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From: jondr@sco.COM ("Jonathan S. Drukman")
Subject: How To Make A CD (was Re: Practice Makes Perfect)
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Date: 29 Apr 91 20:23:23 GMT
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In article <957778D360000139@sc.intel.com> AGOUGH%FAB6@SC.INTEL.COM (Andy Gough, x4-2906, pager 420-2284, CH2-59) writes:
>I wonder how bootleggers can have CDs made.  I mean, it takes a lot of 
>capital to build and equip a CD plant--maybe CD manufactures take small
>special orders and don't investigate exactly what music they're reproducing.

Bootleggers do NOT build their own CD plants.  Nor did they ever build
their own record pressing facilities back when vinyl was all the
rage.  If you really want your very own 80-minute compilation of Kate
on one CD, and are willing to shell out big bucks for it, do the following:

Rent a DAT machine, or (if you want to avoid the conversion fees) a
Sony U-Matic digital tape deck.

Play the Kate songs you want onto your DAT or U-Matic.  Note the SMPTE
indexes (hour, minute, second and frame) at which the tracks start and
end.

Prepare some camera ready copy.  You probably won't want to shell out
for more than a generic four-panel thing unless you've got MAJOR
dollars to produce a real booklet with.  On the other hand, you could
just go for a cardboard sleeve and skip the jewel box entirely.  I
don't know what the savings are, so I'll assume you went for the jewel
box option throughout this article.

Go to a CD pressing plant.  If you made a DAT master, tell them you
want it converted to Sony format.  They might do the SMPTE indexing
for you, but I don't know...  Give them your artwork and $3000.

Come back in a week.  You'll have 1000 copies of your new
masterpiece waiting.  Do not sell them, that's terribly illegal.  You
could give them to your friends for a small donation though.  You *DO*
have 1000 friends, right?

(In other words, you can get 1000 CDs made for about $3 each.  I don't
know of any places that will press less than 1000 at a time, but there
may be places which will charge less than $3 per disc.  There are, of
course, discounts for larger orders, which makes the $15 per disc
price of the latest Top 40 swill particularly odious, and the $22 per
disc price of the cool imports unbelievably nauseating.)

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