At 01:36 PM 10/27/01 -0400, Christina Martineau wrote:
>
>Another use for a CD I'd like to add that for a producer the freedom to
>bring a CDR of a recent mixdown is very convenient, you can get a reaction
>of your track before ever pressing it. Sort of like a pre-test press. Tim
>Love Lee did this with Sexy Lady before the track was even mastered. His
>first playing of the track had the crowd screaming for more.
>
In THEORY that's true, but there's a certain amount of elitism involved. If
you're a producer who gives a DJ a CD-R, chances are they're either gonna
throw it in the trash (or if you're lucky, they'll probably listen to it in
the car, then chuck it). It doesn't really matter how good or bad the tune
is. And it doesn't matter of the DJ has access to a CD player in their DJ
setup or not.
On the other hand, if you have them a dubplate of the very same song
(regardless of quality), the producer instantly gains an amount of
credibility and has their chances of their tune being played by the DJ by
tenfold.
Of course DJs who produce will play their own CD-Rs, but will refuse to
play anyone else's CD-Rs.
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