Pops between CD tracks

[BookSix]

I have noticed pops when my CD's switch from the end of one track to the begining of the gap between songs.

I mastered everything in protools, printing everything to track rather than bouncing by routing everything through an aux track with all my mastering plugins, then to an audio track. I put volume fade in/outs on the aux track at the beginning and end of each song so that when I actually start recording, the volume has a few ms at -infinity and then climbs. Same with the end, the track ends after the volume has reached -infinity. I figured this would guaruntee no pops. I export these files and put them into toast. Burn and check....POPS! Can anyone help? Thanks

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Are you burning using DAO (disk at once)... and have you made sure that your songs (regions or sound files) are all multiples of 588 samples in length?

Rail

[BookSix]

I AM burning using DAO, is that what i should be doing?

As for the multiples of 588, I have no clue, so obviously not. Why?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

As for the multiples of 588, I have no clue, so obviously not. Why?

Previous thread where I explained why.

Rail

[BookSix]

Thanks Rail, but I'm still kinda confused. I'm gonna reread the other post, but I wanted to ask if this only applies to the situation described where a continuous region is used, or if it applies to me too, where I am using a seperate region for each song, then printing the effects through a Aux and then exporting each song seperate. And if it does apply to me, whats the best way to tell if the song ends on a multiple of 588 frames?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Well there are usually only 2 things which can cause pops.. I've mentioned the first one.. the other is a DC offset - and I've never experienced one while bouncing to disk in Pro Tools.

What you have to do is simply select the region in Pro Tools and display the length in samples and divide that value by 588 if it doesn't divide exactly you should change the length so that it divides without any remainder.

Rail