Tascam 424 recording on PC??

[superunknown]

Hi…

I was wondering whether someone could help me. I recently bought a TASCAM 424 MkII… and it's working perfectly at the moment. I'm gonna start recording seriously sometime soon. I just wanted to mix down and down my recordings into the computer (I think as .wav files, right??) of a friend, and since he has a burner… make CD-R's with them. I just don't know how to do it… could someone give me the steps. After I finish recording all the tracks… what do I have to do? What do I have to plug in where, etc?? Plus, the guy has a Pentium III with loads of memory, an internal soundcard, standard burner, and the standard burning program you get with the computer. Is that enough?? Thanks…

Superunknown

 

[monk]

I'm not an expert in this kind of stuff but I recently got a program for PC's called Wave Studio from Creative. What I do is take a line from my head phone jack or line outs and route it to my AUX input on my sound card. The levels can be adjusted on your board and on Window's "audio mixer" window. The software allows you to see the left and right channels seperately and manipulate them as well (phase, reverb, mono, 8 bit, 16 bit, etc)It's pretty easy and is fairly flexible. It doesn't have the ability to take out pops and scratches (i.e. lp to cd) but I guess for more $ some other program can do that.
good luck
monk

 

[warmtone]

check out the response to the 464 ? about recording to PC. its in this forum. id be willing to bet its tranposable to the 424. the response states going out of the l and r line outputs of the 464 and into the computers soundcards line in. the l and r line outputs are used to go to a standard cassette mixdown deck to record to 2 tracks. stereofied. the principles look to be the same for the computer. theres a certain cable mentioned in the 464's response for that exact connection.the reason it would be transposable is because the 424 has l and r line outputs. get the cable. connect it. set your 424 for playback and your computer program for record. play the tape push record on the computer and it should do it. hope it works.

 

[reco]

If you want to get a program to clean the tracks look at "Clean" from Stienberg.

It'll only cost ya $99 + tax.
and i have heard so good coments from my buddy who has it.

 

[GoGreen]

Yes Warmtone is correct. you have to get your-self a dual rca plug to a stereo mini plug, come out from the 2 trk out on the recorder to the line in on your sound card. you have to configure your settings on the sound card to accept a signal from the line in (usaly the default is mic for recording)


right
-]===============\ 1/8 mini
Rca`s....... ==========[][][]>
-]===============/ stereo plug
left



[This message has been edited by GoGreen (edited 04-20-2000).]