Reaper, Plugins ....Help!

[betowelch]

Hi All:
Well.....After some months without any new recordings (while I was introducing some improvements in my recording device....) I'm ready to be back to my recordings.
Thanks to Charlie I could know what was my main problem in my final sound. According him the bandit was the camcorder microphone.

With my old gear (based in Vox Heritage amp and Yamaha MS EFTP), now I'm have a Shure SM57 with a preamp ART Tube MP USB and the Reaper audio recording software. I never used Reaper and also I'll need to learn about it....Well this is another question..

With Reaper come a lot of dozens of plugins. Do you think that some of it will be interesting to use to give some sound improvement?

I remember that some months ago when Charlie had corrected the sound lead sample (Wonderful Land) that was recording with the camcorder mic he needs to boost some frequencies that was lost and clean a lot of noise.... and after this process the sound was great.... Certainly Charlie have more sophisticated plugins and softwares to do this.... But with Reaper and its plugins what could be the best recommendation?

And about EQ....there are some predetermined better settings in the guitar frequency range that could be improvement to give a more Shadows closer sound?
Sorry to ask so much....but I'm from the time when was great to use just only a tape recording device.........(. ;D ;D ;D )....and I'm completely lost with all this......

In Reaper I see that have a DX Sony Graphic EQ plugin... It could be a good EQ plugin or it will be better to use another more powerful and that could to be used with Reaper?

I'm thanking in advance who could help me with some basic details and recommendations to starting to recording with this Reaper software capabilities.......

Cheers from Brazil!
Roberto

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Roberto,
From your description of one of the plugins, the Reaper program would appear to be DX based (like the early version of Sonar that I use). Do you know if this is the case? Do you know whether it will be able to accept VST plugins? Because if it does not, you should be able to use a DX to VST wrapper addon to enable the possibility of using VST plugins. This is quite important because most of the free plugins that are available are VST based.
Regards,
Charlie

[betowelch]

Hi Charlie:

Thanks for yor reply. Yes, the Reaper accepts VST plugins and already have some of then installed, but I cannot tell you what they are as now I'm in my office.

Cheers from Brazil
Roberto

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Roberto,
I will try to give you some ideas for useful VST plugins later. If you do not know how to install VST plugins you should look at the instructions of help file. There will probably be a VST plugins folder where they will all be put.
Is there a parametric EQ included with Reaper? A parametric EQ is usually much better than a graphic EQ because you can shape the EQ to a precise setting.
Regards,
Charlie

[betowelch]

Hi Charlie:

OK. When be back at home I will list to you all the VST plugins that already are installed with the Reaper. I'm not sure but I think that it has only graphic EQ.

Cheers from Brazil!
Roberto

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Roberto,

There is a free Nyquist EQ (parametric EQ) here:
www.smartelectronix.com/~magnus/
The author asks for donations if used for profit, for your purposes I think you can use it for free. I haven't tried this one myself but it appears to be worth trying.

And here is one of the best plugins I have:
www.voxengo.com/product/SPAN/
It doesn't do anything to the sound on its own, but it enables you to see what any sound's frequency spectrum looks like so that correct adjustments can be made with an EQ.

Regards,
Charlie

[betowelch]

Hi Charlie:

Well...the Reaper really accepts the VST and VSTi plugins. I already downloaded that 2 plugins that you recommended me and I will go to see in Help menu how I can installed in Reaper. When I have this ready I will let you know about it.

Thanks for your help

Cheers from Brazil!
Roberto

[betowelch]

Hi Charlie:

Well I just sent to you a PM with a sample file. It is the first one with Reaper . In fact I will need to familiarized with Reaper as its very different that the old one that I been had used (Vegas for audio). After that, in a second step I will go to select and familiarized with that plugins that you recommended me.

Cheers from Brazil!
Roberto

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Roberto,
I have answered your PM.
Regards,
Charlie