What You Need To Know About Mixes and Stems
Hey everybody! Its Josh from The Triple Threat Artist!
Today I'm going to talk about stems, and the final files that you're going to need, or that I recommend that you have, whenever you're finishing up a song.
A lot of times people just bounce their final mix, and maybe an instrumental mix, but I recommend that you actually do stems also, even if they're not immediately requested.
It's great for archiving your song, and if there's ever a time where you need to go back - you know, several years later - five to ten years later to redo a mix or something like that - having the stems is a great way to save your place. Especially when plug-in manufacturers might not keep their plugins updated.
Opening old DAW session files can be a big pain - so this is a great way to archive your session.
So the very first thing that I do is I will pick my start point and my end point and I will just do a bounce of the mix…
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Cheers,
Josh
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