Decided to finally take the plunge into recording. I got all the gear this week, but was too busy with work to really dig in. Watched a bunch of videos on how to do certain things top get an idea.
Tonight, I dug in for a couple hours. I'm pretty happy with how things came out. All I did was record and set levels afterwards. Drums seem a little quiet now that I'm listening back.
Drums were all pre rendered pieces from EZdrummer2 that I chopped up for my needs. Haven't figured out how to do custom drums with my midi keyboard in Reaper just yet. Guitar tracks and bass were all through Amplitube 4.
I barely know how to use Reaper or any of it's built in plugins, so I have a lot to learn on that end. I didn't do any post eq, effects, anything like that. So these tracks are about as raw as it gets.
For EZdrummer, I selected the metal kit, turned the pitch of the snare up by 1.0, and then upped the overall velocity of the kit to make it sound like the drums were being hit a little harder. I also added a little more reverb than the stock settings.
For guitars and bass, I used Amplitube 4.
Left guitar was the Tube screamer into the SLO100 Overdrive channel. I believe I switched the cab to the M1 Metal cab, but I can't remember. Tweaked the eq setting to taste and went.
Right guitar was Tube Screamer in to the Triple Rectifier Orange Channel Modern setting. Whatever stock cab populates with that amp is what I used. Set my settings insanely close to how I'd set them in real life and went.
Bass was into the GK amp sim. No pedals out front. Turned the contour up quite a bit, gain up a good amount, hi mids up relatively high, and the rest of the eq was close to stock settings. Was good after that, changed nothing else.
I rendered to whatever Reaper's stock render settings were, 192kbps, 24 bit something or other, I don't know any of the technical jargon here.
The thing that's really irking me is I can not modify the drum midi at all, and it's driving me nuts. I've watched multiple videos on Recording EZdrummer to reaper so you can edit the midi within Reaper, and none of them are working. For some Reason, EZdrummer is not inputting the midi notes to reaper when I record with it. It's just a blank line. When I go into the actual midi track within reaper after I record with SD2, same deal. None of the midi notes show. So I have no way of editing the drums to be custom.
Let me know thoughts or critiques, I'm open to advice on this, as I'm brand new to it, and help with the EZdrummer midi issue would be very welcome
https://soundcloud.com/kyle-bull-760574723/final-few-song-1-demo
Tonight, I dug in for a couple hours. I'm pretty happy with how things came out. All I did was record and set levels afterwards. Drums seem a little quiet now that I'm listening back.
Drums were all pre rendered pieces from EZdrummer2 that I chopped up for my needs. Haven't figured out how to do custom drums with my midi keyboard in Reaper just yet. Guitar tracks and bass were all through Amplitube 4.
I barely know how to use Reaper or any of it's built in plugins, so I have a lot to learn on that end. I didn't do any post eq, effects, anything like that. So these tracks are about as raw as it gets.
For EZdrummer, I selected the metal kit, turned the pitch of the snare up by 1.0, and then upped the overall velocity of the kit to make it sound like the drums were being hit a little harder. I also added a little more reverb than the stock settings.
For guitars and bass, I used Amplitube 4.
Left guitar was the Tube screamer into the SLO100 Overdrive channel. I believe I switched the cab to the M1 Metal cab, but I can't remember. Tweaked the eq setting to taste and went.
Right guitar was Tube Screamer in to the Triple Rectifier Orange Channel Modern setting. Whatever stock cab populates with that amp is what I used. Set my settings insanely close to how I'd set them in real life and went.
Bass was into the GK amp sim. No pedals out front. Turned the contour up quite a bit, gain up a good amount, hi mids up relatively high, and the rest of the eq was close to stock settings. Was good after that, changed nothing else.
I rendered to whatever Reaper's stock render settings were, 192kbps, 24 bit something or other, I don't know any of the technical jargon here.
The thing that's really irking me is I can not modify the drum midi at all, and it's driving me nuts. I've watched multiple videos on Recording EZdrummer to reaper so you can edit the midi within Reaper, and none of them are working. For some Reason, EZdrummer is not inputting the midi notes to reaper when I record with it. It's just a blank line. When I go into the actual midi track within reaper after I record with SD2, same deal. None of the midi notes show. So I have no way of editing the drums to be custom.
Let me know thoughts or critiques, I'm open to advice on this, as I'm brand new to it, and help with the EZdrummer midi issue would be very welcome
https://soundcloud.com/kyle-bull-760574723/final-few-song-1-demo