How I edit my podcast in Reaper

hey everyone welcome back to another video this is take two because I screwed it up the first time but that's okay that's that's what I'm trying to help you guys avoid so long story short I got a lot of good feedback from people about my how I edit my podcast using audacity video and so I have recently switched from audacity and so I'm making a video for two reasons that this is for Reaper making this so that people who use Reaper can learn some of the tricks and tips that I've learned along the way and so people if you are watching this and you know more than me please feel free to let me know down below tips and tricks that I should know so real quick an overall explanation of Reaper Reaper is software that you can buy but you can also use it for free if you want to just try it out one thing that I want to talk about real quick is that I have already finished recording my latest episode of the podcast if you just real quick if you want to know how to record using on Reaper it's very very easy when you start up Reaper it's not going to have audio file there are already in fact it'll look a lot more like this just without that audio file okay but if you just hit insert new track and then arm the track when you start recording does it for it I forgot to mute something when you start recording you can see that every time I start talking you could see the waveform being made right there if I stop talking to the fact over a youtube.com slash you can see that the waveform if you kind of stops for a little bit again I don't need that so when I'm done I hit stop I'm no longer recording if I was going to use what I had just recorded I would just hit save all but since I'm not I'm just gonna hit delete all and it gets rid of that file and actually I'm gonna go ahead and get rid of this track because I don't need this track so I had already gone through and done the record that I needed to do for for my podcast by the way if you didn't know my podcast it's Nintendo switch craft obviously all about Nintendo and you could find that over at run jump stop comm so let's talk about all of the things that I do each time and this is gonna take a little bit of time but keep in mind that even though it's taking me this time to do it it's because first of all I'm new at it secondly I'm talking about what I'm doing while I'm doing it so that kind of slows things down and thirdly I'm trying to make sure I don't go too fast because I had to watch some tutorials for this many times in order to really understand what exactly was happening here so let's start by talking about noise removal every room that you're ever going to record in unless you're recording in a real studio is going to have some kind of noise in the background maybe it's a fan like I've got a ceiling fan going or your computer fan is going or you know a car driving by that kind of thing although the car driving by isn't really gonna you cannot gonna be able to get rid of that as easily but the overall room tone and every time you record the room tone needs to be recorded too and you need to be able to isolate it so what I always do is I just record about 10 seconds of the room without saying anything and then I kinda can get a picture of what does that room sound like so that's what I'm gonna do first is go ahead and get that picture of what that room sounds like in order to get that picture I'm going to use something called reefer so I go to FX and under FX I find I go under all plugins to Koko's and then reefer and then once I open that up I've got this and I know that a lot of this stuff is gonna look intimidating if you don't know your way around a digital audio workstation like me I don't really like I only know what I've picked up so far and it's very little so once you're in this mode you we want to set this to subtract because we're trying to subtract the noise out of our recording I mean in fact before we before we get there let me just hit play on this and we'll listen and you can see right here there's some noise in the recording I want to get rid of that noise that noise that's always there so I'm gonna set this to subtract I'm gonna say automatically build the noise noise profile not the nose profile okay and I hit play and now it is recording or looking at that audio and analyzing it and making sure that it can get rid of it so now I've got a picture of what this room sounds like and now I just hit automatically build noise nose noise profile and it's going to take this red line and subtract it from the rest of my recording which is very very handy to do so now I've got that first part done next I take my segments and start putting them together when I record I record a segment I hit the stop button I skip forward a few seconds and then I record the next segment the reason that I do that is because I like to be able to have each segment in its own little thing if I can't think of because I don't have a script ahead of time and if I can't think of a segue in the middle of this I don't sit down and think about segues ahead of time if if one comes off the cuff and works then I will use it and move along but if I can't think of a good segue all I do is I just stop recording drop in a sound effect move into the next segment afterwards and that's how I end up doing it so let me show you how to edit the segment's in in a way that is going to be useful to you or at least it's useful to me so the first thing I do now that I've got that picture of what the audio sounds like let me zoom in on this scrolling up the scroll wheel zooms in and I'm just gonna drag this over to the beginning using the alt button and scrolling up and down on the mouse let me let you scroll left and right and you can see this little line here that's where it's going to snap now you can turn off snapping but I kind of liked snapping so I leave it on so this is the new beginning the old beginning was but was 10 seconds earlier so now I'm just gonna drag this over and we'll go to the end and I'm gonna drag this over there and jump Ptolemy's unmute jump stomp so there's the end of my intro and what I want to do is I want to find a little audio clip and I have a bunch of audio clips that I've saved up so right here I will go to let's see I can do the hett su song from breath of the wild that's too long I want something smaller like maybe this oh no no no that I don't want that either maybe this that's really quiet let me turn up my alright and I think that's the sound that that sound works for me so I'm gonna grab this dragged it up I'm gonna put it right there and now I'm gonna zoom in and it and if I hold down control in zoom I can make it taller and that makes it easier for me to see if they're about the same sigh the waveforms are about the same size this one looks a little quieter to me and if I look watch right here jump stomp alright so that one on the left this one over here and that guy quiet or loud jump stomp yeah this Peaks much lower so all I do is I just double click it and I'm right here as the volume I'm just gonna turn it up a little bit apply and as I look that looks be a little bit better but maybe a little bit more and that's probably better now you'll notice that if I drag these and I stop right there that's fine but I can also drag them on top of each other and now I've got what's called cross fading where the left track is getting quieter and the right track is getting louder and I can adjust that if I want but it doesn't automatically and I figure I'll just leave it alone the only issue with this is that I've got a little bit of silence at the beginning so now jump stomp and it perfectly crossfades between the two really really easily with no work from me so now I'm gonna zoom out and we've got another segment right here I'm gonna get rid of the silence at the beginning of the segment I'll drag it over zoom in overlap them let's see how it sounds episode 207 that seems good to me so now I've got that this is an ad right here and I'm going to bring in some music because between the intro and the actual show I usually put a little bit of music as intro music basically so I'm gonna grab a song by slime girls Astro Astro skeleton and I'm gonna do this on a separate track okay and when you click on it it plays a like it plays it right down here on the bottom so you can hear what it's like but I had already decided that I was gonna bring this song on so I don't have to worry about that but you'll notice that this is much like look at the waveform is so much bigger than this one so I'm gonna double click that I'm gonna I'm gonna make it quieter not quite that quieter that's probably better now you'll notice that's loud I don't want it to be that loud Amazon and if I'm talking cluded in your subscription like it's hard to hear what I'm saying so this is where we have to do something called sidechain compression and sidechain compression is a really really cool thing also known as ducking basically I can set it up so that every time that this track the voice the vocal track starts talking every time that I start talking this track the music track will automatically get quieter and it's really really easy to do and it makes you it makes your podcasts sound a little more professional I think so the first thing that I do is I go up here to my route and I'm gonna drag click and drag and now I've got like this little plug like an audio plug and I'm gonna drop it on that track and I'm just gonna set this over to channels 3 & 4 and I will say it is pre effects and I've done okay so that says that this track is going to look at this track okay and I know that this seems like a lot of work but when you're when you're doing it and you do it over and over you're gonna get real real fast at it so now I've got that routed correctly I'm gonna go into the FX okay and I'm gonna use compression so sidechain compression means that it's it's going to look at something that's beside it and compress based on what this happening over there all right so I'm gonna use compression and I hit okay and then here's my tools for compression let me explain what each one of these does well let me explain what the ones that I mess with do we have compression basically takes a loud sound and quiets it down and takes a quiet sound and brings it up so that it's compressing the size of your audio waveform so if your audio waveform is this big it can compress it so that it's only this big that way people aren't turning up and down their volume all the time because it really annoying all right so pre compressing means that it looks at the other waveform and it says okay he's gonna start talking in a second let's start quieting things down before he starts talking and I usually set that to 100 milliseconds okay the attack is how fast does it react when it hears that I start talking before it compresses things and I set that to a hundred and you're gonna have to mess around with it define your own levels the release that's how long after do i how long after i stop talking does it shut off the compression and bring things back up and i usually set that to a thousand that way if i stop for a second to think it doesn't like get loud while i'm thinking and then quiet back down you want it to be more smooth and i used to have to do this stuff manually on audacity but now i can do it automatically here i know that there's a ways to do it easy in audacity as well but this is much easier and I think it does a better job alright the ratio is how much do you want it to compress so I'm going to say ten to one that means that for every one decibel that I go up or I'm sorry for every ten decibels that I go up only go up one decibel and again you're gonna have to find your own way to do that okay and then finally right here my detector input this is why I routed this over to channels 3 & 4 because those are our auxiliary inputs okay so now this is saying you're going to be detecting this based on this audio and then you're going to compress this audio based on what you detect hopefully that makes sense so now I'm gonna start playing in addition to that you'll also get twitch Prime that's included in your subscription and then you can use that and you'll notice none of the compression is happening yet get free and now it is twitch like every month they put out some free so that means every time that this green line goes above this the compression kicks in and that would really can't so this is this is what it sounds like without the compression let me unmute it thank you okay I had it yeah it's still going sorry about that in addition to that you'll alright so this is what it sounds like that's me turn this down your subscription and then this is with compression it sounds much better but I almost think that I need to lower it some more whoever that may be so again that URL and then watch when I stop talking it's gonna come up the audio come back up thank you see how that works nice and smooth alright so this let me shut that off that's sidechain compression I've got that compressed but I still think it's a little too loud and what I'm gonna do is I am going to put on a thing that will make this slowly get quieter this is called an envelope so I'm gonna come right here with my mouse and I'm just gonna drag this over and there's my envelope so that means that overall you can see right here the waveform is getting quieter but I want to have to happen faster so I'm gonna right click on my envelope I'm gonna change the shape of it so now it gets quieter much faster let's see what that sounds like which without any ads get free stuff from twitch like every month day and we'll come back over here and what I'm looking at down here is this is peaking around negative six and if I go back to where I talked this is peaking around negative six as well so that looks good lots of different things they have a fantastic return so now let's see what happens when I start talking again so famous last words see how it drops right down like that it's going very very useful so now so now that I've got that out of the way what I want to do is I want to bring it I want it to fade out even a little bit faster so I'm just making the song a little shorter it's not gonna play the whole song it'll eventually fade out and you won't be able to hear anything anymore so famous last words I think and I think overall that sounds pretty damn good all right so now that I've got all that stuff out of the way the rest of this is super super easy what is this right here I don't think I put those two things together and let me just move these over be getting a lot more of them let me know all right so now all I do is I put in sound effects between each segments so let's do that real quick going to my media explorer I'm going to grab a sound effect podcast audio sound effects commercials will stop that will go with Castlevania you can't hear let me crank it up alright that that works for me I like that sound song I don't know how long it is that's gonna fit and it will have that crossfade and let's check it out let me know so if you want [Music] so if you're watching the YouTube video you notice that it gets really it just takes care of the crossfading automatically so now I'm just scrolling here's another blank space oh I hate it when I do that so I'm gonna Scrolls in the next blank space which is here I believe yep we've got we've got a blank space here I'm gonna go ahead and get rid of that beginning get rid of that end grab another sound effect when you've lost your last man hold a and B to continue where you left off do this before the title screen appears there you go all right oh that's the wrong button there we go so I'm gonna bring that in but I think that's too long so what I need to do is I want to move everything after this over so over here this is the ripple editing right now it's disabled I'm gonna enable it per track and that means that I can move everything over like that which makes things much easier so now I can grab this hold a and B I can drop it right there I can zoom in and I can bring it over and then I'm gonna turn off the ripple editing and gonna bring this over I assume back in let's see how that sounds fantastic and I can't wait to check them out that's a little too fast let's slow that slowed it down can't wait to check them out that's better when you've lost your last man hold a and B to continue where you left off do this before the title screen appears alright alright we've got all right hold on all right we stop it all right we've got I'm gonna cut off that bring this in green appears all right we've got eight there we go and now I'm going to zoom out scroll over till the next blank there's our blank now grab another song we're gonna do or not song but a little sound effect from an old commercials or something that works one drop that right there and is he did it again it wherever your your track head is that's where you're gonna zoom into so always try and put your track head where you want it before you hit that scroll button because otherwise when you zoom in it's gonna screw up expect now and let's grab the next track bring it over zoom in and cut off the beginning overlap so I talked about this before there we go we got that done we are almost done editing this podcast well I did it again dang it at least the the time-consuming part of it I still have some audio stuff to fix let's see we're gonna go with this no that's too quiet I don't want that I might delete that by the Sega Genesis that comes with Sonic 1 and gets sonik 2 free act now by the Sega Genesis there we go so I'll move this over Sonic 2 free goes right there and you just have those overlap and then we'll click over here is zoom out grab this zoom in and we'll get rid of the beginning pre-act now and that does it for it for all right there we go we've got the episode done now there is some more stuff that I need to do here so now I'm going to this is another reason why I like Reaper a lot more than audacity and that is the the fact that I can EQ it live so I'm going to go ahead and open up my FX there's my noise filter I'm going to add in re EQ or Reaper equaliser and I'm gonna hit OK and I'm gonna do this to this track so this is doing it to the whole track and I'm gonna hit play and I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head and you can see the overall wave this is so now you can hear me talking over it I'm gonna shut up for a bit and I'm just going to avoid adjust this I even feel like I remember that there was like a little like a thing that you would put your face up to in order to look through the periscope of the submarine in that arcade game maybe it was called periscope but I don't think so that's not as important but that's what the controls kind of look like and so this basically on the left hand side I brought up the low end make my voice a little fuller I brought up the high end so that it doesn't sound too muffled and then I just kind of adjusted overall like these two until I was happy with the sound once I'm happy with the sound I'm done that does it for the entire track whereas before I would have in audacity I would I would select the whole track hit EQ listen to it oh no undo do it again it was kind of a hassle this is so much easier because you can do it like right on the fly it makes it sound really really nice so I've got that done I use Hardware compression on my mixer so I don't have to do any compression on this however if you did have to do some compression on this you could easily just go in and use recom and then add compression if you need it to but I don't need it so I'm just gonna get rid of that because I don't I don't have any need for it all right now another reason why this is really good software is because it's non-destructive editing software so this file right here has not been edited even though it's changed the original file is still there so I'm gonna copy that and I'm gonna paste it so now I've got two copies of the same song but I want to do things opposite I'm gonna still I'm I still I leave on the sidechain compression but this this envelope that I have I'm gonna get rid of it I want to go the opposite way with the envelope you instead of getting quieter it's gonna slowly get louder and I'm gonna bring it in over here and now let's play the end a link to their stuff over at run jump stomp dock who are hanging out in the live chat you guys are awesome and the show just would not be the same without you so let's go ahead and hit through them we've got banana non-blood luster decaf Smurf deep hats 96k insidious little diabetic lumber joke - Mikey B playing mr. cool red Luigi mr. Pokemon TF Wagner Trev 125 and wyvern rip snarl you guys are awesome thank you for hanging out with me I will see you all next time that will be on Tuesday have a good one bye bye so now the music is gonna slowly get louder and then you can see here that it's gonna it's gonna quiet out but I think that blank right there is the end so [Music] [Music] now it's going to start getting quieter [Music] there you go we're done we got an episode all finished it's in it like this episode or this video is 27 minutes long but that took way longer than it would normally take me just cuz I was talking about it the whole time so the last thing I do is I say well you know what I haven't saved in a while so I'm gonna hit save and then I hit render and on here I'm gonna switch this from I'm gonna go browse oh no no no no I'm gonna go browse and I'm going to that's finished episode so that's where I save it you know it's already got it named I'm gonna switch it over to mono and I'm gonna switch it to mp3 and then I just hit render one file and now it's rendering it and when it's all done cuz we don't need it to be in stereo but when it's all done I upload it and we're all set so anyway that is the process of me going through and editing in audacity thank you guys for hanging out with me and I will see you all next time bye bye [Music]

Channel: Run Jump Stomp

Views: 8,022

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Id: A1h_IqohBE4

Length: 28min 53sec (1733 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 29 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Chouston3]

I used to use the auto ducking effect in audacity but I didn’t know how to do it in reaper. Now I do! Thanks!

[u/ChristopherSunday]

Nice video, thank you for taking the time. It's always interesting to see different people's editing workflow. 👌