

Alternatively, you can leave them separate from each other. Once you have two different vocal recordings lined up the way you want them, you can permanently combine these items by gluing them together. This is very easy, especially if you enable ‘Auto-crossfade.’ If you want to combine bits and pieces of different vocal recordings, you can split each item and then crossfade them to avoid clicks and pops. In REAPER, if you have multiple vocal recordings on a single track, the selected item is the one that REAPER will play. The first step for mixing a great vocal track is properly editing and quantizing it.Įditing and quantizing is all about choosing the best vocal recording from the various takes you have and then lining them up with the grid, so they are on time. A vocal track that needs mixing (dry and unprocessed).What You Will NeedĪll of the plugins you need for this tutorial come with the program and will not cost you extra. In this step-by-step guide, I will show you how to mix vocals in REAPER. Thankfully, REAPER comes with stock plugins that you can use to get a great vocal mix for your track! If you do not know what you are doing when it comes to mixing vocals, the other elements in your mix will drown them out, and they will be unintelligible to your listener. There are many steps to vocal mixing, such as correction, clean up, dynamics, effects, etc., and they are all equally important. Mixing vocals can be tricky to do in the world of music production. It isn't perfect I know that - it was created to demonstrate what I can do on a low budget setup, and I am working on the second EP that will be much better produced.Īnyway I hope you enjoy, it is around 12 minutes in duration (5 tracks).15.3 What should you record first in a song? Mixing Vocals In REAPER

I created the music using a different DAW, and when finished I export the finished track into FL Mobile and record, edit, and mix the vocals myself. Fast forward from 2001 to 2023 and I've been taking it seriously since around August 2021. I used to produce music around 20 years ago but had some problems and had to stop. I'm new here, my name is Nicholas and I work with engine software tuning for cars, and also manage a car rental company for a friend at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany.
