On Saturday I recorded three bands that all played on a big stage. I had a DIN pair center, on stage facing the band, a SBD feed plus my audience mics about 30 feet back. I had the hardest time trying to align them all. I've recorded in this place enough to know the MS delay between the AUD mics and the SBD feed, but it was hell trying to get the on-stage pair to match the SBD and AUD perfectly. I've recorded SBD and onstage at the same time and just onstage in the past, but I haven't recorded all three and tried to line them up.
I usually use snare drum rim hits to get the alignment right for SBD and AUD mixes, but it just didn't work perfectly well this time.
Do you guys have any thoughts on the best way to do this? I ended up getting it real close, but since the onstage mics picked the ambient sound of the snare hits plus the PA, it's a compromise at best... It does have a nice full sound to it, which I really like.