When I have to I use East West for blasts. The blasts are fun, the staccatos useable, the drums are over woofy and bright, the legatos are abrasive. The top end is just abrasive and nothing like any of the hollywood scores I've mixed. It's all been EQ'ed with the goal of making it sound "hollywood" but nothing could be further from the truth in terms of sonic. Somebody has added a ton of EQ that is entirely unsuitable for an orchestra. The recording quality is sonically horrible. So in that way it mirrors how I do it in the real world. When I mix a real orchestra I often have the spot mic's down at minimum and bring them up to articulate parts on particular instruments as required. I like having mono groups of spot mic's and being able to balance them as I do a real orchestra. The flexibility with the mic's is great once they've been bounced out. I work with real orchestras all the time so I'm bound to have a slightly skewed view. Okay - heres my slightly sidetracking take on this:
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