Members fetuspetus Posted November 26, 2003 Members Share Posted November 26, 2003 Hey all of you experienced bands: my band is going to be making a demo in the near future and we are goign to be needed to reproduce them, so what is more efficient... burning them yourself, having them duplicated at like diskfactory... or replicating them... any info on this subject would be awesome... including what is better altogether... basically right now i'm thinking of making my own copies on my PC and just putting them in white envelopes and using a little sticker on the cd with the band name, website, and song list... any thoughts for me? we are not very rich and this demo is to test the waters basically with the audience/fanbase... Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChristopherM Posted November 26, 2003 Members Share Posted November 26, 2003 At $79 for 100 CDs through disc factory, it sure beats making them yourself! Plus, they're thermal-printed so you don't have to make stickers, which are a pain in the butt and can cause problems with some car CD players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuitarDude Posted November 30, 2003 Members Share Posted November 30, 2003 Originally posted by ChristopherM At $79 for 100 CDs through disc factory, it sure beats making them yourself! Plus, they're thermal-printed so you don't have to make stickers, which are a pain in the butt and can cause problems with some car CD players. do you have the website to disc factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ministry of FOG Posted November 30, 2003 Members Share Posted November 30, 2003 I have a friend that does "DIY" CD-R duplication and thought it was a great way to go, until I ran into one big problem. You can't play CD-R's in all systems. I thought it was bogus until a friend of mine who made over 1000 CD's with this guy got response back that almost 1/3 of them wouldn't play in most CD players. I would recommend going to someone more reputable like Diskmakers, or something before trying to DIY. The cost may be more, but the end results are much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fetuspetus Posted November 30, 2003 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2003 Yes I know about both the problems of stickers and the problems of cds not playing..... i'm still just thinking.. .this is going to only be a 5 song demo... but i want to sell it to customers so... maybe i will get them replicatedBen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Parallex Posted December 1, 2003 Members Share Posted December 1, 2003 virtually all newer cd players (boomboxes, discmans, car stereos, cd changers, whatever) accept CD-R and mp3 as a formate now. I've heard of the press on labels causing problems, but I've used press on labels for a single I did years ago and I've never had any problems with those. Of course that's not to say some of the older cd players will encounter problems, but even then I personally haven't had problems playing any cd-r on anything. Although I will have to say 79 bucks for 100 is a pretty good deal. When you can sell your cd for $1 ea. and still be turning over a profit I'd say that's pretty damn good. Now bump it up to standard demo price of four or five bones, the price is easily recoverable. And if you put on a good show, demos fly off the table like hotcakes at the end, especially when they're cheaper items and people have that four or five bucks in change from paying the cover. Getting back to the original point, you are saving a lot of your time, and wear and tear on your computer burner and printer. Even adding it up yourself,......$30 for a cheap spool of CD-Rs...$15-30 for a pack of disc labels (that's assuming you already own the software), and you'll use a good chunk of printer ink, so throw in $30 for a new printer cartridge, easy math says you're spending the same, if not more, for an inferior product that requires a great deal of your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fetuspetus Posted December 1, 2003 Author Members Share Posted December 1, 2003 thanks for your advice guys Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChristopherM Posted December 1, 2003 Members Share Posted December 1, 2003 Here's the DiskFactory link:http://www.diskfaktory.com/mf/enter/home/default.asp?PakPage=BulkPak The press-on labels cause CDRs to get stuck in my car's CD changer sometimes (Mustang's Mach 460 changer) and I have to manually extract them with tweezers (not fun). They also sometimes get stuck in my girlfriends Subaru's player, but not as often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fetuspetus Posted December 1, 2003 Author Members Share Posted December 1, 2003 does anyone know of a better place? Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BassistSeth Posted December 2, 2003 Members Share Posted December 2, 2003 cdsender.com oasiscd.com omnidisc.net (I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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