Create Your Own CDs Regardless Of Budget

We've each read the saying 'It takes money to make money', and this for too long this was the situation in the music community. It had been expensive to have your songs listened to by the serious record labels, and if you managed to get listened to, odds would be fairly slim it would proceed much further then that. But the advance in technologies has meant that any one can easily press up their very own CDs and distribute them for profit.

There have been two primary methods to press up your own CDs, doing the work your self, or paying a business to do it for you. We're going to be looking at the first method, as it can be undoubtedly the cheaper of the two.

Before you start to press up your compact disks, what you need are plastic plastic CD cases, blank compact disks, your working computer on which you will copy your music via, and a good quality printer and printer paper to print your compact disk covers. And that's it. After getting all these things in place, what you have to do is this;

First of all, you need to copy the master compact disk onto your computer. This can be done easily with much of the usual CD copying software available on the market, you'd probably have Windows Media Player on your computer for example (Apple Mac users however could simply 'drag and drop' their audio from the master compact disk to copy it onto their computer). You should make sure the quality you copy the compact disk at is of a good bit-rate (Look this up if you're not sure what this means), a high bit-rate WAV file being the formatting of choice if you want it to be exactly like the original CD.

Once the audio is on your computer, you will need to insert a blank CD on which you will copy your audio to. Be sure you use AUDIO CDs instead of data compact disks since the latter can't be played on many CD players. Depending on the speed of your driver and also the length of the music you are copying, this could take a varying period of time to copy. Now repeat this procedure copying the desired amount of CDs.

The final stage is printing up the covers. Once you have your finished artwork, you have to print it out so it can go into your plastic CD cases. You then place your CDs into your plastic CD cases and you're done, your very own home made CD ready to be sold!

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