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Post by mitchkricun on Feb 25, 2021 1:20:42 GMT -6
ibb.co/jgXWCr0Back in ‘96 I bought a Marantz CD Burner for a mere $4500! The Studio I worked at would give the clients their mixes on 1/2” 456 or DAT for Mastering and transferred those to Cassettes for $5 each for the individual band members. The only other place in town (Philly) to get a CD burned was a Mastering house that charged $75 a piece. I paid the thing off in 6 months charging only $50 a piece! A steal! Every band member would happily buy one and then go show their friends how they hit the big time cuz they were on a CD. Ahh, the good ol’ days... I just came across this receipt and it gave me a smile, so I thought I’d share. Have a great day friends!
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Post by mitchkricun on Feb 25, 2021 1:22:22 GMT -6
Oh, and TDK sounded the BEST..... ;-)
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Post by askomiko on Feb 25, 2021 2:11:40 GMT -6
Yes, and decade later the CDs didn't work anymore. I think I paid 100 for my first CDs too, and it was wonderful  |
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Post by gwlee7 on Feb 25, 2021 6:08:00 GMT -6
I fondly remember lusting after those multi-unit cassette dubbing systems thinking that If I could get one of those, I could stick it to the man by releasing/selling my own music. Never mind that I was always at best a starving musician whose bands were semi-known on the semi-known circuits. |
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Post by ericn on Feb 25, 2021 6:38:20 GMT -6
Yes, and decade later the CDs didn't work anymore. I think I paid 100 for my first CDs too, and it was wonderful They didn’t play that great back then😁 oh those single bay real-time CD recorders bring back memories, pleasant ones of selling Mesa and not so pleasant ones of the decks them selves. |
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Post by Ward on Feb 25, 2021 7:32:36 GMT -6
There was a cheaper option . . . a SCSI CD burner and a DAT machine with the SPDIF hooked up to a soundcard on your Powermac! Quantec? I still have all that stuff somewhere, the Powermac, the SCSI CD burner, the 9GB (!!!) hard drive just for the transfers.
And that was 1995.
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Post by EmRR on Feb 25, 2021 7:42:16 GMT -6
My HHB CDR-800 is still going strong, and best sounding player I have owned.
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Post by mitchkricun on Feb 25, 2021 7:55:33 GMT -6
If I remember correctly, and I may have my dates wrong, but at the time there were two standalone options. The Marantz and a Studer that was going for around 7k. I didn’t think the SCSI option was available yet, but could be wrong. Maybe I got the deck earlier? My Marantz still works, but I only use it as a Player.
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Post by ericn on Feb 25, 2021 10:25:23 GMT -6
If I remember correctly, and I may have my dates wrong, but at the time there were two standalone options. The Marantz and a Studer that was going for around 7k. I didn’t think the SCSI option was available yet, but could be wrong. Maybe I got the deck earlier? My Marantz still works, but I only use it as a Player. It was probably the fact that at first you couldn’t really burn audio at anything faster than 2x speed and you still had to QC them in real time. The Marantz was the least finicky of the first generation. It wasn’t until the HHB about a year or 2 later that you could find a affordable machine you could trust. Around the same time multiple drive duplicating towers appeared. These were great but you really still needed to QC each disk in real-time. real-time Cassettes ruled until the Blank CDRs dropped below a buck with case. |
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Post by drumsound on Feb 25, 2021 13:39:25 GMT -6
I used to go in with a buddy who ran a small label to get bulk deals on Matisuita disks.
Later on, I had a client who ended up buying an automated burner and printer system. I used to have him print the studio logo and contact info on blanks so when I burned one-offs they had the info. He also did a lot of short-run things for my other clients.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2021 13:44:18 GMT -6
There was a cheaper option . . . a SCSI CD burner and a DAT machine with the SPDIF hooked up to a soundcard on your Powermac! Quantec? I still have all that stuff somewhere, the Powermac, the SCSI CD burner, the 9GB (!!!) hard drive just for the transfers. And that was 1995. 9 GB was huge then! I remember having 2 GB in 1996 and thinking I could never fill it. |
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Post by Tbone81 on Feb 25, 2021 13:45:11 GMT -6
I remember feeling like hot shit because I had TWO 10gb scsi hard drives...and I didn’t now anyone who had that much storage...lol
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Post by askomiko on Feb 26, 2021 5:32:55 GMT -6
Burning and printing CDs that had inkjet printable label side was easy money, good for child labor manufacturing too. "Here, print these 200 CDs, I'll pay you 50cnt each."
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Post by wiz on Feb 26, 2021 7:27:47 GMT -6
In 1994 I got a vs880. CDRWs here in oz were 30 bucks and CD-R was 10 bucks....I was in heaven I could make and sell CD s for 20 bucks....
How times have changed
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