What led your choice to lower the faders instead of clip gaining the stems? Is that because you’re looking for the stems to hit your analogue gear at certain level? Or simply just needing the summer folder track to be hitting a certain level once it hits your analogue gear?
Great question! I wanted the signal to hit the line inputs of the console a bit harder so it was easier to saturate them. Pulling the faders down made sure my hardware insert was still level matched
I’ve tried a lot of converters and ive been married to the ua ecosystem for over a decade now and it works so well for me. I’ve made so many records in a full blown studio with an ssl 4k and 2 apollo 16 mk2’s and theyve always worked great. I think what you do with the gear has a much greater impact on the sound than the converters. Yes there might be better ones out there, but is it going to drastically change my end result? I don’t believe it does tbh
@@thomasvopstal I clock my apollos to a Crane Song Hedd Quantum... makes quite a difference.... like I say your stuff sounds great! Its more just a discussion x
@@ILoveTelecasters no i asked him a while ago they let him apparently its redbull they dont care about SSL. they closed down the studio and he took some stuff with.
Nice demonsration of the use of the analog gear and of the stem mastering gainstaging & process. 👍🏻👍🏻 Only the terminology use (stems/tracks/folders/etc) is a a bit haphazard and could & should be more accurate & consistent. 😉
Thanks, glad you liked it! On the terminology, it can get confusing if you’re unsure which is which. So stems: audiofiles given to me by producer. Tracks: any tracks in protools. Folders: foldertracks inside protools. Hope that helps!
@thomasvopstal Oh it's very clear to me, ha ha! 😉👍🏻 In the video, however, there's a bit of tuttifrutti mixup about some of it, if you look carefully...
bro i have a question about analog gear. im still new to analog so i wonder how to use it in daw. what can i use a certain sequence with? i mean first i want to use plugin then analog gear then plugin again then analog again and alternate like that.
You can use so called hardware inserts. This routes the audio from the channel in your daw to a converter output which goes to your gear and then it comes back into the converter input and into your daw. You want to have the lest amount of these convertertrips, so i generally only use 1 hardware insert per channel max!
Why has the word stems come into stereo world as it's was always associated with post film work in film work you have tracks stems and then film out put I believe.i believed that in stereo it was tracks groups then master stereo output just asking as it's seems confusing at times
The Jargon Stems really did came from Film Audio post. but wether you are working with music or film , Stems means the same thing. Its the exported/bounced Grouped Tracks. So never the individual tracks. It has always been the same for Film and Music prod.
@@gregrodriguezIIIVery exactly so! 🤷🏼♂️👍🏻 That's why when in this video he says "It's stem mastering, so you cannot give me 58 stems" it's wrong - you can send as many stems as is necessary and agreed with the client (although 58 would almost certainly never be the case), but what I guess he meant is that you can't send your 58 separate TRACKS that you have in your mix session. Also, when he later says "the individual tracks have enough headroom but my folder doesn't", it's again confusing/misused terninology: what he means is that the individual stems, or DAW channels, have enough headroom, but their stereo summing bus hasn't - a folder is not an audio path. The confusing use of the term "stems", which BTW some even seem to think is cool and somehow modern, and get all defensive when alerted to their mistake, is being too often propagated around forums and on YT, and has already generated a ton of ignorance and confusion.
@@PrantoKoX 100% actually they just need to know the history of the term to realise why Audio Post prod used such thing as stem, and why its even called stem. Kids needs to understand, its okay to accept that they have been using the term incorrectly, thats how people learn. and theres no such thing as new definition of the term.
Awesome video! we need more of this, mixing or mastering!
Love this type of content. Thanks brotha!
Love your setup, great vid!
dude the master sounds exactly like the mix
No it doesn't. listen of speakers. its more fatter, wider and fuller. warm too.
Thanks. Best/Mathias
great!
Really cool
What led your choice to lower the faders instead of clip gaining the stems? Is that because you’re looking for the stems to hit your analogue gear at certain level? Or simply just needing the summer folder track to be hitting a certain level once it hits your analogue gear?
Great question! I wanted the signal to hit the line inputs of the console a bit harder so it was easier to saturate them. Pulling the faders down made sure my hardware insert was still level matched
How you honestly getting mastering grade quality with a Apollo tho? Would love too know... not hating! Sounds great what you got going on x
I’ve tried a lot of converters and ive been married to the ua ecosystem for over a decade now and it works so well for me. I’ve made so many records in a full blown studio with an ssl 4k and 2 apollo 16 mk2’s and theyve always worked great. I think what you do with the gear has a much greater impact on the sound than the converters. Yes there might be better ones out there, but is it going to drastically change my end result? I don’t believe it does tbh
@@thomasvopstal I clock my apollos to a Crane Song Hedd Quantum... makes quite a difference.... like I say your stuff sounds great! Its more just a discussion x
How much is the ssl mini ?
10-12k but he didnt buy it.
@@RichieOtu-u6kwhat do you mean he didn’t buy it? Pretty sure he said he did?
@@ILoveTelecasters redbull bought it and he took it when they closed down
@@RichieOtu-u6k by took it, he probably meant bought it though. Otherwise he would’ve stolen it which is an odd thing to share on the internet
@@ILoveTelecasters no i asked him a while ago they let him apparently its redbull they dont care about SSL. they closed down the studio and he took some stuff with.
Nice demonsration of the use of the analog gear and of the stem mastering gainstaging & process.
👍🏻👍🏻
Only the terminology use (stems/tracks/folders/etc) is a a bit haphazard and could & should be more accurate & consistent.
😉
Thanks, glad you liked it! On the terminology, it can get confusing if you’re unsure which is which. So stems: audiofiles given to me by producer. Tracks: any tracks in protools. Folders: foldertracks inside protools. Hope that helps!
@thomasvopstal Oh it's very clear to me, ha ha!
😉👍🏻
In the video, however, there's a bit of tuttifrutti mixup about some of it, if you look carefully...
bro i have a question about analog gear. im still new to analog so i wonder how to use it in daw. what can i use a certain sequence with? i mean first i want to use plugin then analog gear then plugin again then analog again and alternate like that.
You can use so called hardware inserts. This routes the audio from the channel in your daw to a converter output which goes to your gear and then it comes back into the converter input and into your daw. You want to have the lest amount of these convertertrips, so i generally only use 1 hardware insert per channel max!
@ oh, thank u very much, Thom! I will try it!
18:18 feel it in my fingers I feel it in my toes Well lowen' is all around me....
Why has the word stems come into stereo world as it's was always associated with post film work in film work you have tracks stems and then film out put I believe.i believed that in stereo it was tracks groups then master stereo output just asking as it's seems confusing at times
The Jargon Stems really did came from Film Audio post. but wether you are working with music or film , Stems means the same thing. Its the exported/bounced Grouped Tracks. So never the individual tracks. It has always been the same for Film and Music prod.
@@gregrodriguezIIIVery exactly so!
🤷🏼♂️👍🏻
That's why when in this video he says "It's stem mastering, so you cannot give me 58 stems" it's wrong - you can send as many stems as is necessary and agreed with the client (although 58 would almost certainly never be the case), but what I guess he meant is that you can't send your 58 separate TRACKS that you have in your mix session.
Also, when he later says "the individual tracks have enough headroom but my folder doesn't", it's again confusing/misused terninology: what he means is that the individual stems, or DAW channels, have enough headroom, but their stereo summing bus hasn't - a folder is not an audio path.
The confusing use of the term "stems", which BTW some even seem to think is cool and somehow modern, and get all defensive when alerted to their mistake, is being too often propagated around forums and on YT, and has already generated a ton of ignorance and confusion.
@@PrantoKoX 100% actually they just need to know the history of the term to realise why Audio Post prod used such thing as stem, and why its even called stem. Kids needs to understand, its okay to accept that they have been using the term incorrectly, thats how people learn. and theres no such thing as new definition of the term.
QJ, he's dead :?
My ears are screwed, I can't hear any difference.
First!