Question about TASCAM 424 Mk II 4-track

[7-kurgan-d]

Hi everyone I wonder if anybody can help me

Currently I play guitar in a cover band.
This pass weekend I record some music with my band on my TASCAM 424 Mk II.I want to know if I can record the tracks individually into Adobe Audition.

Is there way? I remember reading about Dragon having problems doing a clean upgrade to his new digital recording setup
https://homerecording.com/tas488tips.html

The bad news is that there's no clean upgrade path from the 488. The reason: unlike the 424, where you have one output jack for each track (or the Yamaha 8-track cassette as someone kindly pointed out), the main audio outs on this beast are the ones marked L and R. So there's no easy way of making backups of your tapes, and if you've recorded the 8-track masterpiece of the century, you'll have to mix it all down on your 488. However, it is possible (although tricky) to get all the tracks out to an ADAT, digital recorder, mixing board, or whatever...see this page for a way to do it!

https://homerecording.com/tas488review.html

Guess I can use the tape outputs 1-4 locate on back of the TASCAM 424 Mk II right? Then setup Adobe Audition, I would probably need cable adapters for my soundcard, and do I need to mess around with TASCAM 424 Mk II mixer too.

I would be very thankful if anybody can help.

I would like to put out to that I'm Newbie with recording. I just starter about fews months ago, buying the recording equipment, barely starting to use it now.

If this helps My Home Studio is:
Windows XP Pentium 4 with 1 GB ram 80GB HD
Soundcard -M-Audio Audiophile 2496
Adobe Audition 2.0
TASCAM 424 Mk II 4-track

 

[A Reel Person]

You use the (4) Tape Outs on the Tascam,...

preferrably into a 4-input soundcard, running 4-tracks simultaneously.

To dump the 424mkII's individual tape tracks 2 at a time could induce timing problems. I'd not recommend it, but give it a try if you want.

The alternative is to do a mix of the tracks to stereo on the 424mkII, then dub the mix to stereo on the 'puter. Then make your cds of that "mixdown" file. Given a 424mkII & a standard stereo soundcard, that's how I do it.

If you're really serious about dubbing your 424mkII tape tracks to the 'puter for in-the-box mixing and editing, I'd highly recommend getting a 4-input soundcard, (minimum), and proceeding from there.