The "Link" feature is very handy for chopping wild transients on acoustic guitar without changing the volume of the track (like most other limiters do).
There's also a requirement for tracks to be -1dB true peak limited. It's a good practice anyway because when you encode it in AAC or MP3 it will be louder than -1dB in peaks bcs of the way lossy encoding works.
These are brilliant and they keep getting better. I started out learning Reaper with your videos. Now they are really out there with some (for me) really advanced stuff. This has all been so helpful and so very interesting. Thank you.
I just started exploring Reaper as an alternative to Audition for editing a podcast that I co-host. I'm not an experienced audio engineer, so at first Reaper seemed OVERWHELMING. But your videos are so useful and well-structured, I'm just two days in and I'm starting to feel like I can do this! THANK YOU!
If I had a dollar for every time I bought a plugin just to find a js or reaper plugin that does what I wanted... Well let's just say I could buy another Reaper license lmao.
Same here man. I used to think that if a plugin didn't have a beautiful interface then it was a shitty plugin. How dumb I feel for having that mindset. Now,the js plugins are my go to.
I thought that the JS: Master Limiter was the only Reaper limiter. Never knew about ReaLimit, and finiding out that it even has a nice visual analyzer makes me feel dumb for using the other limiters i've been using.
@@Gang-25j I kinda am, but then I'm also not :) - I have stopped using fancy compressors after I realised that ReaComp and ReaXComp do all I need, and fancy limiters after I discovered ReaLimit.
im really developing a deep appreciation for reaper's native plugins. like i love beautiful interfaces as much as the next guy, but a lot of times plugins are just too gimmicky with their UI and make it actively harder to focus on the actual content of the plugin. it even feels like dishonest marketing sometimes. "our plugins look beautiful so that means they're more professional". reaper takes a very no nonsense approach to plugin design, and only give you the things you need, while also going really easy on your cpu usage. its just amazing. I've been using a really clunky overdesigned limiter for a while now and it was always a bit frustrating to use, but im definitely switching to this. i love the simplicity and the readout functionality. most companies charge a lot of money when their plugin has that kind of useful visual information. ESPECIALLY limiters or compressors, because they're capitalizing off of beginners who are confused by them and overly rely on visual help to understand what they're doing.
I’m finding that I’m learning more from using reapers’s plug ins. It like I’m actually seeing and learning what I’m doing to the music in a raw way, apposed to turning a fancy knob that I really don’t know exactly what I’m doing but changing the sound.
About time the boys finally made their own limiter. I would really expect this thing to be very competitive. I like transparent limiters. What are you thinking about the sound?
What i think is the most valuable thing about reaplugins is that for people like me who does not have a super machine, it save alot of process and allow us to work even if the project have alot of tracks and plugins.
this looks so good, that option to change the direction of the scrolling... genius. Looking forward to trying it for the next mastering session. Thanks
I see Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music all require the LUFS-I to be around -15 dBFS. If my master track hits already that threshold without touching the ReaLimit default settings, should I just lower each single track by say -6 dBFS and let the limiter rise the loudness to -15dBFS, or should I just add a simple volume control plugin, set it to about -6dBFS and put it just before the ReaLimit?
These are great things to finish your mix in the desired loudness, which is for me -12LUFS to send the material to a mastering engineer. Thanks again for this tip, btw before I used the JS plugin from Event Horizon Limiter/ clipper. But now I choose this one.
Love how these recent videos look like Kenny is coming from heaven or something it’s all so white at the beginning lol Aside from the weird colouring of the opening, nice video and keep up the good work! :)
Ok, that intro freakin' rocked dude!! ha yup, I have listened to many of your vids without a face as well my friend?... my expectations have been exceeded .. dat was badass! heh...thank you man
Thank you once again! I would suggest that all videos have subtitles, that is very useful for those whose mother tongue is not English. It was not possible to activate the subtitles on this video.
Finally got around to updating Reaper and doing another mix for a tune I recorded in September using this stellar tip. Thanks again Kenny! Happy New Year to you and your family.
Dear Kenny! This video helped me a lot, thank you for this. One question just rose in me: I checked with Loudness meter a professional mixed and mastered record in Reaper with this method, and I found a lot of clips at the Peak column during the song (and +0.5 peak sometimes!). Is it a mistake (we speak of a famous band here and the record is from 2013), or is it left intentionally during the mastering process? I'm uncertain it is right or wrong?
Does this have to be used on the master or can I use it for a drum track that has too much loudness variation because the drummer wanted to be “dynamic”?
Wow, very nice. I noticed that my album on spotify sounded really bad at times, as if it was reducing the loudness. I just master compressing with loudmax64 to my ear taste never minding the lufs and how spotify would react to that. Great video and knowledge. Thank you so much
Very useful thanks. I would say that when recording I never have any plugins on the Master track, it can colour what you are hearing, I suggest just turning them on for the final mix. A personal preference, not for everyone.
Hi Kenny ! I just had one small question.... What would happen if I set the release to Inf dB/sec ??? And as usual, this too is an awesome video !!!!! ❤️
There is definitely a point in going over -14. In that case, it's not loudness we're going for, but reduced dynamic range and increased intensity. If you mastered a tech death metal track, for instance, to -14 it would sound weak and sparse. Music like that actually needs that crushed feeling. But I agree, choosing anything over -14 simply for the sake of loudness is dumb, given that a large majority of music is consumed on normalized streaming platforms these days.
I often don't have any of these NEW? plugins in my Reaper. Do I need to reload or purchase them? Or are the names different in different countries? Pretty much everytime I watch one of his videos I don't have the JS plugin he shows.
@@REAPERMania okay are able to remove them after you record them or they are printed on the track and which one's do you use if I may ask ohhhhh yeah I left you a picture of my recording studio on your messenger inbox
So am I correct in understanding that the Threshold changes the signal level by the inverse amount (eg a Threshold setting of -2dB increases the signal by 2dB), and then flattens anything at 0dB? So it's like the Threshold moves where the 0dB line sits relative to the waveform, and flattens anything at the new 0dB?
Hi, nice work many thanks,..for mastering which reaper plugin limiter is best? To be able to push the track a lot and still have it clear ?? I ve seen everybody uses fab limiter , but wondering if it s big difference between the Fab L, and reaper stock plugins..thanks a lot
Look at Kenny man... so sensational. I'm still waiting for the tutorial about customization when the different color lights come in the signal flow of recorded track.
Thank you so much! You've saved my music! The peaking was driving me crazy and I had to lower the volume too much, really got annoying because then I couldn't hear the beats or rhythms well.
Kenny; is there any way to auto name ( perhaps with wildcards ) tracks themselves? I have searched by found nothing. I would like to have every new track, simply name itself from the track number even, or better folder name + track number or such
@@REAPERMania hey Kenny, is there a way to organize all your plugins by type? Maybe? If you could make a video touching on that. If you have already...could you point me in the right direction? Loving your channel. It's def my go-to out of all the other reaper tutorials. Thanks again Kenny on behalf of all noobs (like myself) out there.
Some good stuff here; I learned some more about limiting! I am searching for the lowest latency limiters to use for streaming. I am sending audio via reaRoute to OBS which is receiving through an ASIO input. I realized it was all the limiters on my various drum inputs causing latency around 40ms, but it would vary causing a huge headache. Sorry if this is already answered! Maybe I should just learn to use reaComp as a limiter?
I have to say, I'm mildly disappointed that the "true peak" toggle was just for metering and not for actual true peak limiting. This thing could've easily replaced my go-to limiter if it did
If you can't find this plug in under "add fx"... re-scan for vsts!! You have to go into preferences, scroll down to "plugins" and select "vsts" ...then re-scan!!! This might seem obvious to those of you who already knew this, but I've never had to "re-scan" for any internal reaper plugins... I don't even know where reaper has to look for ITS OWN plugins, but they're not in any of my folders for third party plugins!! This is why it made no sense to me to have to scan or re-scan, because I don't even have a "reaper" plugins path in my path list... but when I re-scanned there was REALIMIT!!!! Hope this saves some people some time!!! (If you have "scan for plugins on start up" enabled, then you don't have go into preferences... It'll just be there next time your restart reaper).
The "Link" feature is very handy for chopping wild transients on acoustic guitar without changing the volume of the track (like most other limiters do).
Kenny's mixes always sound so clean and full!!!!!!!
There's also a requirement for tracks to be -1dB true peak limited. It's a good practice anyway because when you encode it in AAC or MP3 it will be louder than -1dB in peaks bcs of the way lossy encoding works.
Ha ha, love the blink, blink, blink. I'll be using what I've learned in this video tomorrow. Cheers Kenny.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing! ... and nice to SEE you again!!!
This series of videos around the loudness meter is simply amazing please don’t stop
Another great lesson!! We just need a plugin called Kenny to solve all problems! Thanks a lot Mr Gioia!
It's so weird seeing kenny's face on camera after watching so many of his videos without a face. 😄
It’s a blessing #connection
First I thought it is Steven Dodge! (exVibram Disc Golf and founder of DGPT). 😂
But cool!
Thank you Kenny! Can you compare it with Fabfilter Pro-L and IK Multimedia Stealth?
These are brilliant and they keep getting better. I started out learning Reaper with your videos. Now they are really out there with some (for me) really advanced stuff. This has all been so helpful and so very interesting. Thank you.
Jesus you do such a good job. Help me understand in 10 minutes what I couldn't after much longer spent researching online.
I just started exploring Reaper as an alternative to Audition for editing a podcast that I co-host. I'm not an experienced audio engineer, so at first Reaper seemed OVERWHELMING. But your videos are so useful and well-structured, I'm just two days in and I'm starting to feel like I can do this! THANK YOU!
If I had a dollar for every time I bought a plugin just to find a js or reaper plugin that does what I wanted... Well let's just say I could buy another Reaper license lmao.
Same here man. I used to think that if a plugin didn't have a beautiful interface then it was a shitty plugin. How dumb I feel for having that mindset. Now,the js plugins are my go to.
Ditto. I just got the MV2, at least for free after purchasing NS1, but didn't figure out that ReaLimit does a better job.
I thought that the JS: Master Limiter was the only Reaper limiter. Never knew about ReaLimit, and finiding out that it even has a nice visual analyzer makes me feel dumb for using the other limiters i've been using.
Seriously. I buy vocal rider from waves and then Kenny drops a tutorial on how to get it for free in REAPER 😂
@@mamandapanda185realimit and mv2 are two different plugins
Some of these more recent videos have made me realized I haven't checked the Reaper stock plugins in a LONG time. Time to re-investigate.
Every time a new video from Kenny drops I am deleting some 3rd party plugin I've been using until now - thank you Kenny!
hope you didn't buy them for a few dozen clams
He’s mostly likely lying about deleting other plugins, reaper is that good though.
@@Gang-25j I kinda am, but then I'm also not :) - I have stopped using fancy compressors after I realised that ReaComp and ReaXComp do all I need, and fancy limiters after I discovered ReaLimit.
Kenny, I think you saved me from buying some expensive Waves plugins. Thanks!
some of those co's with the crazy expensive plugin bundles gonna put a hit on this great guy
Loving the Red Light Green Light lady in the intro.
Ha I didn't see that had to go back and look😆
one of the best (if not: THE BEST) built-in plugin ever made. On my tuutorials for the V.O. I use it since yesterday. On my template. It's a MUST HAVE
im really developing a deep appreciation for reaper's native plugins. like i love beautiful interfaces as much as the next guy, but a lot of times plugins are just too gimmicky with their UI and make it actively harder to focus on the actual content of the plugin. it even feels like dishonest marketing sometimes. "our plugins look beautiful so that means they're more professional". reaper takes a very no nonsense approach to plugin design, and only give you the things you need, while also going really easy on your cpu usage. its just amazing. I've been using a really clunky overdesigned limiter for a while now and it was always a bit frustrating to use, but im definitely switching to this. i love the simplicity and the readout functionality. most companies charge a lot of money when their plugin has that kind of useful visual information. ESPECIALLY limiters or compressors, because they're capitalizing off of beginners who are confused by them and overly rely on visual help to understand what they're doing.
I’m finding that I’m learning more from using reapers’s plug ins. It like I’m actually seeing and learning what I’m doing to the music in a raw way, apposed to turning a fancy knob that I really don’t know exactly what I’m doing but changing the sound.
About time the boys finally made their own limiter. I would really expect this thing to be very competitive. I like transparent limiters. What are you thinking about the sound?
He said very transparent
I've used L2, L1, JS Event Horizon Limiter / clipper, Master Limiter...
But with ReaLimit, I've settled my life down.
Thumb goes up in the very beginning, when you were blinking to the sound: "bling bling bling" ... hahaha!
People were creeped out by me NOT blinking. LOL
@@REAPERMania Hahaha ... very good! :)
What i think is the most valuable thing about reaplugins is that for people like me who does not have a super machine, it save alot of process and allow us to work even if the project have alot of tracks and plugins.
Reaper just keeps getting better each day! Great to see you on camera Kenny. Keep up the good work guys!
this looks so good, that option to change the direction of the scrolling... genius. Looking forward to trying it for the next mastering session. Thanks
I see Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music all require the LUFS-I to be around -15 dBFS.
If my master track hits already that threshold without touching the ReaLimit default settings, should I just lower each single track by say -6 dBFS and let the limiter rise the loudness to -15dBFS, or should I just add a simple volume control plugin, set it to about -6dBFS and put it just before the ReaLimit?
Gotta say I'm loving the gifs Kenny, great video as always!
I like your films about Reaper plugins. It would be great to carry on it, or making films about new or additional reaper plugins
Another great Reaper plugin highlight vid, thanks Kenny. Also love the "Dead Zone" stinger at the end! 😄
These are great things to finish your mix in the desired loudness, which is for me -12LUFS to send the material to a mastering engineer. Thanks again for this tip, btw before I used the JS plugin from Event Horizon Limiter/ clipper. But now I choose this one.
Love how these recent videos look like Kenny is coming from heaven or something it’s all so white at the beginning lol
Aside from the weird colouring of the opening, nice video and keep up the good work! :)
This is super helpful for me because I create backing tracks for live performance. Thanks Kenny!
The best Reaper Tutor ever!! I Love your videos and the way you explain things :-)
great post Kenny, great to see you as well , ( I always had the idea you looked like the Fonz for some reason)
Ok, that intro freakin' rocked dude!! ha yup, I have listened to many of your vids without a face as well my friend?... my expectations have been exceeded .. dat was badass! heh...thank you man
The master has spoken again.Thanks for the great info.
Thank you once again! I would suggest that all videos have subtitles, that is very useful for those whose mother tongue is not English. It was not possible to activate the subtitles on this video.
Simplicity at its best!
And once again, an excellent tutorial!
Thank you Kenny! 🙏
Finally got around to updating Reaper and doing another mix for a tune I recorded in September using this stellar tip. Thanks again Kenny! Happy New Year to you and your family.
i did not find limiter and loudness meter plugin ... iam using mac .. please help !
Since the advent of ReaLimit, my limiting life is much better. Thank you Cockos for that.
Eso lo que necitaba soy fiel seguidor de reaper ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ aprendí mucho con este software saludos desde Perú
Dude you’re the best.. it’s all so clear when you explain. Thanks a lot.
OMG Kenny with this VFX you're like those AI synthetic meta-human
Excellent Reaper! congratulations Kenny, greetings from Peru.🙂
Dear Kenny!
This video helped me a lot, thank you for this. One question just rose in me: I checked with Loudness meter a professional mixed and mastered record in Reaper with this method, and I found a lot of clips at the Peak column during the song (and +0.5 peak sometimes!). Is it a mistake (we speak of a famous band here and the record is from 2013), or is it left intentionally during the mastering process? I'm uncertain it is right or wrong?
Thank you, Kenny! You're doing a great job saving people a lot of time.
almost got knocked out from that slap in the intro... Great plugin features! Metering is quite important.
Holy shit. I've watched a bunch of your tutorials as needed, and this is the first time I've seen your face. I feel like I met you now, lol.
Another great tutorial. Much appreciated.
Yo kenny how do I make a song lead into another song with no gaps when I distribute it to music platforms???
This plugin is awesome. And your way of explaining is excellent. Thanks!
Great video, been watching as I get up to speed. Thank You
I love this channel, thanks for showing us this, thank you so much, it really bring my track to life without clipping, I was so sad :)
Does this have to be used on the master or can I use it for a drum track that has too much loudness variation because the drummer wanted to be “dynamic”?
Can you tell the people from reaper to make the limiter have the lufs meter built into it ? :D
It's built on the master track
@@MahmoudNader what this guy said ^^^
@@MahmoudNader I don't use the master track at all. I use a console for mixing and tracking.
@@mjklein well, you can use it as a display on any track you want
@@mjklein good luck
Wow, very nice. I noticed that my album on spotify sounded really bad at times, as if it was reducing the loudness. I just master compressing with loudmax64 to my ear taste never minding the lufs and how spotify would react to that. Great video and knowledge. Thank you so much
Btw my album is Unintended by Alex Cinci
Great video and info Kenny. What was that song?
I Shazammed (excuse that spelling, please) it. Came up with New Dawn Is Rising by the Stonekeepers featuring Christine Smit. Very cool song!
@@estellebirkenstock9676 Thanks for the info!!!!
Very useful thanks. I would say that when recording I never have any plugins on the Master track, it can colour what you are hearing, I suggest just turning them on for the final mix. A personal preference, not for everyone.
I feel the opposite though. I want to record to as close to a finished mix as possible.
Hi Kenny ! I just had one small question.... What would happen if I set the release to Inf dB/sec ??? And as usual, this too is an awesome video !!!!! ❤️
I think it becomes a clipper at that point.
even though I love learning from K.G., i'm starting to watch these videos just for the music content.
There is definitely a point in going over -14. In that case, it's not loudness we're going for, but reduced dynamic range and increased intensity. If you mastered a tech death metal track, for instance, to -14 it would sound weak and sparse. Music like that actually needs that crushed feeling. But I agree, choosing anything over -14 simply for the sake of loudness is dumb, given that a large majority of music is consumed on normalized streaming platforms these days.
Haha I miss one minor update in reaper and there's tons of great fixes + this new limiter. Man I love this DAW. :) cheers
Omg same here lol!!!
same! seriously, i only just learned about realimit (great!) and scanning the changelog i noticed they have added delta solo for all fx? that's HUGE ⚡
Thanks Kenny and Cockos! Looks like a nice addition to the best DAW in the world!
I often don't have any of these NEW? plugins in my Reaper. Do I need to reload or purchase them? Or are the names different in different countries?
Pretty much everytime I watch one of his videos I don't have the JS plugin he shows.
update your install with each newly released build, but not every one comes with new plugins
@@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP thanks. I'll try it.
Do you record without plugins,and high hot do you record going into Reaper instruments and vocals?
I record with plugins on the track.
@@REAPERMania okay are able to remove them after you record them or they are printed on the track and which one's do you use if I may ask ohhhhh yeah I left you a picture of my recording studio on your messenger inbox
@@REAPERMania I would also like to know the second @BTHECROWN1 question
@@BTHECROWN1 dude this is the best question ever. I've always wondered the same.
@@jerryfick8547 thanks dude l do alot of recording believe me l have many more once he answers this one
So am I correct in understanding that the Threshold changes the signal level by the inverse amount (eg a Threshold setting of -2dB increases the signal by 2dB), and then flattens anything at 0dB? So it's like the Threshold moves where the 0dB line sits relative to the waveform, and flattens anything at the new 0dB?
Super useful for me, thanks!
Also, Kenny you looks like an angel in your cool white studio 😇😁
Не могу остановиться смотреть как Kenny моргает!😍
Hi, nice work many thanks,..for mastering which reaper plugin limiter is best? To be able to push the track a lot and still have it clear ?? I ve seen everybody uses fab limiter , but wondering if it s big difference between the Fab L, and reaper stock plugins..thanks a lot
Another excellent tool. Thanks for the overview.
Love the new intro and Visuals)
Nice Song BTW
Awesome! I have never actually used this plugin. It is pretty amazing! I am going to start using it on my mixes. Thanks Kenny!
Look at Kenny man... so sensational.
I'm still waiting for the tutorial about customization when the different color lights come in the signal flow of recorded track.
It's on the list.
@@REAPERMania can't wait 😮😯😯
Is this a new plugin?!?! How have I missed this?? Love it!
Yes!!!
because it's brand new
Thank you so much! You've saved my music! The peaking was driving me crazy and I had to lower the volume too much, really got annoying because then I couldn't hear the beats or rhythms well.
Can they add link options to compressor and eq. And this visual meter would be also very convenient. It starts to look like fabfilter.
Nice, was waiting for you to make a video on this plugin. I really loved the interface.
Absolutely RAD intro. 😍
(Had to watch it 5 times…)
Awesome blinking sound effect. 😄👍
Great, thanks for your video Kenny!
I am on sir. Pls keep doing this. This is lyf
High quality = oversampling?
Yeah Kenny!! You rock bro!! Keep it comin'!!!!!👍🙏💪👏👏👏🍾
Excellent tutorial! I needed this!
I've tested this Realimiter ... it's very good AFAICT, the character is pretty flat/linear ... but objectively, it's a very good limiter!
Kenny; is there any way to auto name ( perhaps with wildcards ) tracks themselves? I have searched by found nothing. I would like to have every new track, simply name itself from the track number even, or better folder name + track number or such
Check out the SWS Extensions.
@@REAPERMania hey Kenny, is there a way to organize all your plugins by type? Maybe? If you could make a video touching on that. If you have already...could you point me in the right direction? Loving your channel. It's def my go-to out of all the other reaper tutorials. Thanks again Kenny on behalf of all noobs (like myself) out there.
Thanks Kenny. A very helpful tutorial.
Some good stuff here; I learned some more about limiting! I am searching for the lowest latency limiters to use for streaming. I am sending audio via reaRoute to OBS which is receiving through an ASIO input. I realized it was all the limiters on my various drum inputs causing latency around 40ms, but it would vary causing a huge headache. Sorry if this is already answered! Maybe I should just learn to use reaComp as a limiter?
i still dont understand, if i want to reach 13 lufs for my drum cover and i still wants it a little more loud how do i keep it the same level?
I have to say, I'm mildly disappointed that the "true peak" toggle was just for metering and not for actual true peak limiting. This thing could've easily replaced my go-to limiter if it did
If you can't find this plug in under "add fx"... re-scan for vsts!! You have to go into preferences, scroll down to "plugins" and select "vsts" ...then re-scan!!! This might seem obvious to those of you who already knew this, but I've never had to "re-scan" for any internal reaper plugins... I don't even know where reaper has to look for ITS OWN plugins, but they're not in any of my folders for third party plugins!! This is why it made no sense to me to have to scan or re-scan, because I don't even have a "reaper" plugins path in my path list... but when I re-scanned there was REALIMIT!!!! Hope this saves some people some time!!! (If you have "scan for plugins on start up" enabled, then you don't have go into preferences... It'll just be there next time your restart reaper).
I always enjoy every of your tutorials. Please can you make a template for vocal fx chain using only reaper plugins
Wow is this new in reaplugs? Never saw realimit before
Man, I might start using this instead of my Fabfilter Pro-L.
Now we can say RIP to Fabfilter's Pro L
Next reaper should release a clipper with a shape control knob
Already. Js inflator
Pro-l has different algos and oversampling
A great plugin! Thanks Kenny
Kenny, you are the best!
Sounds amazing! Even when smashing it!
Hi everyone! I have a problem like REAPER starts rendering project on startup. How can I disable it? Render queue is empty. Thanks in advance.