Thanks for the responses.

I'm in a bit over my head... By master, I mean a CD with all the finished tracks that have been final mixed, normalized (shouldn't use this word because I don't know what it really means) and have equal pauses between songs. I know that the engineer records multi-track onto tape and creates the copy on cd from a hard drive. Don't know how all the pieces connect but I do know that there's no computer software involved in any editing -- it's all by ear.

I was considering 1) taking one song from the master cd and doing some editing myself to remove one break and then make a new master using my edited song and all the other tracks from the CD or 2) remixing the song in the studio to remove the break and using that in the master.

When I make a copy of the master cd, is there any loss of quality? If I replace one of the songs on the master with one that I have edited and then make a new cd, is there any loss of quality?

Since I'm the producer and prime pusher to get this project done, I'm making most of the decisions. All options are still open.