Well! Fair to say that for me, a solely acoustic guitar player, out of the dozens of useful vids you’ve given me, this is the most important one so far Kenny. Genius! I will use this all the time going forward. THANK YOU!
Yep! I've learned some much from Kenny it's not even funny!! All of his videos are great, but more importantly, he teaches in a way that makes you absorb it better than any other tutorials I've seen!
What a great idea. Rather than duplicating the audio I used four tracks. The guitar recording was on the first track (Master Send off) with the Splitter plugin set to '2 in 6 out'. I then routed Low, Mid and High to 'send' tracks for processing. This method uses one more track but only requires a single Splitter.
Not positive, but I think you could still do that with 3. The track with the splitter sends one band to the master, and the other two bands to receiving tracks. Just make sure any fx on the one track go after the splitter, and make the sends pre-fader, so you can adjust the volume without affecting the send level.
Holy s…! This is truly amazing and ingenious. Acoustic guitar sound is very important to me and so I found this video to be not only illuminating but also potentially incredibly useful. Thank you so much. I am grateful for all that you have taught me. I actually skipped the bass video, but based on the strength of this one I plan to watch it right away.
Great way to clean up the muddiness...it worked a treat for the bass last time...and here too with layered acoustic guitars. It also really put a new gloss on my old 12-string acoustic. Another great tutorial, and for a moment I thought I was Goin' to California
@@DThompson55 Hahaha...very possibly, passive-aggressive muddy perhaps. But I have a hearing problem anyway. Doh! Many things sound muddy to my ears and I am new to mixing. But I tried this way with Kenny's last 2 tutorials and not only can I hear bass and acoustics clearer...I can actually hear everything better. It works for me.
@@holmesoffice5231 Well, welcome to the mixing club. I think a lot of us are new to mixing compared to Kenny, and more than a few of us have hearing problems. I'm an old far with tinnitus, but my mixes are substantially better today than when I started. Every Kenny video moves me that much closer to understanding this craft at a deeper level.
"I hope you learnt something..." - yo, Kenny, you can bet on this! Excellent video, what an awesome method, just as I am about to record some intimate clean guitars! Nice!
Thankyou for breaking everything down do clearly and easy to understand! My first time using reaper and recording acoustic originals. This has made my track instantly sound sooo much better!! That studio professh sound I was looking for! Kenny! You're a LEGEND!!
Ah yes... More musical enlightenment from the guru of REAPER goodness. As a guitarist (primarily my main instrument) this is going to be a fun one to whittle around with this week and beyond. Spent the weekend enjoying the new free Arturia Augmented STRINGS plugin and now will focus on implementing some ambient guitar tracks.Nice timing Kenneth!! ✌
@@REAPERMania I have so much Arturia (kinda a long term fanboy) and at first it didn't do too much for me, but the articulation(s) of the various bow attacks are actually really cool. The simplicity of the GUI is also very well thought out in my opinion. The fact that this is FREE is increasing my satisfaction meter. Don't want to sound like a Arturia salesman, but they are my top three in quality, function and simplicity = good stuff always. Maybe throw out a quick REAPER utilization vid with a sound or two?
Iam new to the purchased reaper and didn't realize this option and method great tutorial Kenny I'll use this from now on best wishes from UK England phil 👍
Why three copies of the audio and three instances of the splitter? Why not have the audio and splitter on one track, with sends of the three outputs of the splitter to separate tracks with the compressors? Then there would only be one place to adjust the crossover frequencies so they could not be set inconsistently. Plus it would use less CPU I think.
I've been loving these split processing videos! 2 questions for you: 1. Do you find that using compression like this for certain instruments would be fine without additional EQ? I would imagine it really depends on the context of the mix. 2. When you're A/B-ing between the original track and processed tracks, how are you quickly switching which tracks are muted?
Excellent video !! This technique is like an equalizer on asteroids ! Just one question... In minute 11:25, how do you link the FX on track 3 to the FX (Reverb) on the template track 4 ? I tried "click and drag" as in the video, but it does not work for me.
Hey Kenny, Thanks for your fantastic content. It really is excellent. I would suggest changing the intro though. I think the whole process doesn't look great and takes away from the superb content in the video. It's just my opinion but I do want to see this channel grow and I think the intro sets a bad start to otherwise great content.
Kenny new account isp mishap. Great as always. Setting my mics up again been doing a lot of midi editing. Sounds very zep 3. Question Kenny... Can we use this technique with a delay to create a "Sonic Maximizer"...as a Rack? I have an old one from my analogue days...they "were magic sauce" back then.
So have we have basically reinvented ReaCompX here? I understand it's more than that because one can adjust the volume of each band. I have always had a difficult time hearing, and therefore doing anything useful with compression. And by doing anything useful I mean not making a mix significantly worse. It wasn't until Kenny's Transient Controller video last year that compression started to make any sense to me, and now I'm able to do some subtle things at that level. But the whole idea of multiband compression is beyond my ear's skill level, even though I have a decent enough studio set up. OK, not entirely true. I can make De-Essers fix problems, that's an example of narrow band compression, but not what' I'd consider multiband. What are we really trying to achieve using compressors in this way? I totally understand adjusting the volume of each band. And I understand to some ears it just sounds better. But what problem is it solving and what are we listening for?
I appreciate your question and also barely 'get' compression. I think the key here may be seen at 6:47, where K moves the slider to exactly where the MIDS pop out to my ear, (likewise HIs and LOs earlier). Which says to me: there's a sweet spot to take advantage of (manipulate) for that instrument in each of those bands. Again, I can't exactly tell you why,..and I worry, thinking that it's all coming down to the fidelity of my monitors/crossovers. ....just my $0.02...the popping out of those freqs may be key.
Are there any advantages to doing this rather than using a multi-band compressor? Also, is there a way for the band splitter to put out all 6 output channels at once?
For me (!) the differences are: a) I don't need to buy an additional multiband compressor b) I learn how to use Reaper c) I learn how a multiband compressor basically works d) on the way I get way more creative
The advantage is that you can treat each frequency range separately (EQ & any other treatment) and finely adjust the volume of each frequency range. You can do this on just one track by using the pin connectors to assign each FX to a frequency range and putting at the end a band joiner to join the 3 signals. But it's more convenient to control 3 tracks (you can put them in a single folder or subgoup if you want).
@@Tokolele That's the workflow I imagined to be the most practical too, creating a parent folder track, especially with a signal split across multiple tracks. For someone that's completely new to mixing, having it laid out in this way can help all the individual pieces and processes fit together more coherently - but for those with a little more experience, similar results could surely be achieved in other ways. Just so happens that isn't the point of this particular video :)
You can do almost anything "within" a track. I just like to use multiple tracks so you don't have to go to the FX chain every time you want to tweak something.
Well! Fair to say that for me, a solely acoustic guitar player, out of the dozens of useful vids you’ve given me, this is the most important one so far Kenny. Genius! I will use this all the time going forward. THANK YOU!
Yep! I've learned some much from Kenny it's not even funny!! All of his videos are great, but more importantly, he teaches in a way that makes you absorb it better than any other tutorials I've seen!
I love this method, seems complicated at first but once you save the fx chain it's a doddle. Cheers Mr G.
Kenny, the god's gift to the sound engineears!!
"engineears" - hahaha, love it!
Very punny.
@@REAPERMania Kenny if we use the 3-band joiner isn't it the same??
Yep!
@@PocketSunlight Thank you!!
I used this technique on a nylon acoustic, absolutely stunning!!
What a great idea. Rather than duplicating the audio I used four tracks. The guitar recording was on the first track (Master Send off) with the Splitter plugin set to '2 in 6 out'. I then routed Low, Mid and High to 'send' tracks for processing. This method uses one more track but only requires a single Splitter.
Not positive, but I think you could still do that with 3. The track with the splitter sends one band to the master, and the other two bands to receiving tracks. Just make sure any fx on the one track go after the splitter, and make the sends pre-fader, so you can adjust the volume without affecting the send level.
Holy s…! This is truly amazing and ingenious. Acoustic guitar sound is very important to me and so I found this video to be not only illuminating but also potentially incredibly useful. Thank you so much. I am grateful for all that you have taught me. I actually skipped the bass video, but based on the strength of this one I plan to watch it right away.
This works very nicely for bass guitar too. Compress the bottom, leave the "twang" as is or EQ and boost it.
Great way to clean up the muddiness...it worked a treat for the bass last time...and here too with layered acoustic guitars. It also really put a new gloss on my old 12-string acoustic. Another great tutorial, and for a moment I thought I was Goin' to California
but would you agree it was an aggressively muddy guitar to start with?
@@DThompson55 Hahaha...very possibly, passive-aggressive muddy perhaps. But I have a hearing problem anyway. Doh! Many things sound muddy to my ears and I am new to mixing. But I tried this way with Kenny's last 2 tutorials and not only can I hear bass and acoustics clearer...I can actually hear everything better. It works for me.
@@holmesoffice5231 Well, welcome to the mixing club. I think a lot of us are new to mixing compared to Kenny, and more than a few of us have hearing problems. I'm an old far with tinnitus, but my mixes are substantially better today than when I started. Every Kenny video moves me that much closer to understanding this craft at a deeper level.
This is amazing! This is beyond Reaper and real good mixing technique. Thanks Kenny
Kenny you are a GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! This can be used on SOOOOO many applications!!!!! Thank you again!!!!!!!!!
Kenny, you're a genius.
(i) A technique that completely lifts the blanket off a single acoustic take
(ii) Bron-Yr-Aur tone at 09:10
"I hope you learnt something..." - yo, Kenny, you can bet on this! Excellent video, what an awesome method, just as I am about to record some intimate clean guitars! Nice!
This might be one of my new favorite of your videos!
Thankyou for breaking everything down do clearly and easy to understand! My first time using reaper and recording acoustic originals. This has made my track instantly sound sooo much better!! That studio professh sound I was looking for! Kenny! You're a LEGEND!!
Excellent!
Once again, thank you Kenny!
Ah yes... More musical enlightenment from the guru of REAPER goodness. As a guitarist (primarily my main instrument) this is going to be a fun one to whittle around with this week and beyond. Spent the weekend enjoying the new free Arturia Augmented STRINGS plugin and now will focus on implementing some ambient guitar tracks.Nice timing Kenneth!! ✌
Is it any good. I was about to try it myself.
@@REAPERMania I have so much Arturia (kinda a long term fanboy) and at first it didn't do too much for me, but the articulation(s) of the various bow attacks are actually really cool. The simplicity of the GUI is also very well thought out in my opinion. The fact that this is FREE is increasing my satisfaction meter. Don't want to sound like a Arturia salesman, but they are my top three in quality, function and simplicity = good stuff always. Maybe throw out a quick REAPER utilization vid with a sound or two?
Yes!!! Thanks Kenny! I work with mostly free VST's and this will work dramatically on any instrument...
This is awesome! Should the same principle be applied if you have a 1 track drums?
Coming up soon.
Bloody Brilliant mate! Love it and will use it!
Fantastic ideas and clear explanations! Thanks Kenny
Just what I needed! Thank you very much for your good tuturials.
Kenny Masterclass! Thanks Kenny always learn something new with your tuts man!!
Brilliant Kenny!
Wow. Acoustic is the reason I got into reaper. Awesome
Your videos never cease to amaze me. Excellent tutorial!!!
was looking for this ❤❤❤ thank u kenny
Thanks Kenny ... very helpful 😉🎼. Happy Easter to you all ....Strong handshake
I have never seen a technique like this before, the truth does not occur to anyone. you are genius 💪 . Thanks 🙏 Bro
Iam new to the purchased reaper and didn't realize this option and method great tutorial Kenny I'll use this from now on best wishes from UK England phil 👍
Brilliant again Kenny 👍
Exactly my video !!! Just great…Big thanks🌹🌻🌟🙏
Always amazing to see you work, sir!
Thanks Kenny! Again, very useful
More control! Love it.
Thank You
really neat mixing tricks, thanks Kenny!
Can I use this technique on ONE track?
And yet ANOTHER GREAT video Kenny!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why three copies of the audio and three instances of the splitter? Why not have the audio and splitter on one track, with sends of the three outputs of the splitter to separate tracks with the compressors? Then there would only be one place to adjust the crossover frequencies so they could not be set inconsistently. Plus it would use less CPU I think.
You could.
Awesome tutorial, and lovely guitar playing!
Credit to Paul Davids.
@@REAPERMania That’s awesome! Did he play it just for this tutorial or have you „borrowed“ it from one of his videos?
Great tutorial as always. Thanks.
Fantastic method!!! Thanks Kenny :-D
My man Kenny G just made that guitar sound crispier than McDonald's Sprite.
That's amazing!!
Thanks Kenny
Nice, good advice! Thanks Kenny!!
Wow! Thank you!
Love it, Thanks Kenny!
Amazing!
multi band compressor plus....nice Kenny !
Perhaps the phase issues you mentioned can be handled by reversing the polarity of one of the tracks? Jw.
That would very likely cause more phase issues than it solves. But you never know, sometimes a phase flip can surprise you.
Wish I'd known how to do this forever ago. Thanks so much Kenny! ❤
I've wanted to say for a long time: who would have thought that Peter Gabriel would teach me how to handle REAPER 😁😁😁
With a bit of Tom Jones thrown in 😇
This is amazing! Can you save this as a template and use it on multiple songs?
Hi Kenny. Maybe you could make a video how panning electric guitar with delay. Please.
Very nice.....I ll definitly try this. Thanks Kenny ;)
Very, very helpful .
Awesome! 🙃
I've been loving these split processing videos! 2 questions for you:
1. Do you find that using compression like this for certain instruments would be fine without additional EQ? I would imagine it really depends on the context of the mix.
2. When you're A/B-ing between the original track and processed tracks, how are you quickly switching which tracks are muted?
Def using this for the shimmer I can never seem to find.
Oh, that is nice.
i wonder if it is somehow possible to recreate split EQ in reaper?
Simply brilliant! Just wondering how are you were doing the A/B between the first track and the other three for comparisons
Alt + M on the PC or Option + M on the Mac.
he did a cut in the video, but you could group the three inside a folder track and muting the folder would mute all three at the same time.
doesn't this multiband compression already implemented within Reaper by ReaXComp?
Yes. But this gives you more control and separate faders.
Multi-band compression: The long way. 😂
Add pitch shifter to the bass track, blend with the original track. Boom. Instant Mike Dawes/Jon Gomm Boss OC3 tone!
Made me think of Life of Brian - "splitter!"
Excellent video !! This technique is like an equalizer on asteroids !
Just one question... In minute 11:25, how do you link the FX on track 3 to the FX (Reverb) on the template track 4 ? I tried "click and drag" as in the video, but it does not work for me.
make sure you click and drag from a send slot and not an FX slot
The mixer has a few different areas you could grab. Make sure you grab in the send area.
@@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP Oh my ! How silly of me... Thanks a lot !!!
@@REAPERMania Yes ! I was dragging from the "FX area", not the "send area". Thanks a lot Kenny ! Your videos are truly awesome
love these ideas. Soon we'll be splitting every track!!! ha
I guess we could split the master.
Hey Kenny,
Thanks for your fantastic content. It really is excellent. I would suggest changing the intro though. I think the whole process doesn't look great and takes away from the superb content in the video.
It's just my opinion but I do want to see this channel grow and I think the intro sets a bad start to otherwise great content.
What's bad about it?
Hi, how to make electric guitar sound acoustic in reaper?
How much Gioia can a man take? An infinite supple, it seems. Keep em coming, Kenny!
Question: why not use routing to do the same thing rather than duplicating?
Do you know how steep the curve is at the splitting point?
I do not.
I am not familiarized with pop/rock nor guitars in general. Could you please explain to me in which instances you would want to do this process?
Whenever you want more control.
I was going to say that you basically re-created ReaXComp until you started reverb-ing each band differently.
Kenny new account isp mishap.
Great as always.
Setting my mics up again been doing a lot of midi editing.
Sounds very zep 3.
Question Kenny...
Can we use this technique with a delay to create a "Sonic Maximizer"...as a Rack?
I have an old one from my analogue days...they "were magic sauce" back then.
You can try.
@@REAPERMania we can only try.
Love that tune, can u ask what it is?
How different is this result versus using EQ and a multiband compressor on one layer?
Does anyone know if this method different from using a Multiband compressor?
Dude, this is so fuckin smart. Thanks for sharing
why not just use a multi-band compressor like ReaXcomp?
You could. I just think this give you more control in the mix.
@@REAPERMania it probably does, yes
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My brain is exploding from information. LOL I get greedier and greedier to learn all these but too much for now. Save if for later :)
I don't know how to feel about splitting my acoustic guitar.
Paul Davids has a great TH-cam channel... but i prefer yours
So have we have basically reinvented ReaCompX here? I understand it's more than that because one can adjust the volume of each band. I have always had a difficult time hearing, and therefore doing anything useful with compression. And by doing anything useful I mean not making a mix significantly worse. It wasn't until Kenny's Transient Controller video last year that compression started to make any sense to me, and now I'm able to do some subtle things at that level. But the whole idea of multiband compression is beyond my ear's skill level, even though I have a decent enough studio set up. OK, not entirely true. I can make De-Essers fix problems, that's an example of narrow band compression, but not what' I'd consider multiband. What are we really trying to achieve using compressors in this way? I totally understand adjusting the volume of each band. And I understand to some ears it just sounds better. But what problem is it solving and what are we listening for?
I appreciate your question and also barely 'get' compression. I think the key here may be seen at 6:47, where K moves the slider to exactly where the MIDS
pop out to my ear, (likewise HIs and LOs earlier). Which says to me: there's a sweet spot to take advantage of (manipulate) for that instrument in each of those bands.
Again, I can't exactly tell you why,..and I worry, thinking that it's all coming down to the fidelity of my monitors/crossovers. ....just my $0.02...the popping out of
those freqs may be key.
The conmpression will "pump" less. IOW - We'll hear it compressing less and just get it more controlled.
@@REAPERMania Raises more questions...
Why couldn't this relate to distorted guitar?
Try it. It would work great.
Coming up.
Are there any advantages to doing this rather than using a multi-band compressor?
Also, is there a way for the band splitter to put out all 6 output channels at once?
For me (!) the differences are:
a) I don't need to buy an additional multiband compressor
b) I learn how to use Reaper
c) I learn how a multiband compressor basically works
d) on the way I get way more creative
The advantage is that you can treat each frequency range separately (EQ & any other treatment) and finely adjust the volume of each frequency range.
You can do this on just one track by using the pin connectors to assign each FX to a frequency range and putting at the end a band joiner to join the 3 signals. But it's more convenient to control 3 tracks (you can put them in a single folder or subgoup if you want).
@@Tokolele That's the workflow I imagined to be the most practical too, creating a parent folder track, especially with a signal split across multiple tracks.
For someone that's completely new to mixing, having it laid out in this way can help all the individual pieces and processes fit together more coherently - but for those with a little more experience, similar results could surely be achieved in other ways. Just so happens that isn't the point of this particular video :)
You can do almost anything "within" a track. I just like to use multiple tracks so you don't have to go to the FX chain every time you want to tweak something.
For some reason I thought Kenny was a black guy lol.
I don't know about those glasses.