Red Book Audio problems

[DMaxJ]

I'm getting a CD pressed. I have run into a problem with the manufacturing plant(MP).

The MP says that they can't make a glass master from my CD because the cd is not RED BOOK standard. The CD was created using Sound Forge CD-Architect.

Here are the steps that were taken:

I mixed the whole CD down in PROTOOLS, which gave me on long WAVE FILE. I give the WAVE FILE to my mastering engineer. He imports the wave file into SF CD-Architect. He goes in and places the track markers. Burns the CD and that's it... I send the CD to the MP...

I get a call back from the MP - they say, we need the CD to be RED BOOK. My engineer says " if they want RED BOOK, then my continuity will lost because RED BOOK will put 2 seconds between each song."

What can I do to make the CD into RED BOOK format, with introducing the 2 second gap???

Thanks

[martin armsby]

Give your wave file to someone like me who uses Samplitude or Sequoia http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif

And seriously if this guy really is a mastering engineer then the problem shouldn't arise
- even Roxios WinOnCD will do what you need !!

cheers

M

[bombastique]

Yeah - either the plant or the mastering guy are not doing something right. Doing a red book cd is brain dead simple - it sounds like he did it right, but then again...who knows? Can you play the original CD in a standard CD deck? If so, then it should be red book. If not, then maybe it's something in CD Architect.

[narcoman2]

Hi,
The only 2 second gap you MUST have is at he beginning. the rest are just an old standard that isnt relavent. As the man says, if you can play it in your CD player then its red book...simple as that.

cheers

[Fifthcircle]

Sounds like you either need a new mastering engineer or a new manufacturing plant.

There have been changes to what the red book format is over the years as technologies progress. Technically, yes, every track needs to have 2 seconds between it. In practice, though, that is a load of bunk. There needs to be 2 seconds at the top of the CD but nothing else, as long as it was burned Disc-at-once and closed. If your plant can't handle a CD without 2 seconds (only) between tracks, fire them and go to a new place.

The rest of the red-book standard that still exists consists of no more than 99 tracks. Tracks cannot be shorter than 4 seconds. Beyond that it is pretty open...

In an ideal world, your mastering engineer should be using software that is better than CD Architect and should be able to output a DDP image for replication. Doing replication off of a CDR is, of course possible, but it is asking for trouble...

--Ben