Reaper and rendering bus FX

[bryan_kilco]

I've got a little pro-pro I'm working on for a new song. Mapped out clicks and did some scratch guitars. I want to send the session to our other guitarist.

I've got a bus(folder) which has my guitar chain and my 2 DI tracks are just sent to this.

Is there a way to render the 2 raw DI tracks so that the bus FX are applied to each track? I couldn't find a way without having to actually load the bus FX chain twice. I know I can render the bus as a stereo track, but I want our guitarist to be able to get the session, open it and fly with it and still be able to move faders, mute shit, etc.

Any ideas?

 

[texisthebest]

If would render as a new stereo track your guitars and put this wav in the session in the same place.
If you do not want to duplicate your FX I don't know another way. Cheers.

 

[Sloan]

Mute one, render the unmuted one as a mono stem.
Reverse your mute, and render the other one as a mono stem.

 

[Hawkevil]

Easiest way I can think of is to just render it as a stereo track - 100% left and right. Bring it into the session, duplicate it and right click on the tracks. Then "item settings > take channel mode: left" for one and "item settings > take channel mode right". You will then have 2 separate tracks. That's how I would do it anyway.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Sloan, I'll give that a shot but my problem is I have no FX on the actual tracks I want to render, therefore there's no option to render when I right click. I'll fuck with it more when I get home from practice tonight. I feel really dumb having to ask about this. I could easily just apply the FX to each track separately and be done with it but I am determined to find a quicker way! Lolz.

 

[ForHerDeadEyes]

I have no idea if I understand it correctly, sorry, but if you have two guitar tracks under a folder/bus:
Mute one of the tracks> Render the Bus FX and rename it> Unmute the track and mute the other> Render again..
Now you'll have two tracks with the FX..
Just remember that if there's a e.g. a compressor it will behave differently if there's a track, that should be there, missing..

 

[bryan_kilco]

I have no idea if I understand it correctly, sorry, but if you have two guitar tracks under a folder/bus:
Mute one of the tracks> Render the Bus FX and rename it> Unmute the track and mute the other> Render again..
Now you'll have two tracks with the FX..
Just remember that if there's a e.g. a compressor it will behave differently if there's a track, that should be there, missing..

Ahh I totally understand now. Not sure why that was so hard for me to grasp.

Thanks guys! Just thought there would be a way to apply the FX to both tracks at once and create 2 separate tracks but this will work.

 

[LeSedna]

If you really need this often, you probably can create a custom action just for this, by being a little clever with all the actions that exits !

 

[bryan_kilco]

If you really need this often, you probably can create a custom action just for this, by being a little clever with all the actions that exits !

Totally! Though I usually don't need to do this often, though I'm glad I did because it appears the output of my fx chain is quite weak compared to the DI tracks.

Got it sorted, thanks guys!