STEM MASTERING

STEM MASTERING

Heard of Stem Mastering?

Stem mastering employs individual stems to master a track instead of relying on a stereo mixdown. This approach provides the mastering engineer with enhanced creative possibilities and greater artistic control over the mix. While stem mastering isn't the same as mixing, it offers added flexibility for addressing any artistic issues or balance adjustments.

Techical specifications

  • Maximum of 16 stems (examples drums, bass, keys, synths, SFX, lead vocals, backing vocals, reverbs and delays on separate audio files)
  • File format: .Wav or .Aiff
  • Sample rate: Keep it at the source sample rate (44.1 - 192kHz) 
  • Bit Rate: 24 bits or higher
  • Remove all the inserts from the masterbus. If you have compression or saturation on the masterbus which you really like, please send us a second version with the processing on as well.
  • Make sure that the track level doesn’t peak above -6dBFS TP.
  • Make sure that normalization is turned off when bouncing the mix.
  • Include things like 'Add audio tail', 'include automation' etc
  • If you’ve mixed/ mastered the track as well, feel free to submit it in the package as a reference
  • We’ll make sure to check the files when they arrive and let you know if everything is okay. It could happen that, while processing, we discover something for which we need a different file export. We’ll always contact you to discuss this.
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