How I Punch and Roll for Long Form Recording

camera number one is recording camera number two is recording camtasia is recording that's going to serve as the master audio we'll synchronize and we'll see if it works what's happening boot junkies mike delgado here back with another video on home studio setup for voiceover and what i thought i'd do today is give you sort of an overview of how you might set up reaper for punch and roll recording punch and roll recording is a way is a technique for recording especially for long form recording where you edit and record all at the same time as an aside if you've watched one of my videos i made a long time ago about the dog clicker the dog clicker that's a technique that i for lack of a better word i'd call that click and go recording in that scenario you create the recording first then go back and edit it as a second pass by looking at the visual waveform you can accelerate how you do that editing but most of the time if you're if you're doing audiobook recording if you're doing long form recording you'll do punch and roll recording because you end up at the end of the recording session with the file already fairly completely edited you may still need to tweak it a little bit but generally speaking it will be edited at the all at once i've been doing a lot of long form recording uh for over the past few weeks lots and lots of really long form recording and i realized i never actually demonstrated how i do punch and roll so figure i'd show it to you today now reaper the daw that i use and the one i demonstrate on this channel by default is not set up for punch and roll recording and so we're gonna we're going to need to make a couple of different configuration changes to it really trivial stuff be super easy so let's go through those settings and then i'll demonstrate for you we'll actually pick a script we'll pick a script called and we'll actually do some punch and roll recording so you'll be able to see how it works the first thing we need to do though is we need to re we need to make some configuration changes the first one is just a simple setting and that is to switch from takes to tape mode takes mode to tape mode let me demonstrate what i'm talking about by default when you're recording and you start to lay down some audio so this is just recording me speaking right now if you go back and you start to re-record over some place that you've recorded before if you need to fix a mistake by going back and re-recording over a section what it reaper does by default is it adds another lane it adds a second take so you can actually go back and play either of the takes this is very handy for musicians if they're going to sort of vamp over the same bar and they want to experiment with different phrasing for that bar of music being able to create multiple takes that's very handy and it makes it easy to go back and choose which take is the right take for your recording for us voice actors it's the last take is generally the one that we want and we want to keep moving forward with if we're doing multiple takes it's because generally because we've made a mistake and we're not happy with the performance so we want to keep moving forward so the first change is to switch reaper from the takes mode to the tape mode and we do that under options there's a choice here that says new recording that overlaps existing media items what does reaper do when the recording overlaps something that you've done before and we want to switch from the default of the create new takes to trim the item from behind and create a new recording essentially this is called tape mode because we're taping over the last recording just like the old days with tape if you're old enough to remember recording to tape you taped over you didn't get multiple takes so you switch to tape mode now when we go to record and we start to record i'll just continue recording here and now if i want to go back and fix a mistake when i go back and record it will just overwrite that take it essentially clobbers it gets rid of the old bad take and it just lays a new one right on top so that way there's always just one take the final take the next thing we'll want to do is we'll want to map a couple of keys on our keyboard to make it so that we need a little bit less dexterity on the keyboard in order to activate play and record and it's really easy easy easy in reaper to map additional keys so normally by default when you're mapping the keys that are mapped by default for reaper if you want to hit play if you want to play you hit the space bar and the space bar again to stop but record is an actual key combination it is command r i think on the on the pc it's uh control r so command r will start and stop and then you can you can do command r to stop or you can do command r and hit the space bar to stop but that command r is two keys and it takes a for me it takes a look down at the keyboard to know that i'm hitting the right combination of keys that's not that's not good because we're by doing punch and roll we're gonna be hitting that record button a lot so what i prefer to do is i prefer to map two keys right next to each other so i can have one finger do play and pause and the other one can do record and pause or record and stop play and stop and record and stop the way we do that is we come to the actions menu we show the actions list and the the keys that we're remapping are called are in the transport section and there's the play stop which is mapped to right now we can see that it's mapped to the space space bar we want to add a hotkey we don't want to get rid of that space bar we like that space bar we use that a lot but we want to just add another key that makes sense for us when we're doing punch and roll recording so i'll add that key now i happen to be using the a keyboard that has a number pad if you're not using a keyboard with a number pad you can map it to any other key that makes sense to you i happen to like mine to be mapped i like play and pause or play and stop to mapped to the equal sign on the number pad so i'll just hit that key on the number pad and we can see that reaper adds that keyboard mapping to play and stop the same thing for the next one down is for the transport record option i want to add a key for that and i want to add in my case i'll just add the key right next to it the slash key that's on the number pad again this can be any key that makes sense for you so i'm going to add the number pad slash to mine so now in addition to hitting play to play and play and stop to toggle the play i can also hit the equal sign on the keyboard on the number pad and i can do the same thing for rep record okay so now we actually have everything we need set up to do punch and roll recording everything's in place so the way i'll have it is you'll be able to see my fingertips down on the keyboard i'll add um we'll just how about we just take a random wikipedia page so that i'll be cold on it i'll try and do punch and roll recording on a paragraph or two of some random article on wikipedia that i'm really cold on so that it will actually be likely that i'll make a bunch of mistakes we'll just take an article from the front page so how about we take i don't know this link is blue let's figure out what this link is and we'll see if we've been hired to read a script about richard ernest dupuis i have no idea who richard ernest dupuy is so let's do a punch and roll recording for the first paragraph here and we'll make some mistakes chances are we'll make some mistakes and we'll go back and we'll try and get a recorded paragraph that's also edited by the end of the recording so let's go ahead and get get started so i'll start by hitting record richard ernest dupuis form mistake ready at the beginning richard ernest dupuis from wikipedia the free encyclopedia colonel richard ernest dupuis born march 24 1887 died april 25 1975 was a united states army officer and military historian dupuis was a reporter with the new york herald before his national guard artillery unit was called up to serve in world war one he transferred to the regular army after the war i biffed on that sentence so now because i i didn't like the way that that felt in my mouth so what i'll do is i'll rewind lead myself in and after the pause at the end of the sentence where the mistake uh then the next sentence is where the mistake occurred i'll hit the record button and just keep recording so i've moved the cursor back i hit play was a reporter with the new york herald before his national guard artillery unit was called to serve up called called to serve up so let's rewind and do that again army officer and military historian dupuis was a reporter with the new york herald before his national guard artillery unit was called up to serve in world war one he transferred to the regular army after the war serving in a number of public relations roles during world war ii he served as acting director of public relations whoa so that i was losing cadence there so now i've hit stop i've moved the cursor back i'll lead myself in and right before the the sentence with the mistake i'll hit record and keep going he transferred to the regular army after the war serving in a number of public relations roles during world war ii he served as acting director of public relations at supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force not good so we'll do that again to the regular army after the war serving in a number of public relations roles during world war ii he served as acting director of public relations at supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force under general dwight d eisenhower on d-day june 6 1944 dupuis was the first to announce on radio that the invasion of normandy was taking place did i stumble there i might have we'll just move the cursor we'll hit play and we'll go again supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force under general dwight eisenhower on one d day june 6 1944 dupuy was the first to announce on radio that the invasion of normandy was taking place he was also present for the signing of the german instrument of surrender in berlin on may 8th 1945. dupuis retired from the army after the war and became a prolific military historian working with his son trevor n dupuy let's try that end again he was also present for the signing of the german instrument of surrender in berlin on may 1945. dupuis retired from the army after the war and became a prolific military historian working with his son trevor n dupuy okay so we've recorded it we made a bunch of mistakes but we've also made a bunch of uh corrections and now at the end we have a file that is hopefully edited and should make some sense even if it doesn't we can always go back and do another pickup and punch in again so let's listen to what we've created richard ernest dupuis from wikipedia the free encyclopedia colonel richard ernest dupuis born march 24th 1887 died april 25 1975 was a united states army officer and military historian dupuis was a reporter with the new york herald before his national guard artillery unit was called up to serve in world war one he transferred to the regular army after the war serving in a number of public relations roles there was a little hiccup there right so even though that wasn't uh even though because i tried to punch in something very tight so i need to slip that a little bit so i'll just go to that little section hold my cursor over the over the item that i need to slip and i just need to slip that just a little tiny bit to tighten it up let's see if that works serve in world war one he transferred to the regular army after the war serving in a number of public relations roles during world war ii he served as an extra little bit there so we'll just take that extra breath out we will split i don't have my keyboard shut up my keyboard's set up on this portable install of reaper so we'll just uh take that out take that breath out of public relations roles during world war ii he served as acting director of public relations at supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force under general dwight d eisenhower on d-day june 6 1944 dupuis was the first to announce on radio that the invasion of normandy was taking place he was also present for the signing of the german instrument of surrender in berlin on may 8 1945. dupuis retired from the army after the war and became a prolific military historian working with his son trevor and dupuis so that worked pretty well right it by editing in place and just picking up where i had made a mistake just picking up right at the sentence before leading myself in and then hitting record right at that break i could just pick up punch in and continue to roll tape so that is punch and roll recording at least that's how i do it in reaper a couple of keyboard shortcuts mapped to my hand having my script on screen and all of a sudden it makes it so that you can edit and record all in the same session i hope that helps now get your daw configured to do some punch and roll recording get yourself a mic get in that booth and record something record something amazing we'll talk to you next time thanks so much

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Keywords: vo, va, voice over, voice acting, voiceover, voiceacting, voice work, voicework, home studio, microphone, reaper, punch and roll reaper, punch and roll recording, punch and roll editing, reaper daw, audiobook recording, audiobook recording tips, audiobook recording software, audiobook recording home studio, audiobook recording techniques, diy audiobook recording

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Length: 14min 14sec (854 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 03 2020