With the Coronavirus lock down preventing me getting out I’m turning to recording. Nothing complicated. I need to record some guitar parts for a solo singer, so that she can practice at home. I also want to record rhythm and solo guitar for an mp3 that I’ve been sent, then send the tracks back for mix down. Neither of these are complicated, and the latter doesn’t need any post recording treatment.
So far I’ve loaded Reaper onto an SSD Windows laptop, and begun to read the manual. Obviously I could spend a couple of days watching YouTube videos, but I thought I’d start by delving into the forum’s knowledge bank. Where would you go from here?
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Assuming you have an interface with the drivers installed
Click Options then preferences then Audio then devices ... make sure your interface is selected for in \ out and not the Windows Wave out or similar
Click track - insert new track - click the input of the track and select the input so it matchs what your guitars plugged in to on your audio interface ... in 1 for example
Then hit CTRL & R to begin recording
It's slightly slow going at the start, but when it gets going it takes you quite a way along. I found watching it to be a very good use of my time.
Or monitor through the Helix and turn off input monitoring on the channel your recording on. Be no latency at all then
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It ended up that my usb output sample rate was different to the one in reaper , when I swapped them both to be 48khz, latency disappeared.
It's easier to make a quiet track louder afterwards and impossible to reduce an original that's clipped to sh1te.