Coincident pair for overheads - which way do they point?

[Blast9]

Sorry to ask this, but are they looking down vertically over the kit like V or horizontally towards the drummer?

I presume if you're using room mikes like this a few feet from the kit they would be horizontal?

[joelpatterson]

There's probably alot of right answers, but what I do is imagine the drummer and his kit occupying a globe of the world... the surface is maybe two feet off the cymbals? three feet? and I put the overheads over Alaska and Norway, respectively, facing straight down to the center of the Earth.

[matt thomas]

http://www.dpamicrophones.com/

for everything you need to know (well some theory anyway)

click on "microphone university" then "stereo techniques"

there is also some overhead specific info in there somewhere

narco