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.)

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Step1
Connect the digital outputs from the CD player to the digital inputs on the CD recorder.
Step2
If you wish to record specific tracks, program the CD player accordingly.
Step3
Check the CD recorder manual for information about recording cues, if appropriate.
Step4
Insert a blank audio CD into the CD recorder.
Step5
Press Record on the CD recorder.
Step6
Immediately press Play on the CD player.
Step7
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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