If that’s you, the same principles apply. What if you’re an artist, recording and mixing your own songs?Ī lot of independent artists record and mix their songs themselves. This is where tracked out stems are used for. Producers and audio engineers need to have control over the mix in order to deliver a song that meets the industry quality standard. Being able to control certain frequencies of an individual track.Controlling the volume levels of each individual track.There are many reasons why professionals work with stems but it all comes down to the same thing. But to avoid confusion, we’ll not go into the details of that in this guide. On a side note: After a song is mixed by audio engineers, they sometimes export your song to group stems for mastering purposes. Producers generally consider ‘tracked out stems’ as the individual stems anyway so no worries about that. In order to increase the overall quality of your song, you’d want to go for the individual tracks, rather than the group stems.
