General Music Chat

You can check out Tunecore and CD Baby

CD Baby and Tunecore both use disk makers (as if it's their manufacturing company) and just mark it up.

Diskmakers all the way, baby! They have good interfaces for uploading and ordering, AND the CDs show up when they say they will.

If you take the time to look around their website, they usually have some kind of sales special like "Get 300 free posters with 1,000 CDs" or the like.....

Note that if you do consider getting some vinyl pressed, you should have the album mastered for it specifically (just read an article in Tape Op about it) - there are many considerations with vinyl that can be ignored with CDs.

I don't get the whole vinyl resurgence thing and why they malign the CD.

Come find out why from us vinyl nerds!
http://www.tapeheads.net/forumdisplay.php?f=20

"People who say that the pops and clicks adds charm to the listening experience are full of it!"

I agree. I had a friend digitally record a needle starting on a record, skating, and the end where it just goes in circles. I used it for a recording effect where It went from an old 78 thin sound, to a 45 rpm sound and then to a 33 rpm stereo before going full digital stereo. It made an interesting feel to the CD called "Metamorphosis", so named due to the progressive evolution of recording techniques. It took a bit of work but it was worth it, at least to me.

I always hated all the pops and clicks. The next CD I make I think I will say "Turn the CD over for the second half of this recording". I wonder how many dinosaurs like me will get out of their chairs. The skating needle sound worked pretty good for my last CD.

Hipster doofuses? Where do you draw the line? I talk to these guys every day. They really never stopped with the vinyl. They're just doing what they always did. If I chucked all my vinyl in the late 80's, early 90's, but got back into the hobby after seeing it in Pulp Fiction, am I still a hipster doofus, or was I just one in 1994?