Years ago, I transferred all of the A&M Baja Marimba Band material to CD using a standalone CD recorder and some fairly clean albums. At the time I made these, only the DIGITALLY MASTERED BEST and the Collectors Choice CDs existed commonly, so whenever a track from one of those came up I used it.
In 2002, the Timeless Music 3-CD set was issued which put in the back of my mind the fact that I should do these again using some new-to-CD tracks to master my albums with. Since then even FRESH AIR came out in Japan on official CD.
So today I finally decided to get busy. The old CD-R's that I'd made were somewhat crude. Some of them had track indexing problems that I couldn't correct, and with some better software tools on the computer, I could now do some better editing, click removal, etc.
I finished the first three in chronological order, and am reasonably happy with my results. Having the ability to make discs with CD-Text that displays in the car is another improvement.
Given the state of the music business, I've pretty much given up hope that any more official CDs of Julius and the gang will ever show up, so I had to take matters into my own hands. Use the vinyl and do the best job I can on creating serviceable CD-Rs.
It appears at this point that my noisiest LP is FOR ANIMALS ONLY - and wouldn't you know, that album has the least amount of CD tracks available (aside from AS TIME GOES BY). I'd also forgotten how deep the bass is on some of these tracks. Incredible!
Harry
In 2002, the Timeless Music 3-CD set was issued which put in the back of my mind the fact that I should do these again using some new-to-CD tracks to master my albums with. Since then even FRESH AIR came out in Japan on official CD.
So today I finally decided to get busy. The old CD-R's that I'd made were somewhat crude. Some of them had track indexing problems that I couldn't correct, and with some better software tools on the computer, I could now do some better editing, click removal, etc.
I finished the first three in chronological order, and am reasonably happy with my results. Having the ability to make discs with CD-Text that displays in the car is another improvement.
Given the state of the music business, I've pretty much given up hope that any more official CDs of Julius and the gang will ever show up, so I had to take matters into my own hands. Use the vinyl and do the best job I can on creating serviceable CD-Rs.
It appears at this point that my noisiest LP is FOR ANIMALS ONLY - and wouldn't you know, that album has the least amount of CD tracks available (aside from AS TIME GOES BY). I'd also forgotten how deep the bass is on some of these tracks. Incredible!
Harry