@@REAPERMania I got ya, you do what works for you, great thing about reaper is there's so many ways to do the same thing, and some will be more efficient depending on the user. Thanks again for another great tutorial BTW, never thought of de-essing like this.
Absolute game changer for those of us that are learning or just like to do things themselves, rather than relying on plugins all the time. Cheers Kenny, this is amazing as usual!
its like every.single.time. i run into a problem i cant fix, reaper implements the feature and kenny shows me how to do it. outstanding. had a singer with a pronounced lisp, and what can i say, this fixes it, where de-essers wouldnt.
Another great video! 👍 I didn't know that just reducing the track by 6db would help with de-essing. I always used fabfilter to control this type of issues. Always nice to learn something new. Keep up the great work!
Kenny you never cease to astound me with your videos, and the ideas you come up with, it's amazing ! Who would've thought to do this using fixed items lanes.... Other than you lol !
As an audiobook narrator who has a lot of trouble with sibilance (and 'k' sounds and plosives in general), I have to say Kenny is a freakin' GOD. This is not gold, it's platinum. For you Star Trek folk, it's gold pressed latinum.
Yes; I use the dynamic split trick and play with the gate settings. It has saved me a lot of time, especially on a project that required inserting a lot of sound effects. Once all the cuts are made and adjusted as necessary, the whole track gets glued back together and (re)normalized for submission.@@REAPERMania
That's a good idea ! Mis-using the lanes for fast de-essing... Great! But I think there's still a lot to do with the new "fixed item lanes" eg. Recording into Lanes: - It's a pitty that recording a second section (one section already finished) in fixed lanes always switches the takes of the first section as well (very annoying). Should work like the old take behaviour.. Finished parts of the song shouldn't be changed by later actions! Activating and staying in Comping mode is a workaround, but pretty clunky. Should at least be possible to lock an already made recording section (choosen takes) to really make use of that great new feature. Until that is hopefully going to happen, I use the old take method. Thank you Kenny for your great tutorials !!!
Nice I’ll have to try this in Logic. Interesting how song feature one daw changes how you think when using a daw that has had that feature for a while.
Hello @REAPERMania , I would like to thank you for the helpfusl vidoes. I just want to ask how to fix the "crashing sound" whenever I edit? It started to occur when i updated my Reaper to 7. I am hearing jt from time to time even when my track is playing. Its sounds like a TV that has bo signal. I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance
Hey Kenny, 1st thank you for this video and all you do. You make this journey of audio engineering so much more fun. 2nd I had a question: so I followed your steps all the way up to 2:15 but I noticed that when turned down the bottom lane, all the lanes went down as well as if they were synced. How do I turn that off? Thanks in advance!
You are the king of great instructional videos for Reaper. Do you have a video for remote band recording workflow. All of my bandmates have Reaper and we'd like to be able to use the SonoBus for low latency or Ninjam for working out parts. What's a good workflow for setting up tracks on each of our instances of Reaper and then combining those tracks later into high fidelity uncompressed tracks in one Reaper instance. I do have Reaper backed up to Google Drive and we could all upload our tracks after the session, but other ideas are welcome. Also, I will turn off sync to online backup while recording, though I may sync to a local so I don't lose anything during the session. Appreciate your advice. Do you have a forum for community input and questions?
What settings do you use to start playback at the position of your zoom? I have to move my cursor to the editing spot to start playback in the zone I am editing.
Thanks for the reply Kenny. Just wonder if we ride the vocal after de-esser, then wont it increase the volume on de-essed parts and bring sibilance back again? @@REAPERMania
Hello! What if i have my lead track in chunks i am not able to manage of them at the same time. How can I adjust the volume of the SSS line if my track is cut on pieces? Please I need your help.
After creating a comping lane the mouse is in EDIT mode and I can't lower the volume on those lanes. How do you get the mouse to lower volume on comping lane?
Can't get this to work at all, I assume it's my settings? when I duplicate the lane and then comp into new lane as shown, when I adjust the gain on a lane it affects both lanes. Also, the razor edit only moves the audio clip in the lane rather than cross fading? Can't see any settings to change to affect it even, so weird. Shame was really looking forward to trying this but it's driving me crazy at the moment
I followed this every step of the way and VISUALLY it works but the audio coming from the comp lane isn't changed. I even reduced the SS track to -50 and the was NO audio change. Reaper was reading something else. When, Where, What, Why & How did I get it wrong?
I started all over and was able to get the Draw cursor, but had issues lowering the volume. It wanted to lower the volume of both lanes unless I clicked on a little circular dot in the upper left corner of each lane (not the actual volume knob), it's another little dot just to the left of the volume knob. I don't see it in your video. What is that little dot?@@REAPERMania
Love his videos and incredibly helpful content, but does anyone know why he talks with all those pauses between words? He says a few words, pauses, then finishes the sentence. Just wondering if that's just how he talks or if there's a purpose behind it.
Can someone help me? I am trying to do this, but when I duplicate the tracks and I lower the volume of one, it does the same for both like if the are in chain
Yes, I think people do use clip gain/volume automation to de-ess. Seems like it's all about results you want vs. time involved. Adjusting volume manually can apparently lead to more natural results, but it takes more time than a plug-in. The lanes approach here seems to make it faster to adjust the volume.
