Glenn Fricker is one of YouTube’s most well known audio engineers and educators, with millions and millions of views on his recording and mixing tutorials. Glenn has been professionally recording since 1997, and in 2004 he won “Album of The Year” in Unrestrained Magazine. Over the last 20 years, Glenn has worked with artists from all over the world in a variety of genres, from death metal to pop punk.
Currently residing in his second self-built studio, Glenn places an emphasis on human performance and live drums. He tends to reject modern recording crutches like pitch correction, over-mastering, and time alignment. His unique approach, personality, and skills have garnered him a worldwide following of over three hundred thousand!
In this lesson, Glenn shows you how to create and set up a new project in Reaper!
It’s dead simple…
The first thing you’ll want to do is open up Reaper, go to the File menu, and select New Project. If it seems like nothing happened, that’s totally normal!
Next, you can change your project settings by again opening the File menu and navigating to Project Settings. Here you can set bit-depth and sample rate. For most purposes, recording at 24-bit/44.1 kHz is ideal.
You can also change time base (beats is a good one), session start time, and various other parameters.
In the same dialogue box, you can click the Media tab which will allow you to choose a save location for all the files in the session. From the Video tab you can choose frame rate and other parameters if you’re working on a post production project. Finally, you’ll see an Advanced tab in which the default settings are ideal, and a Notes tab where you can keep track of the musicians you’re recording or anything else.
Hit OK, and you can start loading in tracks using the Command T keyboard shortcut!
