reaper (Daw)

been thinking about mixers and recording seen the reaper looks pretty good and the price is good another one is sonar but it pretty pricey wondering if anybody has any advice on the subject.

I use Reaper to monitor and record acoustic and electric guitars. It reproduces the sound exactly without much effort. It's all about quality recording and playback equipment and the quality of the input signal.

If you want to learn how to use Reaper, here's a link to their video page:

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/videos.php

I've used just a few links on that page because all I need to do is press record, listen to playback, never really need to fuss with the sound because the input is reproduced exactly with default settings.

I've used Reaper, there's loads of tutorials on youtube for it and it's a good DAW producing good results.

I was a Adobe Audition user. The version I had wasn't working well with new versions of Windows, so I sought out alternatives since the new version of Audition was just way too much for me.

Reaper took some time to adjust to, but it's great! Plenty of tutorials and documentation, actively supported with features and bug fixes, and VERY reasonably priced.

I know a lot of people that use it and are happy with it.

Best part about reaper is....download and try. It is 100% free till you deem it worthy of purchase. It is not crippleware. I used it for a good 5 months before I bought it. That being said, it is worth every penny.