Down Tune Your Guitar With This Free Reaper Stock Plugin

Had a blast making this video and thought I'd share the results. I'm sure most of you know about this sort of thing but I've never really tried it on anything besides vocals. Please note using ReaPitch whilst tracking introduces a lot of latency so leave it until you're mixing.
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Thanks for watching!

[@bryan.cabling]

Most underrated guy in KZbin when in it comes to tips and tricks using Reaper! Thanks mate!

[@resington]

Cheers mate! Much appreciated 👍

[@InTheSh8]

He's is s.o. to make me push harder. Bad guy! Really bad! He has it in his hands!

[@mikehunt576]

totally useless plugin, it only exists in reaper...reaper is a bedroom wanna be producer DAW for PC geeks who dedicate their whole life impressing each other ever changing GUI of the same old programs.., they remain in the vegetative state since the late 90s and will eventually awake in a state where they finally taste Apple Macs.

[@WrathVictory]

Reaper brings the thunder!

[@arthurkhairullin]

Good video, thanks :) This is what I do frequently to my tracks as well. For those who struggle with chords being messed up by this kind of detuning, try switching to Elastique 3 Pro stretching method instead of “Project Default” and set Mode to Preserve Formants (Most Pitches). If you want to get more or less decent bass tone from your guitar, try tuning 12 semitones down and select Preserve Formants (low pitches), this will save the character of playing without it getting too weak.

[@resington]

Nice! Thanks!

[@AravKrishnan]

Damn that’s an awesome trick mate , cheers !

[@resington]

Thanks man!

[@bleakduskaudio570]

Best music channel on youtube. Keep it up man! A tutorial/extended video on Perfect Drums would be nice. Hi from Spain

[@resington]

Thanks dude! I should make that video definitely.

[@kayneferreira4126]

I've done it a couple of times, and it works pretty well, just a shame i can't record it pitched down cuz of the latency. Quick tip, when you start to go bonkers with the pitch down it starts to lose some upper harmonics the lower you go, turning up the Formant shift brings some of these harmonics back. Just don't overdo it or it'll start to sound digitalized.

[@resington]

Yeah man I noticed the highs were cut a little.

[@henriqueferreira2155]

Is there a way to fix the delay?? So then I can like, just jam to it without recording. Cuz I experienced latency too while playing

[@badbeardbill9956]

Use Elastique Pro 3, and set your interface to a low latency setting, if it can handle it well. Might need a good low latency interface and your computer may have issues as well. Drivers and such are a concern, too. I was able to play pretty much live with this pitch shifting down by 3 and 6 semitones

[@neilrobinson7615]

Cool tip! I'm definitely going to use this. Very handy when you've only got a crap guitar.

[@npaz24]

Thx for this video resington!

[@resington]

No problem!

[@bestboy897]

excellent bro great playing didnt know reaper had this by default thanks i subbed

[@gus3333]

I've been using the digited The Drop pedal, and it hads some mud to the mix. I will try this one! thank you!

[@resington]

You can play through that real-time with no latency, an amazing pedal. This is a great free alternative but only at the mixing stage really.

[@jt6980]

New to Reaper (liking it so far), so I still have a ton to learn as it pertains to the capabilities of this DAW. Thanks for this.

[@markguadez]

i love this guy very informative, and the plug ins using are totally free,,,,yeah bro!!!!

[@OmegaStationMusic]

Awesome tip for guitarists with standard strings that can't go lower than D (otherwise it would sound really bad) like me :-D Thanks!

[@RodneySagorScreams]

thanks for posting this, resington! that was helpful.

[@Aleksisguitar]

Super awesome hi-gain guitar tones and mixes! Thx for sharing dude!

[@resington]

No problem!

[@marceloharguindey159]

Wooooohaaaaa !! Way to go bro !! Way to go!!

[@mr.nervedamage7463]

If you hadn't said anything it wouldn't be very noticeable at all, lol. Reaper is such a beast of a DAW...

[@descendinguniverse666]

I used this thing since 2012 to go like 2 or 5 semitones lower from standard tuning, and it was always a huge loss of tone, and I`m not even the tone purist that much. It`s fun anyway to hear how it may sound transposed and ok for demos. I also tried most of hardware pitch shifters available in that time and they weren`t any better, so I just bought a 7 string and that`s it. I think pitch shifting from 7 string 8 string is less notticeable and kinda passible unlike going lower from standard tuning. I only use it for creative purposes nowadays.

[@WillVRam]

ahve you tested pitchproof already? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jV6bkqRjZc2hiNE&ab_channel=DropOutAudio

[@svilens.viktorov485]

I thought you will show the Octave Down plugin, which was my recent discovery, but that one is even better!

[@arjunjsatheesh8899]

Awsome man. Thanks for all the wonderful tutorials.

[@Ryan_Sens]

I usually just right click on a recorded section, select properties and adjust the pitch by semitones. Going to try this though and see if the quality differs

[@SilentScreamsStudios]

hahaha that is pretty awesome sounding

[@regianalfarizi]

Sometimes when I'm too lazy to program bass midi, i used this trick to tune my guitar 1 octave lower so it sound like a bass hahaha

[@OversureMusic]

Great video, really like getting to see a bit of your workflow as well.

[@resington]

Thanks dude!

[@sainphony]

IMHO zplane Elastique Pitch - is still the best non-realtime pitch shifter.

[@Slavetskiy]

Для диванных гитаристов, коих сейчас много, пойдет! Yes man, nice lifehack!

[@PippPriss]

Using this trick since years for my bass tones in all my demos. Try checking out playing with the algorithm and parameters. elastique pro 3.30 and preserving lower and lowest formants give a nice crackle dangle bum bum to the "bass". ;-)

[@BrianBower]

You managed to make that sound great!

[@resington]

Thanks man! Just read this cause I didn't get notified. Dayum robots!

[@BrianBower]

@@resington That happens to me too

[@grantmoffatt8501]

Now thats cool

[@liampearce7949]

You can also use PitchProof, it's free and also AWESOME !

[@woihoi4901]

Brilliant idea.. but can u make tutorial tuning midi keyboard to 432hz?

[@daysofrevenge]

More than heavy tones....🤟

[@thatguyreiji1045]

Wait wait wait....That sounded awesome...Do you think it will work in real-time recording?

[@phantomtearsca]

It doesn't. There's probably over a half second of delay between the note being played and it being registered after. Not to mention it sounds terrible when you try playing chords. This pretty much only works after the fact.

[@Brutaful]

I haven't used this plugin myself yet, but my bro has and he says it's working really for him. Latency isn't so much that it's noticeable that it gets in the way of playing accurately, so I think it'll work fine for recording.

[@resington]

Whilst tracking its unusable I found, too much latency. Apply afterwards 👍

[@thatguyreiji1045]

@@resington Ahhh thanks will still give it a look over the weekend...Thanks for the video though...Never knew about this.

[@jcalzada74]

One good alternative to Floyd rose guitars since I hate to set it up for different tunings

[@CrushingAxes]

Nice tone !!! Reaper is so great !!! Do you feel any difference between this noise gate and the noise supression from Vadim Taranov?

[@resington]

Thanks. Not tried Vadim's. I love this one though.

[@manipreferchicken4083]

you forgot format shift! it makes the shift sound way morw natural, just add the negative value of what you increased/decreased the pitch by.

[@resington]

OK I'll look into this thanks! 👍

[@eranfalek]

Did you pitched the DI and then applied amp sims? Or did you render the track and then down pitched it? When I tried it in the past it sounded a bit artificial... Yours sounds better.

[@resington]

Yea I put it on the DIs and then the amp etc is after. I showed in the video what's its like after the chain. Best straight onto a DI for sure.

[@spiritofthetallhills2037]

what if im just using reaper to jam along on a plugin. i tried to use this like that and it gave me some nasty latency

[@resington]

Latency is terrible playing live, try js pitch shift 2 I think it's called in reaper. People like pitchproof also.

[@vejichan]

So top 5 irs?

[@resington]

Engl, Pro 412 and Devils lab, Hell dude.

[@vejichan]

@@resington link?

[@KiLLJOY1056]

How many semitones do i drop if i want to go to Drop A from standard tuning? Would that be 7 semitones?

[@thatoneocto]

Yes

[@mikehunt576]

I like to find a drop tune plugin that does not have latency for live or recording..

[@resington]

Pitch proof is one people really enjoy.

[@mikehunt576]

@@resington for free, yea of course you can enjoy anything, im talking about its flaws, you dont hear artefacts when you try drop tunning? the waves vocal bender is the best, low latency, no ;agency compensation in logic meaning no other plugs are muted, even with up to 12 instances...this Agean music one is nice to have but its fizzy low end harmonics makes it un useable live or in recording situations..

[@resington]

@@mikehunt576 I've not delved far enough into it honestly.

[@Casp3r1986WP]

@resington what pluggins do you use for master channel?

[@resington]

Watch my mastering video dude. All free stock reaper stuff kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX_JoHuliJZ-n9U

[@vejichan]

I use reapitch all the time to drop my guitar an octave to fake a bass sound. Again use it after you record the guitar part. If u want a pitch shift plugin with low latency for jamming etc ..you can try this free plugin..try pitchproof. aegeanmusic.com/pitchproof-specs i use it all the time for jamming

[@hectorvegasduque2234]

Is it possible to go from D to A without it sounding like absolute crap?

[@resington]

try it out..

[@Angel60006]

my cheap ass set up cant even sound like this