TRADING POLICIES:
- 1 CDR for 1 CDR, quality CDRs, DAO, no MP3s please, no cases, airmail (overseas), provide artwork (as high quality as possible) or tracklist.
- Trade one-for-one (2-CD sets count as 2, etc.).
- Use good quality CD-R's - no cheap CompUSA or no-name discs please.
- Record DAO (Disc-at-Once) - no 2-second gaps between tracks (particularly for live shows!)
- Take every care to make the best quality copies you can; you'll get the best quality recordings I can make in return. I get many CDs with clicks, pops and little bursts of "static" introduced by poor duplication strategies; the following techniques should always be used to generally eliminate the introduction of such pollution...
- Copying directly from another CD (?on-the-fly?) often introduces clicks and pops, so please extract the audio to your hard drive or make a disk image first. See Exact Audio Copy for a great free tool to insure flawless recordings.
- Limit your write speed to 8x or less. Even if your writer does not report any errors at higher speeds does not mean that clicks, pops and other distortions are not being written to the target disk. If you have an older PC even 8x may be too high.
- Don't run other applications when burning CDs (same reason as the last item).
- No MP3-sourced recordings; PLEASE be honest.
- If shipping internationally you must ALWAYS use AirMail, as Surface Mail is WAY TOO SLOW! If shipping domestically, please do not use Media Mail, it takes too long (Priority Mail is preferred, but not essential).
- Do not write on the discs (if you use anything other than water-based markers it is likely to leak through and destroy the CD, sometimes in less than one year), just include a note or post-it with each one indicating what is on it. Please email any setlists, source information, and artwork that you have (klewis@vertisinc.com).
If you spot something on this list which you know is available as an in-print officially released CD, let me know so I can remove it from my list. I do not knowingly trade copies of CD's which can be purchased legally. The "studio" CDs I have listed are (to the best of my knowledge) either out-of-print or available only as imports (in which case I will only trade them domestically).
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