In this video I show you how I set up to re-amp guitars in REAPER.

 

Summary: After recording guitars direct, monitoring through virtual amps, send the direct guitar signal out of the audio interface, into a reamp device, and through a guitar amp and cabinet. Record the sound to a new track.

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12 responses to “Video: How To Re-Amp in REAPER”

  1. Colin Steele Avatar

    Nice little tutorial, it made me go and buy the DIY re-amp box, been meaning to get one for a while including postage to the UK it’s still cheap at £38… bargain

  2. Tom Wilkowske Avatar

    This explains, how, but can someone please explain why re-amping is worth the trouble?

  3. nathan Avatar
    nathan

    Why not use ReaInsert ?

  4. Tyler Pilot Avatar

    Tom, re-amping is worth the trouble if you’ve got a situation in which you’re not able to run your guitar amps full throttle all day, every day, any time you’d like.

    You could record a DI guitar track and monitor through an amp modeling system at any time of any night or any child’s naptime. You can spend 6 hours getting the most perfect guitar takes recorded, spend a little time editing the perfect guitar takes into perfect guitar parts (which is easier to see now because the DI, not a distorted guitar signal, is recorded to the DAW) then send those guitar parts out to an amp that will only have to be loud for the amount of time it takes to play each guitar part out of the DAW one time – you just send that DI guitar signal out of the DAW, into the reamp box, then out to the amp/cab which will play back your perfectly edited and recorded pure guitar signal.

    Rather than having your 102db guitar amp on for 6 hours as you’re double tracking (and tracking and tracking and fixing mistakes and punching in and tracking some more and waiting for the guy with the stereo to drive by) all three rhythm guitar parts on your amazing 8-minute opus , you only have to have the amp on for the amount of time it takes to play each guitar part out to the amp once.

    Another use for reamping: I have a couple really killer amps including a nice-sounding Ampeg tube bass amp. A bass player I know lives in an apartment, doesn’t own any sort of respectable bass amp, and doesn’t own any mics that would do a good job capturing low end. He also lives 2 hours away from me so he can’t just stop by. He can record his bass DI into his interface, send me the edited files, and I can record his fantastic, perfectly edited and perfectly executed playing through my collection of amps, mics, pres, etc. only having to have that loud bass amp pushing a loud 6X10 cab for the 5 minutes to find the right spot for the mic(s) and the 3 minutes necessary to play the song out through the reamping box into the amp then back into the daw via a nice mic/pre/converter setup.

    …also, a reamp box can give you the connections you’d ideally have to send something (like a vocal) through some guitar effects (like delays, phasers, or weird distortion boxes) and back in via DI.

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    1. gds Avatar

      Does anyone know the name of the Reaper theme used in this video?

  6. Dave Avatar

    Useful information to all who loves to play guitar. Check this info right here!

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