Thanks for the fast reply. To give more info, My friend is the one who records many live concerts. He would like to go directly from his recorder to his CPU without having to purchase a stand alone deck. I was going to give him the Sony deck, but I wasn't aware he was recording in LP (I will advise him to use SP from now on for better quality masters) I am just trying to get a digital recording to sync up my MiniDV to his audio. If it's digital it will be easy. Thanks again for the helpful replies. Greg