Thank you for your video! It provided all the information I was looking for.. Compliments on how clearly you explain things, very to the point, and always consistently clear...
Slight fly in the ointment; I have all tracks and busses sent to the Mix bus > Stereo Out. On the Mix bus I have glue compression, Eq and limiting. AFAIA, there is no way to export / bounce stems that when played back together sound good as the tracks have all been processed individually by the Mix Bus effects. I don't think there's currently a work-around for this.
You're right, there is no easy solution to that but generally speaking, you won't want the mastering chain you're using on the Stereo Output to be printed to each of your stems. Remember, the EQ, Compression (and other FX) solutions you're applying to everything across the stereo buss will behave differently if that chain is 'only' fed the drums, or the basses or the vocals. So if you did print each of your stems through your output chain and then loaded those stems into a new project, the mix wouldn't be balanced and would certainly sound over-inflated (if you're including a Limiter). Usually, anyone requesting stems is doing so in order to amend or change something about the stereo mix (like running off a non-vocal mix, or a series of underscores for a TV project, as examples) or is going to fully remix the track from the stems. In all of these scenarios, an appropriate 'new' stereo output chain would be created by that person at the end of their production process and they wouldn't need each of your stems to have been individually processed through the mix bus. If you really do want to master each of your stems through your output chain, I'd suggest solo'ing each stem group and doing an offline bounce of each one in turn, or copying and pasting your output chain to each one of your stems (if you have enough CPU power!) and then using one of the processes for stem exports I've looked at in the video. Hope that all makes sense and that one of those solutions works for you.
Thank you for your video! It provided all the information I was looking for.. Compliments on how clearly you explain things, very to the point, and always consistently clear...
Thanks so much. I’m glad the video helped.
Thanks!
Thank you SO much. Hugely appreciated. 🙏
I was literally trying to learn this on my own last night.
Happy coincidence this video came out today.
Love your channel.
Thank you.
Aha, great! That is a stroke of luck. Glad it was helpful.
Thank you! it's a very useful detailed overview.
You're welcome. Glad it was useful.
Best overview of stems! Thanks!
Great, thanks Gary.
Slight fly in the ointment; I have all tracks and busses sent to the Mix bus > Stereo Out. On the Mix bus I have glue compression, Eq and limiting. AFAIA, there is no way to export / bounce stems that when played back together sound good as the tracks have all been processed individually by the Mix Bus effects. I don't think there's currently a work-around for this.
You're right, there is no easy solution to that but generally speaking, you won't want the mastering chain you're using on the Stereo Output to be printed to each of your stems. Remember, the EQ, Compression (and other FX) solutions you're applying to everything across the stereo buss will behave differently if that chain is 'only' fed the drums, or the basses or the vocals. So if you did print each of your stems through your output chain and then loaded those stems into a new project, the mix wouldn't be balanced and would certainly sound over-inflated (if you're including a Limiter). Usually, anyone requesting stems is doing so in order to amend or change something about the stereo mix (like running off a non-vocal mix, or a series of underscores for a TV project, as examples) or is going to fully remix the track from the stems. In all of these scenarios, an appropriate 'new' stereo output chain would be created by that person at the end of their production process and they wouldn't need each of your stems to have been individually processed through the mix bus. If you really do want to master each of your stems through your output chain, I'd suggest solo'ing each stem group and doing an offline bounce of each one in turn, or copying and pasting your output chain to each one of your stems (if you have enough CPU power!) and then using one of the processes for stem exports I've looked at in the video. Hope that all makes sense and that one of those solutions works for you.
I have a question, maybe I don't understand if it can be done.
how do I make the sum of the tracks I export sound at -6db (example)
thanks
This is a great question and one I'm happy to answer in an episode on the Channel. Please leave it with me.
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Small doubt. Why shouldn’t we just create audio track and receive from stack?
Hi Tom. Absolutely, you can do that too - it works perfectly to capture your stems that way.
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No problem! 🙏