Multi Track Drum Recording in Reaper

I have no clue what’s going on

I just am trying to find out how to record with 4 mics. Have everything plugged in
Have reaper up
4 tracks armed to record

But no clue how to route each mic to each of the 4 tracks in reaper

It doesn’t seem like I can find steps anywhere for how to do this

Thanks! This will make recording/mixing my drums much easier. I used to select all Tracks and toggle with shortcuts between the takes which is very confusing when loosing the selection on all tracks.

When I use reaper my e drums sound like a slapback echo, but not in NCH therefor im in doubt to reaper

Kenny.........I'm gonna need......more... cowbell.....on those.........drums. : )

As much as I love Reaper, there is one major downside to this:
you cannot access single instruments easyly in your multi channel track! So if the drummer just misses a snare hit, you would redo a complete take - if he than misses a crash the headache starts! The idea is cool, but I wished one could access single channels and just replace them - then it would be perfect. So, you have to deal with the single channel way, and keep track of your takes yourself!

Thanks so much for your tutorials! Always my first choice for me to find out how to do stuff!

Is this method still useful if major editing is needed to get the drums in time? I have been using this method for a while, using takes and I like it for that, but never went back to edit. Now I am wanting to edit drums separately, I have to explode to single tracks then rename and add fx to those tracks. Seems like I should probably just record them to separate tracks to begin with?

I have a 5 inputs but only two are showing up in preferences

it's a cool idea but it's not substitute for the lack of group editing and playlists in Reaper... this is the thing which holds this magnificent DAW back! I say it's not substitute as if for example you already have the tracks recorded? You can't do this. Or if you just want to edit a single track (let's say the snare mic had a hit and you want to just remove the noise)

I was installing my interface to reaper, and it only seems to offer me 2 tracks. I have an 18i20. I won't be able to record each mic independently?

It is blowing up my mind ! ❤️ your videos! So creative way to organize recording ! Thnx!

Kenny you´re so freaking amazing!

Is there a way to do this but recording the output to a track as a multitrack?

Why is this so fucking non-user friendly. I'm livid pissed on how many problems I'm having just doing this "simple" shit

This is where the master of reaper was born ;) fuck pro tools coughcough

I had no idea Reaper could do this. Thank you! The main advantage I see, other than simplifying takes (punch-ins) would be for quantizing with stretch markers. This will make it so much easier.

Would you still recommend recording drums like this today, or do later reaper versions have new capabilities that work even better? I don't see this setup a lot in your other videos..

Ok, I like this method and use it. How do I consolidate the drum tracks to send to a protools user?

Why would you record drum tracks on one track, and then go through all of that trouble to send them to separate tracks? This doesn't make sense to me. What am I missing?

Do you have a video on routing? I'm having a hard time getting reaper to sync up with with my interface unit

So what hardware are you using with this? PA inputs or seperate mic input, etc. Overheads, etc.

Awesome. Did not know this. Learn something knew Everytime with you're tutorials even on stuff I think I already know. Unbelievably clear and more than thorough. Thank you!

Super useful!

thats fuckin awesome, very convenient. Just make a session template with this routing and you're good to go in seconds.
BTW, those drums sound sick

Is Christopher Walken your Dad?

Your videos save lives. Thanks so much.

That took 5xblonger than it would in pro tools. Killed my creative process

are you recording live drums in this video?

so I set everything up as per the video but am not able to set up drum mics until next week. Here's hoping!

I've really been enjoying your videos they answer so many of my questions lol. With this video can i do everything you did with a midi drum set or created my own midi drums could I record all the hits like a regular drumset on one channel and then bus them out to multiple channels and then from there could I throw on fx?

How to do the same for midi drums?

what s the name of the program

This is awesome for slip editing!

I wish I would have watched this a few months ago... Would have saved me some serious time. Great stuff, Kenny!

I was really interested in switching from PT to Reaper but this blew it for me. It seems like such a convoluted way of achieving takes. I realize it's a different approach but it seems to take longer. Again I was digging everything I saw from Reaper until this. Damn it.

wow man thanks. you've helped me a lot. great vid

How can I devide my track intro those "one Mic per Track"-Tracks, if I have recorded them all into one before?

What if I want to, for example, edit to the snare drum transient, but then also want to crossfade just the kick tracks to remove a pop/click?

Thanks for all the videos dude! I currently do a audio degree and all my tutors shoot down Reaper as a DAW, same with some of my fellow students, but they dont know how good this DAW really is!

Sweet very helpful

Hey Kenny!
I recorded some drums and all the tracks are in one wav file. Is it possible to get individual drum track wav files for each 7 mics now or do I have to change the settings and record again?
Thanks

That's one of the best tutorials I have seen on YT, not only for Reaper, but for just any software. You answered all my questions at the moment I had them. Thank you, subscribed.

Great tactic and demonstration! Thank you.

What happens if I need to edit one of the tracks individually? For example, clean leakage from the Toms

Excellent method and delivery!!! However, halfway through I thought why? Keeping control on each drum is where you're ultimately want to end up, which is where you started. Then after you recorded them all onto one track, but mapped individual control of each track, I was still thinking so (you just added another layer of abstraction)? Then when you hid all the mix faders for each track I went OK, this makes sense. So in the end, my question is this. Is the total benefit of this method for multirack drums what we call 'window management'? Or is there even a greater audio engineering set of option (functional benefits) we can experiment with by doing it this way? I hope, If so, let us know. If this method/technique, really about window management of the UI, to conserve 2D screen space, then its one of the reasons I went in to interface design/VR and 3D audio 20 years ago. In VR, we don't have to condense or save screen display real estate, it's like the matrix when Nemo asks for more guns. Even with 2 24" monitors I find I have to 'plan' to move layouts around recording and mixing, and configs. I can't wait to see what the Reaper developers do with all the VR HMD and dev kits.

Might be a hopeless question, but is there any way of transferring multiple tracks into 1 multitrack? I recorded a guitar with 2 different mics and should have done it using the above technique, but I didn't know about it. Now I have a load of comps which I want to edit identically for both tracks. I'm guessing that's not gonna be possible?!

Fantastic.

Kenny! Help. Recording 3 takes on Drum track. When playing back take 1 on Drum track....hear take 1,2,3. Playback take 2...hear 2,3. I can't isolate the takes to only hear that take. What am I missing?