Hi folks
Totally new to Reaper so just getting to grips with it all. I'm a beginner with a 'real-world' pedal board of:
Marshall Guvnor
Tube screamer
Rat
Belle Epoque
Neunaber wet
Diamond compressor
All the potential plugins and effect-what-nots for Reaper are a bit overwhelming, so any recommendations for ones that near enough replicate my actual pedals? I figure if I just get a handful that sound like my pedals, then whatever I create in Reaper I should be able to play live.
I'm new to this, so if my question sounds like it came from an idiot, it kind of did.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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*Other amp sims are available.
Right then! I'll give as much free options as possible along with some spendier options.
Marshall Guv'nor - go to SOftdrive.
https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2013/09/08/softdrive-gv-axp/
Tube Screamer and Rat - go to TSE Audio for both of these.
https://www.tseaudio.com/software/tse808
Also go to Mercuriall for their TS9.
https://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff
Belle Epoque - so many options!
Echoboy Jr would do you good. $99 right now but has been on sale for $29 not so long ago and you can often find Jr and ther full Echoboy for excellent prices secondhand.
I would recommend Tritik's TK delay for more Deluxe Memory Man sounds. $49 new. I picked it up cheap when it was in pre-release and it's darn good.
https://www.tritik.com/products/tkdelay/
Free? Spaceship Delay.
https://musicalentropy.github.io/Spaceship-Delay/
Neunaber Wet -
Go through all of these...
https://www.soundshockaudio.com/10-best-free-reverb-vst-plugins/
And then download OrilRiver because it's great.
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/orilriver-by-denis-tihanov
Compressor
You can get loads of complex ones. Klanghelm for simples here...
https://klanghelm.com/contents/products/DC1A/DC1A.php
Regarding live playing: I've done it with a laptop and plugins alone. I would recommend a compressor out front going into your audio interface.Diamond worked perfectly for me on that front.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
You can always set up an aux out if you want to route via your pedals.
In alternative to Guitar Rig, Amplitube CS comes with a free fender and marshall amp (if memory serves) which works well as a guitar sim but u may have to fiddle around with it to get rid of latency..
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/en/products/amplitubecs/
Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
So what I should be doing is installing Guitar Rig/Amplitube CS in Reaper, then I can play my guitar through my 'actual' pedalboard, into my Focusrite, and I'll be able to record a true sound from my pedals...
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
You can get a better sounding cab sim by using an impulse response. So you could for example run real pedals into a reaper track then apply an amp sim as a plug in followed by an IR cab sim before it hits the master out fader.
You could also run a clean signal in and apply fx/amp/cab in a single instance of guitar rig.
You could run a clean signal in, add various instances of pedal plug in (see list above), then into guitar rig.
If you run pedals straight in, they will sound like pedals straight in. No amp apart from the interface pre-amp, which is ultra clean.
I've got an amp with 'recording out' socket. I only need to add an IR cab sim plugin. My amp sound comes through (inc any pedals) but sounds a bit weedy on it's own.
Many possibilities.
Just remember that running many plug ins taxes your computer resources and you won't hear the sound until a fraction of a second after you hit the strings. If you want to record, you will capture any up front pedals on the way in. And you can't change that afterwards but you can dick about with the cab types all you want to see which works best. With a clean signal you can add plug ins and remove them as you like. Some people like to work 'in the box'.
Try it see what it sounds like.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Learning any DAW software package from scratch is a time-consuming process. Simultaneously attempting to get "in house" plug-ins to exactly replicate whatever it is that you consider essential about your favourite pedals is another time-consuming process.
If you do not have hours to waste, it may prove simpler to point a nice microphone or two at your normal amp and pedals.
This approach has two major benefits: It minimises the processing power drain of multiple plug-ins. Reducing the number of options open to you saves the time that might otherwise be wasted, trying to decide between irrelevant possibilities.