Stand alone CD burner questions.

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Okay, who's using what?

What do you like about it, and what don't you like about it.

I'm tired of dealing with CD burning on my PC. I keep getting damned clicks and pops in my CD's. I do not record on the PC...I'm just not into it.

I used to have a SCSI CDRW and it worked great for a while, but then it died a quick death.
So, I bought a Sony EIDE. It works fine for data CD's, but there's always some add noise. (It's not the sound Card, any Mp3's I make sound fine).

So, I've just decided to leave the PC out of the equation.



Tim
 
Lucky me, I dont get clicks and pops. But if I was to get a standalone, Im sure I would go with a Tascam.
 
Tascam CDRW700

$499 @ most of the bigger music stores.

It's a gem, I love it! :)

Buck
 
i'm using a shitty philllips cd burner. Don't buy one. They're really shitty.
 
Tim,

The Alesis Masterlink can be had for around $999. Less if you check around. Since it includes a lot more than just the CD burner, you will have expanded the capabilities of your entire set-up. I don't know if that is what you might want, but it might be something to think about.
 
I've got a Marantz CDR500 and love it. It's very easy to use and sound quality is top notch. I sound like a commercial.
 
Sonic Misfit said:
Tim,

The Alesis Masterlink can be had for around $999. Less if you check around. Since it includes a lot more than just the CD burner, you will have expanded the capabilities of your entire set-up. I don't know if that is what you might want, but it might be something to think about.
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I like the Idea of the Masterlink, but I know 3 guys locally who have had nothing but problems with theirs.

Tim
 
Tim,

I'd like to know what sort of problems that they are having. I have two Masterlinks, one of them for a couple years and have had almost no trouble (knock on wood...) The one that I have had for a while has had the hard disk filled up and erased several times and is about to have it dumped again this weekend.

The newer one has not seen as much action, so I would be interested in hearing any problems that people might be having. I like the compressor and limiter, the EQ is also usable (I do wish it were four bands instead of 3) I don't use the normalization for much of anything.

A few things I have learned is that you should not put the Masterlink in the same rack with tube gear. The heat will mess up the CD burner. Also, CD-RWs should be avoided. If you are using analog, then if at all possible use the XLR connections.

Good luck on whatever you decide to get.
 
I have to second the TASCAM vote.

The CDRW-5000 has been obsolete for a long time, but that hasn't stopped it from performing flawlessly, under some fairly rugged conditions.

Buck- I had a chance to play with a 700. They added a whole bunch of features that the 5000 never had but then left out the balanced analog I/O, AES/EBU. :(

Fer instance on the 700 you can mix the analog and digital inputs. On the 5000 it's one or the other.

The 700's got a real remote instead of that stupid wired remote.

It'll convert different digital sample rates on the fly.

The auto-track-increment based on signal content is much more sophisticated.
 
Sonic Misfit said:
Tim,

I'd like to know what sort of problems that they are having. I have two Masterlinks, one of them for a couple years and have had almost no trouble (knock on wood...) The one that I have had for a while has had the hard disk filled up and erased several times and is about to have it dumped again this weekend.

The newer one has not seen as much action, so I would be interested in hearing any problems that people might be having. I like the compressor and limiter, the EQ is also usable (I do wish it were four bands instead of 3) I don't use the normalization for much of anything.

A few things I have learned is that you should not put the Masterlink in the same rack with tube gear. The heat will mess up the CD burner. Also, CD-RWs should be avoided. If you are using analog, then if at all possible use the XLR connections.

Good luck on whatever you decide to get.
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One guy was continually having problems with the actual CD burner....It had an extrmely high screw up rate...I think the laser was bad in it, because he said it didn't matter what kind of discs he was using. He was using it for recording Live Shows for bands, and had it and a mixer in a "Shockproof" Rack Case.

The other two were having HD problems.
One of these two guys went with a Tascam CD Burner, and the other wound up buying a HD Multitrack, and he's using that to burn CD's.
It's a Roland I think (admittedly-I lost track of these things after Yamaha came out with their "Big" HD recroder a few years ago), but it may be an Akai...it's got a CD burner built into it....I'm not really familiar with these, but the store gave him a full trade in value on the Masterlink since it was bad from the start.

I like the idea of putting the sound on an HD and copying from that, versus going from my DAT (Which I never use. I paid $1,600 for the DAT Machine (Tascam DA-302 Dual Well model) and I've used a whole 3 times! Every recording I've done, people want CD's, but they don't give a rat's ass about DAT's. So, I've just mixed to HD for the stereo mixdown.

I think I'm going to wind up going with a Tascam, because I'm also looking at a Tascam Digital Mixer (DM-1000 or whatever it is...that way, from the Multitrack to the stereo tape can remain in the "Digital Domain" once Install the second T/DIF card)


Tim
 
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I believe the CDRW2000 has the AES/EBU option, which makes it a bit more expensive.

The 700 does have analog in/out, though.
 
Yeah- but the analog is at -10dB on RCA jacks. The 5000 has both unbalanced on RCA and the +4 signal on XLR jacks.
 
i am using a cheapy phillips, which sounds fine, but is pretty slow. probably would reccomend a tascam also
 
I have a very nice contioned Marantz CDR 630 for sale in the For Sale forum. I have not burned all that many disks on it, so it should be good to go for many years to come. It never burned a "coaster".

Eddie
 
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