How to find track volumes to mix stems with?
Hi there. I've been playing around with stems lately and found the track samples all distort when mastered together. That is leaving them all untouched. I had hoped being stems the samples would be rendered post fx with all volumes applied so when mixed together again the master sits at the right volume. I found this was not the case. I was using Reaper in 64 bit float.
The song i tested was Just A girl by No Doubt. It may have been from a game but not sure of the source. It had a midi file that had more tracks than samples included but all i got was a nice tempo map and no sign of volume envelopes. Perhaps it was the daw.
So is there any way of finding what the volumes are? I wish to use the exact levels the samples need to go back together as intended. After all if a game mixes them in real time it needs to know. ☺