Format, alignment, naming and levels: how to export your stems correctly so your track can be mixed online without redoing everything from scratch.
If you want your track mixed online, 90% of the headaches get avoided right at the export stage. Five minutes spent properly now saves you a whole round of revisions later.
A stem is a single track, or a grouped one, exported from the very start of the song: lead vocal, backing vocals, kick, bass, and so on. It's not your DAW project file. It's the finished audio, ready to hand over.
Export in WAV, 24-bit, 44.1 kHz or higher. No MP3. Start every track from the same point, bar 1, so they line up automatically instead of needing manual alignment. And strip any effects off the master bus before exporting: no limiter, no compressor.
Name each file for what it actually is: \
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