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Using stem mixes to make alternate mixes

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Using stem mixes to make alternate mixes

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- I always print stem mixes of all the main song elements through my console and back into Pro Tools when I'm working on a mix. This is sort of a safety measure. You know, a lot of artists will have just a slight change later on with their mixes, and then when I'm mixing in the analogue realm and back into Pro Tools, this allows me to re-visit the mixes, as a lot of the work I'm doing isn't really that easy to recall. It's not a mix in the box type situation. But these stems can be used in other ways. You can see here we've got stems from a song. We have bass, drums, guitar, two passes of horns, korg, keyboard, organ, piano, and vocals. You can hear a little bit of it right here. (jazz music) So that's a really good approximation of the, or that is the final mix that we printed just broken down into stems. Now obviously, a simple thing you can do is just to simply mute the vocal and bounce this all to disk. You can run a mix where you've got an instrumental version. (jazz music) And…

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