I find X-Y techniques provide too sharp a stereo image sometimes, if you aren't really careful about placement. I do a lot of guerilla minimal mic recording set-ups, and have better luck with the ORTF-type arrays.

Hi Rayj ... sorry I must be a pure newbie lol ... what is the ORTF technic ... i've already heard about it but don't remember about what it is ... lol .
Thanks . n i ck

Here's a link:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chris.burmajster/O.htm

Thanks for this nice link ... now I remember. Thanks