Live CD mastering question

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Hey yall, my band had a show last night and it was recorded from the soundboard. It came out pretty good, but it's on the CD as just one big long track. I want to split it up into seperate songs, but still have it play seamlessly like commercial live CD's.

I currently use Cubase LE, and I don't ever "master" anything. I just do single mixdowns of single songs for my own enjoyment. Is there a way to do this in LE and burn it to a CD? Do I need a dedicated mastering and CD burning software? Are there any free-trials available?





Also, how can I dub in lots of crowd noise? :p
 
I'd do the crowd noises or whatever else in your DAW. You can cut up the single wav into multiple ones and do any crossfades, etc. in your DAW.

I think it's a lot easier to use CD Architect though. It's an inexpensive program that lets you do all of this easily without having to cut up the single WAV file into multiple ones.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=566
 
I'm not really gonna dub in crowd noise. :p


Anyone else have any ideas?
 
I'd say, split it into the tracks you want, with fade ins/outs how you like it, and then set up a buss of some sort with whatever processing you want to do, and just do each track the same. You could process everything as a whole, if you want the most cohesive sound, then cut it up. If you make the fades right, it should sound pretty much as you wish, when it switches tracks.

Never having done this, I'm just spewing stuff I've read before, so.....:confused:
 
Dogman said:
I'd say, split it into the tracks you want, with fade ins/outs how you like it, and then set up a buss of some sort with whatever processing you want to do, and just do each track the same. You could process everything as a whole, if you want the most cohesive sound, then cut it up. If you make the fades right, it should sound pretty much as you wish, when it switches tracks.

Never having done this, I'm just spewing stuff I've read before, so.....:confused:
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Thats the thing, I don't have a quality CD burning software. All I have is the regular old windows media player. Even if I split the file into individual songs, burning them to CD will leave gaps between each song instead of having it flow seamlessly.

Do mastering softwares have the ability to burn to a CD using something other than the standard windows player?
 
Greg_L said:
Thats the thing, I don't have a quality CD burning software. All I have is the regular old windows media player. Even if I split the file into individual songs, burning them to CD will leave gaps between each song instead of having it flow seamlessly.

Do mastering softwares have the ability to burn to a CD using something other than the standard windows player?
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CD Architect will take care of all of those problems. :D

It's really the cheapest mastering software I know of that works well which is why I recommended it. By mastering, I mean what you're talking about: setting up tracks, seamless fade ins/outs, CD burning, PQ edits, CD text etc. It's not like Wavelab which is a lot more expensive.

There may be other CD burning programs, maybe even free ones that let you control track fade ins/outs but most I've seen are either not free or are for MP3's only. I think CD Architect is the best option, but maybe someone else has other advice.
 
CD architect is perfect for what you want to do. i recorded the Tenacious D: Live in London show from DVD to my computer as one huge wav file, then just put the track markers in CD Architect and there were no gaps on playback.
 
CD Wave Editor might work too. Assuming the file is a wave file. It was designed to convert albums, tapes and such to digital files. And you can either gap them at 2 seconds or in the case of a live album, just split them. And the screen is split into different section, which one shows track number and allows you to name them in the proper track fromat for cd's. I use it too convert all my vinyl. The demo never expires. So I guess its actually free. I use the hell out of it. Here is the link
http://www.mymusictools.com/splitter_joiner_24/cd_wave_editor_2656.htm
 
BushmasterM4 said:
CD Wave Editor might work too. Assuming the file is a wave file. It was designed to convert albums, tapes and such to digital files. And you can either gap them at 2 seconds or in the case of a live album, just split them. And the screen is split into different section, which one shows track number and allows you to name them in the proper track fromat for cd's. I use it too convert all my vinyl. Here is the link
http://www.mymusictools.com/splitter_joiner_24/cd_wave_editor_2656.htm
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Hey that looks cool. Thanks for the link. I'll try it later.
 
Damn, that link is only good for wav's. The dude burned our CD as a wma.


So I'm back on the hunt.
 
Greg_L said:
Damn, that link is only good for wav's. The dude burned our CD as a wma.


So I'm back on the hunt.
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You can't do this in Cubase? I have it, but have only used it for tracking, so I have no clue. Just a thought.
 
Cut up each track in Cubase LE and bounce each track to a file. Make sure you set the locators so there are no gaps or extra bits.
Then burn the tracks to CD, making sure you set the pause setting to zero.
IM sure Windows Media Player has a pause function.

Eck
 
zed32 said:
CD architect is perfect for what you want to do. i recorded the Tenacious D: Live in London show from DVD to my computer as one huge wav file, then just put the track markers in CD Architect and there were no gaps on playback.
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Oo ya pirate yee!

Eck
 
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