Balance and Reason for Guitarists Video Lecture | Reason Tutorials: The Ultimate Guide - Video & Sound Editing

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I'm a guitar player and a producer so I
look at all of those grounds thinking as
a guitar player it's like I love the
analog stuff but from a producer
standpoint there's something really nice
about recording something unaffected and
then being able to tweak the sounds in
the box I want to explore all those
options and not limit myself my name is
Jared Meeker welcome to my home studio
today I'm going to show you a new two
channel audio interface called balancé
balancé is a two channel audio interface
but allows you to plug in a whole bunch
of inputs on the back of it and switch
through those different inputs
on-the-fly
right now I'm going to show you how to
use balance and the software called
reason to process the guitar in entirely
new ways all right getting ready to
record and reason essentials one thing
I'll do is just set the buffer size to
be really low latency tends to be an
issue when you're playing guitar through
some audio interfaces and balance is
able to operate extremely fast I can set
the buffer size down to 3 milliseconds
which is practically what you'd hear
just standing a few feet away from your
amplifier playing guitar
balance is able to operate really well
under those circumstances
I checked my levels to make sure they're
okay now we're just going to go over
here and hit tuner and I can see my
level there and see the turning down
below
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so it's you're on the click let it go
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all right so now I'm just going to do
the same thing again just to double
track for an extra layer okay so now I'm
going to put my acoustic guitar up and
grab my electric which is already
plugged in and lay down an electric
guitar track and this is a Combinator
patch that works right in line with the
pedal board so as I switch through
settings here you can hear that there's
a drastic difference turning on or off
different presets just like a
traditional softbox pedal so let's just
see how this comes out on this take
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all right so that's just a little
backing track I made it's a Combinator
if you don't know what a Combinator is
it's basically a device that you can
trade within reason to house a bunch of
other devices so within here I made a
signal chain thinking similar to how
guitar players set up their pedal boards
when you start out you plug in to a
compressor which takes the basic guitar
signal and makes the notes a little bit
rounder then it heads into a booster
which is just basically two e cues that
I boost a few DB that heads into a
scream which that's kind of the heart of
the ring modulation and the Octavia
sound that you're hearing and that goes
into the line six guitar amp this is all
within reason essentials so those basic
devices make up this patch a few other
things about the stomps which is that
I'm going to use my foot to trigger on
and off when it's going to start and
stop so this is play stop and this is
record I can also select loop mode undo
and redo and then also move up or down
my different patches
all right so now let's explore a more
reggae dub kind of feel I've created a
new patch that has the echo which is
found in reason six this has a little
bit more grit and character to it than
what was found in reason essentials echo
has feedback and coloration and
diffusion and a whole bunch of different
things with these foot pedals hit this
and tons of reverb is added this turns
the delay level down this changes the
delay time and then this turns the
feedback so there you have it there's a
few ideas of what you can do creating
pedal boards within reason
it's fun I mean to me that's the biggest
thing about reason that it has excited
me when I turn it on it asks me to play
with it
it's like looking at a guitar when I
look at a guitar it's so beautiful that
I want to pick it up and play it that's
the exact same way I feel about reason
when I turn it on and I look at it and I
go out man I can make something on that
right now
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