MS-stereo and figure-8 mics

["oystercoveau" oystercoveau]

Greetings everyone,

I live in southern Tasmania and I've just joined the group and look forward=
 to tapping into the wealth of knowledge here. I have experience in synthes=
izers and electronic music and would like to incorporate local wildlife sou=
nds into my own music (mainly experimental/minimalist).

I'll be recording to a Fostex FR2 in the field and would like to use MS bec=
ause of it's flexibility in the final mix. I've got an AT4022 omni for the =
mid but don't have a figure-8 for the side. But I do have a matched pair of=
 NT5s and was wondering if by connecting them in parallel and pointing them=
 at 180 degrees to each other I could achieve ((more or less) the same resu=
lts. Or am I missing something here?

Keith