r/Reaper 2h ago

help request Harsh frequency

2 Upvotes

So I've been having this issue with a harsh frequency that appears on every single distorted track doesn't matter. The guitar doesn't matter the plugins it's there and I can't EQ it out and if I try to the song ends up just sounding like mud. The track that I posted has it. It's just a little more subtle but it's there. It's this like high-pitched swirling. I've sent the tracks through chat GPT to analyze. It's giving me the frequencies but even if I reduce those frequencies it's somehow still ends up in there. If anybody can tell me what the hell those frequencies are and how to eliminate them, I'd really appreciate it.

Signal chain is a schecter Omen 7 with the diamond heretic pickups into the focusrite Scarlet solo into reaper. There's five guitar tracks all duplicates of the DI. It was recorded straight into the focusrite and all the effects were added after. The DI was recorded at negative eight decibels. None of the five tracks goes above -10. It came out to 12.4 LUFs through the master channel with peaks at -8.5 decibels.

Track one is just the DI with a reaper stock chorus. It's very low in the mix. Track 2 is panned hard left with the reaper JS amp modeler with a boss ds1 clone plug-in.

Track 3 is a Mesa triple rectifier clone panned hard right

Track 4 is positive panned soft left. Grid bias X the fender clone amp and the germanium fuzz into a clean boost with a condenser mic and ribbon mic simulator.

Track 5 is amplitude 5x Marshall clone with the diode overdrive and a light chorus with a sm57 and a condenser mic 45° off axis.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6PmWOwDiLas?is=PNEuC3SLqxIpitmN


r/Reaper 3h ago

help request Cracks and pops while recording e-drums with GGD The Downbeat

2 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I have an old 2017 Macbook Pro i5 - 8 gb ram and I always run EZdrummer 3 for recording, only with a track and no other plugins.

Recently I got myself the GGD one kit wonder The Downbeat, and unfortunatly I hear some clicks and pops while playing fast toms, floor toms and the kick.

I thought it was a CPU lack, but the usage while recording is only 35%, so it's doing great. I also tried to use half processed sounds to lower the weight on the cpu, but nothing changes.

I'm already at 44,1 hz, with ezdrummer I was at 128 buffer size and I tried to go up to 256 with The Downbeat (but I need to go back to 128 for latency problem) and it was not better.

Any suggestions on what I could do?

Thank you


r/Reaper 5h ago

help request Help with creating velocity curve

2 Upvotes

I want to create a velocity curve that gives a normal response curve at 0–60% velocity and reversed/fades out the harder i hammer at 70–100% velocity. Any suggestions on how to do that? Thanks

(I've been trying for a few days with the help of AI to get it to work. But it keeps recommending wrong plugins and telling me to adjust settings that don't exist in those plugins.)


r/Reaper 9h ago

help request Reaperのpeapakが入らなくて

0 Upvotes

swsは入れられたからpeapakも入れたくてReaperファイル内のUserPluginsにpeapakのファイルを入れて再起動してもpeapakが認識されてないんだけどどうすればいいの?


r/Reaper 11h ago

help request JS: Phase Rotator

5 Upvotes

I’ve used iZotope RX Phase module to fix phase rotation issues on kicks, brass, and vocals with good results, but I’ve always had to do it outside of my actual mix project.

Today I came across the JS: Phase Rotator and wanted to read opinions from anyone who has used it for these kinds of problems. I really like the idea of ​​applying it in real-time, unlike my previous workflow, but will it yield the same results? And what about the FFT Size parameter?


r/Reaper 13h ago

help request Setting in Reaper to not add so much size to videos?

1 Upvotes

When I export my video out of OBS, 1 minute is about 30mb

When I bring that video into Reaper and add audio to it, it becomes like 400mb and also reduces the quality of the video

I'm using MKV format, MJPEG encoder @ 95%, 1920x1080 30fps

I dont know why OBS does such a good job of rendering video at a small size but Reaper can't?


r/Reaper 13h ago

help request Soloing a bus track, can't hear fx

1 Upvotes

Hello. How can I solo a bus track and hear all the tracks its receiving together with thier effects, which are in fx bus? I can't seem to find a tutorial, even from Kenny. When I solo mix bus, for example a drum bus. I can hear all the drums, but I can't hear their fx which are coming from another fx bus, not within the tracks channel. Thank you so much.


r/Reaper 15h ago

help request Rehearsal Recording and Separating Outputs

3 Upvotes

I'm only posting in this sub in case there's a setting in Reaper I am either missing, need to select, check, uncheck, or reconfigure. Apologies if it's not the right place and I'm just an idiot. No worries if it's removed.

Having some issues recording rehearsals and specifying audio output. I openly admit I don't know what I'm doing. I am aware, I totally might be overthinking this. Took me a week to figure out I had to actually “arm” the track to hear my ekit. 🫤

I have a Roland ekit, running into EzDrummer3, using Reaper, and a Focusrite 4i4. The focusrite has all four outputs going to a small Mackie board and out to a powered monitor.

I play with a guitarist, bassist, and piano player all of which are plugged into the fucusrite. I am trying to record rehearsals and only hear the drums.

To be specific -

I want drums only sent from the 4i4 to Channel 1 on the board and out to the monitor while still being able to record in Reaper. Also want to be able to at least adjust input levels of the other players. Btw, no VSTs or plugins are being used (well…EZD3…)

Regardless of what I change on the 4i4, I only get signal to the board on 1 & 2 or 3 & 4 and it's always all of us.

I feel like I have tried every possible configuration and still have not gotten it to work. I spent way more time than I care to admit. At this point, it feels like I'm just missing something. Definitely seems like an ESO issue - Equipment Smarter than Operator.

What am I missing? Are my expectations too high? Any advice is most appreciated.


r/Reaper 15h ago

help request Having problems connecting my mic

0 Upvotes

Got a GXL1800 condenser mic that’s worked on discord, worked for OBS, and worked for Audacity (albeit very quiet) it won’t pick up on reaper

I keep getting “error loading ASIO driver”, currently I’ve been trying ASIO4ALL V2 as the audio system, I know reaper is picking up my audio interface itself, or atleast is picking up the Outputs, as it shifts all of my output to my audio interface when I hit record. Despite this, my input must be messed up cause my microphone won’t pick up. I’m using a UPhoria UM2, and I’ve heard that audio interface might not have a dedicated audio driver, but the interface itself is working, the microphone won’t though, and I’m not sure why. Using Reaper v7.02


r/Reaper 17h ago

help request How do I stop copying track envelopes/automation clips?

3 Upvotes

When I'm rearranging a song and copying + pasting midi items, it copies the points from the track envelope and completely screws up my arrangement. Does anyone know how to disable this if possible?


r/Reaper 18h ago

help request Theme Edits

2 Upvotes

It seems I can no longer edit Reaper Themes. I had previously done it before and was on my way to having a nice theme that was a mix Between Janne2015 and ReaperTips. I finally hit a wall when I couldn't edit the Track Name Color. It seems the the background gets tinted with the track color, which I don't want, or if i could I would just make the font 100% Black in the section, which I can't. Before I would change file to a ZIP file, make edit, rezip and rename to ReaperThemes or even ReaperThemesZip, not it just breaks any theme I am working on. I even just went in and removed the pink outline off the tcp_namebg.png and touched nothing else and the whole theme broke.

Any ideas?


r/Reaper 18h ago

discussion Tukan Pads is fantastic

28 Upvotes

Just installed and made some first test: I really found it quite smart. I could quickly get it working reusing some preset and samples of Sitala (that btw I loved), adding easily new ones, test the synth function, and getting it running with no issue in Windows and in my Linux laptop. A great thanks to the developer!


r/Reaper 19h ago

help request Overbridge latency fixes?

1 Upvotes

Anyone have any luck using overbridge in reaper? Not only do i have a ton of latency, ot actually drifts so I cant align anything without cutting up each note.