I looked around and I liked CD Centric's website, they had things like the art templates I could look at right away and seemed pretty professional. I sent them Adove Illustrator files for the insert and an audio master which they pressed. I had the same feelings about the shrinkwrap/plastic cases as you just said. They look and feel good even though I should feel they're a waste.fluffy wrote:So, the big pile of Song Fighter CDs arrived yesterday. I have to say I'm pretty impressed with how good everyone else's CD looks/feels. Where does everyone get their CDs made? I feel very underwhelmed by Discmakers in comparison. I see Elaine DiMasi used CD Centric, who I'd never heard of, but most people just don't say (I haven't checked all of them though).
Well, Todd McHatton's is obviously (very lovingly!) home-made, or at least the packaging is. But the rest... there's something a lot more satisfying about how the jewelcases feel in my hands.
Also, I think I really should have sprung for the shrinkwrap, even though it's a huge waste of resources to encase the CD in something which specifically exists only to be thrown out right away.
It also looks like many of these were pressed, not short-run, which might explain the higher quality. I just couldn't justify spending that much money on that many CDs though, especially since it seems like digital downloads are where the future is.
I will probably never splurge on a print of 500 CDs again. Now that my dozen "best friends" have theirs
I will have to move two more out my door every day or still be looking at boxes of hundreds a year from now! Already plotting how to trick people into taking more of them for free ... BUT if I had not planned such a formal release, I probably would never have followed through on trying to master them as best I could. I would have stalled out somewhere without trying so hard or learning so much.I'm quite bitten by the bug now. The finish-the-project bug, not the expensive vanity print bug. Plans in the works to record a bunch of 1-3 year old projects with a friend - they'll all be better songs, a couple SFs will be in too - and make that a digital freebie.