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Originally Posted by D Pinder  Indeed. This is undisputed.
Confusion for whom? A professional understands the context. Most re-recording mixers have asked me something like, "is that [instrument] on the Hi Perc stem or the Lo Perc stem?" There's a convention in film music and editorial that conflicts with your beliefs. I'm unsure as to why it's such a concern.
It's funny, because as I'm typing this, I'm downloading some...erm... pre-mixed stem thingies from my composer, for use in a temp dub. They all say "orch stem" "guitar stem" etc.
Well, sure that's what the stem is in a re-recording milieu. In a score milieu, we have stems too and we like to deliver them to the stage. Lots of them, in my case! It's the context that keeps it from being confusing.
all the best,
Dan |
It seems things will stay the way they have then I suppose...
I can say this though- music is the only place this might be considered acceptable- if a dialog predub or an fx predub were called a stem the supervising rerecording mixer would likely have choice NC-17 terms to describe the inappropriate usage...
On this issue I will yield to Mike Minklers opinion of the terms usage...
Charles Maynes