How to Prepare Stems for Mastering

18 May 20265 min read

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A practical checklist for exporting clean, properly leveled stems that give your mastering engineer room to work.

Every project that comes through the studio teaches us something new about what separates a good take from a great one. This article distills a few of the lessons we keep coming back to.

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