| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
Recording Website Archived Yabb board Post
Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by eddie | 05/02/01 at 10:58:47
Does anyone of you guys have any comments on CD-R and CD-R for consumer, and If does could anyone tell me the differences. Does CD-R for consumer sounds better than classic CD-R or it's just a same thing...!!!!
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by BananaHead | 05/02/01 at 11:27:54
Errrr, I think I know what you're talking about. There are some places that sell large qty of cdr for users of big cdr towers and stuff. Some call it "cdr pro" and these cdrs won't work in most stand alone consumer cdr writing systems.
Then there are "cdr consumer" and these will work in anything. That's my understanding of it at least. Most consumers just know about "cdr consumer" because it's the only relevant thing for them.
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by eddie | 05/02/01 at 17:40:54
Hmm, nice, but what do you think...!!if there is some kind of differeces in sound????? between the two??? (CDR-CDR for music only)
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by Slider | 05/02/01 at 17:55:43
I dont think sonically there is any difference between the two types of discs (all digital errors aside). It could be that one will last longer than the other (pro being the better one), but if I recall, the consumer recorders will only use consumer CDs and not accept pro discs. The reason for this is that when the consumer burners came out, the record companies knew that most of america who had one would be copying their buddy's new Brittany Spears album. This would of course cost them a lot of lost revenue. So they made a deal with the consumer manufacturers where the machines could only use consumer discs which cost $6 or more. The extra money of course goes to the record companies to help ease the pain of lost money. Makes sense but in my mind, the better thing to do would be to spend the extra money on a professional burner that has better A/D converters and less digital errors, and the CDs are cheaper and more compatable. Hope this helps. 8)
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by BananaHead | 05/02/01 at 20:21:02
Agreed. Same exact 16bit sound but the "pro" ones are significantly cheaper... you just need a hella expensive cdr pressing tower. I've bought them as low as 33 cents a piece.
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by eddie | 05/03/01 at 03:01:52
Hmm, tnx guys I tought it must be something like that...!!
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by eddie | 05/03/01 at 14:20:00
I was reading somewhere that burning CD 1X and 4X is not the same thing, and the same labels of CD doesn't sound the same!!!Does anyone have any comments on that.????
Subject: Re: CD-R or CD-R for consumer (for audio only)
by Mike_F | 05/05/01 at 03:29:59
It would be nice to hear a record company confirm that they had received 'royalies' from a CDR manufacturer and had divided it up and passed it on to the recording artistes on their books ....
Ahh .. what was that about flying pigs? :)