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Originally Posted by starcrash13   This is the same terminology that I'm familiar with.
However, I think composers and music editors might differ with your strict usage of the term "stems." In film re-recording, our "stems" are D/M/E which, when mixed together at unity, will yield the final printmaster. In Music Land, they're mixing music only so their "stems" may be drums, synth, strings, etc. which, when mixed together at unity, will yield their intended final mix. Once they deliver their "stems" to the re-recording mixer, will still call them "stems" while others, like yourself, might call them "premixes." It might be a "bananas/ banawnas" at that point. Of course, in the end they'll be mixed together and comprise the "music stem." |
Good point- however this is not really catering to composer and music editors pre-se- more to post mixers (NOT music mixers) and editors.
And I would say that the "stem" term seems to have really started catching on with the idea of doing subgoups out of ProTools to summing mixers-
On Music stages (doing film music at least), In my experience pre-mix is a more common term.
But alas, that is why we are talking about it-
I would like to think that we are again talking about this not to the purpose of everyone defending their use of a term, but rather so anyone working in the field will be sure of what a term is describing.
so in that interest I would ask people who do post sound to either support a terms usage, or explain the usage they attach to the term.
charles maynes