This video is an adaptation of a segment I did for the Home Recording Show podcast. This is a dissection of a mix I did for an acoustic song using only REAPER’s included plugins.
This video is an adaptation of a segment I did for the Home Recording Show podcast. This is a dissection of a mix I did for an acoustic song using only REAPER’s included plugins.
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7 responses to “Video: Acoustic mix with only REAPER plugins”
@reaperblog awesome video, definitely giving me something to strive for!
Nice, thanks for this. I agree Reaverberate is a pretty hard to get a decent sound out of, but I was wondering why didn’t you use ReaVerb? You can get some great sounding impulse responses for it for free.
Hi Mark, thanks for checking it out.
I could have used ReaVerb but I don’t normally use IR verbs in my mixes. I also wanted to work as quickly as possible on the mix, about 3hrs total. I don’t think it comes with any impulses to start with. I have 3GB worth of verb impulses and going through them to find the perfect one seems like a distraction to me.
With that said, ReaVerb probably would have worked better/easier. I just didn’t want to go the easy way.
I’ll add a ReaVerb tutorial to my to-do list.
Valhalla Room is my go-to verb and I set it up basically like in the video. 1 very short, 1 medium and nearly all tracks send into those two reverbs.
Which Reaper theme/template are you using to get all of this stuff on your screen at once?
The theme is called Alternate. I have the mixer and FX list docked at the bottom and the transport at the top.
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Sorry for joining this conversation so late. Do you actually put two reverbs on the guitar track? And what do you mean when you say “taking the reverb through the compressor”? You mean you just add a compressor to particular. You often “goes through (reverb/delay/compressor). Do this also mean adding reverb/delay/compressor to the track in question?