What is pre-mastering and how is this performed by the TAMS 9000 / CDwriter?
Before recordable CDs were readily available, all CDs were produced by a “pre-process” involving a master. Pre-mastering involved assembling the material to be placed on the CD as an image or master file on a hard disc prior to actually recording the CD. Software packages still exist that will do this. This process has the disadvantage that it potentially requires 650 MBs of free disc space for each CD and it takes two steps to complete. It has some advantages when creating masters for multi-media CDs. Although capable of recording from an image file, the TAMS CDwriter software does not require pre-mastering.
