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Well that should be fine on the capture, but I am specifically talking about the summing. For instance if you were to do a stereo fold down into mono standard practice is to drop the volume on both channels 6dB and then sum them. Anything higher than 50% and you can clip the signal. Of course this is for a normalized digital signal so in your case if your highest peak is only 70% and not 100% you would only have to drop the volume 30% to avoid clipping.
Addressing the original topic. I find this subject kind of hard to come up with a one size fits all solution. I have tried most variables I can think of - next setup I want to try is with .2 subs. One variable that sounds very good on mysystem but is non standard is to not use a crossover on my main speakers when using a sub. My speakers have a flat frequency respons of 40Hz-25kHz but there is still bass that comes out of them down to 20Hz. The speakers just gradually roll off from 40Hz-20Hz so I leave them full range without the crossover and add the sub on top of it. This actually seems to be one of the better sounding setups in my system since the sub doesn't have to work as hard and no additional filters ever touch my mains. Although I may be getting a bit of a bump in the frequency response around the crossover frequency for the sub.
Addressing the original topic. I find this subject kind of hard to come up with a one size fits all solution. I have tried most variables I can think of - next setup I want to try is with .2 subs. One variable that sounds very good on mysystem but is non standard is to not use a crossover on my main speakers when using a sub. My speakers have a flat frequency respons of 40Hz-25kHz but there is still bass that comes out of them down to 20Hz. The speakers just gradually roll off from 40Hz-20Hz so I leave them full range without the crossover and add the sub on top of it. This actually seems to be one of the better sounding setups in my system since the sub doesn't have to work as hard and no additional filters ever touch my mains. Although I may be getting a bit of a bump in the frequency response around the crossover frequency for the sub.