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ok, jussasec...

say if you tape from the radio to a cassette deck the resulting cassette would be called a master, since it is the taper's master. the real master is, of course, somewhere at the radio station (or a westwood one's studios or wherever). Same thing applies to television, a VHS taped off tv is considered a "master" before it is copied even tho the real master is at the station.

the other funny thing that happens with the counting is when multiple formats are involved.

FM > CASS > CASS > CASS > CASS > DAT > DAT > DAT

so you could count that like FM, master, copy1, copy2, copy3, copy4, copy5, copy6 ... six times it was copied. but when the format changes the numbering starts over again.

the format change does not get labelled "master"!

most people would number it like this:

FM > CASS(m) > CASS(1) > CASS(2) > CASS(3) > DAT(1) > DAT(2) > DAT(3)

some people would call the first DAT above "zero" since it is the first of its kind but from what I've seen most people start the numbering on the new format at (1).

cassette generations add a lot more noise, DAT & CDR gens can add diginoise and such, so its not so simple as to just say the example above is "6th gen" or "3rd gen", that's a big reason why lineage is useful.


so for this case in point, you want to dump your MD masters to CDR... do you mean audio cdr?? is it because you have to do the transfers to a standalone?