To prepare your song for Rock Band game play, your studio session files must be separated into stem files. These stem files are used to create the drum parts, bass parts, guitar parts, and vocal parts for game play. Use this spec sheet as a guideline for creating your stem files.

*Would you rather have Distrophonix prepare the stem files for you? We would be happy to do this for just $100. All we need is your studio session files, preferably with effects processed.

This spec list should be given to your studio engineer for file preparation for Rock Band encoding.

We need the following applicable stem files. All wav files should be 16 bit, 44.1k. Make sure all plug in/effects are processed into the stem files.

• Kick Drum (mono)
• Snare Drum (stereo)
• Kit mix (Stereo)
• Bass track for Rock Band game play (mono) (stereo if using heavy chorus/stereo phase)
• Guitar Track for Rock Band game play (Stereo) (should include rhythm and lead parts when applicable)
• Lead Vocals (Stereo)
• Backing Track (Stereo) (should include all harmonies, backing vocals and instrumentation not incorporated above. Make sure all remaining guitar and bass tracks not used in game play stems are added to the backing track stem)

Reference Files

• Lead vocals without effects (mono)
• Original final mix (stereo)
• Lyric Sheet

We prefer to receive all files zipped in one file named bandname_songname.zip

Have Questions? Call us at 443.763.3939 or email rockband@distroponix.com