My recordings on Youtube have several kits from a basic rock kit, Drum Kit From Hell, Metalheads, to Superior 2.0 avatar with a nice set up I downloaded for free online. Remember that you can purchase additional kits that have the same sound style your looking for. Try playing around with the different kits available in the version you downloaded. Click on it, and select the option that has your devices name in it.
From here you'll want to look right underneath that menu and see the ASIO Driver menu. Click on the drop down menu and select ASIO. In that menu, you have a drop down for the type of Audio Device you want to select/configure. To make sure your device is working properly, you want to go to the Audio section on the left hand side, and select Device. From here you'll see a big navigation tree on the left hand column and a bunch of information on the right. In Reaper, click on Options from the menu at the top, and select Preferences. Once you've restarted your machine, fire up Reaper. To see instructions for DAW's other than Reaper please refer to this user manual:
Install your devices drivers on your computer and restart your machine. I seem to recall having a hard time getting things to work properly right out of the box so here's how it should work best for you. But don't get frustrated when we get into the next part.Ĭonfiguring your DAW (digital audio workstation) to allow your device to work within the software. Here's a picture of the EQ settings I currently use. As for drums, drop 2 to 3 decibels at approximately 400HZ, and drop roughly 6 decibels at approximately 60 to 80HZ.ĭrops in DB's should be made with a fairly thin bandwidth so as to not lower too much of the rest of the EQ. As well as drop 2-3 decibels at approximately 2 to 5KHZ. Same principle as before, this means you should create a high pass filter on your first EQ band in your guitar track and cut anything below 100HZ. Thus avoiding muddy mixes and giving your tracks clarity and overall better sound. The biggest and best part of this is knowing all of these things combined, where to cut your EQ's so that you'll hear each instrument properly in the mix. Just so it's clear, you're guitar and bass will clash anywhere from 80HZ or less, your guitar and drums will clash around 400HZ and 2 to 5KHZ, and your drums and bass will clash around 60HZ, 400HZ, and between 2 to 8KHZ. Now the next major part is knowing where each instrument clashes, this will allow you to cut your EQ in certain spots on each track giving each instrument their own "space". Here's where your instruments sit in a typical djent/metal song: I won't lie and pretend I know everything about frequency ranges, so you don't need to need to know it either. When mixing your songs you'll find it useful to know where each instruments sits in the mix. I tried the sound library one I used for ToonTrack Sound but that must be clearly wrong.Now that I have a little more experience with mixing I figured I could share some of what I've learned. If no one wants to help and feels this info can all be found using the search menu that is okay as well, but it would be so much easier to have the simple info I need here than to search the 100's of posts filling my head with info that I may not understand without the begging basics first.Įdit: I forgot to mention when I go to insert VST in Reaper Superior Drummer doesn't show up and when I try to add it I am not sure which folder I should try to use. So if anyone has any info that would be amazing and I thank you.
Then I would like to know what some begging steps to learn how to Mix and Master in Reaper would be, if those should be my first steps I am not entirely sure. Next I want to get Superior Drummer into Reaper with all the instruments separate not just on one track and do I need a MIDI Keyboard or can I use Reapers Internal MIDI? The piano roll I believe.Īfter that I just was wondering what the begging things I should learn in Superior Drummer are for example Compression and EQ. < < Just a reference point to show how green I truly am. So far I have just figured out how to route my sound library to ToonTrack Solo so I can play the drums in that program. Alright so I have very little to zero knowledge of the usage of DAW's and VST's Instruments.įirst off I will say that I have Reaper and I got Superior Drummer 2.0 recently and I am taking everything step by step.