mastering

Stems

Stems
#AudiotentTip 168. Stems.
Once you’re happy with your final arrangement and are ready for mastering, bounce out your track to stems. Typical stems would be: Kick, Bass, Synths, Drums, FX, Vocals. Once bounced, re-import into a fresh project. From here you can then apply subtle compression to further glue and balance the mix. This allows you to run your CPU hungry plugins at the highest over sampling settings.

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