Greetings,

Ok, I'm using Ahead Nero to burn my CDs and Im about to create a master CD to send off to a pressing plant for duplication.

However I want to make sure I'm mastering to red book standard so the plant dont reject it.

i have been mastering house and techno using Waves plugins for about 2 years now. mostly just for amatuer stuff and things i have produced as well.

Its funny how people always say you should send your stuff to the pro's but I've heard some work out of mastering houses that are crappy . They say these mastering house have high-endequipment so tell me how can they make a product worse . Out of respect for these engineers I wont mention the famous mastering house .

I have worked out a system of keeping mastered and un-masterd copies of my mixes.

Confessions:

For a few years I used a Finalizer on all mixes, totaly maxed out.

I gave that up in favor of mastering in a DAW, I auditioned Waves plugins directly against the Finalizer and Waves won (for EQ anyway) They were less harsh.