Parallel Processing in REAPER

okay how you doing I'm Kenny Joya welcome to another one of my tutorials in this tutorial unless your your parallel processing in Reaper now the idea of parallel processing is to have a very wet or affected sound on one channel and the direct sound or the unaffected sound on another channel and we can mix them together using two separate faders now this can be used in many ways for compressing a drum loop parallel compressing a vocal with the idea that can really make the effect really strong or compressed but still retain the transients by bringing the dry sound back in so let's start off simple with a drum loop we have one here let's see what it sounds like now let's try compressing it go to our effects and let's choose the reaper compressor now right now it's fully wet what's really try to compress this sound we'll turn on the auto makeup gain adjust the ratio to about four to one and bring down the threshold we could also just the release to really make it pump before and after it's pretty compressed and you can hear the pumping and breathing now this sound is too much for us we could change the effect to be parallel now of course you could do it simply in Reaper by just in the dry sound right here but the problem with that is that you don't have to separate faders over here or in the mixer to adjust so it's a little harder to see what's going on you have to keep opening this plugin to readjust it so doing it in parallel is a little bit easier let's create another track right here we'll name it compression now let's move this effect over here instead and turn it off over here hold an option on the Mac will alt on the PC and just click it so now the effect is just on this track it's dry over here so now we want to do is bus this track to this track go to the routing over here and drag and drop it and set this to pre-fader post-effects this way this fader right here let's make this bigger this way the fader on the loop track isn't affecting this one so they completely separate let's turn this down rushon should be over here and the dry sound is over here so I could simply mix them to create our perfect sound we'll start out which is the compression and mixing the dry sound to bring back some of those transients in order to get the best of both worlds before it's not very exciting and it sounds a bit weak but we mix back in the compression it sounds like this it's basically the best of both worlds and as I said we could do this for vocals bass guitar even acoustic guitar but one of the more popular uses for this is for live drums now when dealing with multi mic drums we're gonna set up a bit differently so let me show you how we've a different project here with some live multi mic drums kick track a few snare tracks through tom tracks overheads in a room let's hear what it sounds like right now then to make that sound more exciting let's hit some parallel processing to the entire drums and the way to do that is to create a drum bus just make a new track name it rhombus and let's bus all the drums to this track and the easiest way to do that is in the routing matrix go right here take all the drums out of the master parents end they're still playing but we don't hear them because they're not going at the minister parents end anymore instead let's send them to drum boss right here so now all these drums are coming out of here let's go to a mixer and here's our drum boss now if we turn it down there's no drums so the entire kit is coming out this fader but each one of these sends is post fader right here post-fader full volume we want it to be set that way this way these faders still matter but the sum of all these faders ones up here and from here we can create a parallel bus so let's do that hide the mixer and make another track we'll name this compress and our create ascends from the drum buss to a compress bus but dragging this from here to here and once again we'll switch this to be pre-fader this way doesn't matter we're the drum buss fader is it's still going at the same level on the compressed bus so this fader is down we still hear the drums coming out of compress bus so now it's put a compressor on the compressed bus we'll choose the reaper compressor again about 41 what a makeup gain bring down the release and the threshold that feels pretty good there and once again we could use the dry sound to get our blend but then we can't use the faders in our mixer so now let's bring back some of that dry sound right here let's compress it a bit more just to really make it squash notice how the compress bus really brings up the room sound now to make it even more interesting let's make another one make another track here and we'll name it EQ and compress once again we'll send it from a drum boss to here and make a pre-fader so we could pull these two down and we still have our drum sound now it's EQ and compress it we use the reaper EQ with a high-pass filter and filter out all the lows now we had a compressor right after it what a makeup gain quick release about 4 to 1 now it's a it's a more eq after the compressor and this time will boost the top-end using a high shelf by filtering out the low-end compressing it a lot and bringing up the top-end we're gonna bring out the prettiness or the brightness in the drum set and because we did it in parallel this effect has its own fader right here so you can go back to a direct sound here mixing the compression here and make the whole kit sound brighter with this fader before and after that sounds a lot better so anyway that's parallel processing in Reaper I hope you learned something I hope you can use it and I'll see you next time Thanks

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Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Fri May 15 2015

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Thank you