We’re kicking off the blog with Charles Dye, mixer/producer, who is here to tell us about a very important set of guidelines developed by the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy, due out in a couple of weeks. Charles, what can you tell us?

DAW session/project files can contain a byzantine amount of info, and become easily disorganized. So, to address this the P&E Wing of NARAS has created the “DAW Guidelines for Music Production,” with two key goals. The 1st is to help DAW users, regardless of platform, to organize their projects/sessions in a way that can eliminate confusion for themselves or other operators, provide answers to anticipated questions, solve certain problems before they arise, and shorten the time between when an operator opens a session and when they are able to go to work. The 2nd is to make it easier for users to exchange projects/sessions from one platform to another.

Check the Grammy site in the next couple of weeks for the complete set.