I'm going to have to try to diagram this out so I can be sure I've got this setup right...
On a side note, I used to tape "back in the day". Started out in the mid to late '90s with a buddy's TC-D5 and his Sennheiser mics. Bought my own Marantz PMD700 and Sennhesier mics (because I thought they sounded good and they were pretty affordable on Ebay). The Marantz started giving me fits in 2002-2004. I also started having kids at around that time. The town I live in didn't have a very vibrant live music scene, and the kids made it difficult to travel as much, so I put the taping equipment aside.
In 2008 I was jonesing to start taping again so I bought the Tascam HD-P2 and taped one local-ish band to try it out. I don't know exactly why, but I didn't tape again until that JGB show a few weeks ago. That means that I've had this machine for 11 years and only recorded two shows with it!
I have been using it recently to transfer some of my old shows from DAT directly to flash since my computer doesn't have a S/PDIF input. I need to find a new cassette deck though, my old Nak BX150s don't seem to be working.
The transition from cassette to DAT wasn't too difficult for me, but I'm finding a lot of little nuances in recording directly to memory, especially at 24/96. The levels are throwing me off a bit. With this show I reverted to my old 16 bit ways and tried to record very near the peak. Now, I'm finding out that you don't necessarily need to do that with 24 bit recording.
The software has also changed quite a bit, too. I pulled out my old copy of Cool Edit Pro to trim, fade, and track the JGB show. I am just now delving in to Audacity to try to actually master the show.
Back in the day, especially with my cassette masters, I would pretty much just trim, normalize, fade, and track. Now I want to see if I can maybe clean them up a bit. I'm trying to be cautious though, I don't want to mess with things just to mess with them, then you lose the essence of the performance recording.
And I'm already thinking about picking up a pair of Line Audio CM4s and maybe a 4 or 6 track recorder. Damn, this hobby really is as expensive as I remember.