Making your CD or DVD with CDPDX
Record your main CD or DVD
SuperDigital’s Pro Audio Store can sell you the recording gizmos you need to do it yourself
Or we can assist you by tracking drums or mixing your album in our ProTools studios.
Deal with copyright & licensing
You must own or control the content. If you’re performing your own music, & are using zero samples of someone else’s music. you do not need to get a license from anyone!
However, you need to submit an IPR Form with your finished master for our plant so they don’t get sued by the RIAA, & indicate on it that you own the content. Download our CDPDX Order Form which contains this stuff.
Register with the Feds
You should protect your own songs by registering with ASCAP (ascap.com), or BMI (bmi.com).
When you record someone else’s song, obtain a mechanical license from the original writer(s) & publisher of the song.
Contact the Harry Fox Agency (212) 370-5330 (www.nmpa.org), or contact the song’s publisher directly.
Submit a copy of your mechanical license, or proof that you have applied for it for any cover
songs, with your CD or DVD master.
If you use someone else’s performance, software or samples on your CD, even if your CD is not for sale, you need to get a master use license from the original artist or the artist’s label, or by contacting the owner of the software for a CD-ROM, enhanced CD, or DVD.
Provide a copy of your master use license, or proof that you have applied for the master use license, with your finished CD or DVD master.
If you have images in your CD or DVD artwork that are owned by someone else, obtain rights to reproduce these materials prior to manufacturing in order to protect yourself from copyright violation.
Start thinking about your cover design.
Gather up artwork, photos, logos , lyrics, credits, thank you’s etc., Consider handing this off to a professional graphic designer- its worth the investment! Read the Printing Requirements Print Requirements.Read them when you’re ready to submit the artwork for your project’s printing, Digital file for your graphics can be submitted on CD or ftp’d to us.
Give the designer a sample of your music plus some examples of other CD’s you like.
Consider packaging options like eco cards, DigiPak, jewelcase, card sleeves, etc.
See us for professional Music Mastering.
Great room. Great mastering engineers with years of experience.
Mastering is more than some dude applying a $59 program on his computer. Check out our Purple Mastering lab.
We Manufacture your CD or DVD
We coordinate all phases of manufacturing – printing the inserts, duplicating the CD’s or DVD’s, & package the finished product.
Delivery Dates Altho delivery dates have to be approximate by nature, we’ll bend over backwards whenever we can. Just remember everybody else thinks they are just as important. Please, please, don’t schedule a CD release party till you have product in your hands. Murphy’s law lives. Any number of steps in the process can create unexpected delays. We just want to be honest about this after 20 years of making albums. It’s better not to be tied to date.
Email is not 100% reliable. It could cause delays in your of proofing your printed materials.
You can call us anytime to speak with real human 10-5 Mon-Fri. 503-228-2222.
Color Matching All printed inserts are “gang-run”. This allows us to offer printing at the lowest cost to you, but also means that exact Pantone color matching for any one job is not possible.
Bar Code (UPC) For store sales, you must have a UPC (Universal Product Code) included in the packaging . We include this free in the packages that specify this. We will generate one for your artwork.
To place your order please send us the following things:
- Order Form Includes this stuff: 1. instructions to us, 2. master CD/DVD sign off, 3. The IPR form for our pressing plant.
Review our order form & “What you should know” section & make sure you understand it. Sign the order form in the 3 needed locations
- CD or DVD master to our mastering specifications.
- CD or DVD graphic design on disc, or stuffed for our ftp, to our graphic specifications.
- Payment PayPal, VISA ,MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, with signed credit card authorization form. (Your credit card statement will say Superdigital.) Cash is appreciated if you’re delivering your order in person. Certified check or cashier’s check. Money order. No personal checks. Debit cards OK.
Send it all to:
CDPDX / A Div. of SuperDigital Ltd.
1150 N.W. 17th
Portland OR 97209
- Contact us by Email anytime:
cd at cdpdx.com,
graphics at cdpdx.com
ftp: ftp.superdigital.com
user: graphics@superdigital.com
password: (please call)
- 503-228-2222
