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How to Dub CDs

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If you have an audio CD recorder and a separate CD player, you can make your own CD copies or mixes. (To dub CDs using a computer CD drive, see Related eHows.)

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Connect the digital outputs from the CD player to the digital inputs on the CD recorder.

  2. Step 2

    If you wish to record specific tracks, program the CD player accordingly.

  3. Step 3

    Check the CD recorder manual for information about recording cues, if appropriate.

  4. Step 4

    Insert a blank audio CD into the CD recorder.

  5. Step 5

    Press Record on the CD recorder.

  6. Step 6

    Immediately press Play on the CD player.

  7. Step 7

    Stop recording at the appropriate time unless the CD recorder has an auto shut-off feature, or you expect to fill an entire blank disc.

Tips & Warnings
  • Setting recording sound levels is unnecessary for making a digital recording from a digital source. (If recording from a tape or an LP, which are analog sources, you must set the recording levels.)
  • Avoid recording through a preamplifier or a receiver unless you have a digital preamplifier.
  • Phillips, and possibly other companies, makes a dual-well CD recorder that allows you to dub from one CD to another without jitter-inducing cabling or another CD player.
  • Use the best digital connectors possible.
  • Computer CD-R discs, which cost less than CD-audio discs, will not work in an audio CD recorder. Though methods of fooling your recorder into accepting the computer discs exist, doing so is in violation of U.S. law.
  • Avoid Toslink connectors.

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