In this round of Q&A I’m answering questions on noisy guitars, cool custom actions, routing and more.
The next Q&A will be at 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. I’m thinking of doing a few hours of live Q&A and other activities for that one.
0:28 – Dealing with noise when guitar recording
1:50 – Room resonances and sweeping EQ
4:15 – Half speed playback custom action
06:05 – Problems with using EQ in solo
08:00 – Sends and bussing examples
Links
How to EQ heavy guitars in a mix http://wp.me/p2EzQl-M5
Interactive Room Mode Calculator http://amroc.andymel.eu
Room EQ Wizard https://www.roomeqwizard.com/
SoundToys 1hr mixing challenge https://youtu.be/oSKjPRiH5P4
Audio Routing Explained http://wp.me/p2EzQl-15A
Free mixing course http://reaperblog.net/course/beginner-mixing-course-part-1/
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Comments
One response to “The REAPER Blog Q&A # 19”
On monitor induced pickup noise: The worst source of EMI is usually the video monitors. They generate wideband hash that any electromagnetic pickups such as guitar and bass pickups, are an antenna for. Single coils are obviously the worst. I recently retrofitted my bass with split-coil JBass type pickups but only slightly attenuated the effect of the video monitors.
The ReaFIR vst plugin is very helpful for noise reduction and it’s included in Reaper. There are several vids and wiki’s on how to use the plugin for noise reduction.
One very effective tool for room tuning is MathRoom.vst Room EQ. Though it was intended for home theater systems, I’ve been using this plugin for room EQ at my desktop mixing station for almost a year now with very good results. It’s very cost effective and is quite simple to apply.
http://mathaudio.com/room-eq.htm