In a typical situation, you might have put in a lot of effort in your craft and now people are finally taking notice and talking about your band. After you play some shows and people keep asking for your CD. I had always thought that if you want to release your CD, all you had to do is play in a few shows and you would get a contract where everything from the recording studio, organizing artwork and paying to manufacture it. That does not happen these days.

Currently, there technology is readily available for budding musicians to create, record and duplicate CDs. The duplication of CDs involves the use of CD-R media. The prices charged for CD-Rs have drastically reduced over the years compared to when CD recorders were first introduced to the market. This is an affordable way for you to copy your CDs and give them to friends, fans and families. This is especially useful if you are a new band that is just getting started in the music industry. If you have a limited budget, you can limit the number of CDs that you duplicate.

If you have a band that is ready to start selling CDs one of the options available is to make one CD that is retail ready and then replicate it. Are you wondering what a retail ready CD is? These CDs are the same ones you will find in music stores from major label artists. The CDs have great artwork printed on the inserts, silk art that has been screened on the CD, nice insert on the tray card and are shrink-wrapped.