Hi,
I am recording a 3 piece rock band with a spaced pair of cardioid microphones.

I want take the stereo signal and put it through a 2-way stereo crossover to split the audio into 4 tracks on the tape recorder.

My questions are
1. Would this be a valid way of increasing effective track width for an increase in quality?

2. What would be reasonable crossover points?

thanks for your time

The degradation in sound quality from the phase non-linearities imposed by disassembling and reassembling your signal through a 2 way crossover would greatly overpower the benefits of greater track width. You'll do better simply recording the same signal across all of the tracks, even though Im not sure how much that would help with noise floor, since you still have to combine all of the tracks together.

mtar

thanks for the reply.

I had not really considered that the electronic colorations added by the crossover itself and by the phase nonlinearities introduced by its different filters would be any more than those artifacts introduced through say multiband compression or valves - But Im pretty new at this.