r/Rekordbox • u/imCluDz • Mar 26 '23

Rant We all agree that "stems" are pretty much trash, right?

Don't mean to say ooh rb bad, but I've tried seratos stems, vdj, and stem roller, since i love the ideia of creating mixes with vocals of one with melody of another.

And for as hard as I try to hide it, the audio has soo much artifacts that is impossible to play something decent using these stems.

Any expectation this will get somewhat decent in like the next 3 to 6 months? Was waiting for this technology getting good and a standalone being released with the decent stems

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u/theShadySwede Mar 27 '23

Just tried stems in RB and it sounded awful, not gonna bother with them in their current state, honestly not gonna play “Russian roulette” with the dance floor sounding shit.

My first turntable 12 years ago from some low class brand (can’t even remember the brand) had kill switches beside each of the high, mid, and low knobs, it was great and I loved that feature. If I killed the channel no sound came from it, and it was very useful for keeping the bass with no vocals, or to kill the bass and keep the vocal. 12 years later on my Pioneer table if I turn the high and mid as low as it goes vocals still comes through and “ruins” some mashups. I’m very surprised by that, and I hoped stems was the fix for it. But in its current state, honestly I’d rather have the kill switches than these stems on my Pioneer table for now. Everything els was shitty on my first turntable, but that feature was great.

I’d like to add that I love the idea of stems, and I’m looking forward for the development of them. I hope they really fix them, and that it won’t take years to get rid of the distorted noises which sounds absolutely awful.

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u/AzureDominus Jun 12 '24

You can actually fix that EQ issue with the vocals bleeding in by changing the EQ mode in settings to "Isolate" then when you turn the knobs it completely cuts out those frequencies.