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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
Message-ID: <468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 4 Dec 90 18:13:24 GMT
References: <00940487.15804140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <28083@mimsy.umd.edu> <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Nov30.070149.14816@bilver.uucp>
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bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:

>In article <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:

>Well making a music master tape isn't free.  When I worked in the studio
>the cost to do a major label production was from $100,000 to $250,000
>dollars, but that's another story.

Just to inject some reality here, the numbers quoted above include the
studio time necessary to get all the audio down to mix onto that master.
The actual cost of creating the master, if you were to walk in with all
the material pre-recorded, would be *significantly* lower. Just to add
a data point, it's possible to record, mix, master, and press 200 45 RPM
singles for under $500 (Canadian dollars at that).

The input format that the CD mastering machines want to see can be
obtained by calling the CD mastering shops. Once you have that, you
can create your own "master tapes" at the cost of renting time on a
system with the ability to write media that the CD mastering machine
can read (assuming you don't already have the necessary equipment in
house already).

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    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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