moving thread: Can I send a CD-R to duplication plant? Red book necessary?

[RCAGuy05]

(I'm moving this thread from the Marketing Board, they said the folks in here may have better advice as I plan to do mass duplication of some recordings.)

And I don't mean the ones that simply burn you more CD-Rs. I mean the ones that make you professional CD's(non CDR?).
My question though is does it have to be a Red Book CD in order to for one of these proffessional companies to duplicate your album. With all the technology now days how difficult could it possibly be to make CD-R professionally duplicated/or transfered to professional format CD's??
I'm using a Pioneer Standalone CD recorder, this thing records CD-R's in 'real time' that can be played in anything, it has CD text, and has a finalizing mode that finishes the CD. Could this format be applicable to send to a professional distribution plant that will give me industry standard burn quality and covers/cases as well. Much thanks to anyone who can dispel my ignorance.

 

[Massive Master]

The stand-alone units do NOT burn Red Book compliant discs (unless something has changed recently). For starters, the stand-alone units burn in track-at-once mode. Red Book discs MUST be rendered in DISC-at-once mode. The burn starts and runs until it's done. The TOC is in a different area of the disc.

Most studios / mastering facilities could take your disc, extract the audio and burn you a set of compliant, error-checked discs farily inexpensively if there is no change to the audio.

I would think most replication plants have the equpiment to do this also - But I'd want to audition the final production master before it goes to replication...

 

[xstatic]

Yes, you can send a CDR that is not red book compliant to a press plant. Is it advisable? No. Most press plants now actually have people that do some in house mastering, reformatting, layouts etc... for an extra fee. This also would not be recomendation, but it is an option should you need it.

 

[dgatwood]

The stand-alone units do NOT burn Red Book compliant discs (unless something has changed recently). For starters, the stand-alone units burn in track-at-once mode. Red Book discs MUST be rendered in DISC-at-once mode. The burn starts and runs until it's done. The TOC is in a different area of the disc.

Most studios / mastering facilities could take your disc, extract the audio and burn you a set of compliant, error-checked discs farily inexpensively if there is no change to the audio.

I would think most replication plants have the equpiment to do this also - But I'd want to audition the final production master before it goes to replication...

Fortunately, with a computer and cdrdao, it's easy to burn a CD-R in DAO mode.

BTW, I didn't think that CD TEXT was possible in track-at-once mode....