Thea Cochrane
Group: Musicians
Posts: 445
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Posted: May 15 2021, 03:32 |
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Quote (bluemlein @ May 14 2021, 16:39) | pardon my ignorance but what are stems? |
It's a term a lot of people use incorrectly. Stems are what you generate when you have finished a mix but need to provide some options to the next part of the process. So, rather than just producing a stereo or surround file of the finished mix, you provide separate files based on groupings (often something like drums, guitars, vocals, keyboards) but if you were to play all of these together what you would hear would be the same as the finished mix. They have levels set, automation is happening, and effects processing on them. It's often what people doing remixes get sent rather than the full 100+ tracks that make up a multitrack these days.
Some people use "stems" when talking about all the raw recorded individual multitracks which usually don't have the finished effects and so on: technically that's wrong.
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