quick question: what are you using to make the master CD?

[George Necola]

no.. I don't want to want to know your master chain..

just the program/technique you use to make the final master CD for the pressing plant.

still using wavelab and feel uncomfortable.. not because of the soundquality, just because of the program with all the unwanted features.

I have the finished, bounced, limited whatever files and just want to make the master CD in bin,cue or any other legit format. no need for DDP.

what kind of software do you recomend?

cheers
George

[MASSIVE Master]

Most programs are going to have stuff you don't use...

Maybe try WaveLab Essentials?

CD Architect used to be rather simplistic...

But WaveLab's Montage is about as simple as they get.

(Personally, Samplitude gets my money).

[mmarra]

I am no pro, as I'm just starting out in mastering just to help out friends, but if it helps I really like Samplitude V11. I downloaded the demo and fell in love from there. To me it's so simple to use and I really like the object oriented functionality.

[Cellotron]

fwiw - I don't necessarily recommend this to others as it just fits my own particular work flow but is certainly an "eccentric" setup relative to what most others are using - but I've been able to generate scores and scores of masters with proven compatibility using:

SAWStudio 4.9a with the JMS Audioware Cue Sheet Generator to create the layout that is bounced to a cue + wav image
and then Exact Audio Copy to do the write to disc
using Plextools 760 burners with TaiyoYuden / JVC 52x compatible media
burning at 16x
BLER and subcodes checked with Plextools XL 3.16

Enhanced discs using steps above except audio session is left open - and then using MacImage to create Hybrid ISO and Nero 6 to burn this as second data session.

OR
Sonoris DDP Creator to convert cue + wav to DDP image for upload to plant

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[George Necola]

thanx.

I am on pc.

I have sam 11 pro.. ups.. missed that functionality. will give it a go.

[Surbitone]

Sequoia 11 for master disk & ddp, but everything else is done in Reaper - makes life easier. Never really got on with Wavelab. I found the Sonoris DDP creator pretty clunky and unintuitive

[sat159p1]

Originally Posted by Cellotron

using Plextools 760 burners with TaiyoYuden / JVC 52x compatible media
burning at 16x

I've been using these CDs but recorded on 10x
Does 16x has less errors in your case?

[acorneau]

Sadie for CD burning and DDP creation.

PlexTools for CD checking.

[Cellotron]

Originally Posted by sat159p1

I've been using these CDs but recorded on 10x
Does 16x has less errors in your case?

At this speed I get consistently no CU's or C2's and BLER averaging under 1 a second (i.e. 200 times better than Red Book spec allows). So quality is in no way compromised in the least little bit and the burning speed allows for quicker work flow.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[klaukholm]

Generating DDP directly from Pyramix here, works like a charm!

I really like keeping the whole process from recording to master in one DAW.

[Richard Black]

Nero 8 and a Plextor Premium 2, writing on Taiyo Yuden blanks at 16x, and regularly getting zero C2 and CU errors. C1 errors come in around 0.2-0.5 per second, varying a little from batch to batch of discs. Can't recommend the Plextor Premium 2 highly enough, it's superb. It also allows you (with Plextor's own software) to write 96-minute CDs on regular blanks which seem to play in anything, even my 24-year-old Marantz CDP. 112-minute CDs are theoretically possible but give playback problems in all equipment I've tried.

[Petrus]

If you do all pre-mastering (all audio manipulation etc.) with you DAW and just dump a big WAV to a program to burn a master CD (after inserting track markers, adding CD-text etc), then CD Architect is a cheap, easy to use and solidly working piece of software.

(No DDP, darn...)

[CJ Mastering]

I like CD Architect. For me its very user friendly and I never had a complaint when the pre-master was burned with it.
Well thats kinda false. Before the .2 update, sometimes it would not embedd the ISRC codes when prompted to. but all that has been fixed some time ago.
Cj

[huejahfink]

Another vote here for CD Architect.

Intuitive, simple, inexpensive, perfectly effective for laying out and burning masters.

It doesn't do images though, just CDs. (Well, it WILL save a tagged WAV but I think that's pretty useless to any plant)

[studioland]

I used Wavelabs for a while and had no problem with it I guess you should investigate more the way it works it is a very good soft for the price

Now I am on Sequoia

[mrlouie]

Originally Posted by George Necola

no.. I don't want to want to know your master chain..

just the program/technique you use to make the final master CD for the pressing plant.

still using wavelab and feel uncomfortable.. not because of the soundquality, just because of the program with all the unwanted features.

I have the finished, bounced, limited whatever files and just want to make the master CD in bin,cue or any other legit format. no need for DDP.

what kind of software do you recomend?

cheers
George

wavelab can be very basic ?

just open montage, drag files in, hit cd wizard (preset 2 sec gap or whatever), it'll space & pq it for you, then just hit the burn button thing... oh put a cd in tray...that pretty simple and basic.

[jamesp]

I use Reaper to create one large .wav file, CD Wave to mark the start points for each track and then Plextools XL to add ISRC's, CD Text, then burn and check the CD. If you use Plextools to do the burning you can have it automatically verify and error check the CD afterwards.

If you have a program that can embed cue markers into a .wav file then Plextools XL may also be able to read those but that functionality was never fully debugged before they stopped developing Plextools.

James.