I have an old Tascam Portastudio 424 MkIII... and I have a whole bunch of 4-track cassettes that my old band recorded back in the 90's.
I would really like to move these cassettes over to my PC.
I see that there are four analog "tape outputs" on the back. These are RCA style jacks. I've tested it and these outputs are passing through the raw 4 audio tracks.
Is there such thing as a sound card for a Windows 10 PC that has 4 analog inputs? And if so, can I use something like Audacity to record the 4 tracks at once?
My goal is to have exactly what is on the 4-track cassettes to be on my PC. Raw archived audio... but maintaining the 4-track format. Then later I can play around with re-mixing, editing, etc.
Or is there another method for this? Other device to get the audio onto the PC? Other software to record it?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Chad
I would really like to move these cassettes over to my PC.
I see that there are four analog "tape outputs" on the back. These are RCA style jacks. I've tested it and these outputs are passing through the raw 4 audio tracks.
Is there such thing as a sound card for a Windows 10 PC that has 4 analog inputs? And if so, can I use something like Audacity to record the 4 tracks at once?
My goal is to have exactly what is on the 4-track cassettes to be on my PC. Raw archived audio... but maintaining the 4-track format. Then later I can play around with re-mixing, editing, etc.
Or is there another method for this? Other device to get the audio onto the PC? Other software to record it?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Chad