I have started recording, and intend to record some more, in four track, a pair of cardioids and omnis baffled. The idea is to bring up front voices with the cardioids and fill out the bass with the omnis, both rather small, without going to higher profile mics. I have tested it and it works in principle, but I need help in the following areas:
1) What is a good program to split the 4GB files my Sonosax MiniR82 creates, while not destroying the sync between the sets of stereo files? Wavelab 5.0, which I have been using, will not take large files, and CD Wave Editor, which works fine for manual split points, goes nuts when I try to use its "split at a given time interval" function on the big file (splits it every 1 second, no matter what time is input!)
2) Assuming I want the files from the omnis low-passed to boost bass, but also to bring in if possible some side orchestra that the cardioids (really more hypercardioids) miss, what is a good EQ curve to use (if this is the best way to go). What should be the relative loudness of the two inputs to the mix? If I use something like the Wavelab "Paste Special/Mix" function, what parameters work?
These seem to me to be rather basic questions, but I'm a two track guy who hangs out with other two track guys, and I need some advice. Any reference to good books on mixing classical music (technical, not theoretical, and not way more than I want to know) would help.
Jeff