CD Burner

[anyway]

Hello,
I've been bouncing songs out of protools down to 16 bit, Aiff at the 44.1 or what ever's right and then i try to burn them to CD and that's when I have the problem. I use toast (the free one that comes with the CD burner) I set it for disk at once under prefrence and burn at 1x on to a CD in my Que Fire Wire burner. It goes through the whole process of the lead in and lead out and burns the song, but when I take it out and try to play it in my boombox it can't even find the disc and when I played it in our really good CD player it found it but it took it about 30 seconds to find the first song, it sounded like it just kept searching for that whole time. If anybody could help me I'd be very happy as this is driving me nuts

Thanks,
Devon

[Dead River Studio]

Are you sure you've got "audio CD" selected?
And why are you burning at 1X? you can burn at 10 or 12 with that CD burner right?

DRS

[anyway]

Yeah I'm burning it as an Audio CD and I'm doing at one now because I Thought that would cause less problems. The fastest it can go is 8x

[RobbaDobba]

More and more evidence is coming up that 1X burning is NOT as good as at least 2X burning for accuracy. Most mastering houses won't accept anything but 2X burns.

I've burned at 8X with no audible effects, though I've found it depends solely on the blank media you use and how it works with your burner. Some burners and media aren't good mixes, and you'll have problems. It's all about trial and error.

On my Plextor 820 at work, I can't reliably burn 8X on KHypermedia CD-Rs, but at home on my Yamaha 8424, no problem!

[MichaelMacken]

Most mastering houses will only accept what?

I think you may be mistaken on that point.

[anyway]

Thanks for all the suggestions. but I figured out what the problem was and I feel like an idiot my CD player was broken....ahhhhh. But I still do have a question, why on pro CD's the cd player finds them faster then the CD's I make? Like on mine it it searches for a couple seconds first.

Devon

[chengod]

Hmmm...i always thought you wanted to burn as close to (ie.1x ) the original speed as possible for audio. To reduce the chance of artifacts and all that tech jargon? No...am I mistaken on this?

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flYboY

[proximityeffect]

since I've been burning Cd's for production (1991ish) I've been told that 2x is the best.
However, technology has come a long way since then (the cost of a computer and cd burner then could buy two G4 PT24 systems today!).