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phatbreakz
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 Posted - 2001/11/05 : 13:30:48
Hiya - I'm in a little dilema. I've recently gotten back to mixing and I need to make a third tape/cd. What I was wondering is - what format should I come out with - mixtape or cd? For mix cd - I might have to go the "cheap" route. Which means - recording a set, getting it mastered, burning it on a cd, slaping a art-ful sticker on top and make a phat panel card (j-card). I can't spend 1000 dollars right now to make a silk-screened cd at the moment :(
The tape route would involve me shelling out 250 dollars to get 100 tapes with name, contact info etc. printed on them and mastered, and of course printing up a nice j-card.
So which one's do you guys think is better?
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DJ Mouse
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Posted - 2001/11/05 : 14:20:03
try do both if you can mate,some ppl will want a tape,others a cd.
but remember to keep a master copy of it on a cd in case you'll need it,coz tapes are more likely to screw up, i mean,put them next to a magnet and they've had it!!
but if you can't do both,then definitely cd
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Brian K
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Posted - 2001/11/05 : 21:51:58
make the cds the cheap way, go buy yourself a cd burner and diy 
sure it will take a lil longer but hey, it's worth the extra time to save yourself a couple hundred bucks
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plasma
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Posted - 2001/11/06 : 01:06:25
burning them yourself is the way to go. find a graphic artist to design your labels,then buy a cheap label kit. it ends up costing about $2 per cd. give half of them away, then sell the other half for $10 to cover your costs. this is the low budget way I use.
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DJ Tempest
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Posted - 2001/11/08 : 01:32:00
i say burning em is the best way to go..its not only cheaper, but most people have cd players in their cars...
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dj-efeks
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Posted - 2001/11/08 : 02:28:06
definately cd, its just so much more quality, and really cheaper these days, plus if people want it on tape they just get the cd and dub it =>
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Elation
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Posted - 2001/11/08 : 02:59:03
yeah, if youre recording onto your computer and have a nice recording program, then you can record sweet digital sets. tapes are koul too cause their usually for the car, but id focus on cds fer sure. if you buy a cd labeling kit, they come with software to set it all up for you printer too. so that can keep your costs low as well.
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aznwasian
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Posted - 2001/11/08 : 19:14:17
CDs all the way, especially if you can make it so even though it's a continous set, you can skip to a song (Like tha H2bHC series). The quality is better and it is more professional looking.
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Elation
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Posted - 2001/11/09 : 00:35:48
yeah, does anyone have a program that can split tracks or a cd burning program that doesnt put 2 second pauses inbetween tracks? i actually have the splitter program, but my burning program wont disable the 2 second pauses. does anyone have an answer? or any links for programs?
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Lixx
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Posted - 2001/11/09 : 05:19:41
What program do you use to burn? I've used Easy CD Creator and now Nero and they both had the option. It's called Disc-at-once, eliminates any space in between tracks, but you gotta make sure there isn't any space left on the tracks. Just for my knowledge what do you use to split mp3s, I haven't found one that I really like yet?
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Elation
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Posted - 2001/11/09 : 15:22:07
this is a link for the program i used for splitting tracks.
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,10150,0-10000-103-0-1-7,00.html?tag=srch&qt=track+splitter&cn=&ca=10000
i use Nero as well and i do burn disc-at-once, but i cracked the demo version, so it wouldnt expire. maybe thats why i cant disable the pauses?
i need a bought copy i guess. damn.
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Brian K
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Posted - 2001/11/10 : 10:22:52
use sound forge to split up the tracks, by far one of my fav programs =)
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DJ Mouse
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Posted - 2001/11/10 : 10:49:25
sound forge is good to use but you need a lot of space on your hard drive to split the tracks,unless you cut and paste to new instead of copy and paste but it takes forever that way
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Elation
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Posted - 2001/11/10 : 15:33:49
yeah, i use Sound Forge too, i guess i should start lookin through the manual. maybe id learn a thing or two. lol.
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