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Originally Posted by charles maynes  God help you if you drink anything I brew up-
the premix/predub terminology is still vexing- though all that is needed is that one is source tracks, and the other is "mixed" tracks.
my biggest issue is the use of the term "stems", which I hold somewhat sacred...
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I hate to beat a dead horse, but the point of the terminology is to facilitate communication and to minimize misunderstanding; not to prove which department has a monopoly on "right." As such, when communicating between departments, using "premix stem" for a music submix seems to me to satisfy both the scoring stage and the dub stage.
I agree that using the term "stem" alone is unacceptable as it is more likely to cause confusion than to transfer the intended information. However, if you say "predub," a host of music guys will be just as confused or upset.
I've worked both sides of the hall, so perhaps I'm more open to terms that satisfy both points of view. I'd rather use a term that is easily understood by all than to try to convince half the people that they are wrong.
Of course, it could just be that I'm insane... you can never discount that possibility... Now if we could just get people to stop saying room tone for backgrounds!