losthighway wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 9:43 am

numberthirty wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:33 pm Reaper. Seriously.

I'm just starting my Reaper journey after being forced off a platform I used for 20 years. So far any functionality I can think of is a quick search away. Now we'll see how long it takes me to get efficient on it. I'd give it an A+ for functionality and a B- for being intuitive, but that's probably how any software feels to someone making a change.

yard barf wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:22 am I gotta admit, that seems easy and just what I want.

Dudley wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:38 am When I play my Gretsch G5230T, the little finger of my pick hand kind of rests on the pickguard, and if I'm playing fast, this seems to creates static-y noises through the pickups. Do I need to ground my pickguard? Insulate it from the pick-ups? Or just put on my big boy trousers and not worry the crackling? It's NOT a percussive sound - it's not my hand hitting the surface, it's more a crackle if the surface is rubbed - and the p/ups aren't noticeably microphonic. It's more of a kind of "bad connection" crackle, and if I make sure nothing is touching the pickguard, it goes away.

numberthirty wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 7:23 pm Now, past all of that carrying on?

The demo version of Reaper is fully functional.

You could totally try it out. I could most likely walk you through trying to do what you started out with, and you wouldn't really have to put any dough into the attempt.

(Well, as long as you've got a way to connect to and power the headphones in question...)

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:05 pm Maybe its time for another Reaper thread? Two more questions:

Anyone familiar with an app that I can use to view a laptop window on my phone? Example - I am recording myself with a guitar in my hand and the laptop / preamp meters arent in line of sight. Surely there’s some sort of way to view what’s happening on my Thinkpad on my iphone? Just being able to check the peaks would be enough

Possibly Parsec?

Second question:

For recording with an analog mixer to Reaper - then monitoring from the board - while phase adjustments are made in the DAW, the computer faders stay at zero/panned right down the middle before going out to the board and monitors where adjustments are made/ outboard gear is added etc.

Lets say for the hell of it you record guitar w/ a few mics Then you record a rhythm part with another few mics, and then bass, then acoustic - how are you staying organized? Are you combining tracks together in Reaper or leaving them separate? Or do you just monitor something like the close mic on each source for recording and playback, leaving the auxiliary tracks for each source quiet until you’re ready to get a rough mix going?

The inputs of my card are thru-put to the outputs of my card and the outputs of my card feed the line inputs of my Console. The faders on my board DO NOT Affect the level going to the DAW (I had to move a jumper on each Channel to make this happen) so I can make a mix of any inputs I want. The Stereo out of the DAW comes into the board on a Stereo Channel so I can also listen to/ play to the DAW playback y pushing up a fader. I can make any mix in Reaper that I want to hear. I NEVER use the Live Monitoring from Reaper due to it being the most Latent way possible to monitor (the higher the buffer size you use, the more latent the monitoring source will be). The way I do it, the live input is zero MS latent (internal routing of input to output on my card is <1ms), and I never have to worry about input latency. I also never use plugins on the input so I never have to worry bout that. This way I can also feed Headphones off the board AUC sends and they are zero latency for the players

I won’t likely use up the 32 channels on the board that fast, but when some are being used as preamps, others as playback and with limited convertor I/O it all adds up to a lot going on.

If you are using your board preamps as input, you can monitor them live by listening to them off the board channel, don't listen through reaper at all other than the Reaper Mix playback. What console are you using? Making your Direct Outputs PRE Fader solves a lot of live monitoring issues. You set gain to Reaper using preamp knob, mix your monitoring on the faders independent to the input to Reaper. Cans out of AUX sends. Reaper playback, or any side mixes you want coming back to the desk on extra channels for monitoring. Before I made my channels Pre fader Direct Out, it wasn't very helpful for tracking at all.