Quality?

[eviljoker7075]

Hey everyone, just a quick question... feels kinda silly asking it but hey!

I have just finished recording/mixing an album in my electronica band. All the tracks are complete and mixed as well as we can get them.

Now we wanna put them on a cd, but we want all the tracks to merge into each other. Now to achieve this I am thinking of the following method:

Mixing down each track seperately, then importing those (.wav) files into Kristal Audio Engine (what I've used all along for this) and placing them one after the other and placing linking sounds/loops in that file. Then spliting that at the desired places and mixing those sections down.

My question is, would I loose any sound quality by doing this?

Thanks.

 

[danny.guitar]

Now we wanna put them on a cd, but we want all the tracks to merge into each other.

I've never used Kristal, but with CD Architect you can do this real easily and still have them as separate tracks on the CD.

As far as losing quality, if you're not running them through any more DSP and you're keeping everything at the same bit depth/sample rate then there shouldn't be any quality loss.

 

[zed32]

2nd on CD Architect for this. you can put all your individual songs, merge them together, and then set where the next CD track starts without putting any audible gap between the songs. i did this with great success when i ripped the Tenacious D live concert DVD onto my HD and made an audio CD out of it so i could listen to it in my car. i recorded it as one long ass audio file, then just put track markers in it wherever i wanted the new CD track to start, without having to split up or put any audible gaps in the performance.