burning master cds

[Fragle]

hey guys,

one question for those who master professionally, i.e. master stuff that'll actually see a pressing plant rather than myspace conversion.

what programs do you use to error check your masters?
any special advice regarding CD-R's, burn speeds, burning programs etc?

i'm starting to get some more serious work and want to have my ass covered so i don't get nasty surprises at the duplication stage.

 

[pipaguapique]

search for a thread called "How do mix CD proper way" i think it's called...there's a lot of info there.

 

[Paulie!]

You can't search that, no strings are atleast 4 characters long..

-P

 

[pipaguapique]

flipping through pages you can.

 

[Paulie!]

Well yeh, obviously... point taken..

-P

 

[waltz mastering]

what programs do you use to error check your masters?
any special advice regarding CD-R's, burn speeds, ?

Taiyo Yuden media is used widely and commonly produces very low errors.
Plextor 2 drives - medium speeds - check for errors with Plex tools

burning programs

PC or Mac?

 

[Fragle]

PC, win xp based
thanks for the insight!

 

[Paulie!]

Burning Progs: Roxio has always worked well for me...

-P

 

[aortizjr]

Well I just went through something similar and I wrote it up in my blog:

http://ortizaudio.blogspot.com/2010/05/audio-cd-mastering-drives-and-lite-on.html

Anyway I use K-Probe which only works for Lite-On Drives which also manufacturers other brands. Plextools comes with Plextor Drives and it is now it is DVDInfoPro which works with a set list of manufacturers.

Spec is 220 BLER. Mastering houses tend to shoot for below 100 or even below 50.

I like Taiyo Yuden which is now JVC. TDK used to buy their media from Taiyo Yuden as well. Others tend to be fine, but I get the lowest BLER with Taiyo Yuden. For drives and speed it is all variable.

Internet folklore (which is all out of date) suggests slowest speed or half speed.

 

[Fragle]

thanks!
guess i'll get some tajyo yuden / jvc disks right away.

as for drives, are there any "industry standard" drives that you can recommend? i stumbled upon the plextor 880sa drive which is also priced very decently, but i've already found some info badmouthing it.....