PLEASE HELP! What program and file type to use to make a master cd?

[tomdegrazia]

I'm totally lost on this one. I have to make a master cd to be sent out for duplication with 10 tracks on it. Any ideas on what program to use? Also should I export .wav or .aiff? Any help is well appreciated!

[venuestudio]

I use Waveburner or DSP Quattro depending on the needs. They both burn Redbook CDs and allow you to add your ISRC codes, song titles, etc. This is what your dup house will be looking for. You could alternatively send wav files. Call your dup house, they will tell you what they want.

[tomdegrazia]

thanks kent, unfortunately those programs are both for macs, i use a PC. Know of any programs for windows that would make a redbook cd?

[venuestudio]

How about:
Audio Creator
or
CD Architect

[mindundermatter]

or Wavelab

[newkid]

Originally Posted by tomdegrazia

I'm totally lost on this one. I have to make a master cd to be sent out for duplication with 10 tracks on it. Any ideas on what program to use? Also should I export .wav or .aiff? Any help is well appreciated!

Check with the disk replicator. Most of them have a booklet or web page that specifies exactly how to do things.

Discmaker
Oasis
etc
should have the info

[Danny Danzi]

Originally Posted by tomdegrazia

I'm totally lost on this one. I have to make a master cd to be sent out for duplication with 10 tracks on it. Any ideas on what program to use? Also should I export .wav or .aiff? Any help is well appreciated!

Or you could send it to me and I'll do all that stuff for you since it's what I do.

[brandondrury]

Make sure you burn it at multiple speeds with multiple brands of cd-rs. I've had way too many issues with cds with errors on them that were rejected by the replication house.

Brandon

[newkid]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

Make sure you burn it at multiple speeds with multiple brands of cd-rs. I've had way too many issues with cds with errors on them that were rejected by the replication house.

Brandon

I always burn at 1x.

Would higher speeds ever be better??

CD errors are a problem.
I believe I saw ultra low error rate CDs at Discmakers.
It would be worth buying them for master CDs.

Replicators will reject files for errors even though they seem to play okay on your home CD player.

[Danny Danzi]

Originally Posted by newkid

I always burn at 1x.

Would higher speeds ever be better??

CD errors are a problem.
I believe I saw ultra low error rate CDs at Discmakers.
It would be worth buying them for master CDs.

Replicators will reject files for errors even though they seem to play okay on your home CD player.

I always burn at 1x here for audio and give out 2 audio discs...one for client, one for duplication that is sealed, 1 data and 1 image.

Every mastering engineer I know burns at no more than 2x speed. However, most of the CD burners today have write errors under control and buffer under-run is a thing of the past. I can literally burn at 40-52 times here with no artifacts. There was a time when any audio burned over 8x would bring on clicks, pops, errors, skips....but today with the latest software and burners, I have not experienced this problem since maybe 2000.

I still feel all audio for duplication should be burned at 1x to play it safe though....but that's just me. I've never had a project that had to be redone due to write errors etc. Then again, if there WERE errors, data files and an image file were also sent...so chances are the dupe house didn't even use the audio cd other than for a reference.