Lady needs HELP! Tascam 488 cassette

[annmarie]

Hi there!
can anyone give me an idiot proof way to dump my tracks in to pro-tools.i have a tascam 488 (not mkII) i can't figure it out. PLEEEEEASE!
thank you thank you.

annmarie

[COOLCAT]

you can go to radio shack or the like,
and buy a stereo RCA cable with
a 1/8" mini jack (plugs into your sound card LINE IN..)

PRO TOOLS should be setup to pull from that input.
sorry if that isn't what your looking for.

[annmarie]

great. thanks man. i'll give that a try. if anyone has any other suggestions, i'm willing to experiment.

cheers,

annmarie

[DigitalSmigital]

you'll essentially be performing a mixdown to ProTools. You can put your mix on two tracks on the PC and go from there.

I suppose you can transfer two tracks at a time from the TASCAM panned hard L/R, but getting alternate transfers to match up once they're in could be trouble.

[The Ghost of FM]

Read this.

http://homerecording.com/tas488tips.html

Cheers!

[annmarie]

thanks so much for that link Ghost. that helps a LOT!

cheers,

annmarie