Re: cheap cd publishing no min.

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

I like the gold CDs.  They're SUPPOSED to last 100 years.  Of course... I know.  But I have two terabites of hard drive now loaded and am getting tired of buying them!  I always use gold CDs to send to master or replicate.  They sound better.

CDRs are good for short runs and testing before glass master etc.  ALWAYS good to print as CDR first, circulate and see what folks think.  Then you can be sure you have the song order right, songs right etc.  The cheapest thing is to buy a CDR duplicator and decent ink jet printer.  I used to do that as a part of my business.  Easy... and after a few runs and selling the CDRs, it's paid for.  

Mine cost around 700 USD.  Printer was around 500.  Once you've sold one or two hundred CDs, it's paid for.  

For archiving, I'm setting my hopes on Blueray.  

Say... there's a good name for an digerati electronica soul band - Blueray Charles.


richard sales
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On 3-Jan-07, at 8:29 AM, Todd Pafford wrote:

> Kris et al.
>
> Just a bit of a heads up regarding CDRs (& CDRWs):  they don't hold up
> well to the ravages of time and studies have placed their estimated
> shelf life at less than 10 years with many folks finding the cheap
> CDR(W)s may not last half that long.  This is a big deal for archival
> purposes as it renders CDR(W)s completely useless for reliable long
> term storage.
>
> This probably isn't an issue for small runs of albums for demo
> purposes or to pass among friends, but I wouldn't expect to find a
> functional CDR buried in the attic twenty years later.
>
> The best solution I've found so far is to store master copies of all
> my work on hard discs.  Some folks use a system wherein they buy a new
> (small, not these 200GB models) hard disk for each new album project.
> They do all their recording & mastering, burn CDs, then pull the drive
> out, label it, and stick it on a shelf.
>
> The cheaper option is to periodically (every two years or so) reburn
> your CDR(W)s so you've always got a few fresh ones around.
>
> Todd
>
>
> On 1/2/07, Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> > That's the case for DiskFaktory as well. That's part of the reason why the
> > price is so reasonable. I don't mind it. I'm finished with glass mastered
> > CDs, and only my first looping CD was glass-mastered (I obtained no benefit
> > from the extra cost). I haven't found a person yet who can't play my CD-Rs,
> > and they look no different than the glass mastered (silver bottomed, etc).
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Michael Peters
> > To: Loopers Delight
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:53 PM
> > Subject: RE: cheap cd publishing no min.
> >
> >
> > > The price looks good to me. $1.60 a CD for the color printing, shrink
> > warpping, UPC code, etc?  I haven't seen a price lower than this for a short
> > run outfit.  Even when I did a large run of 500 glass mastered CDs through
> > another company, the cost was still $2.40 a CD
> >
> >
> > I doubt that they really do CDs - I think what they're doing is CDRs.
> >
> >
> > -Michael