...as long as no one believes that simply having your music in red book format means that it's "radio ready". That is definitely not the case.

You could record 10 3-minute tracks of your cat shrieking to your out-of-tune Stella guitar onto a 16-bit 44.1Khz CD and it would meet "Redbook" standards, but it sure wouldn't be "radio-ready".

From another angle, you could use $4000 microphones and $6000 mic preamps to record the London Philharmonic orchestra performing Stravinsky onto a voice-activated microcassette, burn it to a CD, and it wouldn't be radio-ready either.

Redbook is simply the technical and physical specifications of how audio is to be stored and retrieved on CDs. "Radio-ready" and "Broadcast quality" are terms referring to how good it sounds in a competitive situation with other similar material. If you played your recording next to another one playing on the radio, would anyone be able to tell whether yours was done outside a pro studio? That's all they mean.


Larry
http://www.audibleresponse.com
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