CD Recordings..... What Do U Know?


Hey,

Im just wondering.... I've heard that if you buy professional recording equipment from pro manufacturers such as tascam, your recording may come out even better then the original source in which u copied from. Well, I was just wondering.....how do recordings from PC Cdr-w's compare with the originals? Any input would be great!
puc103
i'm not sure about professional cd recordings but if you get dat and make a recording from vinyl you'll be indeed more successfull and have a recording much better than on regular red-book cd.
I have made recordings from a Pioneer cd recorder, Fostex pro cd recorder and from a pc. The Pioneer and the Fostex copies sound the same as the source, the pc recordings to me sound less dynamic and more compressed. This may be due to my cd recorder and computer soundcard. I notice that if I copy at four times speed on the pc the sound is is more compressed and less musical. This may be system dependent as I have much more money in the Fostex and the Pioneer recorders. I also use a Fostex DAT and it makes excellent recordings. Another positive with pro equipment there is no copyright issues and you can make as many digital copies as you please and you can use computer blank cdr(less expensive than cdr for a home audio recorder)
If you are going from a digital source to digital source and use any recorder that has jitter reduction you can often improve the sound. Professional equipment usually has very good clocking and you can often improve the sound. PCs can too improve the sound, but as Rec points out, if you are using an analog source you need to have a good sound card or your copy will sound considerably worse than the original.