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Golden Master? About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Golden Master? // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by 2much4U // May 8, 2007, 12:36pm 2much4U Total Posts: 430 Uh...sorry if I missed this info somewhere, but what, exactly, is "Golden Master?" I've seen that title in several places but never really got a definition. Post by Steinie // May 8, 2007, 12:43pm Steinie Total Posts: 3667 It's explained many ways here: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=2757 Post by Garion // May 8, 2007, 12:46pm Garion Total Posts: 116 Back in the Bronze Age of computing when CD-R's were new and sparkly they were gold coloured. The Gold master is the final CD-R with the finished application that is sent to the duplicators to create the Glass master CD which in turn is used to press the CD yoo put in in yer drive.:) Now that we are living in 'modern times' I do not know if glass masters are still used....:confused: Cheers Garion Post by Burnart // May 8, 2007, 2:17pm Burnart Total Posts: 839 Golden Master? Sounds like a Buddhist martial arts superhero - perhaps he uses golden disks as ninja stars? Post by W!ZARD // May 8, 2007, 9:11pm W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 Back in the Bronze Age of computing when CD-R's were new and sparkly they were gold coloured. The Gold master is the final CD-R with the finished application that is sent to the duplicators to create the Glass master CD which in turn is used to press the CD yoo put in in yer drive.:) Now that we are living in 'modern times' I do not know if glass masters are still used....:confused: Cheers Garion the "Gold Master" term dates from well before compact discs. IIRC back in the days of 12 inch vinyl long playing phonograph records it was customary for the final mix from the studio tapes to be etched onto a gold master - literally a gold record. From this gold master the stamping dies were cast for the actual manufacture of the vinyl records themselves. Should a recording be sufficiently popular - ie sell enough copies - to warrant a further pressing then a new gold master would be made. New stamping dies would be cast from this new gold master (the original stamps were customarily destroyed after the first print run for copyright and anti-piracy reasons I believe). In such cases it became customary to present the original gold master records to the performing artists - hence the term gold record and derivative terms such as 'Solid Gold hits' and so on. In terms of modern computer software I suspect that gold (the metal) plays very little part and the Gold Master refered to here is actually a finalised file incorporating all the bells and whistles in the form that the software will finally be released. " (Excerpt copied from the thread linked to by Steinie) Post by jayr // May 9, 2007, 1:06am jayr Total Posts: 1074 Golden Master? Sounds like a Buddhist martial arts superhero - perhaps he uses golden disks as ninja stars? i was just thinking that! Sounds like a classic 70's kung fu film: Wong Kar Wai is :banana: THE GOLDEN MASTER!:banana: Post by W!ZARD // May 9, 2007, 1:36am W!ZARD Total Posts: 2603 i was just thinking that! Sounds like a classic 70's kung fu film: Wong Kar Wai is :banana: THE GOLDEN MASTER!:banana: "Much to learn, you have, young padawan" ;) Post by brotherx // May 9, 2007, 1:49am brotherx Total Posts: 538 "Much to learn, you have, young padawan" ;) I think you'll find that's Jedi master. ;) It's also a bit sad that I know this...just a little, but enough... Post by Garion // May 9, 2007, 2:04am Garion Total Posts: 116 The term 'Golden Master' and variants therof are used in many industries, my explantation was of its use it computing :D Bring back 'punched cards' and batch processing trollys with special sections for the gold master cards ;) Cheers Garion

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