#How to mix vocals with instrumentals professional

If you’re outsourcing mixing and mastering to an audio engineer and you send him your vocal tracks and an MP3 file of the beat to work with. Simply because the quality of MP3 files are poor. MP3’s are not industry standard and won’t even get you close to a level of quality similar to what you hear on the radio. Always! Why stems are better than a single MP3 or WAV fileįirst of all, if you’re serious about your music career, don’t use MP3 files for your songs. Take control of the entire mix and do not depend on just your vocal tracks and a single file of the beat.įacts are every song needs (small) adjustments in different areas. The same applies to equalizing instrumental tracks to make room for your vocals.

#How to mix vocals with instrumentals professional

You don’t have to be a professional audio engineer to do that. Small tweaks to the volume levels of the beat stems can already make a world of difference.

Tracked out stems will offer endless possibilities to make your vocals stand out better and increase the overall quality of your songs. If that’s you, the same principles apply. What if you’re an artist, recording and mixing your own songs?Ī lot of independent artists record and mix their songs themselves. This is where tracked out stems are used for. Producers and audio engineers need to have control over the mix in order to deliver a song that meets the industry quality standard.

Being able to control certain frequencies of an individual track.

Controlling the volume levels of each individual track.

There are many reasons why professionals work with stems but it all comes down to the same thing. But to avoid confusion, we’ll not go into the details of that in this guide. On a side note: After a song is mixed by audio engineers, they sometimes export your song to group stems for mastering purposes. Producers generally consider ‘tracked out stems’ as the individual stems anyway so no worries about that. In order to increase the overall quality of your song, you’d want to go for the individual tracks, rather than the group stems.