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