In home recording and music production you will need to know and understand the terms sampling rate and bit depth, here is a quick primer…

Analog to digital converters are used to sample an analog signal for recording. The rate at which the converter measures the waveform for each second of sound is called the sampling rate.

As a rule of thumb: the higher the sampling-rate the better. This means that the more samples that are taken per second, the wider the frequency response of the recording will be. Simply put, the higher the sampling-rate, the more clarity and detail will be captured on each track.