From Demo to Delivery

Chapter 8

Product Manufacture: How the Record Is Made

David Miles Huber and Robert Runstein

In This Chapter

■   Introduction

■   Choosing the Right Facility and Manufacturer

■   CD Manufacturing

□   The Process

■   CD Burning

□   Rolling Your Own

□   Burning Speeds

□   CD Labeling

■   DVD Burning

■   CD and DVD Handling and Care

•   Do

•   Don’t

•   Especially Don’t

■   Vinyl Disc Manufacture

□   Disc Cutting

□   Disc-Cutting Lathe

□   Cutting Head

□   Pitch Control

□   Recording Discs

□   The Vinyl Mastering Process

□   Vinyl Disc Plating and Pressing

■   Producing for the Web

■   Further Reading

In this chapter, David Huber and Robert Runstein introduce how our music is transferred to a distributable physical medium such as a CD or a record. ...