CD Production/Pressing

Our band is ready to have our CD manufactured, we've researched a little. We want 500 cd's made for now, we figured it would be around $1000. Does anybody have any place to recomend for this?

Thanks.

Try Discmakers or Oasis.

I just had some CD pressed for my band. We looked at getting 500 done, but realized that it was much more cost effective to get 1000 printed.

we spent about 1300 to record the album. The cost of having 500 cd's printed was close to $1000. making our total cost $2300. So, to break even, we needed to sell 230 cd's at $10 a peice. The jump to printing 1000 cds only took the printing cost up to $1300. Our total for 1000 cd's is $2600, meaning we have to sell 260 cd's at $10 a peice to beak even.

The whole band decided that if we could sell 230 cd's, we could also sell 260 cds. With the 1000 cd route we would also end up with many more extra copies to send to radio stations, record companies, bars/clubs, etc... Trust me, you will be giving a lot of CD's away for free... so its good to have lots...

We used a company called CDMAN. I dont have their website handy, but I am sure you can google the name and find them.

Have Fun

Ben

Thanks for the input. I've noticed you can double the amount for fairly cheap. This more of a demo recording that we are going to use in press kits. So a healthy chunk will probably go out for free, and not to be so pessimistic, but we would never go through 1000. Not now.

I woulndt be so sure.... we got our cds two weeks ago, and have already given close to 100 away for promo...

Have Fun

I should have mentioned we are incapable of playing live shows. 1000 would be a better move if we had a live band, but we are shot right now and hoping this demo will bring in some new people.