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Mix The Music (MTM) Review & Thoughts
Mix The Music (MTM) Review mixthemusic.com.
While I`m in the mood to send people “off site” I wanted to do a short blog post regarding mixthemusic.com.
For anybody unaware or new to the multitracks “scene” there is now a legal way to buy stems/multi`s of many great artists and bands*.
This is the first* , maybe the first ever** “officially endorsed/licensed by some of the big guns” “buy your stems here” (sort of) web site. Which is great. Really great.
So please go there, set up an account, grab a stem pack, download the software, and have a little play.
In other words, if you can, show your support. (and of course have a some fun into the bargain).
All for the cost of $10 a song. Some are even $6.
I mean, where else can you get all the multitracks you`ll ever want for a few bucks?
Unfortunately there are restrictions as you may have guessed (or not) on what you can and can`t do with the multitrack/song you just bought. Long story short, I can totally understand why there are such restrictions and I`m not going to go too much further on that just yet. Dont agree totally with how it works, but I know why.
Basically you can`t simply download the stems to your favourite DAW and start remixing and exporting. Which is a shame. But almost nearly understandable.
You do get the sites` licensed DAW called “Studio One” to download with your stems though, which works well with the downloaded songs as a unit. I got a Barry White one to test it all out.
I`d guess from that minor review here that you can work out for yourself how MTM (as it will be known from now on for ease of use) operates.
It`s easy(ish) to set up an account and get going in under 10 minutes so once again, I`d urge one and all to give it a shot. If only just to see.
Spek (Spectrum Analyzer)
Hey guys, It`s been a funny old weekend so far, one where I`ve learn a lot, and one where I`ve made a few errors along the way. Eek.. Still, I hope everyone`s having a good “Holiday” weekend.
So the upshot of this weird weekend is that there will be a bit of a change coming on the site in regards to how things are labelled from now on, and how I`d like any content coming into the site to be labelled. I`ll take the site contribution thing first. To those guys sending stuff in, thank you. But, from now on can we get good at labelling stuff correctly? If you dont know something is from a trusted source, or your kinda suspect about the pack, plz let me know.
For instance, say you have a cover version stem set, with original vocals in, please label this as “karaoke”. It will save some hassle. So anything that is not by the original artist is Karaoke. OK.:)
Point of post. Over this weekend, amongst other great knowledge gained, I have been introduced to a program called Spek, and I`m here and now urging everybody to go download it, and check your stems for quality. You may be surprised. Once you learn how this program works you`re basically looking at your stems with new eyes. It will show you in essence, what has been “upscaled”. A shady practice where MP3 files are upscaled to WAV or Flac, and then maybe even down converted again, then back up.. and so on. Who knows? Well, with Spek, you can sort of find out.
I`ll admit I`ve been slow on the uptake of using this program.. I`ve seen the screenshots of it (like in the pic) and it`s a well known prog the more knowledgeable trader guys use quite often, but never really looked into getting hooked up with the program myself. Until now. ha.
So dropping the hint to one and all, if it`s good enough for the people at the top of the game, it`s good enough for us mere fans of our Stems/Multitracks/Remix Stems (whatever you would like to call em). Answers on a postcard to that question too 🙂
Download Spek here