Need some help with a CD burner.

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I am thinking of burning my own CD's of the stuff I record.

I will be using a Tascam 488 Mk II and I want to dump this straight to the burner. I don't want to mix or edit on the computer. All I want to do is master to the burner from the 488.

No .wav conversion or anything like that. (Unless it does that automatically.)

I don't know squat about CD burners so I could really use some advise. I do know that I want an external unit that uses USB.

I'd like to record to redbook standard at the highest rate possible, but I don't know where to begin shopping for what I'm wanting to do.

Thanks for any help you may be able to give.
 
WAV conversion is how you get the audio into your computer - you connect your 488 to your computer's sound card with a cable, and record it using recording software (which may or may not be included with your burner).

Keep in mind that USB Burners are a bit slower and more expensive than internal ones. You can get internal ones for very cheap nowadays, and they're not that difficult to install.

If you use nothing but the sound card that came with your computer and the software they give you with the burner, it's going to be very difficult to get top notch results - you get what you pay for - ...but it will work.
 
I'm pretty sure that the Tascam 488 doesn't have a USB port. You can't go directly from the 488 to a USB burner. You would have to take line out's from your 488 to the line in's on a computer soundcard and record onto the computer as a wav file. Then you can burn the wav files to CD. You have said that you don't want to do that.

To go direct to a CD burner you need to research stand-alone burners. Go line out from 488 to Line in on CD burner. You then record in real time. The stand alone CD burner will cost more than a CD burner that is meant to go in your computer because the stand alone unit contains the A/D converters to convert your analog signal to digital.
 
Thanks for the help and advice.

At least now I know where to begin.

Other than the technical help I could receive at a local music store is there any advantage of buying a burner at Best-Buy or Circuit City? I don't expect to get any technical help from these two places, but I know I could probably get one cheaper there.

Still, I hate to take my business away from the local music store.
 
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