How to make 2 song ID's, but not separate audio?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:33 pm

Hello,
I'm mixing a project where 2 songs segue together, but I don't want to have an audio break for cd ID. Can I do an ID with Jam? It's going to be mastered by someone else, but I was wanting to do a quick pseudo master for demo purposes.
Thanks,
Chas

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:04 pm

Do you mean that you want 2 tracks with no pause between them?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:33 pm

Yes. A there needs to be no audible cut between songs, but they should list as two separate songs on the track ID. Probably not as difficult as I'm thinking?
Thanks

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:37 pm

Oh, and the songs should go from one to the other, seemlessly on the cd player.
Thanks

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:02 pm

Ahh...that should be easy. I don't know the software you're using, so I can't give you specific instructions. I recall in Nero, there was an option to either turn off the break between tracks (and then go into a wave-form and drop your track markers) or to specify whatever length gap you want.

Your software should have a similar option. The default is set for 2 seconds. Keep an eye out for a setting there in which that is the default and there you go.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:22 pm

Thanks. That was the solution. I appreciate the help.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:11 am

With Wavelab this is called play in pause.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:49 am

I wanted the end of one track to overlap the beginning of the next track. So, I ended up bouncing the 2 tracks together as one file in ProTools. I then cut the bounced track and put them together in Jam with no pause. They now flow together seamlesslly, but if you want to go straight to the 2nd song on the cd, there is no fade up. It's a pretty harsh start.

A fade would kind of undermine the whole segue thing. Is this what I'm going to have to live with?

Thanks for the help

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:14 am

You are going to have to live with a harsh start on most CD players unless you can move the split between the songs to somewhere that makes more sense musically. Some (in fact most) mastering software will allow you to audition the effect of moving the start index without having to burn a CD. One other thing worth remembering is that some CD players automatically fade tracks in so you need to allow a little bit of time for this.

Cheers

James.

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