Straight up XY stereo pair and pointed straight down on your kit, kind of about 2ft to 3ft over where your kick drum pedal hits. This is just a guide distance ofcourse. Awesome seperation when the two channels are ganged correctly and you can hear the toms pushing into the stereo field. I highly reccommend anyone doing this type of recording and wants to get fairly decent results, pop a few bucks into one of these for drum recording. The last two submmissions by Draft were done with a similar mic to this one. I got the one that can operate with or without a battery using just phantom, but also perfect for use with a laptop to give that stereo field a little more energy instead of trying to manifest stereo through a plug-in or what have you. I also have used it on my acoustic and have gotten good results. Just a little FYI. I think my complaints about the SoS submissions might have been due to your mono recording technique, which has good sereration considering your micing techniques. I guess it also helps to tune the kit well huh?
.Also, that stereo mic would help in your live venture with the bleed. It would push that bleeding instrument into the configuration of the XY overhead and allow you to push that bleeding instrument into weird places according to where you want it to live. Make it pseudo stereo if you will.
