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Stem Mixing or "Stem Mastering"
is a hybrid between our mixing package and our mastering package, designed for artists with fully- or partly-mixed songs.
Mixing from stems enables us to do almost everything we would during the mixing stage–punchier drums, tighter low end,
vocals more up front–all while retaining the essential character of your mix.
Here, you're giving us more to work with than you would for mastering (a single stereo track), but less than you would
for mixing (all of the tracks separated). You take all of your individual tracks and export them in groups called "stems."
A stem, also known as a submix, subgroup, or bus track, is a single audio file made by combining multiple tracks. For example, a "vocal stem" can be made by soloing
all vocals simultaneously and exporting them as a single stereo track. Unlike for traditional mixing, you should leave all
of your volume, panning, and plugins enabled when exporting stems.
With Stem Mixing, we literally "fix your mix."
More about our Stem Mixing service
• You send us: 2 to 7 stem files per song, depending on how much room for interpretation you want to give us (more stems gives us more control over the sound).
• $80/song
• Free mastering
• Hear a proof before you pay.
• The essential character of your existing mix is retained.
• Artists who mix their own music
• Producers and engineers who mix their own projects but want fresh ears to tweak their mixes after spending many days or weeks on a project
• Rappers or singers who purchase beats/instrumentals online and only have access to the stereo instrumental file and their vocals
• Artists whose recordings have very low track counts
