RecordingMaster
A Sarcastic Statement
Hi there,
My band is has self-produced our entire upcoming ep. All recorded, mixed, and yes, sigh, "mastered" in my home studio by yours truly. While we DO have our 44.1 kb/s 16 bit wav audio files and high res art work sent off for printing and duplication professionally, we'd like to make some other free copies to hand out to different local outlets and radio stations for promotions in the meantime as we await the arrival of our packaged cd's. Those we plan to sell.
I'd like them to sound as good as a professional duplication house would do. That being said, any demo's I've ever duplicated at home, I've always burned on speed x1. Yes, even in year 2013 on a 2011 imac with a super fast CD drive, I still burn on speed x1. I guess I am just paranoid of glitches and such. Is this REALLY a problem anymore with today's burners built into a relatively new imac? I doubt the duplication houses burn at x1, but then again they probably have some high tech gear for that? Very ignorant here!
Not only the speed, but what program? Since I have a mac, as far as I know, straight outta the box the only software on there for burning cd's is itunes. So, you guessed it, I make a playlist for that album in itunes of the 44.1 kb/s 16 bit wav files, and burn them to an audio disc from there. Is this bad? Does itunes down-convert them to mp3 or some crappy format without telling me?
I need a cheap (preferably free) way to burn cd's from home, that sound as good as I have created them. Why let burn speed or the software degrade your material when it shouldn't have to. It's just burning a damn cd!!! Maybe I'm just paranoid and over-thinking it (as always)?
Please help. Much appreciated! Thanks!
My band is has self-produced our entire upcoming ep. All recorded, mixed, and yes, sigh, "mastered" in my home studio by yours truly. While we DO have our 44.1 kb/s 16 bit wav audio files and high res art work sent off for printing and duplication professionally, we'd like to make some other free copies to hand out to different local outlets and radio stations for promotions in the meantime as we await the arrival of our packaged cd's. Those we plan to sell.
I'd like them to sound as good as a professional duplication house would do. That being said, any demo's I've ever duplicated at home, I've always burned on speed x1. Yes, even in year 2013 on a 2011 imac with a super fast CD drive, I still burn on speed x1. I guess I am just paranoid of glitches and such. Is this REALLY a problem anymore with today's burners built into a relatively new imac? I doubt the duplication houses burn at x1, but then again they probably have some high tech gear for that? Very ignorant here!
Not only the speed, but what program? Since I have a mac, as far as I know, straight outta the box the only software on there for burning cd's is itunes. So, you guessed it, I make a playlist for that album in itunes of the 44.1 kb/s 16 bit wav files, and burn them to an audio disc from there. Is this bad? Does itunes down-convert them to mp3 or some crappy format without telling me?
I need a cheap (preferably free) way to burn cd's from home, that sound as good as I have created them. Why let burn speed or the software degrade your material when it shouldn't have to. It's just burning a damn cd!!! Maybe I'm just paranoid and over-thinking it (as always)?
Please help. Much appreciated! Thanks!