need help with digital conversion/sync

[the_landlord]

This might be hard to explain, but here goes.....

My band is going to be recording with a local basement-studio/musician. He will be recording us onto a TASCAM MX-2424. We would like to record drums/bass with him, and then dump a rough mix onto an ADAT XT20 that we own. We also own a MOTU 2408mkii. We are going to take this 2 track mix on ADAT and spend our own time recording guitar/vocals. We would then like to put the tracks back onto the MX-2424 for the other guy to mix and master. Will this conversion be a problem? Will we run into sync problems? Can anyone forsee any large issues?

I want to do this in stand-alone conversion mode on the MOTU. Can anyone explain how the MX-2424 should be set up to do this? Thanks for any help you can give.

-landlord

[garymusic]

landlord,

did you ever get this to work. I am doing the same with a Tascam DA78HR setup. I want to mix in another studio with lots of out board gear but need to sync up everything and be sampe accurate in the transfer. I just purchased a MOTU Digital Timepiece but can't get the thing to get everything in sync. I know this can be done but the manuals have so many different ways to sync things up it is difficult to know which way is the best.

Gary

[ahmedgarcia]

Landnord:

I do this all of the time, but not with an ADAT involved. But the way I transfer files from my MX to my computer is either via ethernet audio transfers or hot-swap hard drives. As long as everthing can read time-stamped Broadcast .Wav files, all should line up in sync.

I record onto the MX, transfer files to my computer, add vocals and guitars using my MOTU. Bring it all back into my MX for final mixing and mastering....

I just don't know about the ADAT though. If you are starting with an MX to end up into a MOTU into a computer, I would bypass the ADAT and do an audio transfer. It is all digital data. Sorry if this isn't helpful.

Are you going to record vocals and guitars through the MOTU2408 and onto a computer? What software,(ie. DAW), will you be using? Why make a two track mix of your track beds when you can have all of them? How many tracks are you starting out with, and how many do you want to finish with prior to the mix down?

The reason I ask, is that the MX has 24 tracks and the MOTU can do like 16 or more I beleive. I rarely use that many so forgive me for my uncertainty.

I guess another question: Is the MX set-up with the ADAT card, TDIF card, Anolog card or two of either of these?