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Originally Posted by boojum  My experience and thinking tells me that doing it exactly as the manufacturer suggests in MS recording is the wisest way to go. After all, they did the experiments and design. They want the best possible sound from the setup for us... |
I certainly agree with this mode of thinking 100%.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that what I'm trying to do will not work as well. Schoeps has not specifically stated anywhere that doing what I'm thinking of doing is not a good idea... or if they have, I have not seen it.
I believe they show their mics in MS using a front addressed cardioid (and pointing at the source) because it's simply a more common way of arranging it. Perhaps most (or just about all) other professional recordists out there do not feel a need to be able to hold mics in an upright position, so this arrangement is not commonly considered. Though I could be wrong of course!
I'll have to poke around more and perhaps ask a knowledgeable Schoeps person. And I may never really know anyway how it will work for me until I try it first-hand. As many others have said though, I can't go wrong picking up some extra Schoeps caps anyway. The MK8 can be used regardless. And I still might wish to experiment with a pair of 4Vs in X/Y anyhow. Absolute worst case scenario, I pull out one of my front-addressed MK4s (that already reside in my current kit) and use it along with the MK8 for MS... and I'll just have to suck it up and point the mics at the source in frontal-addressed fashion.