Tutorial (kinda): BEING ORGANIZED
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Mikaël-ange
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JeffTD
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1. what do you mean by raw stems?
2. I keep one of the drives during the length of the session and then turn them over at the end, unless they want me to keep them.
3. I keep all sessions for 2 years then delete them. At any given time I have about 2 terrabytes of data.
4. I use to make the bands buy 120 gig drives. Now drives are so cheap they just buy 500 gig drives.
are you referring to the AES standard? I don't know anyone who actually follows that so I made my own.
El_Gato
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JeffTD
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Record to the main drive, backup to the other one. Sometimes if the studio has 2 internal drives I track to that.
::XeS::
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Stems for me are mix prints that are separate elements. For example I print
Drums
Bass
Rhythm Guitars
Lead Guitars
Guitar Solo
Lead Vocal
BG Vocals
Extras
That way if I have to make minor mix changes AFTER I left the studio I can.
congrats dude, mostly for being this organized and correct about your stuff.
TheDriller
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First up, thanks for answering the other questions
by Raw Stems I mean the raw, unmixed and unprocessed tracks that were recorded in the first place.
so you are giving them the mixed and processed stems, but do you also include the unmixed and unedited stems too?
Mikaël-ange
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ahjteam had posted it last year, all AES standard for session.
I have all pdf but can't remember proper link
Edit: http://www2.grammy.com/PDFs/Recording_Academy/Producers_And_Engineers/DAWGuidelineLong.pdf
Yes, I referring about AES standard
Personnatly all my sessions are in conformity with AES rule's since highend studio I know in my area work with this. So I haven't many choice
But you have some great points btw
ahjteam
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First up, thanks for answering the other questions
by Raw Stems I mean the raw, unmixed and unprocessed tracks that were recorded in the first place.
so you are giving them the mixed and processed stems, but do you also include the unmixed and unedited stems too?
No Raw Stems. Basically when I do a mix for you get the following.
Main Mix
Inst Mix
Acca Mix
TV Mix
Vox up 1.7
Vox dwn 1.7
Drums Mix
Bass Mix
Gtrs Mix
Keys Mix
Extra Mix
All of this is just soloing the tracks on the console and printing them separately. This way if the band wants to trigger the keys live they don't need to call me months later to do it.These mixes/stems are all processed however they were in the mix. That way if you take all the stems and combine them, it should sound 98% like the main mix. The only difference will be the buss compression (if I used any) will obviously not be the same.
ahjteam had posted it last year, all AES standard for session.
I have all pdf but can't remember proper link
Edit: http://www2.grammy.com/PDFs/Recording_Academy/Producers_And_Engineers/DAWGuidelineLong.pdf
Yes, I referring about AES standard
Personnatly all my sessions are in conformity with AES rule's since highend studio I know in my area work with this. So I haven't many choice
But you have some great points btw
Yeah alot of people I know used to follow that format, but there are some real issues with it that kind of bug me (and alot of others I know). I won't get into it here, but I feel that unless EVERYONE uses it, it's pointless.
