So I think I'm slowly losing my mind.
All I'm trying to do is get a decent sound from Reaper, but failing repeatedly.
But in even more of a summary: Trying to use pedals via the Mooer Radar - sounds terrible.
I followed the advice in the previous thread. Got a good sound once, but when I tried to replicate it a few weeks later, hopeless.
I'm going to post short videos in here of my attempts to trouble-shoot, and any advice will definitely be welcome.
How should I start off? Just run one pedal into the Radar, into Reaper, and experiment from there? I've got a Marshall Guv'nor and a mini TS - which should I test to keep things as simple as possible?
Ta
J
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
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If you're recording an album in the same room as a sleeping baby ignore me, but you might be very surprised at the results you get from close micing a quiet amp.
Using the radar with just drive pedals is not good.
Try a preamp with no speaker sim before the radar.
Or then give up and buy an amplifire or helix stomp.
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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
Firstly, I want to recreate the sound I get during rehearsal from my pedals, rather than just find a good sound in Reaper. I don't have my amp at the moment, so can't just mic that up.
Secondly, I'm hopeless with amp sims in Reaper, and don't even know what an IR loader is! My overall knowledge of Reaper and DAWs in general is quite basic.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
It seems to me that your problem is trying to make your pedal rig sound like your amp rig, without any kind of amp-like block in the middle of it.
I would suggest ditching your cab emulation (ie remove the Radar from the signal path). Go straight from your board into your interface, then install a free amp sim most similar to what you've got in real life. The Le Pou sims are probably the best place to start:
http://www.vst4free.com/index.php?dev=LePou
Simply install one and load it into the effects on the track you've created in Reaper.
Then, you need an Impulse Response loader - this does the same job as the Radar, but the key difference is that you're putting it after the amp sim. You'll need to get some IRs (tiny files which define the sound of the speaker you're emulating). You could go and get any of the big packs that are free, but honestly...if you're getting started, Lancaster's Pulse is great because it has a built-in IR that you can use without loading any other files in:
https://lancasteraudio.com/pulse/
Put that in the effects chain after the amp, and you should be golden.
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
I've plugged my board straight into the interface with good results.
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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
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
Do I need to worry about any of the dials running along the bottom? And is it built so you can run two at once - left and right?
And I've set this up:
Do I need anything else? (Not testing it out yet, just getting stuff set up while I work)
Someone told me it's also best not to use a reverb pedal on my board, and instead do that in Reaper - is that the best way, and again, do I just use Reaper's Reaverb, or is there an easy free one I should get?
Thanks so much for all your help with this!
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly
About the reverb...if you're not using loads of gain, it won't make massive amounts of difference. And even if you are...give it a go, see what you like (it's just different, not better/worse).
That's the beauty of all this; you can experiment without spending any money at all.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OAUDcKOw3akhG1gTAsExE9ZXRgONuM_W
Is that what it's supposed to sound like?
Settings in Reaper:
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Telecaster American Deluxe, Cornell Romany amp, without the talent to use them properly