January 15th, 2009 – I’ve written before about how removing vocals from a stereo track works, but what if you want to break down a track into its instrument constituents? How do producers get the instrument files to make their remixes?
Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to get the original instrument stem files unless the record label wants you to make an official remix. With the multitudes of unofficial remixes on HypeMachine and other music sites, you might wonder how these producers are able to get their hands on the stems. They make them.
DJ Tech Tools has an awesome article outlining the basic steps to deconstructing a track. The process involves figuring out the frequency spectrum where each instrument resides, and high cut/low cutting around that space leaving (mostly) the stuff you want. Of course, these stems will never be completely clean, but they’re certainly adequate for most situations.
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