Best workflow for multiclip with multiple microphones?

I'm working in sequences with nine cameras (one of which, unfortunately, is being turned off and on occasionally). The cameras are jam-synced, although sometimes there are discrepancies.
I also have nine different microphones that are a mixture of lavs and booms. None of the mics correspond to any particular camera, so I've been doing the following:
- Using multicam sequence to lay out my video on individual tracks based on their jam-sync TC
- Doing the same for the audio and manually syncing all of the video tracks to it.
This gives me a sequence with everything nicely lined up, nothing as multicam just yet. I'm then able to break the sequence down into chunks, multiclipping based on when the cameras are turned on and off.
But I haven't found a good way to get the 8 audio tracks linked to the video in my master multiclips that I'm creating. I tried linking all of the audio to my first angle (with the intention of keeping the multicam switcher always toggled to angle 1 audio while I switch between video tracks), but when I link the eight tracks to my first angle, and then create the multiclip, the first angle only retains ONE audio track split out as a stereo pair! Not all 9.
Any advice?

Good news, past me! I figured out that it wasn't including all eight tracks because when I was linking the audio to angle one, and then match framing before dragging my clip to the browser, I didn't realize that it was match-framing to the in-camera audio, not the newly - linked audio.
But does anyone have any general advice for how they do a multi-cam audio setup like mine? Do you use reference clips, generate aux timecode, etc?

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