Kenny thank you. Your videos are the most precise and helpful I've seen on RUclips on ANY subject, not just regarding music mixing.I always first like and bookmark your video tutorials before I even watch them! Thanks!
I click 'like' first as well. I also have a folder on my desktop for links from certain videos. I drag them from the address bar to the folder. It's ptryy much the same as a bookmark. Without Kenny, most of us wouldn't be able to do half of what Reaper can do.
Thank you for ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS, Kenny. They are immeasurably helpful to get to mix solutions quickly. One thing that came to mind that would extend this solution might be to show best practices for nesting all the drum tracks. Once you have all the raw drum tracks balanced, and added the parallel processing, it would be great to see how you can boil all those balanced tracks down to one Drum Bus. Then we wouldn't have to scroll screens just to manage the final mix balance. We could just handle balance the main stems.
You speak in such an amazing way. Very awesome in my opinion. Is it something you learned or do you just talk like that normally? Oh and also, thanks for this, maybe my mixes and songs won't sound so muddy now. I have extreme issues with muddy sound. I think maybe there's something I do not understand.
Can I use the Multiband Compressor instead of filtering the lows before compressing, in the end of the video? Just curious if the result would be the same.
Hi Kenny, your tutorials are great :) Thanks ! I have a question : how can I do to make a parallel compression on the master track ? There isn't a send possibility on the master... I found an idea, but don"t know if it's the best : I rooted all my groups in a track "master", which I sent to the master track. Thanks for ur answer.
I'm new in music production, and I would like to know, anyway we have to do the respective EQ and Compression for each track of The Drumm set before doing this Parallel Comp and Eq?
Hey kenny great vid as always One question is when you first set up the live drums killed the master send and sent the hole kit to a dry track post fade Can you just do that from a folder and then parallel compress and eq etc from that . Probably silly question but it sort of confused me why you wouldnt make a folder for the hole kit and then side chain form the folder 👍
Hey Kenny, I use track folders instead of making a buss... is there a simple way to do parallel comp on multi-mic drums this way without cloning the folder and all of the tracks, or is your buss method the only way?
There is some phase issues BUT, Kenny placed the Cut frequency of the HPF around 1000Hz. So the most part of the fliping phase due to the EQ is between ~1000hz and ~ 3.5Khz. In this particular exemple, it helps the high end and the low end to be more present. Phase rotation are not always problem, sometimes it make the overall sound better! With reaeq, you can check the phase rotation by ticking the "show phase" square in bottom right.
Sorry if it’s dumb question but I’m learning Reaper after 7 or so years in ProTools. So what’s the difference between this method and duplicating the tracks?
Hi Kenny. when you put your tracks into a folder i.e drum folder , bass folder, guitar e.t.c. Are they not acting as busses or do you actaully have to create a seperate track and send the tracks you want to it then disable the tracks to the master buss? i've just been using the folders as my busses.
That's what I do as well. Folder will automatically take the tracks under it outta the master. Same shit as making a separate buss and organizes things better imo
i don't get the prefader setting. don't you want to get the relative balance between buss and compression track (post fader) and then use the buss fader to balance with the rest of the mix? so the compression track goes up/down with the buss as needed. i mean, what do you use to keep the relative balance between the 3 drum busses and the rest of the mix?
I've been trying to do this for months without success. Most of the time, when parallel processing, I want to mute the original track and only listen to the parallel one, so I can tell what I'm doing to it before mixing it with the original, but everytime I mute the original it stops sending signal to the parallel track, even if the send is pre-fader. In Pro Tools, the mute button doesn`t affect the send when its pre-fader, but in Reaper it does, and its very annoying. The way you "muted" the original track in this video was by moving down the fader, which I find unuseful since most of the time I've already set the fader to a position I don't want to change. Pre-fader sends should be pre-mute as well. Is there a way to make it work that way?
I want you to narrate my life, your voice is so nice to hear, man! awesome tutorials
I guess I'm kind of randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to watch new series online ?
@Thatcher Kane I use Flixzone. Just google for it :)
haha
Such a great Tut ! The trick with the blend of the 3rd hi-shelved & smashed track is amazing, wow !
Thanks Kenny, your tutorials are the best. Great for someone new to Reaper like me as you explain what you are doing every step of the way.
You always have the best Reaper tutorials man! Thanks! Also love your way of talking.
Absolutely invaluable to learning how to make my thin DIY mixes sound more lifelike. Thanks so much!
Kenny thank you. Your videos are the most precise and helpful I've seen on RUclips on ANY subject, not just regarding music mixing.I always first like and bookmark your video tutorials before I even watch them! Thanks!
I click 'like' first as well. I also have a folder on my desktop for links from certain videos. I drag them from the address bar to the folder. It's ptryy much the same as a bookmark. Without Kenny, most of us wouldn't be able to do half of what Reaper can do.
Thank you for ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS, Kenny. They are immeasurably helpful to get to mix solutions quickly. One thing that came to mind that would extend this solution might be to show best practices for nesting all the drum tracks. Once you have all the raw drum tracks balanced, and added the parallel processing, it would be great to see how you can boil all those balanced tracks down to one Drum Bus. Then we wouldn't have to scroll screens just to manage the final mix balance. We could just handle balance the main stems.
Amazing explanation. I now did learn about matrix & two buss processing. Thank you
Thank you for the tutorials. Your awesome man.
I'm actually hyped on how much i learned from this. Thank you billion times!
Another great vid, thanx very much Kenny! :)
Reaper is amazing, thanks!
Wow ! I learned something today. Thanks !
Nice Vid very professional keep up the work
Wow! Very cool!
Great video, finally feel like I have a handle on this 'parallel compression' I hear get tossed around in the online producing community.
This is great! Thanks dude!
Amazing lesson yet again. So many things taken away from this video for me.
Super useful, thanks man !!
For anyone hunting down info on how to mix dub music in Reaper, THIS is just about what you’ll do, with the send volumes controlled by knobs.
Thank you so much sir very useful ❤❤❤❤❤❤
this guy is the Best!
This tutorial is killer. Bought my bland drum track to life!
wow, thanks man. awesome tips
Thank you!
Thanks for this tutorial!
Very learn full!
You speak in such an amazing way. Very awesome in my opinion. Is it something you learned or do you just talk like that normally?
Oh and also, thanks for this, maybe my mixes and songs won't sound so muddy now. I have extreme issues with muddy sound. I think maybe there's something I do not understand.
Fantastic 🙂
Can I use the Multiband Compressor instead of filtering the lows before compressing, in the end of the video? Just curious if the result would be the same.
Instead of a drum buss, could you use a drum folder the same way?
THANK YOU
Thank you v much
Hi Kenny, your tutorials are great :) Thanks ! I have a question : how can I do to make a parallel compression on the master track ? There isn't a send possibility on the master... I found an idea, but don"t know if it's the best : I rooted all my groups in a track "master", which I sent to the master track. Thanks for ur answer.
And add all these to a folder and use that to level the whole kit in relation to other stuff?
great video!!_!!
thank you so much
I'm new in music production, and I would like to know, anyway we have to do the respective EQ and Compression for each track of The Drumm set before doing this Parallel Comp and Eq?
cool!
Very cool, thanks.
BTW there is an odd noise on the room sound. Its approximately "G" below middle "C" about 195hz. Could that be excised???
Hey kenny great vid as always
One question is when you first set up the live drums killed the master send and sent the hole kit to a dry track post fade
Can you just do that from a folder and then parallel compress and eq etc from that . Probably silly question but it sort of confused me why you wouldnt make a folder for the hole kit and then side chain form the folder
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Hey Kenny, I use track folders instead of making a buss... is there a simple way to do parallel comp on multi-mic drums this way without cloning the folder and all of the tracks, or is your buss method the only way?
Thanks for the vid!
I wonder.. why are there no phase issues when you add the EQed sound?
Александр Зилков REAPER has delay compensation built in.
There is some phase issues BUT, Kenny placed the Cut frequency of the HPF around 1000Hz. So the most part of the fliping phase due to the EQ is between ~1000hz and ~ 3.5Khz. In this particular exemple, it helps the high end and the low end to be more present. Phase rotation are not always problem, sometimes it make the overall sound better! With reaeq, you can check the phase rotation by ticking the "show phase" square in bottom right.
that is good
Sorry if it’s dumb question but I’m learning Reaper after 7 or so years in ProTools. So what’s the difference between this method and duplicating the tracks?
Can I do this if I have drums in a folder?
Kenny, I was wondering if you put Eq on the individual drum tracks in conjunction with the Eq on the buss track?
No reason not to.
Thank You!
Hi Kenny. when you put your tracks into a folder i.e drum folder , bass folder, guitar e.t.c. Are they not acting as busses or do you actaully have to create a seperate track and send the tracks you want to it then disable the tracks to the master buss? i've just been using the folders as my busses.
That's what I do as well. Folder will automatically take the tracks under it outta the master. Same shit as making a separate buss and organizes things better imo
I just asked this question today. Should have read the comments. Im with you on the organization bit
i don't get the prefader setting. don't you want to get the relative balance between buss and compression track (post fader) and then use the buss fader to balance with the rest of the mix? so the compression track goes up/down with the buss as needed. i mean, what do you use to keep the relative balance between the 3 drum busses and the rest of the mix?
+Sinasthetic You can group the last 3 faders (buss, compress + EQ and Compress) and they'll move together.
+kenny gioia ok. i was wondering why that workflow
I've been trying to do this for months without success. Most of the time, when parallel processing, I want to mute the original track and only listen to the parallel one, so I can tell what I'm doing to it before mixing it with the original, but everytime I mute the original it stops sending signal to the parallel track, even if the send is pre-fader. In Pro Tools, the mute button doesn`t affect the send when its pre-fader, but in Reaper it does, and its very annoying. The way you "muted" the original track in this video was by moving down the fader, which I find unuseful since most of the time I've already set the fader to a position I don't want to change. Pre-fader sends should be pre-mute as well.
Is there a way to make it work that way?
Hello? I still can't figure it out :(
What was the point on heavily compression the eq track when you just did that on the compression track? Possibly for a more snappy high end boost?
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My answer
why not eq and compress the drum bus instead ?
Watched that video 2x. Still not getting it.
Which part do you need help with?
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