When you cannot be dead center-- and especially if you're pretty far LOC or ROC, do you do any of the following:
1. adjust the angle of one mic (i.e., uneven pattern) such as trimming in the mic closest to the wall?
2. adjust the orientation of a fixed pattern (e.g., DIN) toward the sound source (so the mics remain in that pattern but are more evenly pointed at music)
or
3. just point straight ahead as if you're DFC?
I've generally either done 1 or 3, but I've probably done all three at some point. I can't say I have any way to really compare results, if I even really remember what I did on any particular occasion. I'm also not a huge stickler for patterns and lean more toward the "what sounds the best/aim at the music" method as a default, but I would be curious what the "orthodox" best way to handle this is. It seems to me that if you're, for instance, near a wall on one side, it does not make sense to have one mic pointing toward music, and one mic mostly pointing at a wall, as you would pick up tons of reflections in one channel.