Mlewis
Well-known member
Has anybody got a secret recipe for printing stems so that they sum together at unity and sound exactly like the mix (with master bus precessing). I’ve been chewing on this tonight while at work and not really rushed off my feet and it seems like there isn’t really a “standard” for printing stems – some people take off any master bus compression, others leave it on and ignore the fact that the compression won’t act the same. some people don't so much print stems as print entire multitracks individually through the master bus no matter how big the session is (think 90 track sessions printed a track at a time!) :shock:
Would it be really dumb to print the mix followed by the stems but to feed the mix into the sidechain of any master bus compression when doing the stems? I’ve never heard of anybody doing this but it seems like it might sum together perfectly afterwards even with heavy mixbus compression. Do people do this and it’s passed me by or is this not done because it's stoopid and i didn't fink it froo properly?
M
Would it be really dumb to print the mix followed by the stems but to feed the mix into the sidechain of any master bus compression when doing the stems? I’ve never heard of anybody doing this but it seems like it might sum together perfectly afterwards even with heavy mixbus compression. Do people do this and it’s passed me by or is this not done because it's stoopid and i didn't fink it froo properly?
M