I say thank you again for this particular video. I've been hesitant for several years. Now after watching -- actually studying-- your video I'm ready to begin recording. And you made it especially easy by including your list of studio recommendations. (I've been stopping video and taking notes!)
Thank's a lot. I've seen a ton of tutorials,- I'm a beginner in my home-music production. First time I've seen a really useful tutorial. I guess it difficult to be a practitioner at the highest level,- and remember how little a beginner understands. All the tiny steps. You nail it. I'm gonna suck up every video you have made :)
Cool video!!! I may check out that channel strip and mastering plugin. One thing about EZ Drummer...for me much of the power of EZ Drummer is the ability to tell EZD to play a section more busy or less busy, kinda like directing a live drummer to manage their dynamics. Perhaps I'm wrong, but when you drag the MIDI directly into Reaper, you lose that ability since you'd have to edit the MIDI. The same is probably true for the EZD mixer now that I think of it. In my workflow I manage the entire drum track within EZD. There are tradeoffs but I find it better that way. Keep up the great work!!
Great info you shared thanks! I can confirm that EZD's mixer still works when I drag the midi on to the track. The reason I do it that way is because I do a lot of editing of individual midi hits to sync up with what I am doing on my instrument.
Thanks for the great video! Some questions: - How do you record a stereo guitar track with interfaces when only one input of the interface is connected to the guitar? - Do you mind sharing your Lurssen presets? - Why not using SSL plug-in on drums track
So to do a one input stereo track there are two different answers here. 1) Record two separate mono tracks and split them right and left for stereo effect, or 2) Record as a stereo channel but even with a mono input you get the same exact signal on both sides. The only reason to do this is to feed full left and right into stereo plugins and get out a nice ping-pong delay, for instance. Please note it is just my preference to input as stereo. It is NOT what most people do and you can get fine recordings without it. My Lurseen presets you can see at musicwithmarky.com/files/luseenpre.png No SSL plugin on an EZ Drummer track because they have already done all the EQ and compression inside the plugin itself. If you were recording acoustic drums, then the SSL strips would be HUGELY needed on each individual drum mic with the associated preset.
I’d rather play through my Vox AC15, but I don’t get nearly as good of a tone playing through my Vox compared to using S-Gear plugin with my interface. I think the Ox would be a great tool but I cannot justify the cost. I find my clean sounds on my Vox way better than my software, but overal my recorded tones on Vox suck. I don’t have good microphones or an isolated chamber.
Right and that's the issue. To get what you hear from your amp onto a recording can take years of practice and usually the exact (and often expensive) right equipment. Also, even then, you are listening back through speakers that aren't an amp speaker and so it's not going to be the same. It's a big speaker, usually on a floor, pushing that much air. A recorded tone will lack body, but that's okay in most instances because it would crowd the bass in a mix.
Reaper does not provide drum sounds or midi beats. Ez Drummer is my personal favorite, but there are competing products out there as well. Get Good Drums comes to mind.
@@MusicWithMarky I just now saw that you have PG's Spark 40. I have one too and I also bought their BIAS FX2, which I am hoping to be able to use as a plugin in Reaper. And BIAS Pedal, whatever that is. Given this, should I still also get Ex Drummer?
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I say thank you again for this particular video. I've been hesitant for several years. Now after watching -- actually studying-- your video I'm ready to begin recording. And you made it especially easy by including your list of studio recommendations. (I've been stopping video and taking notes!)
So happy I can help and best of luck to your recording endeavors! Have fun!
I was gonna reply.. but it was almost word for word what you just said.. so.. :)
Thank's a lot. I've seen a ton of tutorials,- I'm a beginner in my home-music production.
First time I've seen a really useful tutorial. I guess it difficult to be a practitioner at the highest level,- and remember how little a beginner understands. All the tiny steps. You nail it.
I'm gonna suck up every video you have made :)
Thanks so much! I'm very happy to help.
Here, here!
You are a godsend... THANK YOU!
Thanks!
AWWW!!! I was part of your video.... how cool.... 😀😀 I love watching you teacher... awesomeness 🤘🏼😀
Thank you!!!
Cool video!!! I may check out that channel strip and mastering plugin. One thing about EZ Drummer...for me much of the power of EZ Drummer is the ability to tell EZD to play a section more busy or less busy, kinda like directing a live drummer to manage their dynamics. Perhaps I'm wrong, but when you drag the MIDI directly into Reaper, you lose that ability since you'd have to edit the MIDI. The same is probably true for the EZD mixer now that I think of it. In my workflow I manage the entire drum track within EZD. There are tradeoffs but I find it better that way. Keep up the great work!!
Great info you shared thanks! I can confirm that EZD's mixer still works when I drag the midi on to the track. The reason I do it that way is because I do a lot of editing of individual midi hits to sync up with what I am doing on my instrument.
Thanks for the great video!
Some questions:
- How do you record a stereo guitar track with interfaces when only one input of the interface is connected to the guitar?
- Do you mind sharing your Lurssen presets?
- Why not using SSL plug-in on drums track
So to do a one input stereo track there are two different answers here. 1) Record two separate mono tracks and split them right and left for stereo effect, or 2) Record as a stereo channel but even with a mono input you get the same exact signal on both sides. The only reason to do this is to feed full left and right into stereo plugins and get out a nice ping-pong delay, for instance. Please note it is just my preference to input as stereo. It is NOT what most people do and you can get fine recordings without it.
My Lurseen presets you can see at musicwithmarky.com/files/luseenpre.png
No SSL plugin on an EZ Drummer track because they have already done all the EQ and compression inside the plugin itself. If you were recording acoustic drums, then the SSL strips would be HUGELY needed on each individual drum mic with the associated preset.
I’d rather play through my Vox AC15, but I don’t get nearly as good of a tone playing through my Vox compared to using S-Gear plugin with my interface.
I think the Ox would be a great tool but I cannot justify the cost. I find my clean sounds on my Vox way better than my software, but overal my recorded tones on Vox suck. I don’t have good microphones or an isolated chamber.
Right and that's the issue. To get what you hear from your amp onto a recording can take years of practice and usually the exact (and often expensive) right equipment. Also, even then, you are listening back through speakers that aren't an amp speaker and so it's not going to be the same. It's a big speaker, usually on a floor, pushing that much air. A recorded tone will lack body, but that's okay in most instances because it would crowd the bass in a mix.
cant you use zoom or boss gt as an audio interface
I don't have either piece of hardware so I can't speak accurately about it.
Sup Marky?!?!
Does Reaper have any drum tracks or do I have to buy and learn EZ Drummer?
Reaper does not provide drum sounds or midi beats. Ez Drummer is my personal favorite, but there are competing products out there as well. Get Good Drums comes to mind.
@@MusicWithMarky Thanks, I will get Ez Drummer.
You won't be disappointed.
@@MusicWithMarky I just now saw that you have PG's Spark 40. I have one too and I also bought their BIAS FX2, which I am hoping to be able to use as a plugin in Reaper. And BIAS Pedal, whatever that is. Given this, should I still also get Ex Drummer?
I think so. None of that will give you drum sounds right?