CD recorder, or software and CD burner

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Are there any advantages to mixing down to a Professional CD recorder such as the HHB-850 or a Masterlink compared to mixing down to your hard drive using Pro-tools, for example, and the using your CD burner to burn a CD?

All I want to do is mix down recordings for my band to give to the other members to listen to, and to possibly send it out for mastering at a mastering house.

Any thoughts or opinions on mixing down, lemme know. Thank you
 
For less than $300 you can get a Plextor Premium CD burner and Sony CD Architect which will allow 1) burning Red Book CDs that will play anywhere 2) testing your CDs for errors that will keep from playing and that are 3) upgradeable.
 
I second the Plextor PlexWriter Premium ESPECIALLY if you're actually burning final masters - If you're using one-offs that aren't going to be replicated in any big numbers, I'd consider it less important.

On the other side of the coin, having a MasterLink around is a pretty cool thing for mixdown, rough mixes, live tracking - Big time-saver.

Rough call... Hmmm...

Yeah, you're gonna have to get both. :D

But the Plextor would probably come in handy on more occasions than the stand-alone... And at under $100 including the PlexTools Professional suite, it's a bargain. And, probably the best drive available.
 
Gents,

Thank you very much for your input. Interestingly enough, I do have a Plextor Plexwriter. But it went out on me about 1.5 yrs ago. And it was only over a year old. I need to burn CDs, but I burn audio, and very rarely do I burn data to CD.

But if you guys really insist on how good the Plextor Plexwriter is, I would be willing to give it another chance. Perhaps I just got a bad Plexwriter. I dunno.

Thanks again for your input.
 
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