What is a Red Book standard audio CD?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

When reading through the terms and conditions at your favorite CD and DVD duplication facility’s website, you come across a term you aren’t familiar with.

“All CD duplication projects are done on Red Book standard audio media”.

What is the Red Book of audio, what are the media standards it has set, and why is it so important?

What does an audio engineer do when mastering music?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

So you’re a musician that just recorded your first album. You probably went into a recording studio and played all of your parts a couple of times, with the audio engineer handling all of the technical stuff. As far as you know, they should be able to take all the parts they recorded, burn it to a disc, and then it should be ready to press.