producing the best master CD

[protech]

Hi,

We need to master our new album to CD for sending of to a duplication company.
Pretty straight forward, but we have noticed that when burning the tracks to
a CD for mastering, that sometimes it seems that the occasional 'click' may
appear on tracks when we come to verify the CD is ok. These are only minor clicks and artefacts but we are aware they were not present on the orriginal tracks prior to burning and we are concerned this may effect the quality of the duplicates that the duplication company will poroduce for us.
None of the tracks exceed -1db peak so we know that any clicks and errors are generated in the burning process.

We understand that burning audio CD's for mastering from at home is not the
best way and we are also aware that it is apparently good practice to use hi quality CD's and burn at a slow speed to reduce any errors.

So what we want to achieve is the best quality master CD that we can produce in our limitied studio enviroment. Which leads on to our main questions...

1: Any tips on creating the best mastering CD possible using a PC and Nero?

2: If we create several mastering CD's is there any software that can rescan
the CD's and produce details of the number of errors on a CD so we could compare which CD's/burning speed produces the best quality master with the lowest amount of errors?


Maybe we are being to fussy but we need to make sure we present the duplication company with the best quality CD master we can.

Cheers guys

[mixandmaster]

Originally Posted by protech

2: If we create several mastering CD's is there any software that can rescan
the CD's and produce details of the number of errors on a CD so we could compare which CD's/burning speed produces the best quality master with the lowest amount of errors?

Plextools software, which comes with any Plextor CD burner.

[Massive Master]

Plextor PREMIUM actually - The BLER check software only works with the PlexWriter Premium and the 716-A (DVD writer).

Still, I can't believe anyone else even makes drives anymore with those two drives available...

[FALKEN]

yeah get one of those drives.