what software for PC is best for recording audio from the masters out of my
DAW for ripping to CD... looking for a quick way of burning rough mixes to
CD without compromising too much quality?

"Martin Martini" wrote in
:

what software for PC is best for recording audio from the masters out
of my DAW for ripping to CD... looking for a quick way of burning
rough mixes to CD without compromising too much quality?

Once you get to a two channel 44.1/16 mix out of your DAW, whatever
software came with your CD writer will do fine. The software has no effect
on the sound quality.

The only possible loss at this stage is caused by errors writing the CD.
Those are controlled by the writer hardware and blank CDR quality.

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:17:02 GMT, "Martin Martini"
wrote:

what software for PC is best for recording audio from the masters out of my
DAW for ripping to CD... looking for a quick way of burning rough mixes to
CD without compromising too much quality?

Most any CD burning software, including that which comes with the
burner, will burn playable audio CD-R's from 44k/16bit stereo .wav
files, and if the CD-R "plays" without stuttering and skipping and
such, it's probably as high quality as a commercial disc. If you want
to make CD-R's that play on the widest range of players (if you give
it to others for listening on their home or car player), then there's
an 'art' to making CD-R's most compatible, as they often don't play on
older players that play pressed CD's just fine. The short-short
lesson: Don't burn at highest speed, use 74-minute CD-R's instead of
80-minute ones, use a "good" brand of CD-R (I've used Mitsui, though
what's 'good' might change over the years), and perhaps more I can't
remember right now.
Having said that, I've used the software from
http://www.goldenhawk.com with good results, and if I have a big .wav
file to break up into several tracks I used http://www.cdwave.com to
generate a .cue file that loads into the other program.

For more info, read the tome at http://www.cdrfaq.org.