Level Up Your Workflow! File Management Best Practices

Without smart file management, it doesn’t matter how amazing your mixes are – they’ll never make it to the outside world.

This MixCon 2022 panel is packed with pro studio insights from an elite panel of producers/educators including:

- Jeff Balding, six-time GRAMMY-nominated engineer/mixer
- Matt Hennessy, owner of Chicago’s VSOP Studios
- George Massenburg, GRAMMY and Technical GRAMMY winning engineer, inventor, and educator
- Leslie Richter, Nashville-based engineer and audio educator extraordinaire
- Paul "Willie Green" Womack, Brooklyn-based record producer/audio engineer/recording artist, educator, and AES Governor, +SonicScoop contributor
- Maureen Droney, moderator and Executive Director of the Recording Academy's P&E Wing

See how they avoid client emergencies and major headaches with hard-won experience. They’ll get your studio running smoother with smart tips on backups, naming conventions, future-proofing sessions, and other excellent efficiency techniques. Spend a little time getting organized, so you can spend a lot of time being creative!

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[antcall]

One of the best videos I’ve seen! This is the boring but very critical thing that needs to be taught

[kevinteasley]

This is absolutely wonderful and much needed! Thank you for doing this for our community!

[eds]

Thanks for sharing. I'm starting a two year course as Sound-engineer / Producer next week. I already heard Workflow is an important part of the course and my job in the future. You all give clear tips and sum up some bottlenecks. These will come in handy for me (and others). Thanks again. Ed S

[mwiggins]

Thank you so much for this. Extremely informative. My file organization just leveled up!

[vanessaadams]

I had almost forgotten that I signed up to watch this. I am glad that it popped up in my feed. I graduated from the Musicians Institute audio engineering certification program and they often used an iteration of the naming convention mentioned. This was a great reminder that I don't have to reinvent the wheel.

[poorhouz]

Great video I've already watched it twice... Probably a few more times to get it.... Do more please....From your boy Peace

[KBlakK]

This was great!!!! I am already implementing these best practices as we speak with my production company. I've already printed out the two one sheets on naming conventions. It's a setup for success!!!! Thanks to you guys for giving us some very expensive advice!!!

[plecturaproductions]

Very informative, thank you for this seminar!

[jeremiahmaryland]

Thank you so much for this. Some of the documents in the video aren’t in the description though

[MatthewSwasta]

thank you from a home recording amateur...

I use two different SSD's and one HDD that I save my files on. I need to do much better on organization and naming convention though.

[greenloungerecording]

Excellent.. where can we obtain the naming convention and file structure suggested here?

[OtherJesus]

So they want stems or they want the multi track? They start by saying it’s a confusing topic on how they want the files and then Matt and Paul seemingly have different answers on how they want the file delivered. I downloaded the linked file, didn’t clear it up.

[carlsheperd]

I don't take my cues from Nashville. Thanks anyway.