if_then, many thanks. That's a very nice paper and I hadn't seen it before. SAE over here, I think, is rather different from the way it seems to be in Germany.
The author almost apologizes for including "DIN" on his roster of techniques since he considers it so similar to ORTF (somewhere between ORTF and NOS) and because the method is, according to him, unknown in the studio world (my impression as well). But it serves for him as an example of how a little "wiggle room" can be a good thing once one has paid due attention to the fundamentals. In his listening tests, which were based on miking the same drum kit many different ways, he found that it gave results very similar to ORTF but just a little more detailed in rendering the timbre of particular elements, since its stereophonic recording angle is slightly less. He clearly liked it better overall than "stock" ORTF or NOS in his tests.
--Gutbucket, it's fine with me if you don't care about the history of recording methods. I posted here to get and share information, not to check your attitude. I learn a bunch sometimes by following one path or another on impulse, often going farther than other people consider reasonable, but I want to make sure I haven't missed something important "waiting around the bend". Sometimes I find valuable goodies, but at least as often, the things that I find out seem kind of useless--until, some time later, they can be combined with other seemingly useless stuff. Then occasionally, what emerges may be somewhat less useless.
In fact I'd be content with that as my epitaph: "During his long life, he became somewhat less useless." I know that while it's actually happening, though, to other people it probably looks more like foolishly wandering around, or jerking off, or I don't know what. It even looks that way to me sometimes. OK, a lot of the time.
--best regards