MANUAL DE-ESSING a bit easier

[rayc]

THIS is a good reason to update so I did.

[vomitHatSteve]

Hmmm that does seem pretty cool.

Honestly, my problem tends to be words that get completely lost, especially quick words at the start of a phrase. This would be useful for that methinks.

[rayc]

I had a go at it last night and it is easy to use and the visual display is very clear BUT I couldn't get it to play the comp'ed track...even when I reduced the 2nd half of a word to -100 it sounded the same. I retired and followed step by step to no avail. I've missed something.

[Armistice]

I saw this one the other day, and were I not at the end of a recording project I would be all over Reaper 7 - looks like some really useful stuff in terms of track comping, which is my ongoing bit of tedium. Not going to upgrade mid-project, however and I'd have to buy a new licence, which is find, just not now.

[rayc]

After having a go at it unsuccessfully last night I went back to the older new thing which is RAZOR EDITing for manual de-essing. It works REALLY well as one doesn't need to set down four dots. Instead in a volume hold down Alt and right click the mouse hold n drag across the zone required and then pull down the line....HEAPS easier but not as easy as the COMPS LANE thing will be once I've sorted it.

[Armistice]

After having a go at it unsuccessfully last night I went back to the older new thing which is RAZOR EDITing for manual de-essing. It works REALLY well as one doesn't need to set down four dots. Instead in a volume hold down Alt and right click the mouse hold n drag across the zone required and then pull down the line....HEAPS easier but not as easy as the COMPS LANE thing will be once I've sorted it.

Yeah, I've been doing the razor edit thing for a while now, since you mentioned it. So much easier on the wrist not to be constantly clicking. I also use it for controlling breath noises using the pre-fader envelope, and then automating the actual main vocal via the post-fader envelope where it needs it.

[rayc]

Yeah, I've been doing the razor edit thing for a while now, since you mentioned it. So much easier on the wrist not to be constantly clicking. I also use it for controlling breath noises using the pre-fader envelope, and then automating the actual main vocal via the post-fader envelope where it needs it.

People talk as if Reaper is a Lite Version of a DAW but if I hadn't been told about & seem Razor Edit I'd not have found it, thought of it, used it. Onya Reaper Mania.
There's a hell of a lot of stuff in there and the open source nature means people keep writing great changes.
I was having trouble with BIAB drum stems. They have stereo overheads inside BIAB but once exported as individual drum tracks everything goes mono. A fellow on the BIAB forums is a dedicated Reaper user and wrote a "script" to export stuff from BIAB in their original form, (WMA mostly), and with their stereo or mononess intact.
It took me a couple of days to edit & implement the scripts properly for my set up but this morning it worked...an excessive 16 drum stem, (STUPID kick in, kick ou, kick low, OH normal, OH ribbon mic, snare top, snare bottom snare upside down and turned around), from a kit and song I'd built in BIAB...from BIAB and in Reaper, with part markers etc. in 2 minutes whereas the normal export of that many files, and in stuck in mono would normally take five minutes and then I'd have to drag them to tracks...this script does it all.
Now I can rebuild the drum mix from the information in the stereo overheads to taste whereas previously Id have mono OHs and it'd sound odd or I'd have to use the single whole kit stereo file from BAIB.