Placing Your Order

Following the helpful guidelines below will help your order be processed quickly. With our FREE proofing, your project will look exactly as you intended. Three important things to keep in mind:

  1. Create an account and make sure your art is set up according to our specifications.
  2. Carefully listen all the way through your production master.
  3. Have the necessary forms below filled out and signed:

Resale and Tax-Exemption Forms

Organizations that are reselling merchandise purchased from A\S and charging their clients Texas State sales tax are required to fill out a resale form. We do require a Texas Sales or Use Tax permit number.

Some organizations such as recognized non-profit organizations and some city and state agencies are exempt from sales tax.

Copyright Indemnity

A\S values the rights of all artists and in order to protect the intellectual property of artists we require all non-original material (songs, graphics, clips) to be licensed. If you need help licensing materials you can visit the following websites:

DVD/Video/Multimedia Specs

DVD Duplication: Please submit a DVD-R master. Or have us professionally author one for you! We can also accept DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW with an additional $25 setup to transfer to DVD-R.

DVD Replication: Please submit a DLT or DVD-R master, or have our video engineers create one for you.

Video: We can accept virtually any data format and the following tape formats: VHS, MiniDV, VHS-C

Multimedia: We can create Flash presentations and menus, CD-ROM autoruns, custom graphics, and more! Contact us for details.

Preparing Your Sound or Data Master

Masters and Audio Proofs
If your master was not created at A\S Studios you may submit it to us as a Redbook Standard CD-R. If you do not have a Redbook Standard CD-R our audio engineers will take your Audio CD's or .wav files on CDR, 33 & 45 RPM Phonograph records, cassette tapes, 44.1 & 48 Khz DAT tapes or MiniDisc and convert it to a high quality CD master. If you have another format contact us, we'll work to accommodate your project. If you are burning your own master CD-R, you must burn it Disc-At-Once, not Track-At-Once. We strongly recommend burning your master no faster than 8x speed.

  • Audio master proofs are available with most projects within 2 business days. Complex projects may run longer.

Preparing Your Art/Graphics Files

If you will be providing your own artwork for any printed products, please carefully review our artwork specifications.

Turnaround Policy

We offer free 24 hour policy on 100 or less quantity CD-R orders after approval of your artwork. If you are placing a reorder, proofing will not be necessary except in the case that we make a change to your artwork or master cd. Standard turn-around times are as follows:

  • 100 - 1 business day
  • 200 - 2 business day
  • 300 - 3 business day
  • 400 - 4 business day
  • 500 - 5 business day

If our "quickest in the industry" standard turnaround times do not meet the needs of your project, please contact us about expediting your order.

For CD replication orders, our standard turnaround time is 12 business days from the approval of your artwork. Please contact us about expedition options.

Payment Policy

We accept cash, checks, money orders, Visa, Master Card, Discover, and American Express credit cards. To establish credit or open an account with Affordable Sound please email our Sales Manager at sales@affordablesound.com.

Over Run / Under Run Policy

In order to complete your order on schedule, we will print more product than you ordered, to insure we will have adequate quantity after quality control is complete. Therefore all duplication and replication are subject to 5% over or under run. Your final payment will be for the exact amount completed, on a cost-per-disc basis.