John V. Moore, you asked,
>I am getting ready to burn the master CD for Volume 2 of The Birds of
>Northwest Ecuador. I have read conflicting advice pertaining to the speed I
>should use to burn these master CDs. Some say to use a low speed (2X) as this
>will do the best job. Others say to use a high speed (40X) as this will
>decrease the chance of errors. I asked the duplicator who will be reproducing
>the CDs from the master and he said the burn speed was a gray area. Any ideas?
There is no general rule, it depends on your burner and the blank
stock. Usually lower speeds burn hotter (meaning more readable on
marginal players) but there are exceptions. My tests for the
California Library of Natural Sounds archive project showed that
their 4x burns were hotter than their 1x or 2x. You can send me test
discs of different stocks/burn speeds and I can tell you what you're
getting. I only check track 1, if you want to save time just burn one
track for the tests.
I'll trade you the evaluation service for the donation of a couple of
copies of the final publication to the Nature Sounds Society.
-Dan Dugan
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