Speed to burn CD

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When burning a true master, the one to send in to have a glass CD cut and copied, is it beneficial to burn at 1X speed rather than 2X or 4X, or can that somehow be a disadvantage?

Thank You, S/R
 
Depending on your system, they can be cut 8X and higher. Its also media dependant, meaning spend some money on decent blanks to keep your error rate down. Try your disk in as many players as possible to make sure all the start, stops and track indicators are right. Check with your duplication house to make sure you give them all they need. A cd sent to a duplication plant needs test tones, PQ time sheets and other misc items. Make sure your not clipping anywhere through the whole program. Ask the dupers to be exactly sure.


Peace,
Dennis
 
thanx Dennis,
I guess I was referring more to quality vs. speed, kind of like with tape, speed = better quality. My perception of CD burning however, is the opposite, slower = better quality. I know if I burn at 8, theres a chance of missing some data during the burn.

I just wondered if I'm making things up in my mind or if it's true, slower is better when doing very serious burning.

Any other opinions?
 
I think at one time there was some issues with early models of consumer burners. Ive seen Mastering houses burn cd's for duplication houses at 8X with no problems. There is a limit to how fast the glass masters are cut though, but it has nothing to do with what concerned with. I always burn at 4X with raw media designed for audio, Microboards 12X silvers are pretty decent. Ive been using Memorex CD-R music 80 minute ones. For Burning, Ronny Morris recommended using software called Feurio. Its far more advanced than Adaptec Ez stuff.

Are you mastering your own CD-R and sending it out for duplication?

Peace,
Dennis
 
yes I am mastering my own Cd and probably sending to Oasis, they have great deals and reputation.

gotta take off for the day, i'll check in tomorrow! thanx, peace

S/R
 
I just mastered a song for a friend. He was interested in hearing what different burn speeds would sound like. I have a Plextor 24/10/40 burner (IDE), so I can burn up to 24 X speed. Used Wavelab 4.0 to author the disk.

We both agreed that 1X speed actually sounded the worse! Yikes! Anyway, I burned 1, 2, 4, 8, 10,12,16,20,24. We listened using a Masterlink to Sundholm mid-field monitors powered by a Hafler P-4000 amp, with Monster Studio Pro 1000 speaker cable (SP 1000 from the Masterlink to the Halfer too), and we were very hard pressed to hear much of a difference between the burns.

To be on the safe side, I don't burn final audio disks at over 8X on this burner. But for client copies or to check mixes, I don't shy away from 16X at all.

I am with atomictoyz on this one. Burn speeds were far more important to consider a few years ago, when IDE burners were still a relatively new thing. But the new breed of burners seem to do a very good job. I have never had a duplication facility deny a disk I have burned, and have a few projects that the label submitted to them go through just fine. So really, if your burner is no older than a couple of years, you probably don't have anything to worry about.

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