burning songs after it is transferred from tascam dp-02cf

[apenny]

We recently purchased the tascam dp-02cf portistudio recorder. After recording, mixing, and mastering a track we transfered it via usb to our cpu. It was a wave file and i tried to burn it to disc and it wouldnt let me, so i then made it into an mp3 file and each disc i burn my stereo/xbox 360, car streo ...everything says the disc is not finalized. We thought it may have been our burner being crazy so we tried 2 others and still it says the same thing. Can anyone help me out... do i need certain software... is it the tascam recorder??? in need of any help!!!

[spaceatl]

Originally Posted by apenny

We recently purchased the tascam dp-02cf portistudio recorder. After recording, mixing, and mastering a track we transfered it via usb to our cpu. It was a wave file and i tried to burn it to disc and it wouldnt let me, so i then made it into an mp3 file and each disc i burn my stereo/xbox 360, car streo ...everything says the disc is not finalized. We thought it may have been our burner being crazy so we tried 2 others and still it says the same thing. Can anyone help me out... do i need certain software... is it the tascam recorder??? in need of any help!!!

There are two tasks that you need to carry out...Converting to MP3 and and then back to CD compatible wav will reduce the quality considerable...

First, you will need to resample if the sample rate is higher than 44.1kHz...You can use a tool like Sound Forge for this...There are many...Just about any DAW or wav edit software can do this...Always use the highest quality Anti-Alias filter setting...

Second...and this should always be the last step as it is the most critical...You must convert the bit depth down to 16. This requires a dithering algorithm...This is where things can get a little more difficult because not all dithers are created equal and how well the different approaches work greatly depends on the program material itself...A Triangular filter will generally give good results...PwrR algorithms are another option also...

I just about always dither down a file using each one I have and then burn them back to back on a CD....Then I pick the one that sounds the best...It is time consuming, but is the only way I know to get to the best result....

CD-R tip....Always burn your CD-R using the slow 1x setting...Faster speeds can introduce errors...ALL CD players have a feature called interpolation...The faster you burn the CD, the more interpolation that can be introduced...

To summarize...Convert the sample rate to 44.1 then convert the bit depth to 16 bit using a dither that fits...Then burn it slow...

Rock on..

EDIT: You can burn track at once out of SoungForge and you can close the session which allows the CD to be played on a CD player...For demos I often use Media Player...If you use 16 bit 41.1 wav files and turn off the leveling it burns true enough...That is also track at once which means the 2 sec. space between tracks...You need a Disc at Once burner to get rid of the space...iTunes does this and you can burn from 16 bit 44.1 wavs...