converting analog to digital

[G. Porch]

All right wizards....hope this is the easiest question you will ever get. I have existing analog recordings that I want to get into my comp. What is the easiest way to achieve this? (and least costly) The recordings were made on an old portastudio 424, and I need to transfer them to a 3.5 disk or something similar. Help me please!
G.

[Emeric]

Well, what is your existing computer setup? If you have a soundcard, then all you need is some software and a cable. The cable you need is a 1/8" stereo male plug to 2 RCA (or whatever your 4 track stereo output is) mono plugs. Software: Goldwave will do, Cool Edit use to have a freeware 2 track editor. This is all you really need to transfer your 4 tracks into a computer. By 3.5, I assume you mean a 3.5" mounting hard drive, and not a 3.5" floppy. Each stereo track you record will average out around 40 MB's, so floppy disks are of no use. Buy a CD-RW.. great for this type of thing.

Emeric

[sergio_fucchi]

If You want to have a very good result, You should have to buy an Audigy2 SB sound card to digitalize at 24bit/96kHZ, using Asio2 low latency driver.
The waves files will be very big, but You could to archive them into a DVD-R/RW.

Sergio.