Exploring REAPER with Neth

While they would never claim to be an expert, Laneth's ever-growing obsession with REAPER has come full circle since they first started to really learn what it could do back in 2019; here they are guiding you through a voiceover-oriented 'out of the box' tour of the audio post processing industry's most beloved and hated DAW!

Having been described as the "Linux of Digital Audio Workstations", REAPER truly is customisable to the Nth degree - the only problem is that it can have a steep learning curve as a consequence, so much so that it can be incredibly overwhelming and frustrating to anyone not prepared to put in some groundwork in the beginning.

Over the course of two hours, Neth hopes to guide you through the exploration and setup of a fresh installation of the latest version of REAPER. The first half of the workshop will follow Neth as they examine the main areas of the program and then proceed to make some basic but essential (in their opinion) adjustments to make it play nicely with voice actors. 

The second half will open up to a Q&A portion where attendees can ask questions about various aspects and functions of REAPER that Neth may not have covered in the first half. Things like how to make a particular edit to your audio, or how to add/adjust/remove plug-ins, etc.

Note: This workshop is not designed to be a complete lesson on using REAPER, and while some processes common to many types of voiceover work may be explained, the overall goal of this workshop is to take users from knowing next to nothing about REAPER to feeling confident enough with its basic functions that they can record, clean up, and export voiceover audio.

That being said, if there is enough interest within the community for an actual course on using REAPER for voiceover work, this will be considered for 2023.

Laneth Sffarlenn studied audio engineering with Tony Wijs a couple of years ago here at Closing Credits, and has been working with Tony as his TA since. Having helped with the development of the Demo Engineering and Advanced Audio Engineering classes, Neth has also been providing one-on-one and small group support sessions for students that sought a more applied approach to learning REAPER than can be found with many pre-recorded courses available online. 

As a practical learner themselves, their hope is to provide an interactive learning environment where no question is unwelcome or to be considered silly. They'll readily admit if they don't know something, and guarantee that they'll be looking for an answer in their own time if not in the session itself! 

Finally and again, while this particular workshop is not designed to be an in-depth course on using REAPER in your voiceover work, Neth will be providing notes and relevant links to resources as part of the event recap email - and any questions that weren't answered in the event itself will be found and included in those notes.