A Reel Person said:
You'll need a soundcard with 4 inputs, & software that will record 4-tracks simultaneously. Then, you cable from the 244's Tape Outs to the 4 soundcard inputs, and record away!
that's if he is 'upgrading' to some sort of computer-based system.
Peter, what do you exactly mean by 'upgrading to digital recorder'? Computer-based recording or some digital recording machine/workstation etc? Also what are your analog tape masters? are they two-track stereo recordings or 4-track (pre-mix) recordings. You may or may not need 4 anaog-inputs.... depends on what material do you want to 'convert' to digital.
If your 'masters' are two-track stereo, then you can record it to computer (must have soundcard with stereo analog IN and the
quality of the card (A/D converter) may be the issue if you wish to 'digitize' your recording the best possible way, then you'll need to save your digital audio files or burn audio CDs on your computer (CD-R drive must have).... Of course you must also have software on your computer to do all this... Or you can get stand-alone CD-Recorder - record direct to CDs.
If you recordings are 4-track.... then it's gettting more complicated. You need to do similar thing but with all 4 tracks at the same time plus you need to store/save your recordings in some sort of file format so you can later work on it - so you need multi analog In/Out soundcard on your computer and multi-track recording software. (as A Reel Person said)...
Now, if you are getting some multi-track digital recording machine/workstation, then when you get it - you can record all you analog recordings direct to that system and then store/save your digital recordings using what ever back-up/store/save options your system has.... some have built in CD-R (most modern machines do nowdays) , some older can back-up on DATs (grrrrrrrrrr - real bad idea thou ....
).... or if you are getting digital tape multitrack ... then ...you get your digi-tapes ...ha ....well, they do get old much more uglier way than analog tapes do .......so it's no good way to store your platinum-recordings at all
(SAVE you old analg tapes somewhere too!)
If you need to sell your analog machine first before buying your digital system .... I guess then sound-card/save files/burn CD-R/audio CDs is the only option for you ....
/respects,
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