Hey Bud,

I like those drum stems. There seems to be quite a few of them now for certain styles.

I know that some of the drum styles have up to 13 stems and maybe even more.

I have created a special mixing board just for drum stems only in case I want to put in that level of time, and I even have little icons you know for kick, toms, snares and so forth to cover all of my bases.

So if I decide to use the stems then I can just go in there and individually fade things up and down and mix them in and mix them out and so on and so forth.

So it does add a whole new level of possibility, but there's also the time Factor.

With the number of things that I have to get done during the course of each day of my life I have to be very careful about the number of hours that I put into things so I wouldn't necessarily always have the time on every song that I do to go in there and pull all of the drum stems into a mixing board and do a complete mix of my own apart from what you would get by just exporting the drum track and eqing it.

So for me everything has a Time Factor built into it and whether it's worth my time to do it because there's only so much time in the day.

But I have to say that having the drum stems available should you have a project where you want to meticulously mix the drum stems to your own taste and spend 4 or 5 hours doing that I think it's great.

Otherwise I'll just take the drum track as is, put a couple of drum specific vsts on them and call it a day.

🙂

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