An engineer raised a point recently that has me thinking, now there may be an engineering solution, but I've been coming at it from a tech viewpoint.
Issue is this...
When you do a mix, you run everything through the Quad Bus comp, and you get everything just right and print the mix..
Now in these modern times you need to print stems as well, through the quad comp.... so you print these.
Now... when you put your stems back together... you don't get your mix back... why?... because the other stems weren't effecting the side chain!
So how do people do this? Is there an engineering approach?
I've been thinking about using the back bus, but removing the back bus contribution to the side chain input, so that only the front bus drives the side chain to all 4 buses.
That way you run your full mix to the front bus, also route the desired stem to the back bus as well, and voila you should get the correct compression profile on your stem.
This would work yes?
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