It shouldn’t unless there’s something wrong with the DAW.
Unless you mean not separating stems to begin with and just suppressing one of them in the original processing.
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Thanks mate, I’m looking into moises, I have a songsterr account.
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You know sometimes stuff has to sit and cogitate through the noggin before I see the upside. I can download a 4 string tab into GP, adjust it and then upload it as a new track to the same tab in Songsterr. Best of both worlds 
Thanks
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That’s exactly what I meant: muting (= suppressing) the bass stem and export the rest as one track.
Just test it and compare that with a multiple stem version in any DAW.
You will notice loss of quality, probably cause separate stems do not contain all information of the original track.
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I think that’s what Moises is doing now - instead of specifying 5 or 6 tracks to split, you just select the stem(s) you want to remove from the main body.
I have some trouble with songs where the bass is really close to the rhythm guitar (I’m looking at you, Motorhead) - in those cases, I split the stereo into L and R mono (easy on Audacity) and then invert one of the tracks - this can cancel out some of the instruments. Not perfect but it may work in some cases…
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Yes this makes sense then as it is only applying EQ filters to the bass portion of the track. This has several advantages, not just in what gets filtered out but also in phase.
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Moises works pretty well. It’s what I use on all my covers. There are some songs I’ve had a challenge with, for example, I want to cover the Pendulum song, Granite, but Moises has problems properly isolating the bass, probably ‘cos there is so much noise in the song. Funnily enough, it also had problems with the Beatles track Twist and Shout, and from what I can hear, any other song where the bass line is played higher up the neck, i.e. moving into the lower notes typically played on a guitar.
But as I say, for the most part, it works well. Once I’ve split the song parts, I then import them into GarageBand and take things from there.
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RipX does that perfectly! Want the stems?
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That would be pretty cool, yes please!
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Already done - check your messages ^^
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Cool. Nice job.
Hossinn
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thanks!
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I played another show through School of Rock and managed to get a few recordings!
Here is our cover of Boogie Nights by Heatwave. I definitely had some nerves on the intro/outro and made a couple mistakes. Still, I had a lot of fun with this one.
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100% muting the bass track produce pretty bad result. It’s best to dial it down to 20% or so, then you won’t lose all of the spectrum. Unless you plan to play your bass lines radically different to the original it would just override the originals anyways.
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Nice!! good job
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What software do you use? With RipX it really is no issue at all for 95% of the songs!
A good way to find out: if the isolated bass stem sounds good/clean, muting it will not be an issue!
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Moises.
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I still think Logic does a better job.
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I read in a review that RipX is better for stem separation than Logic. Which is great, as it relaxed my yearning for an Apple device.
“with the new stem separation tool in Logic 11 only available on M-powered systems. Other applications, such as RipX DAW, can do more advanced stem separation on macOS and Windows anyway,”
I had both Moises and RipX for a year now, but cancelled the Moises subscription. Audio quality was surely not better than RipX, and RipX is a one-off purchase and it has no quality limitation (as the basic Moises subscription has).
The only thing I really found better with Moises was the automatic metronome creation…
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Great job!
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