What’s the best way to mix heavy guitars in Reaper?
Mixing heavy guitars shouldn’t require a bunch of fancy trickery and 3rd party plugins.
As a matter of fact, you can successfully mix heavy guitars in Reaper using the stock plugins that Reaper comes with.
As engineers, we all tend to obsess over gear and it’s not necessary.
When we focus too much on unnecessary gear, we tend to lose sight of what’s important.
We think we need a bunch of expensive stuff to achieve the results we’re really after, but in reality it’s just not true.
The truth is that it’s all about HOW you use your DAW and plugins..not the DAW and plugins themselves.
When dialing in a great guitar mix, strategic EQ cuts and simple compression moves are where it’s at.
You don’t want to overdo or neglect any of the key processes.
In this video, I show you exactly how mixing heavy guitar tracks in Reaper can be a breeze .
In the video, I demonstrate how you can dial in a killer metal guitar mix within Reaper in a matter of minutes.
It only takes some solid panning, level and basic EQ and compression moves to get the job done.
You can download the exact multitracks and Reaper session that I’m using in the video by clicking HERE.
