Render individual tracks for Pro Tools (how signal flow?)

[phosphorr]

I am working with a sound engineer for mixing in Pro Tools. When I produce, I use a few plug-ins such as glue-compressor, vintage warmer and some more on the master channel. I am exporting all the stems to him. Do all these layers route thru the master channel or bypassing it? If I simply put all the stems back together on a timeline without any plug-ins (either back in Ableton or some other DAW), do they sound identical all together as if I applied all those mastering plug-ins?

[re:dream]

You can choose. You can export individual tracks, which render as they are, or you can export the master.

[beats me]

As far as I know the individual stems won’t include the effects on the master track, wouldn’t make a lot of since if they did since its combining the signals of all the tracks.

[chrk]

• They won't go through the master of course.
• They wouldn't sound the same either, if they went through those MASTERING effects individually (like in soloed and recorded to a track on resample), since they're dynamics effects, and the dynamics they'd be fed from individual tracks isn't the same as the dynamics of the summ that enters the master track.
• The individual tracks don't include the signal from Send/Return effects either.
• You can, and probably need to, export the returns as well, but they will be little use for HIS mixing.

Speaking of HIS mixing: Why would you want to put all of this on the tracks you're sending FOR MIXING.

He is definitely going to want the dry tracks, because mixing them is what you're paying him for.
He's probably going to want the rendered return tracks (with some description what's on them and what's sending there) and the rendered master track, too, but strictly for reference.

You'll have to discuss those master(ing) effects on the master track with him before submitting, and ask yourself if you want him to mix or mix AND master.