quality of Reaper plug ins. I use a lot Abbey Road stuff like compressor, tape emulator and reverbs. But on the master bus i always use realimit, such a handy and simple to use tool.
Now we just need a new Groove 3 Mixing Course just showing us, mixing only with stock plugins by Kenny Gioia or is there already some kind of these stuff? But why inside Groove 3. A mixbreakdown inside RUclips would be nice. Greets
Now that I’m on the other side of healing and feeling lots better, I’m getting back into recording again. This video has stirred my creative juices once again.
Thanks again mr gioia 🎤🎼🥁🎧🎹🎸🎻🎯
Reaper ships with anything you could possibly need, well stated
Was thinking about that for a while now and after seeing this video , I get your point. I will do that .It's well deserved . Thanks again for what your doing Kenny -cheers
You got me Kenny... 🤣😂😅
I was wondering what effects you favoured that WEREN'T already in Reaper....
I would still love to see you do a video on Reeq which comes in the Reapack extentions with its mid side functions etc..
Thanks for all your content Kenny...☮
These 5 FX's needed for all DAW's out there.The FX missed to be allready installed is an Rea Mix FX to give presets for transform any mix without any loss of time!!That needs to buy it as external plugin.
you GOT me, lol. i should have known.<
you're the king, kenny. i love your vids, and they've made me love reaper more each time you release one.
Thank you for your work, I enjoyed watching each of your videos and learned a lot thanks to you.I wish you all the best!
My Grandson says I should buy white glasses then I'd look like Kenny. LOL
I bought Softube's Amp Room, as it's very good for (rock/metal) amp sims and cabs it contains and was on offer as a Black Friday deal @ 69 éuros.
However, on trying their version of reverb and delay, it did NOT match up at all to Reaper's own plugins.
Following your tutorials on 'Recording your band' episodes 10 and 11 I think, on adding Reverb and Delay, I have yet to find anything to surpass those plugins and/or your tutorials.
Note that those have been saved as track templates for me, for every scenario :)
Thank you for your continued support.
You are a great teacher Kenny. Spanish is my first language even though your lessons are super simple and rich . Thanx
You had me worried for a moment. Your videos were why I opted for Reaper over anything else back in the day. Genius Kenny.
Long time subber. Thanks for all your concise and informative tutorials on using this wonderful powerful DAW. Your work is helping to produce the future artists and engineers. And let's not forget guys like me who like to record in the man cave in sweatpants.
Just in time for Black Friday specials!
Thank you for the video! It's 32-bit but Bionic Supa Delay (free) is my go-to because I do a lot of live performance stuff and I love the controls. I use the FRComp87 limiter/compressor. These are nice plugins, Reaper is such an awesome tool. Love it.
Kenny! Great to see you. :)
reaper's EQ and compressor are mostly fine. I'm not a fan of the setup and interface for the reverb at all though. It's free so no big deal. I still use an old Sony DX reverb on drums because it's super light on cpu. I have a few other inexpensive ones that work well for specific things.
Reaper has some great stock plug-ins. No offense, but if you limit yourself to these, you're missing an entire universe of sound sculpting possibilities.
I had my credit card out and ready to go, but now I wont get to build my credit score :( lol. Thanks for the awesome explanation of these FX, I have skipped over them because they look simple but now I have added them into my template to use in my process, so thank you.
OH. The added taps in ReaDelay! I gotta change my knickers.
I love when he slaps the camera in the intro lmao. Also I love the stock effects fine, but I hate that they don't have a UI. Drives me nuts.
Other have been slapping the camera for a long time, he just ripped it off. And you're right about the UI too, but don't tell the fanbois, they'll get mad.
ruclips.net/video/q_zrgBobQV4/видео.html
Great video as always Kenny.
Although I like the Reaper plugs, they as good as high priced plugins on the Market.
For me, they are not the nicest visually...
Are there any GUI skins available to download?
I love the cheeky "as a reaper user, it is already installed" every single time, delivered as serious as leslie nielsen would...
Hi Kenny, I bought all the FX-Plugins you mentioned. Best thing, they came along with a DAW as a bonus!
Could you explain the effects of the "window size" and "overlap" parameters? I have been using ReaTune with my guitar, with the MIDI output going to a synth. It was not very responsive until I turned down the window size. Have you any other advice please.
damn i thought reatune was just a tuner! also the delay taps sent my brain into space, i have to try it out!!!!
I love it buddy. I'm a fan! K.G.
RESPECT.
you've made my learning experience really easy and amazing.
Thank you so much for your time and knowledge!!! I'm getting pretty good with this d.a.w.
Love brother!!!!!!!!
wow the bonus plugin was reatune..spent a few hours today messing about with an acoustic in open tuning in Reatune getting baritone guitar sounds, of late reatune is my favourite...great minds think alike, im so getting white frames on my next pair of bifocals lol
I wish RUclips had more videos telling me what to buy.
All comes with Reaper.
You're saving my life.
Thank you.
Stop the evaluation and BUY REAPER! Support this amazing DAW, and its only 60 bucks. Kenny, you're the best.
Sometimes using a certain plugin is like using your non dominant hand to write. You can learn to do it. But using another plugin for the job might be more natural for you.
I really like the free Kilohearts filter and 3 band eq for instance.
Mastering tools in Reaper is something i dream about 😉
The reverbs are Reaper’s weak point. Adding Valhalla Room and/or Valhalla Vintage Verb are inexpensive and are a huge upgrade.
Valhalla Supermassive is free and does the job pretty well. I never knew you could model room by adding files in the ReaVerb, gotta try that to see if it still weak.
@@vtergolina1 reaverb is pretty great. Its only downside is not being able to load true stereo files.
OrilRiver and Stone Voices Ambient Reverb are pretty amazing free reverbs too.
NI Raum was free during the holidays one year. I love that thing. But it's cool that Reaper has a built in IR plugin.
Thank you once more, Kenny!
Thanks for the info God bless you
Love the minimalism of this plugin lineup! Just a quick q, would you say some 3rd party compressors give you a certain "character" that the Reaper plugins can't? I'm fresh enough in the mixing game to doubt if my ears are fooled by eye candy GUIs.
In short YES. However there are some work arounds that can be used to emulate certain things. Say you want a compressor that gives a certain character. If you Google it you'll find that by experimenting with ReaComp specifically in the use of the RMS and Knee controls and the switch that makes it use feedback vs the normal settings that you can emulate other compressors like an SSL, or 1176, or Fairchild...not exactly but fairly closely.
You may find that some effects can get closer to the paid plugin you want to emulate by stacking plugins. For instance if you want to emulate tape delay or older circuits you could use ReaDelay and set the setting to something like 4-16 bits. Bits are effectively the quality of the delay. Obviously an older vintage tape delay will have less quality. But there's other things to consider.
Tape delay provides saturation, so enter JS Saturation and set it to taste. But what about tape properties like warble, wow and flutter?
Enter JS Phaser or JS Flanger or JS Flange Baby...
The point is, your limitations in Reaper are only that of your imagination.
But in some instances you might find the need to purchase the odd paid plugin for ease of use or for workflow, or for something specific. But the point here is, that almost anything you can imagine is doable with the right knowledge.
My suggestion for the next great Kenny video is focusing on things like this. Show us some advanced use of ReaComp to start off with and show how it can sound like favorite paid plugins.
Keep it up Kenny! You are shining the light and we are following! Great stuff!
Yes, if they are emulators of analog compressors (because of saturation, distortion, etc.). If they are just digital compressors, then all they provide is a different interface and it's up to you whether that's worth the money. The only noticeably missing feature is control over the stereo linking, however, you can recreate that by creating 2 copies of your compressor and routing the left/right channels to them separately.
Dan Worral has some good perspectives on this, like ruclips.net/video/3OoVnTO3AB4/видео.html or this devastating review: ruclips.net/video/U9eySYxwDXI/видео.html
I love your tutorials and advice. While I use Reaper plug ins I also use a few outside ones but I have learned that the Reaper ones generally sound just as good as the ones I bought. I think I'm just happier with the look of the interface on some of my other plug ins.