Hi Paul
Sounds much more spatially - at least the orchsetra.
About reverb concepts. Have a look in the "Tutorial VSL" at "Additions" - "Zwei Hallkonzepte"
The reverb concept with "SEND"
You install a BUS-channel (Logic) GROUP-channel (Cubase) and install within it a reverb instance with a 100%wet ratio.
Now you are able to send from each audio or intrument channel a part of the signal - adjusted by the send parameter - to this reverb BUS. The more signal you send the more reverb you get from the reverb BUS.
Advantage: One Reverb for all channels - nevertheless not each channel must get the same amount of reverb.
Disadvantage: This system can't produce really several depths because depth is (not only) a question of more or less reverb
The reverb concept "One BUS per depth with a reverb each "
As the title tells us you open a bus per depth you want to have. For a large orchestra it makes sense to create 3, 4 or 5 different depths which means 5 instances of a hybridreverb for example. These need some CPU-Power that's clear.
You can perfectly prepaire those "Depth-BUSSES" with other effects (EQ, Compressors etc) so that you get the image of really perfect and different depths. After that you route all the corresonding signals through the depths they need. All the strings through dpeth 1 all the woodwinds through depth 2 and so on.
Advantage: If the depths are well done you get a perfect balance in the depth dimension which can perfectly enhance the transparency of the mix
Disadvantage: You need (a lot of) CPU-power for this concept.
Reverb concept with MIR
It's an easy way to mix a project grafically on a stage of your choice.
Advantage: Not bad results with a low effort of time. Better to very good results but you need (much) more time for optimizing the settings, dry/wet adjustments, microphones etc.
Disadvantage: Costs even more money, you need an even better computer... and finally: MIR tends to a "balcony sound" (my opiinion) and not to "the first-row-sound" which
I personally like much more.
Books/Explanations
There is the PPV-Medien-Verlag with lots of books (in Deutsch)
All these books do have disadavantage: They all treat often the mixing of a band, of drums and so on.
The only book I know which isn't bad - also for those who want to mix samples etc. is: "Internal Mixing, Friedmann Tischmeyer
http://www.tischmeyer-mastering.de/pwde/
BTW it's available in Deutsch and in English btw.
Nevertheless, I dont know a book which mixes a complete sampled project and which leads the studend close along the appearing problems.
Maybe I should write such a tutorial myself [H]
All the best Beat