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And along with what Brandon mentioned, here's some additional guidelines which can be found on my site as well:

1. The actual chemicals used to create CD's is crucial, believe it or not. Without getting into chemistry, basically, one should look for a goldish/silverish coating on the bottom-side of the cd rather than the green/blue coatings.

2. Try to use 74-minute blanks. The extra space they implement on higher running cd's creates room for bit errors. It's crazy. But that's our quantity over quality mentality, right...

3. use ?disc at once? mode for a smoother continuous pass. This presents less buffer under-runs and errors. When you write a data disk, it's a different process. For data disks, the burning program, normally, runs a cyclic redundancy check. If it finds a discrepancy it will revert back and re-write that portion until it matches the source. Not the case with audio sessions.

4. Try not to use paper labels on pre-master. Use good ole sharpie. So there is no weight differential.

hope it all helps,
Take Care