Mastering Blue Book CD Extra

[bob katz]

Originally Posted by emeline-rec

I would be interested to know the process of creating a blue book pre-master for a college assignment.

Do mastering engineers deal with compiling the data content to the audio.

Other than an orange book multi-session cd-r is it possible to create blue book DDP files / PMCD, or is the yellow book session added at the replicators?


thanks for your help guys

Rarely is the data portion added at the replicator. Sometimes I will master a few open session CDs and the client will add the data portion and close the session. He then sends that master to the replicator as blue-book ready. But I prefer to add his data myself and close the CD so I can QC the disc and error check it. Unfortunately, "QC" in the case of blue book often is not that conclusive on our part. We assume that the client's data was tested thoroughly by him and we just see if it runs on the PC and/or Mac.

I don't know how to do a blue book DDP, it's all been CDR. And lately, haven't seen many blue book titles myself, I think everyone is putting their energy into DVDs.

BK

[foldback]

I think Blue Book is pretty well dead, there were so many problems with incompatibility on a lot of CD players. Also the Internet came along and provided a better channel for connecting with Artist information.

I spent countless months doing Blue Book titles. The only thing worse than making a Blue Book CD and testing it on lots of PC's is having to deal with Macromedia Director. I grew to absolutely hate Director and Macromedia.

[audiogeek1]

The ones I have done have been much like bobs. I burn an open ended cdr and then burn the data portion. I had good luck with this and never really had a problem with compatability but then again the groups I am working with are usually selling under 10,000 units.

Mike

[emeline-rec]

that's great, thank you very much

ian

[Riccardo]

Once in a while i receive a request for one of those. last one about a month ago.
Getting rare and I am not missing them at all to be honest as I don't like the compatibility issues that sometimes can arise.