Sorry if this has been covered somewhere, but I couldn't find an answer other than listening to the recording with good headphones and making adjustments based on what is heard at the time.
Is there a 'standard' way to set the levels for a 3 mic mix? I'd like to try a pair of miniature battery box powered cards in X-Y and an omni CM-300 in the center just under the X-Y pair. And an MX-100 for the mix.
My thoughts are that the omni should be set first on the 'blend' channel so that the signal is some value on a stereo VU meter. Then the right and left cards can be brought up so that the peaks occasionally hit 0db on a stereo VU meter. I guess my question is, what value should the peaks be set for the blend channel by itself? -3dB? -6dB?
If it's easier to think of it another way, what do you think is a good ratio between the sound from the cards and the sound from the omni? 50/50? 75/25?
If I set the blend channel to peak at -3db and bring it up to 0db with the R and L channels, (and if I did the math right) that would be a 50/50 mix.
If I set the blend channel to peak at -6db and bring it up to 0db with the R and L channels, that would be a 75/25 mix.
Any thoughts on this would be very helpful, thanks in advance