CD Business Cards

We have each heard the expression ‘It takes money to make money’, and that for too long this was the situation in the music business. It turned out expensive to get your songs discovered by the key record labels, and if you did get noticed, odds would be fairly slim it would go much further then that. However, the advance in technologies has meant that anyone may press up their very own Cds and distribute them for profit.

There are two primary methods to press up your own Cds, doing it yourself, or paying a company to get it done for you. We are going to be checking out the first method, as it can be undoubtedly the less expensive of the two.

Before you start to press up your Cds, what you need are plastic CD cases, blank compact disks, your working computer where you’ll duplicate your music via, and a high quality printer and printer paper to print your compact disk covers. And that’s it. After getting every one of these things in place, what you need to do is this;

Firstly, you need to copy the master CD onto your computer. This can be done very easily with much of the common Compact disk copying software on the market, you’d probably have Windows Media Player on your computer for instance (Apple Mac users however could simply ‘drag and drop’ their songs off the master Compact disk to copy it onto their computer). It’s essential to make sure the quality you copy the compact disk is of a good bit-rate (Google this if you are uncertain exactly what that means), a high bit-rate WAV file being the data format of choice if you would like it to be exactly like the original.

When the music is on your hard drive, you need to insert a blank compact disk which you’ll duplicate your music to. Make sure you use AUDIO compact disks instead of data CDs since the latter can’t be played on many compact disk players. Depending on the speed of your driver in addition to the duration of the CD you are duplicating, this could take a varying period of time to copy. Now repeat the procedure duplicating the desired amount of CDs.

Printing is the last stage. You need to print your created compact disk covers onto the paper or card, and fit them into your plastic CD cases. After this you put your CDs into your plastic CD cases and that’s it, your own home made CD ready to be sold!

We have each heard the expression ‘It takes money to make money’, and that for too long this was the situation in the music business. It turned out expensive to get your songs discovered by the key record labels, and if you did get noticed, odds would be fairly slim it would go much further then that. However, the advance in technologies has meant that anyone may press up their very own Cds and distribute them for profit. There are two primary methods to press up your own Cds, doing it yourself, or paying a company to get it done for you. We are going to be checking out the first method, as it can be undoubtedly the less expensive of the two. Before you start to press up your Cds, what you need are plastic CD cases, blank compact disks, your working computer where you’ll duplicate your music via, and a high quality printer and printer paper to print your compact disk covers. And that’s it. After getting every one of these things in place, what you need to do is this; Firstly, you need to copy the master CD onto your computer. This can be done very easily with much of the common Compact disk copying software on the market, you’d probably have Windows Media Player on your computer for instance (Apple Mac users however could simply ‘drag and drop’ their songs off the master Compact disk to copy it onto their computer). It’s essential to make sure the quality you copy the compact disk is of a good bit-rate (Google this if you are uncertain exactly what that means), a high bit-rate WAV file being the data format of choice if you would like it to be exactly like the original. When the music is on your hard drive, you need to insert a blank compact disk which you’ll duplicate your music to. Make sure you use AUDIO compact disks instead of data CDs since the latter can’t be played on many compact disk players. Depending on the speed of your driver in addition to the duration of the CD you are duplicating, this could take a varying period of time to copy. Now repeat the procedure duplicating the desired amount of CDs. Printing is the last stage. You need to print your created compact disk covers onto the paper or card, and fit them into your plastic CD cases. After this you put your CDs into your plastic CD cases and that’s it, your own home made CD ready to be sold!