Mid side technique and drums...

[Beatfire]

Sticking to one style of drum.mic setup is really hard. I experiment everytime. The weirderst places usually sound the best.

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[donpakka]

I've gotten some nice results using four mics. A pair of 414s in MS about 5 feet in front of the kit and D112/Beta 52 on the kick and an SM57/81 on the snare. On occasion I would add something on the floor tom. This created a nice even kit sound. Of course it depends on the room. This particular room was quite small with windows on both sides and a strange skylight right above the kit.

I also had good luck just using a pair of overheads (sm81s set up following the diagonal plane of the kick and snare to center them in the stereo field) along with a kick and snare mic. I was forced to do this because I was low on inputs for an African percussion group I was recording. Before that I'd tried miking all the drums, without much luck.

Of course, that was all due to the space. I don't think you would need or want to flip the phase on your 52.