apskarp
519 posts
Aug 06, 2011
11:41 AM
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Our album is starting to be ready for mastering. Now the next question is where to find a good mastering + cheap place to press the CD's and the covers...
As the world is getting global I wonder if you happen to have any suggestions? The mastering is pretty easy to find locally but cheap CD's & covers might be somewhere else. I guess it should be in the Europe (or Asia) to get decent postages..
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lumpy wafflesquirt
396 posts
Aug 06, 2011
1:23 PM
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DIY
get a cd burner that can also print on the CD and you are good to go. You can do as few or as many as you like.
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apskarp
520 posts
Aug 06, 2011
11:22 PM
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Hmmm,
The burner costs money too and I don't know what the quality of the printing is. Another thing is that the CD's need the cover books too and those should be printed on a nice quality paper etc. Lots of work and probably the price per CD wouldn't be much less than what those companies take. The cheapest price per CD (including the jewel box + booklet) I've found so far from Finland is 2 euros..
However, that would be a viable option to make small series of CD's if one has the burner already..
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Big Daddy Ray
125 posts
Aug 06, 2011
11:55 PM
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Do you already have the booklet designed?
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Kingley
1578 posts
Aug 07, 2011
12:02 AM
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Let me just give an alternate view of things and play Devil's Advocate for a minute.
Do you really need a CD to sell?
I'm presuming that you are having to buy in bulk to get the 2 euro per CD cost. My only thought then is that you should be sure you can sell however many CD's that is before you outlay a load of money to produce them. So many bands/artists delude themselves with the thought that they can easily sell say 1000 CD's at gigs etc, in a short space of time. The reality is that a lot of bands/artists only sell a handful of CD's at gigs in a year at the amateur or semi-pro level. I personally know of so many people that have boxes and boxes full of unsold CD's from the various bands that they have been in. That's a lot of cash outlaid that will never been seen again.
As long as you can stand to lose the amount of cash involved in the venture, then I'd say go for it. If however you can't then I'd take a long hard serious objective look at the reality of the situation before outlaying your cash. It's all too easy to be swept along in the tide of people telling you that you are wonderful and the band is great and you really need a CD to sell, because people keep asking for them at gigs. The reality is usually very, very different. You can often find that those people that said to you at gigs "Oh I really wish you had a CD for sale." Often disappear into the ether when that product is suddenly available.
Now I'm not saying don't go for it. I'm just saying go into it with your eyes wide open. Of course you may have already considered these options. If so then please disregard everything I've said.
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Rubes
385 posts
Aug 07, 2011
1:48 AM
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You could always get a 'short run' of a hundred or so, cause lets face it, you just done your album and you WILL sell some mate for sure! Don't let the cost hold you back. I'm just about to do the same thing and am looking at a site called 'Tunecore'? Check it out .... :~}
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jbone
597 posts
Aug 07, 2011
7:17 AM
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as for mastering, can't help there. but once you have it mastered check out these guys for repro's-
kunaki dot com
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walterharp
677 posts
Aug 07, 2011
7:34 AM
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our band used a local studio, full costs for cd and everything were about $1000, we had 300 made and over 2 years sold 250 at $10 each.. the band did not get rich, but we covered our costs and produced a cd we could use to leave in bars, send to festivals etc....plus the fans learned our original tunes and request them, which feels good
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apskarp
521 posts
Aug 07, 2011
10:56 AM
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Thank's for the advice everybody!
@Kingley: We have recorded and mixed the songs in pro studios so we've already used some money to the record - thus it's not an option to start to think whether we need the CD or not.. :)
Anyway, we are not trying to get rich, this is just a hobby for us and it has been interesting experience to do this record. I have learned a lot and both my singing and harp playing have improved a lot.
As for the CDs, we want to have 200 CDs to be sold at the gigs + around 80 CDs to be sent to the radio stations, magazines etc. So its rather small set of CDs that we are making. But who knows, if there would be more interest we can always make more of these.. :) (Nowadays there are also many possibilities to sell the albums/songs in electronic format.)
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DanP
203 posts
Aug 07, 2011
3:36 PM
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I would think that the cost would depend on whether you want to put out a CD-R or a regular factory CD. Would it not? I don't know, thats a question. Today's fast paced digital technology is so rapid, I can't keep up with it. I was reading just today that physical CDs are becoming a thing of the past-being replaced by digital files. Since about all new CD players today can play a CD-R, why not make a few hundred of those and sell the rest as digital downloads?
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jbone
598 posts
Aug 07, 2011
4:56 PM
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with the folks i mentioned- Kunaki- you can get as few or as many as you need at a time for relatively low cost. we get a box ordered when we get low and they arrive within a week.
the cds they have sent us play on nearly all players, we had one gal whose very old player would not play it, out of over 100 sold so far.
this jobber reproduces what is sent them exactly and they have done a fine job so far.
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apskarp
523 posts
Aug 07, 2011
10:17 PM
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Yes, the kunaki seemed pretty good. However, the postages to Europe nearly doubled the price per CD. Still, if one is making only small batches it would be viable option.. So we might end up getting a smaller batch (lets say 150) from some local factory and then switch to the kunaki or some other company like that...
CD-R is what the copying companies offer for small batches (say below 300)
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Matzen
207 posts
Aug 08, 2011
8:14 PM
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Check out these:
Oasis Disc Manufacturing: www.oasiscd.com
Disc Makers: www.discmakers.com
Rom Squared: www.romsquared.com
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