Here is one of the easiest ways to make a "near studio quality" music track. Whether you like using Sonar or FL Studio to mix up your tunes, where you take it from there is the key to make it presentable if you ever want a music exec to take it seriousely.
The programs you need to do this: Acoustica Mixcraft and Total Video Converter

After you've finished playing with and tweaking your music in whatever program you like, open Mixcraaft and import each track seperately (vocals, backups, percussions, bassline, etc.)
From there, tweak the levels of each track until they sound exactly like you want them to. this editor comes with a very nice EQ that you can set for each track individually.
Once all of your volume levels are set and you are ready to mix it down into one track, click on file and "mix down to". in the options, mix down to MP3 and choose the highest quality. Make sure not to rush through this step. Take the time to fill in all of the track info(artist, date, album, etc.) even when made into a regular cd track, these details will be seen by whoever is listening to the music.
****dont forget to save your project at this point (*.mxc).****
After it completes listen to the track and make any modifications that you may need to in your project and repeat the "mix down" instructions.
There. Now you have a good mp3 of your song. now, open Total Video Converter.
Click on "new task" and "import files"
Import your new MP3 file and a new screen will show up with all of the options that you can do with the file.
First slide the bar at the top to "high quality"
Then click the button that says "cd/wav audio" and in the drop down menu choose cd audio for burning.
From here it will go back to the original screen.
make sure to set your output file location to your desired folder and check the settings to make sure its converting in dual channel.
Click "Convert Now" adn you are now ready to burn to cd with the new file you just made.

It may sound like alot to just make a music track, but listen to the cd and then listen to a cd you made by just burning the mp3 and you can definitely tell the difference.

Have Fun!!!!!

Thank you!
This Mixcraft program sounds cool but wouldn't you just end up doing all the mastering and tweaking inside the program you made the song with? Such as FL Studio.
I always use compressors and EQs on almost every instrument to help minimize clipping and static and whatnot.

Also, you can change the quality of rendering right in FL Studio when you save your song as mp3/wave. I'm not doubting your method but I'm just wondering if it's necessary to use these other programs when I know you get all these options in FL Studio.

he is right...even though fruity loops has all that...mixcraft is better imho....and the other program makes it just like a song you would listen to from a big music company

thanks ive noticed that my audio sounds a little rusty

Personally speaking, if I want quality audio tracks when recording then I treat them as uncompressed .wav tracks (16bit 44.1khz minimum) throughout the recording process and would certainly not consider converting them to a lossy format such as mp3 before transcoding them to burn to CD. That's just pointless and unnecessary imho.

just to add here, using studio monitors with a flat frequency response 20/20 is key too.

i remember when i first started messin around with computer based programs I used to use a program called "hammerhead" to make beats, until fruity loops came out then i used it and added all my sounds into to it, and used acid pro as a mixer, and finaly sound forge to make my final track.

i still prefer my roland mc-303 and akai mpc2000 anyday.