I completed my Studio Pro Bundle with the winds and brass yesterday.
They're sounding very good, but the more important thing is, they are melting perfectly together as one Orchestra. So the "small" sound (it's not) is an advantage for some layering. It's a blast. I'm super happy with my purchase.
For a more organic and bigger sound, I combined an algorythm Reverb with a smaller Hall and separate Predelay and an Convolution of the Bricasci with about 2.2 sec decay in the aux-channels.
There is a video from Cinesamples, how to fit dry samples with bigger ones. It's quiet helpfull.
The result is still a smaller and less epic space then Lyndhurst Hall.
But it's what I was looking at.
In my search of reviews for the Studio Orch., i often read the Brass are the weakest.
Now I know they are so good.
Maybe these people were looking for this Blockbuster Sound.
Even the Horns are just amazing. (Lot of the people are complaining about the horns).
This learns me: Make your own thing. Look at your sound. You like this, then this is for you.
The only contra I have, are some missing dynamic layers in the long articulations.
Seems that there are just low and high.
But it still works well.
Now I gonna get the Bernard Herrmann library. Oh my god, so much fun