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Papoola
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Dear All, I am a bit puzzled now. I am actually mixing my first audio product (6 songs to be a 30 mins EP) and everything I have made is 16 bit 44.1 Only with digital multitrack daw.
As you can imagine I am in hobby with this and the commercial success is not forecasted. I only would like to have some acknowledgment from listeners and eventually some good comments around(hopefully).
The idea is to produce about 50 CD's to be sold and 250 to be
sent around free for fanzine reviews and as gift for electronic music customers( I have friend in some shops that will do that for me). In electro music the TOP quality recordings are not a must,and still lo-fi recordings are in the market made with 8 bit samplers, so I would not have the top top brilliant sound.
Originally, apart from the CD booklet that I would have printed with decent graphics, i wanted to make it on my own PC (plextor with+ CDR's) and run batches of 50 copies each to avoid unnecessary high stocks.
Then the puzzle started because someone told me to make a CD printed only because people do not like CD-R's. Then someone else told me that when doing printed CD you should have the best quality of the recording and high quality mastering is necessary to avoid throwing money for nothing.
Someone else told me that fanzine will never review if it will not be a printed CD.
One thing more about doing a printed CD; I should pay the glass master company before having the glass master done and I am not 100% sure that My Plextor could make the right "standard CD-R".
In that case would be quite a finacial failure, isn't so ??
I need help guys, expecially if people behaviour will accept to listen and review a CD-R !
Please remeber that I will defenetely do the color booklet and I would try to have any CD with its colored label and of course I will pay the copyrights to be on the rules!
Pls what do you advise me??,
PS.: being for free, if you give me you address i will mail it when ready. if you don't like it you would use it as frisbee , Ok ??
As you can imagine I am in hobby with this and the commercial success is not forecasted. I only would like to have some acknowledgment from listeners and eventually some good comments around(hopefully).
The idea is to produce about 50 CD's to be sold and 250 to be
sent around free for fanzine reviews and as gift for electronic music customers( I have friend in some shops that will do that for me). In electro music the TOP quality recordings are not a must,and still lo-fi recordings are in the market made with 8 bit samplers, so I would not have the top top brilliant sound.
Originally, apart from the CD booklet that I would have printed with decent graphics, i wanted to make it on my own PC (plextor with+ CDR's) and run batches of 50 copies each to avoid unnecessary high stocks.
Then the puzzle started because someone told me to make a CD printed only because people do not like CD-R's. Then someone else told me that when doing printed CD you should have the best quality of the recording and high quality mastering is necessary to avoid throwing money for nothing.
Someone else told me that fanzine will never review if it will not be a printed CD.
One thing more about doing a printed CD; I should pay the glass master company before having the glass master done and I am not 100% sure that My Plextor could make the right "standard CD-R".
In that case would be quite a finacial failure, isn't so ??
I need help guys, expecially if people behaviour will accept to listen and review a CD-R !
Please remeber that I will defenetely do the color booklet and I would try to have any CD with its colored label and of course I will pay the copyrights to be on the rules!
Pls what do you advise me??,
PS.: being for free, if you give me you address i will mail it when ready. if you don't like it you would use it as frisbee , Ok ??
If you put a label on it, it looks good, so it's fine. I don't think alot of people care about the color of the CD if they can play it...