The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43505   Message #635657
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
25-Jan-02 - 06:52 PM
Thread Name: Help: Doing My Own CD
Subject: RE: Help: Doing My Own CD
Why not do it? It's easy enough, and much more convenient for anyone who wants to listen to the songs than a tape is.

I've just done it myself, and if I can do it, anyone can do it. Here is a link to a page I've put together about putting songs on a CD.

This page is more as a way of helping get it worked out in my head, and unless you happen to think the same way as I do it'll probably just be confusing. (I ought to rewrite it too, because I understand what I was doing a little bit better than I did, and should put in stuff about how to fade in tracks and fade them out and so forth, which is dead easy.)But it's got links to programmes that are handy for doing it.

When I'm feeling highminded I think of this as Samizdat record production. But really Gonzo is closer to the truth.

An eight-track would be fun, but for a singer and a guitar and ordinary basic tape recorder with a built on stereo mike seems to do well enough. Keep it simple seems to be the key.