How to Dub CDs

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:

• CD Players
• CD Recorders
• Blank Audio CDs
• Portable CD Players

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

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

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

4. Insert a blank audio CD into the CD recorder.

5. Press Record on the CD recorder.

6. Immediately press Play on the CD player.

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.