Chapter 1
Putting Your Music on CD and Vinyl
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding CD burning
Finding the right CD-Rs
Burning your first CD
Preparing your CDs for duplication
Finding a CD duplicator
Pressing a vinyl record
After you have your music recorded, mixed, and mastered, you’re ready for the final steps to putting it out into the world. There are essentially two ways to do this: Put it on a physical medium or make it available digitally. In this chapter, I cover both these options. I encourage you to do both.
First, I walk you through the process of recording your music to CD, whether it’s for you to sell or for you to hand off to a manufacturer that creates retail-ready packages for you to distribute. This process is pretty easy, and by following a few simple steps, which I lay out in detail for you, you end up with a product that you’ll be proud of.
Also in this chapter, you explore ...
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