"Mike Clayton" wrote in message news:m.clayton-
What Richard said! Especially with regard to room reversal. I've used
Blumlein till I'm blue in the face, MidSide till my midi chain has blown
up and I keep coming back to two stereo microphone techniques - ORTF/NOS
and my home made Jecklin disc which my clients know as my powder puff
microphone!

ORTF/NOS where the room is not so good and Jecklin where I have a good
room.

I tend to prefer ORTF, too (DEFINITELY over X-Y, at any rate), and I also
have a homemade Jecklin - have you ever tried using it with a good pair of
cardioids just for the helluvit to see what happens? I've tried it with a
pair of -184's one time on drums & it came out pretty damn good, if I must
say so myself. (OK, so I know it's technically not a "jecklin"
configuration, but what can I say? I like to experiment sometimes just to
see what happens).

Neil Henderson