you can add a compressor or limiter on the master bus but dont change the levels to more than 3-6db. just adjust eq, comp and limiter settings on the busses and record back the stems into the daw and out the master channel bus that also gets printed at the same time. i know its for a music library but they deliver to clients so similar principal.Īnyways. clients/mixers dont like that as its another stems they have to deal with that it couldnt been added to the other stems. not for normal instrument type verb and delays. its a good option but only do it for specific fx like dub delay and such. so dont use sends on indivudual tracks stems. I suggest sending the stems to busses with EQ, comp, reverb and limiting. having recieved these when doing re-recording mixing, as well as collegues. most engineers tend to think that the stems has to add up to EXACTLY the end mix. Stem deliveries like this are highly overrated when it comes to technicalities. However, I'm not actually sure it would work, but I'd at least give it a shot in an extreme situation, haha! This is something I was about to test myself a couple of years later when I was in the same situation but in the end the stems weren't luckily needed. Technically, you could once again route all your stems to their own buses and treat each of them with a side- chain compressor/ limiter so that your compressor would listen to the rest of the stems (while being at zero volume, so sidechain needs to be pre- fader) and act accordingly compressing your audible stem based on the others. You could also try some really weird side- chaining too. It's not the most optimal workaround and will not give you a 100% accurate result but it's better than nothing. For this you of course need the original file running in sync in your DAW for constant A/B testing. You could route all stems into a new bus and try to carefully compress/ limit each bus individually to match the sound of them in the original stereo file. What you could do are a couple of things. (Everything else is ok, though.) But obviously you can't go back to that situation again. Technically, when I expect stems to be asked, I try not to use any sort of master compression or limiting at any stage unless doing strictly some soundtrack/ to be released material. First of all, this is a really tricky situation.
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