De-Essing Vocals Using Lanes in REAPER 7

[@Setteegang]

Just Awesome! We are blessed to have to your teachings sir :)

[@mxdaw]

Strongly recommend turning on spectral peaks when editing. Makes certain noises easier to spot and mark more accurately

[@MonkeyBars1]

came here to say that

[@REAPERMania]

Yeah. I've actually gotten pretty good at just seeing them in the normal waveform.

[@Windiguana]

I guess, default waveform is just amplitude over time, why make things more difficult for yourself

[@REAPERMania]

@@Windiguana But the SS sounds are still much closer together. I guess I'm just used to seeing them.

[@Windiguana]

@@REAPERMania I got ya, you do what works for you, great thing about reaper is there's so many ways to do the same thing, and some will be more efficient depending on the user. Thanks again for another great tutorial BTW, never thought of de-essing like this.

[@colinolsen2392]

Now that's what I call efficiency. This process will save me much time with the initial clean up in vocal tracks. It's so seamless.

[@ruslanperu610]

Kenny - Genius!🎉

[@Laneth]

Absolute game changer for those of us that are learning or just like to do things themselves, rather than relying on plugins all the time. Cheers Kenny, this is amazing as usual!

[@MrMockigton]

its like every.single.time. i run into a problem i cant fix, reaper implements the feature and kenny shows me how to do it. outstanding. had a singer with a pronounced lisp, and what can i say, this fixes it, where de-essers wouldnt.

[@johanneslinstead]

Brilliant solution!

[@okay1904]

Now that is smart. Never heard this anywhere else. Who thought of using lanes for this? Brilliant.

[@vexphoto]

Singer has a lovely voice!

[@maxprizm]

Love this, always hate what the plugins do to the vocal track. This sounds so clean.

[@chrisashworth7089]

Lordy me....exceptional !! Cheers Kenny.

[@mrjohnyaya]

This is exactly what I needed for what I'm working on right now. Thank you, Kenny!

[@vincentghd7325]

Mind blowing. Top notch craft tricks in there. Thanks.

[@BenMartinBox]

I just love most of the songs you demo in your channel. Nice mood songs.

[@REAPERMania]

Thanks

[@sdanis]

Another great video! 👍 I didn't know that just reducing the track by 6db would help with de-essing. I always used fabfilter to control this type of issues. Always nice to learn something new. Keep up the great work!

[@florabee9283]

This feature alone is worth the upgrade- so much faster than how I was editing before!

[@mytchmacfarlane]

Yo what a powerful function, had no clue this was in Reaper 7!

[@deskypoo]

The simple solutions are great

[@dessiplaer]

I liked the song. I liked the lesson. So it logically follows that I like the video as well.

[@Setteegang]

indeed!

[@dahyamistry]

Kenny you never cease to astound me with your videos, and the ideas you come up with, it's amazing ! Who would've thought to do this using fixed items lanes.... Other than you lol !

[@KelvynTaylor]

Thanks! Took a few tries to work out how to do this, but working great now.

[@ASoundMindDJ]

Hey Kenny, 1st thank you for this video and all you do. You make this journey of audio engineering so much more fun. 2nd I had a question: so I followed your steps all the way up to 2:15 but I noticed that when turned down the bottom lane, all the lanes went down as well as if they were synced. How do I turn that off? Thanks in advance!

[@danielfaugeron9763]

I exactly have the same problem. Impossible to change the volume for only one lane.

[@boyreporter]

freakin amazing. thanks as always, rage kage.

[@southsideronnie]

Awesome, thank you Kenny!!

[@ikerbengo]

A great advise for us, voice over artists and singers. I will try it on my next project. Thanks!

[@DThompson55]

holy moley this is amazing

[@DThompson55]

I feel like de-esser plugins can sometimes make vocals a little lispy. But I don't hear that artifact in this method.

[@michaelschnell5633]

Nice idea ! You could have enabled color peaks to visually show the s'es :)

[@RaymmanVO]

Very nice, thank you so much.

[@bobless5517]

Kenny, such cool! Thanks!

[@uwutrazh]

👀👀👀 Nice one

[@avasound]

Cheers Kenny!!!

[@drutgat2]

Thanks, Kenny

[@joeheukerott9186]

Just brilliant! Thanks. 😻🪕

[@maschlarea5172]

Wow... fantastic! Is it possible to apply this to an entire track folder? I have ~ 20 choir tracks that need that sort of editing, and of course they accumulate all at the ssssssame pointssss

[@sebastianhanzlik4644]

Cool! Can't wait to use it!

[@arthursoghoyan3471]

Thanks a lot Kenny, this is a great solution !!!❤

[@lawinter1949]

Nice I’ll have to try this in Logic. Interesting how song feature one daw changes how you think when using a daw that has had that feature for a while.

[@LesTutosMusicauxDeFlo]

Trop cool, merci pour ce tuto !!!

[@ulfsvensson9710]

I need that to take away my nose breathing!

[@nulodgerecords4861]

Thanks Kenny, as always! Have you done (or can you) a tutorial on metadata in reaper? How to and why for songwriters and producers? Thanks!

[@davidtrig]

Waves de-esser magic

[@AndyCampbellMusic]

Bloody clever... 👍

[@underwoodvoice9077]

As an audiobook narrator who has a lot of trouble with sibilance (and 'k' sounds and plosives in general), I have to say Kenny is a freakin' GOD. This is not gold, it's platinum. For you Star Trek folk, it's gold pressed latinum.

[@codeeye2023]

This is good for songs but for an audio book might be time consuming if you are running low should try eiosis E2

[@REAPERMania]

Do you also do the trick where you split items to remove plosives?

[@codeeye2023]

@@REAPERMania I've tried it on songs I do it for breath and plosives

[@underwoodvoice9077]

Yes; I use the dynamic split trick and play with the gate settings. It has saved me a lot of time, especially on a project that required inserting a lot of sound effects. Once all the cuts are made and adjusted as necessary, the whole track gets glued back together and (re)normalized for submission.@@REAPERMania

[@underwoodvoice9077]

Looks good. I may give it a whirl. I've played with other Slate Digital stuff, I may still have an account.@@codeeye2023

[@punishmentessay]

Can't get this to work at all, I assume it's my settings? when I duplicate the lane and then comp into new lane as shown, when I adjust the gain on a lane it affects both lanes. Also, the razor edit only moves the audio clip in the lane rather than cross fading? Can't see any settings to change to affect it even, so weird. Shame was really looking forward to trying this but it's driving me crazy at the moment

[@REAPERMania]

Make sure you only select one of the items when you change the gain. Why are you using razor edit?

[@marcgalo9476]

I hef the same problem

[@arunkarthikma3121]

I know this video is a year old, but what is the name of the vocalist, or the track? It sounds lovely.

[@kahnzo]

You are the king of great instructional videos for Reaper. Do you have a video for remote band recording workflow. All of my bandmates have Reaper and we'd like to be able to use the SonoBus for low latency or Ninjam for working out parts. What's a good workflow for setting up tracks on each of our instances of Reaper and then combining those tracks later into high fidelity uncompressed tracks in one Reaper instance. I do have Reaper backed up to Google Drive and we could all upload our tracks after the session, but other ideas are welcome. Also, I will turn off sync to online backup while recording, though I may sync to a local so I don't lose anything during the session. Appreciate your advice. Do you have a forum for community input and questions?

[@REAPERMania]

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[@kayahanli]

Is it better to use vocal rider plugins before or after de-essing?

[@REAPERMania]

After

[@kayahanli]

Thanks for the reply Kenny. Just wonder if we ride the vocal after de-esser, then wont it increase the volume on de-essed parts and bring sibilance back again? @@REAPERMania

[@YPLabs]

Wowowow

[@john8451]

Using volume reduction rather than eq to deal with ssssing. Cool! 👍

[@dennystreet2454]

Reaper ❤

[@GTSongwriter]

Wow! I don't have to load Melodyne to do this anymore!

[@mikebee888]

Smooth, which is the best way to print the vocal when you're done with this process?

[@markerviedejesus]

Hi Kenny! thanks for this this is very helpful what's the command for Draw Area?

[@yurrintinckelsonn812]

All I can say is Holy Fuck!!!!

[@dancunningham7268]

Sweeeet!!

[@SimplySars]

Hello @REAPERMania , I would like to thank you for the helpfusl vidoes. I just want to ask how to fix the "crashing sound" whenever I edit? It started to occur when i updated my Reaper to 7. I am hearing jt from time to time even when my track is playing. Its sounds like a TV that has bo signal. I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance

[@raycochrane3971]

I followed this every step of the way and VISUALLY it works but the audio coming from the comp lane isn't changed. I even reduced the SS track to -50 and the was NO audio change. Reaper was reading something else. When, Where, What, Why & How did I get it wrong?

[@NoReplyNZ]

any solution?

[@raycochrane3971]

@@NoReplyNZ None offered...I went back to manually using Razor Edit & pre FX volume automation.

[@SaySomethingWorthHearing]

Love his videos and incredibly helpful content, but does anyone know why he talks with all those pauses between words? He says a few words, pauses, then finishes the sentence. Just wondering if that's just how he talks or if there's a purpose behind it.

[@AnastasiiaN]

Hello! What if i have my lead track in chunks i am not able to manage of them at the same time. How can I adjust the volume of the SSS line if my track is cut on pieces? Please I need your help.

[@tomslms]

What settings do you use to start playback at the position of your zoom? I have to move my cursor to the editing spot to start playback in the zone I am editing.

[@REAPERMania]

I'm making a video about this right now.

[@baveraydemir5758]

Hi, can i ask after you saw the S sounds how did you draw it ?

[@marioaguilera9463]

Can someone help me? I am trying to do this, but when I duplicate the tracks and I lower the volume of one, it does the same for both like if the are in chain

[@TheDave292]

After creating a comping lane the mouse is in EDIT mode and I can't lower the volume on those lanes. How do you get the mouse to lower volume on comping lane?

[@helmanfrow]

What's the benefit of doing it this way over making all the edits in the same track?

[@REAPERMania]

You can swipe quicker.

[@Tokolele]

And global volume control of the dimished lane (unless editing volume of individual parts in the comp lane).

[@ocb2112]

Can you put individual effects on each lane?

[@REAPERMania]

No

[@LiveeviL6969]

How do you get the Draw cursor? Probably a dumb question.

[@REAPERMania]

That happens by default. Left drag.

[@tmartin9024]

Great stuff

[@LiveeviL6969]

I started all over and was able to get the Draw cursor, but had issues lowering the volume. It wanted to lower the volume of both lanes unless I clicked on a little circular dot in the upper left corner of each lane (not the actual volume knob), it's another little dot just to the left of the volume knob. I don't see it in your video. What is that little dot?@@REAPERMania

[@talltim9579]

Cool s-s-s-sh!t

[@xbase09]

Anyone else having issues with following these steps after version 7.11?

[@TazzSmk]

does anyone actually de-ess this way, or is it just Reaper flexing this time? :D

[@jakelondon]

Yes, I think people do use clip gain/volume automation to de-ess. Seems like it's all about results you want vs. time involved. Adjusting volume manually can apparently lead to more natural results, but it takes more time than a plug-in. The lanes approach here seems to make it faster to adjust the volume.

[@TazzSmk]

@@jakelondon hmm good to know, I even saw someone using Melodyne as de-esser, fairly quickly and transparent sounding :)

[@REAPERMania]

I use it all the time. If I have the time.

[@Sean-qt8sj]

volume toggle not displaying for each lane anybody else having this problem?

[@Sean-qt8sj]

edit if anyone is dumb like me and read this: options - appearance - media - (under Media item buttons check Volume Knob)

[@IvarsI]

It's not quick at allbut anyways good ro know:)