John Nastos.com » CD Making http://johnnastos.com Website of Portland, Oregon saxophonist and composer John Nastos Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:22:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-beta-2 en hourly 1 Considerations for making a CD http://johnnastos.com/2008/03/considerations-for-making-a-cd/ http://johnnastos.com/2008/03/considerations-for-making-a-cd/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:54:20 +0000 John Nastos http://www.johnnastos.com/considerations-for-making-a-cd/ In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time researching what…

]]> In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time researching what it takes to put out a CD – not even the music portion, just the physical product.  The first major concern has been how many to print.  Using most companies, it’s most economical to have them press 1000 copies, and it seems difficult to find a way to make less without using CD-Rs.

Packaging is another major concern.  The practical environmentalist in me wants to choose something made out of cardboard, with little or no plastic.  However, (some) people expect a professional product to come in the same plastic jewel case that has been the industry standard since CDs came out.  If I break down and end up going the jewel-case route, I’d like to at least forgo the plastic shrink-wrap which is a pretty meaningless waste of petroleum.

Composer and band-leader Andrew Durkin has had some pretty interesting stuff on his blog recently about choosing packaging – he recently settled on the “Arigato Pak,” which is made locally by Stumptown Printers.  While it seems like an attractive product, I’m still leaning a bit towards Digipaks.

So much to consider…

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]]> You can check out a couple of clips from the Old Church concert at the sounds page now.  Also, you can find two full-length tracks on my MySpace profile.

Right now, I’m considering releasing concert as a CD, but it’ll probably take me a while to figure out if that’s what I really want to do.  If I decide not to, you’ll find more full-length tracks for download on this page later.

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