Podcast Mixing and Mastering - Reaper For Radio 007

[@caitlinpierce8995]

So glad to see you've posted a new one! These videos are lifesavers and make me so happy to get back into Reaper after years of having to use PT for work. Would love suggestions for other videos on compression, I'd like to wrap my head around it a bit more.

[@JeffEmtman]

Thank you! And I think there are a lot of really good tutorials on compression out there. It didn't make sense to me at first either. The best thing to do is just have people keep explaining it to you and the play around with it a bunch in your end. Main important things are the threshold and ratio.

[@LeekClock]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you Reaper-angel 💀👼

[@seanpennatgmail]

This was brilliant. Well-paced intuitive advice. After transferring from another app, I was ready to throw Reaper out of the window by the start of the week, but working through these tutorials has made me think it could be a fruitful marriage. Thanks for the efforts.

[@JeffEmtman]

So glad to hear it! Some of the info in the old vids is questionable, btw (I was learning as I went along). Hoping to pick up this series again soon, start making more of these.

[@PaulusMueller]

Thank you very much for this Video. I learned a lot! I‘m switching from hindenburg to reaper, cause my radio pieces are getting more complex and hindenburg reaches its limits fast, when it comes to effects, automation, etc. greetings from germany

[@OnlineRadioSchool]

Thanks for this old bean! I'm finally moving over to Reaper after 20 years on Audition (which was used all the time at the BBC when I worked there). I've been putting off Reaper for about 3 years lol as for a beginner it's so un-userfriendly - however - I can definitely see it's potential and at £56 for life (over 3 months of Audition subscription) I'm now finally watching a billon videos on it :) Also, it's nice to come across tutorials just for radio. There's a pint in it if you ever make London!

[@JeffEmtman]

Glad to hear it's been useful :) Would love to make it to London someday.

[@OnlineRadioSchool]

@@JeffEmtman If you ever need me to interview anyone in London for you, let me know. I have my own Beyer MCE 58 mic and recorder.

[@pietrosammarco6225]

Thanks for this video! Thought I'd mention that as an alternative to Orban for loudness analysis, Reaper has a similar utility under the Extensions menu (I think it was originally an SWS extension, but has now become standard with Reaper).

[@JeffEmtman]

Thanks for the thought. I've used the SWS Loudness meter on occassion. While it's good for finding the loudness of tracks and items, I've never seen a version that gives you the nice graphs that you get in Orban. Is that an option that I've missed thus far? If so, it'd be great, since usually what I'm looking for is jumps and dips in the loudness over time.

[@pietrosammarco6225]

@@JeffEmtman No, there's no real-time graph with the Loudness analysis window that is found under the Extensions menu. For that, I use the free Youlean plugin as you do.

[@JeffEmtman]

@@pietrosammarco6225 I think YouLean's a great tool. I tend to use the similar tool from Izotope (it's called "Insight") just because it came with a bundle I was already buying. But, one thing that neither of those tools do is offline analysis. You know, you have to play the audio to see the graph, so it only works in realtime. The thing that's nice about orban is that I can dump a file into it, go off and work on some other stuff for a minute or two, then come back to see the graph for the whole file. I've actually been using those graphs, combined with reaper's ability to import pictures as a way to double check things in my mastering sessions. I'm thinking about making a quick video about this. LMK if you think that'd be useful.

[@pietrosammarco6225]

@@JeffEmtman Sounds neat! I don't want to trouble you, but certainly all your videos are useful, so if you did, I'd watch it! Thanks again.

[@SimonDECREUZE]

This is gold, thank you !

[@anisazzoug4172]

Wow! And then wow again!! This tutorial was absolutely gorgeous, incredibly useful and on point. Made me want to check out HBM. Thank God I did. I'm thoroughly impressed by the quality of your content: the information, the sound design and the poetry of HBM are top level and I'd recommend it to anybody, especially fellow podcasters: the same way jazz is sometimes described as music for musicians, HBM is a podcast for podcasters. Anyone can enjoy it, but practitioners who know the craft will be even more aware of the little details and moves that make you a subtle virtuoso. A lot of inspiration can be drawn from it. However much viewers you get, your work might be very influential in the field: the same way not a lot of people listen to Herbie Hancock, but his ideas permeate all of the more popular music because all makers have his grooves in their learning memory. Anyway, thank you so much for the generosity and quality of your work. You deserve a lot of love.

[@JeffEmtman]

Thank you so much! And I'm so glad that the vid was helpful! I'll make more soon, I promise.

[@tartaringus]

Zoom mouse, fucking finally! Thanks a lot

Man, great video... I got a big RPG game to edit, with a lot of foley and shit and I was having a hard time with Audition - I went to the point of considering editing in premiere and then only leveling/sweetening in audition later - and even i'm being new to reaper (this is the first tutorial video I watched) and even not knowing the basics of the program, I could see that Reaper is much more flexible than Audition ou Audacity. Going to your Podcast Editing Workflow now! Thanks a lot! [:

[@JeffEmtman]

I don't speak from experience first hand, but reaper is often used for game dev because of it's huge flexibility with exports. Makes it easy to create, name, and export tons of variations with a few clicks! Happy editing

@@JeffEmtman Thanks, mam! I'm watching all your videos and when I'm done with the cast I'm going to publish, I will listen to everything in HBM... being a horror/mystery Tabletop RPG content producer, things that make people fearsome - or at least uneasy - are gold to me! :D Thank you very much for answering me and so much more for sharing your knowledge. Peace!

[@JeffEmtman]

@ send a link when it's done! I spent all of my teenage years playing ADOM, which is a rouge like very similar to D&D.

@@JeffEmtman Sure I'll send you, but we play in brazilian portuguese. I will try to create a very "foleyed" cast, so I think it can be interresting... hope so..... lol I play TTRPGs for a long time now but I had never reared of ADOM. I love this old school RPGs, I will look for it. Thank you for the tip!

[@adrianiam]

Thanks for the helpful video