Commercial Audio CD Media Questions

Factual Questions
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How does a commercial audio CD from an artist differ from the audio CD’s that you can buy and burn yourself? Are there different duplicators that are used for these CD’s? Do they both use dye to record the information?

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      • Commercial CD’s are pressed, not burned.
  • As to what other differences there are in the CD material I don’t know, but a couple people in the Audio Forums/Recording Message Board work at pro studios and probably do:
    http://www.recordingwebsite.com/
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