Insights, tips, and tutorials on music production and audio engineering
Properly naming organizing your files when creating music is a lot like going to the gym: we all know we should, but man it's hard to find the motivation – especially when in the creative zone.
So you've created your song and you've decided to [hire a mix engineer to bring your music to the next level](https://evergreenmixing.com). The files you send are sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as "stems," while in fact they are "multitracks." So let's talk about stems vs multitracks.
Some of the most often-confused terms in audio: sample rate, bit rate, bit depth, buffer size. As a musician, you don't need to know every nerdy detail about each term, but you should at least know the difference between them all. I'll describe all of these in plain English within the context of AUDIO specifically.
One of the most common and misunderstood questions I get is about which sample rate you should record at.
