This document provides a checklist for preparing a music production project in a digital audio workstation (DAW). The checklist includes setting the [1] project name and location, [2] digital audio preferences like sampling rate and bit depth, [3] recording file type as WAV or AIFF, [4] hardware settings to configure the DAW for the audio interface, and [5] buffer size which is suggested to be 128 samples. The document instructs the user to create properly named subfolders for each project within a general projects folder.