I am so new to audio editing that I don’t even know if I want to learn R 0:27 eaper or Audacity. Your videos for beginners have already taught me so much. Something that sets your videos apart is how well you explain things. A person does not need to see the screen in order to learn from you. This sets you apart in a good way from many RUclips creators.
Hey, thank you for the kind words. I learned something from you saying this about not having to look at all times, and will try to keep this in mind as much as possible. You can get used to either pretty quickly and both of them do just fine. They both have their strengths and the audio performance is excellent with both. If you want to do a lot of complicated stuff or have things ready and set up over and over again, there are some advantage with Reaper, and as things get more complicated, Reaper starts saving an undeniable amount of time through presets and things, but they are both fine tools. There is some automation in Audacity as well. If you get stuck, just let me know in a comment and I'll try to help. This channel is small enough that I will see it no problem.
I am going with Reaper. I am stuck with one thing. I have a track that I glued together pieces because I’ve made mistakes. I would like reaper to tell me the decibel level of each piece so that I can make them all the same. What setting am I looking for, or where do I find it? I know it’s basic, but I am a newbie. Thanks. 39:57
@@sharingmyfun8804 There are a bunch of ways to look at volume, so it is hard for Reaper to just show a number of any sort on a short clip. If you think about this it makes sense. What if you just had a moment redone where you are really loud? It would have no way of really knowing if that was "normal" or not, even if there were loud moments elsewhere surrounded by normal level moments somewhere else. You can see a waveform so it may be obvious to you if something is really different, and you can just play the clips and see if anything is weird on the meter, but it still needs you in charge to decide what is what. Once you decide though, There is a small dial, like a volume control on the top left of each clip (in the Windows version anyway.) You can actually drag that up and down to just adjust that piece and even the waveform will update so you can see how it fits in. When you press this little dial it will say, "item volume: 0.00dB" and will show the change in dB. If the little dial is missing, right click on the item and hit "Item Properties," or in windows press F2. Scrolling all the way to the right you can see the level change if any under "Volume/pan" and can change it there. Make sure to press "Apply" so it sticks. For longer clips, you can also normalize them to some level you want. If you right click on one, a menu with a ton of stuff will come up. In there, look for "Item Processing." There is a normalizer "Normalize items" at the top and it has a lot of options, like RMS-I you could set to, say, -18dB or LUFS-I (integrated) you could set to something like -23dB and see if that gets you where you want to go. It's a little wild but you get used to this stuff pretty quickly.
Thank you for stopping in! Yes, intermediate users don't need any help discovering the next thing. It's that moment at the beginning that is so important, when you don't know which button might blow up everything. Feels good to focus on this kind of stuff. Let me know if anything sticks out that should be improved.
well I'm back again to learn and yes, already a subscriber and yes I am a total noob with DAW and yes i got intimidated and yes that is why i'm here great videos!
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This is so great. Thank you, Edward. I'm 18 minutes in and have already learned so many little things I was doing the hard way!
That's really thrilling to hear. Thank you for letting me know!
Thanks for this video !!! Really helped me a lot to get started
I am so new to audio editing that I don’t even know if I want to learn R 0:27 eaper or Audacity. Your videos for beginners have already taught me so much. Something that sets your videos apart is how well you explain things. A person does not need to see the screen in order to learn from you. This sets you apart in a good way from many RUclips creators.
Hey, thank you for the kind words.
I learned something from you saying this about not having to look at all times, and will try to keep this in mind as much as possible.
You can get used to either pretty quickly and both of them do just fine. They both have their strengths and the audio performance is excellent with both.
If you want to do a lot of complicated stuff or have things ready and set up over and over again, there are some advantage with Reaper, and as things get more complicated, Reaper starts saving an undeniable amount of time through presets and things, but they are both fine tools. There is some automation in Audacity as well.
If you get stuck, just let me know in a comment and I'll try to help. This channel is small enough that I will see it no problem.
I am going with Reaper. I am stuck with one thing. I have a track that I glued together pieces because I’ve made mistakes. I would like reaper to tell me the decibel level of each piece so that I can make them all the same. What setting am I looking for, or where do I find it? I know it’s basic, but I am a newbie. Thanks. 39:57
@@sharingmyfun8804 There are a bunch of ways to look at volume, so it is hard for Reaper to just show a number of any sort on a short clip. If you think about this it makes sense. What if you just had a moment redone where you are really loud? It would have no way of really knowing if that was "normal" or not, even if there were loud moments elsewhere surrounded by normal level moments somewhere else.
You can see a waveform so it may be obvious to you if something is really different, and you can just play the clips and see if anything is weird on the meter, but it still needs you in charge to decide what is what.
Once you decide though, There is a small dial, like a volume control on the top left of each clip (in the Windows version anyway.) You can actually drag that up and down to just adjust that piece and even the waveform will update so you can see how it fits in. When you press this little dial it will say, "item volume: 0.00dB" and will show the change in dB.
If the little dial is missing, right click on the item and hit "Item Properties," or in windows press F2. Scrolling all the way to the right you can see the level change if any under "Volume/pan" and can change it there. Make sure to press "Apply" so it sticks.
For longer clips, you can also normalize them to some level you want. If you right click on one, a menu with a ton of stuff will come up. In there, look for "Item Processing." There is a normalizer "Normalize items" at the top and it has a lot of options, like RMS-I you could set to, say, -18dB or LUFS-I (integrated) you could set to something like -23dB and see if that gets you where you want to go.
It's a little wild but you get used to this stuff pretty quickly.
@@edwardthesoundguy thank you so much. Your reply really did help me. I found what I need today. When you explain things, they make sense.
Thanks Edward!
Love your approach to getting people started on audio. A lot of people forget how confusing the "basics" can be on day 1.
Thank you for stopping in! Yes, intermediate users don't need any help discovering the next thing. It's that moment at the beginning that is so important, when you don't know which button might blow up everything. Feels good to focus on this kind of stuff. Let me know if anything sticks out that should be improved.
Cheers, well done and really informative!
I just moved my gear after having not used it for over a year... This video is an awesome welcome back to Reaper... Thank you!
Glad to help! And I hope you get some excellent recordings.
Hello bro welcome toi Reaper 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great stuff. Very good video indeed. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
well I'm back again to learn and yes, already a subscriber and yes I am a total noob with DAW and yes i got intimidated and yes that is why i'm here great videos!
Hey welcome back! I definitely know the feeling. Let me know if you have any trouble!