What Is A CD Recorder Good For?
CD recorders are fantastic inventions. There are dozens of reasons for owning one. They are great for ‘once-offs’, custom discs or preview masters of your original music. If you use computer-based digital audio sequencing programs, they are invaluable for making permanent backups or archives of all the tracks that made up your album (you’ll be able to remix a tune years later). You can make CD versions of precious cassettes or vinyl albums that may be on their last spin. You can make excellent practice CDs, with mixes of rhythm tracks perfect for practicing improvisational techniques. CD recorders also can be used to create custom CD-ROMs, which allows you to backup a huge amount of data files, graphics and sound files. There will always be a very small market for something unique, a live performance, a custom mix or a jam session that can be shared with a small number of enthusiastic fans. CD-R is an ideal, top-quality distribution medium for these ‘events’ or ‘limited-editions’. I th
