I. The First Steps // JAN 11th

Susanne Hi Susanne, I have never used asio4all since my soundcards always came with their dedicated drivers. I found this step by step guide for setting up iRig with Asio4All in Reaper, please try to follow these along, I hope that helps!
https://guitargearfinder.com/guides/record-guitar-in-reaper/

Seeing that your iRig is marked as "unavailable" maybe it got connected as standard device, then you can try to go to the windows sound preferences and try to disable them there, maybe it will be freed up to be used with the asio4all drivers. But to be honest, I am speculation.

However, I will prepare .wav-files for the second workshop, so that everybody has enough material to work with, when we go into editing madness!

Deb Covell I'd recommend using the asio4all drivers and set your usb-mic as an input within the asio4all interface . Since these mics usually don't come with an output, you probably need to sed your headphone jack or your internal speakers as an output, I believe that this is possible with the asio4all driver.
It should look something like this, just wit hyour Samsung USB mic instead of the iRig: https://guitargearfinder.com/guides/record-guitar-in-reaper/

However, it's probably easier to set it up with your mac, I think you can simply select your USB-Mic as your input and your headphone jack as our output (should be called "built-in output" or something like that).

Slavik Lavryk Already diving deep into Reaper functionality, I like it! However, the take lanes are a bit tricky to work with as this function typically only works when everything has the same rhythm. "Comping" is the workflow that is associated with different takes on different lanes within one track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zyld5BicWQ

I would usually record all my takes on one track one after another, so it is easier to navigate between them! If you have them on separate tracks, you would always mute the other tracks in order to listen back to a take.

Mark Edwards I like to have them on separate tracks, because I am more flexible down the road of post processing. But sometimes having them one track saves some time later on as well, especially when you want to edit both tracks with the same settings of a compressor or an equalizer. But I wouldn't say that one workflow is better than the other one. 

Phil Meissner that is not a dumb question at all, this is a technique that is being heavily used in pop and rock music, because it creates a surreal wideness of your rhythm guitars! Actually, I did a cover with a student of mine (it was his idea, not mine, haha, but it got featured by a very popular German youtuber, which was nice exposure), I used this technique quite a lot in this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DSgilXd5fc

It will not sound like a stereo recording, as you cannot play exactly the same twice (they said something like that about Freddy Mercury, that he was able to sing two passages almost identical)! But the effect is very interesting, try it! (you won't hear this in classical recordings though)

Phil Meissner Yes, keeping the built in equalizer is generally a good idea if you don't use the mics for live amplification! And there is nothing wrong with recording yourself with an external recorder an then implement the audio files.

I explained the process of dragging and dropping (and turning stereo files into mono files) right here!

Giuseppe Gasparini Try to space them roughly 20cm apart and point them towards your bridge a little bit from the side and higher than your soundhole at a distance of about 1-2m depending of the acoustic of your room! In Reaper, pan one mic to the left, the other one to right and see listen how it sounds :)

ivan paolo It seems that the Tascam DR-100 MKII cannot be used as an audio interface. However, you can still record yourself on the Tascam and then simply import the files from the SD-Card onto your hard drive and then just drag&drop them onto your Reaper timeline!

Peter Laman Awesome!