Hey guys, need some help on making guitar covers.

Here's my rig;
Spear t200q
Roland Cube 20GX
Behringer GUITAR LINK UCG102
2 Pedals
Guitar Rig 5
Audacity
Reaper

Last time I made 2 covers before, using the behringer guitar link and audacity, so I would have to play the song, record with audacity and add the guitar rig 5 effects after recording it.
Which means I couldn't hear my own guitar while recording and I find this really hard to do so.

Anyone can help out? What should I do?

Well you can skip audacity. Does reaper allows you to use guitar rig as vst? Im using ableton live to record, using gr5 as vst. You can monitor your guitar playing while recording, tweak effects, etc. You will just need to adjust the latency settings though at asio panel.

What is a vst? How do I check it?
Sorry, totally a newbie

Apparently, Reaper does support it. VST

I dont know about Reaper's interface, but there should be a menu that you can open gr5 from within Reaper and apply the effects real-time.

Thanks, do I record it with Reaper then? and do I plug it straight from my guitar to the USB link?

Also can I record straight from my guitar>pedal>pedal>amp>interface?

Yes, usb link -> reaper -> gr5.

If you wanna use your pedals instead of gr5, yes it can be done. Theres no need to hook it into amp. You just need to connect directly to interface.

Oh, I didn't know that I didn't have to hook it into the amp. Okay, thanks so much for your info will try it out soon

Hey there, I have already set up Reaper and Guitar Rig and added my guitar rig to Reaper.
What should I do next? I don't hear anything and when I record it doesn't detect too.
Not too sure what's going on

Can you post some pic so i can see better wheres the problem

P.s. be sure your asio4all settings are correct e.g. input=your usb int input (guitar) ; output=your usb int output

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Mar 2 2014, 07:10 PM

I checked my asio4all settings and had to change it to my usb interface. But unfortunately I still don't hear anything..



Is anything wrong here?



No sound coming off from my earphones plugged into the headphone jack of my interface while I'm here..



When I hit record, there were no waves.. no sound coming off too



I don't hear anything when I'm here either..

Please help!

This post has been edited by ezpoir: Mar 2 2014, 09:27 PM

Oops double posted by accident

This post has been edited by ezpoir: Mar 2 2014, 09:25 PM

Uhmm are you using MIDI? It shouldnt be midi, should be audio. Can you click on that ASIO configuration and show me the settings

Do you mean this?



I got these too if what you meant by MIDI was the MIDI over here

Yup that first pic, click Asio Configuration. Second pic, select mono input.

Okay, mono input 1 or 2?

There you go

Depends on your asio configuration thats why i asked. I wont be able to know your usb int is connected to what input number (1 or 2?). So you have to check your config..

Sorry sorry, there it is

Click on the 'asio' tab.

Ok i still cant see. Go to the icons on the bottom right of your screen just beside the date and time. There should be a green 'play' button there(asio) or any asio icon. Right click and select the asio panel. It should look something like this.



Note actual input/output may vary. Blue means that channel is active. Clicking it turns to gray (means inactive). You should select only 1 input and 1 output.

The latency settings, you can tweak later.

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Mar 2 2014, 10:25 PM

I don't have it

Ok nvm if it doesnt appear in the icons. What about this, can select channel 1 only/

For both Output and Input, I can select 1 or 1+2

First, select 1 and then try again with the recording.


Second, if that fails, download asio4all. (Looks like to me your driver is using the 'behringer usb audio' instead of 'asio' driver). Try to download asio4all, install it and then relaunched Reaper. Once its activated, you should see it in the notification icons for you to tweak the settings.

ASIO download

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Mar 2 2014, 10:53 PM

Yeah, It works now. Thanks so much for your help and do you have any idea why it has a hissing sound when I record and play? For some presets

You should adjust the noise gate at your GR5 when you use it as VST. You need to adjust this especially if you are using the metal effects to avoid that hissing sound. And also, another way is to reduce the input gain.

No problem bro, glad to help.

Okay, will try that out. What do you mean by input gain? From where?

Also, I get a pretty loud hiss even with clean sounds

PS: I'm not sure if it's a hiss or not but it sounds like a crackling sound

This post has been edited by ezpoir: Mar 3 2014, 03:58 PM

Still hissing pretty bad with noise gate..

Don't hear any difference with the noise gate added

Here:

On top there's IN, GATE, and OUT.


IN/OUT controls the gain. Lower your input to about 20-30% and lower to output to 60-80%

GATE controls the noise, adjust accordingly..

Also, if there is still hissing, check you cables, it might be the one causing the hiss

Additional info: at the right side of UCG102, there is a toggle switch, set the guitar signal to LOW if the led turns red..

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Mar 3 2014, 04:18 PM

Okay, much better.

Thanks again

Hey, lets say if I recorded a riff with clean and delay from GR5 then right after that part I want to use my pedal but without the delay effect, can I remove it after recording it?

Or recording it without the delay then adding it to the part where I want?

Easier way, record without the delay; and add the delay effect on the parts that you need to.

Need help bro I can't seem to add 1 effect to the part I highlighted only... Any idea? Been trying quite awhile

Cut the highlighted part and paste it onto a new audio track (like a new layer). Then apply your vst effects in that new track.

Okay, got it thanks a lot for your help!

Really appreciate it man

Sure no problem. Lol maybe I should do a tutorial thread haha

Yeah you could consider haha, sure was really helpful to me

@killerkamote7 - Pinoy?

this thread is very informative.... usually i just open and record my cover within guitar rig itself...

Yerp met him once

Should do tutorial la bro Reaper don't get much love in here. I use Reaper and GR5 myself for home recording, still have much to learn.

Hey bro, remember me?

I've come up with yet another problem :/
Recently, I've just decided to make a guitar cover again and I haven't done one in awhile. And I'm not sure what happened but I think something is different about my GR5 settings or something.
And I've gone blur and have forgotten a lot of things about this.

At first I opened Reaper straight and got ready to record, but there was no sound, then I realized my GR5 wasn't working in the first place, there's no sound when I play.
I've checked tutorials and videos on youtube on how to set it up and my Audio and MIDI settings have been set to my Behhringer UCG102 Interface and should be all correct.

One thing I noticed though, is the CPU bar on the top right keeps changing withing OFF and BYP.

Whats up? Please help out! I hope to see your reply ASAP

Saw your problem there. Don't use MIDI for this since you are not sending MIDI signals anyway. Change MIDI track to an Audio Track and try again.

Also, have you configured ASIO panel? Ensure you have the correct INput and Output..

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: May 27 2014, 11:11 AM

How do I change MIDI track to Audio Track? Where?

Yeah I have, both set to channel 1, not 1+2

From here, do not select midi..



This post has been edited by killerkamote7: May 27 2014, 02:37 PM

Yes, I have done that. I have done everything like what you told me for Reaper, months ago. Like how I used to do it. But it doesn't work for some reason and I realized even GR5 wasn't working in the first place so
I figured I should fix it first. But GR5 doesn't have any sound when I connect and play.

I've tried everything I'm still not getting a sound from GR5, what to do?

I've tried everything I'm still not getting a sound from GR5, what to do?

Hmm tough one. Try launching gr5 alone without reaper. If it works, then theres config problem at reaper. If it doesn't work, check your connections. Try to troubleshoot one at a time so you can isolate the problem.

Hey I've got everything working again, I re-installed everything and it started to work well again.

Thanks!

guys, how do i want to record with video of me playing, but using above technique... use laptop cam or separate cam?

For me, i dont use the GR5 or vst in reaper, because my pc got problem with driver and GR5 can feel the latency even though micro.

So recently I use Zoom H1 to record, then edit in reaper.
Example of recording with H1.

Camera using cheap logitech. Video edit using Powerdirector

Up to you, any cam will do since video and audio are separate

Hey could you tell me how to add "wah" effect in Reaper?

Wah effect is in gr5 bro. But as far as i know you can only use the auto-wah. If you have a pedal or a traktor (not sure what Native Instruments pedal was that exactly ), then you can control the wah. Well you can always use your digital ME for that.

Yeah I have the Wah effect in my GR5 but I have no idea how to apply it in reaper, well can you tell me how to use the auto-wah?

You use LFO and assign the parm to the cry wah wah. And then adjust the rate.. Exactly this:


This post has been edited by killerkamote7: May 31 2014, 10:48 PM

Alright thanks so much!

No problem bro!

Anything else, just fire away your questions and I'll answer if I know haha