Top 5 FX Plugins You Need to Buy For REAPER

hi i'm kenny joya welcome to another one of my tutorials in this video i'm going to show you the top five effects plugins you need to buy to use with reaper [Music] so the first plugin i want to show you is an eq and eq is one of the most important plugins in our arsenal for mixing and production purposes we can use an eq to balance out the frequencies of our instruments in the most pleasing way one of my favorite eqs and really the only one i use is real eq or re-eq as a user of reaper it's already installed in your list of plugins as we can see right here when we open it up it looks like this and we can resize it to any size we want like this it starts off with four frequencies with the first one low shelf and these two parametric or band frequencies and the high one as a high shelf but we can change them to anything we want we can make this one a high pass which will cut off all the wall frequencies in our sound or a low shelf which will boost or cut any of the frequencies we choose on down which makes it much more musical as it doesn't sound as peaky we do the same thing with the high frequency up here we get boost or cut it and it's going to affect that frequency all the way up again making it sound more natural and not as peaky as using the band or parametric frequencies which just boosts the frequency we choose whether it be narrow or wide for boosting or cutting we can use them on top of each other to get just the perfect sound we need and like i said it sounds just as good as any other eq i've ever used built into a daw or third party and when you play sound through it we see the frequencies before and after so you can see the changes we're making in real time [Music] we could hide all this stuff or show it or show the phase we're introducing by adding an eq and of course we can add as many bands as we need so that's the re-eq eq plugin and like i said it comes with reaper now if you stay tuned to the end i might throw in a bonus plugin beyond these five so the second plugin i want to show you is a compressor and similar to an eq a compressor is an incredibly important part of our mixing and production arsenal as it controls the dynamic range of our tracks making our productions more punchy and more glued together one of my favorite compressors is the ria comp or recomp compressor and as a user of reaper it's already installed in your list of plugins as we can see right here when we open it up it looks like this with no compression just bring the ratio up we should bring it up to about four to one and then adjust our threshold right here so it goes into our audio we can see the compression or how much compression right here with a little or a lot [Music] then we can adjust our attack and release to decide how it compresses with a quicker attack it's going to respond right away with a slower attack our transients are going to come through without being compressed then we have the release a quick release is going to react very quickly compressing and uncompressing over time if we make it slower it'll sound more subtle and smoother as the compression doesn't react as quickly and like i said this is one of my favorite compressors but i still use a few others like the 1175 compressor which looks like this we can adjust our threshold and see the compression down here adjust the attack and release or the general dynamics compressor right here we can adjust the compression using a graph just draw it in compression expansion or even gating any kind of dynamics curve we want so those are my favorite compressors and once again they all come with reaper so the third plugin i want to show you is a reverb reverb is created when a sound occurs in a space sending sound waves out in all directions these waves reflect all surfaces in the space decaying in volume until the reflections eventually die off so a reverb plug-in mimics this effect when we add it to our tracks and one of my favorite plugins to do this is reverb or reverb and as a user of reaper it's already installed in your list of plugins as we can see right here when we open it up it looks like this now this plugin is an ir reverb or an impulse response reverb which means it uses actual samples of recorded space and while it doesn't come with any you can find a ton of free ones online and once you download them we can go to add choose to add the file choose one and the sample is imported up here then we can adjust it by adding a filter or adding a trim gain stretch and stretching it to be longer or shorter now if we wanted something simpler like a simple digital reverb we could use reverbing which looks like this we can adjust the wet and dry the room size and dampening and then filter the reverb so those are my favorite reverbs and once again they come with reaper so the fourth plugin i want to show you is a delay delay is a signal processing technique that repeats the recorded sound when the processed audio is blended back in with the original it creates an echo-like effect the delayed signal may be played back multiple times or fed back into the original to create the sound of a repeating decaying echo and my favorite delay and really the only one i use is ria delay or redelay and as a user of reaper it's already installed in our list of plugins right here and if we open it up it looks like this we could adjust the wet and dry over here the length in milliseconds or based on musical or eighth notes adjust our feedback or repeats filter the delay and even pan it over here we can have multiple taps right here creating multiple delays that all do different things so this is my favorite delay and really the only one i use and like the others it comes with reaper so the fifth plugin i want to show you is a limiter a limiter is very similar to a compressor with a few differences with compression you're focusing on individual tracks in the mix shaping their sound individually and sometimes as a group where limiter takes compression to the extreme and provides more use in the mastering process or during mixing as the last effect on the master fader as its name suggests limiting sets a limit or a ceiling to the output level so no sound beyond the threshold can get through that's why they're often called a brick wall limiter and as a user of reaper it's already installed in our list of plugins right here and if we open it up it looks like this and similar to the compressor we can go to our threshold and bring it down into the signal right here see what's happening with the waveform over here and up here see how much we're limiting and adjust our brick wall ceiling where we want it set and that's the rear limit limiter and again it's the only limited plug-in i use now earlier i mentioned a bonus plug-in so i have a favorite for pitch correction and as a user of reaper it's already installed in our list of plugins right here the rear tune or retune plugin and if we open it up it looks like this and we could use this to correct the pitch of our instruments or tune our vocals by switching this to correction auto pitch choose the key and just play our track and it'll correct the pitch automatically or we could do it manually turn this off turn this on it'll track the pitch or play it let's zoom in and just draw in the correct pitches like this or this to fix the notes manually so that's the reattune or retune pitch correction plug-in and just like with the other plug-ins it comes with reaper so these are all the plug-ins you need to buy to use with reaper but unfortunately you can't buy any of these because they come free with reaper so that's pretty much it that's the top five effects plugins you need to buy for reaper i hope you learned something hope you could use it and i'll see you next time thanks [Music] bingo boys let's go [Music] you

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Published: Sat Nov 13 2021