Anybody's bedroom produced, crappily engineered, poorly mastered CD signed to a major label and getting steady commercial radio airplay?

Didn't think so...

Just because your friends and fans at the local nursing home/watering hole don't return your CD doesn't mean it doesn't sound like poo... Or that, if it sounded better, they wouldn't like it MORE (and thousands more would like it, too)

Look, while we decry the state that things have gotten to, on the whole, most commercially recorded CD's still sound FAR better than most home productions. And sell in MUCH higher numbers. Maybe you DO just want a 'vanity' CD, to sell to the locals. Nothing wrong with that. Have done it myself.

But if you DO want to take it to the next level, sooner or later (sooner if you want to succeed!) you are going to HAVE to take the audio quality seriously. As bad as it can get, I have yet to hear anything posted here that even approached the quality of the BAD modern label productions..!

And the customers DO care... they are buying these CD's at Best Buy and WalMarts. Not your home produced stuff...

And, Ensnareyou, next time you run into EveAnna, thank her for making a couple of SUPERB pieces of kit.