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Old 03-26-2008, 08:29 PM
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Default Prepairing your Stems for mastering

Hi Jesse,

Just wondering which is the best way to go with the drums..
is it better to keep the kick seperate to all the drums (hats, snare, clap) or keep the kick together with all the drums?

Also, whats the procedure for sending you the stems? i was thinking that the folder would be massive (at least 400-500 megs) and was wondering what was the best way.

A seperate D/L link to all the stems maybe?

Help me here

Gav.
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Old 04-01-2008, 08:26 AM
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Gav,

The most important two things are the kick and bassline. Sometimes just those two and the rest on a third stem is fine. Other times I like the drums to be separated with the rest of the track (synths and effects).

If you send them in an archive the file won't be too big, this is as any silence in the files will be reduced to take no filespace. 200 meg or so is probably the average for the scenario above.

Make sure you have an ftp client to upload to the server as browsers are not supported. Filezilla is good for both PC and Mac. If you're using Firefox then the FireFTP plugin is good as well.

Hope this helps

Jesse
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Old 04-02-2008, 03:58 PM
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ok man, thanks for that
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