What are the best recording practices to use?
When CD-Rs are recorded, errors can result from the recording process itself. Fortunately, CD players or readers have the ability to correct these errors. However, there is a limit to their correction capability. Therefore, you must keep the amount of error as low as possible to ensure that your disc will play properly. In the past, 1x writing was ideal, and many professionals chose to stay under 4x. Today, many CD-Rs have been designed to record at a faster speed and may perform poorly at low speeds. Generally, recording a disc at around 4x produces the best quality recording. Silver-manufactured CD-Rs enable a faster recording speed; therefore, a user might decide to record faster to silver than to gold. However, the speed you choose must be in the range that your computer and software can provide data to the CD burner and the range in which the burner can record the data. Your recordings onto a CD-R can be unsuccessful. Data are read into a memory buffer before being sent to the CD
