How to... "John Barry-across-the-room-reverb"

[Xander S.]

When you listen to a John Barry Bond score, there's something very special about the mix. Maybe it's also there with other soundtrack recordings, but I noticed it with the Bond scores in particular.

There's some kind of "small echo" (don't know how to put it in the right terms), coming from across the room. Let's say the orchestra smashes the trumpets which are at appr. R30, there's a small, high-frequency "echo" at the far left (L90-100), and nothing (noticable) in between - or so it seems.

This is very interesting because it creates an awesome sense of space and obviously doesn't interfere with anything between R30 and L90. I have tried to re-create it, but to no avail (so far).

Has anybody an idea how to approach this? Is this a matter of reverb, or is it some kind of echo/delay thing or something entirely different?

(btw: I finally got myself Vienna Suite!! Since yesterday my world is changing - it's a wonderful tool!)

[jasensmith]

Maybe a quick tap delay?

Use two different tracks?  One track, the trumpets, set to R30 and a solo trumpet set to L90 with maybe 3 db less reverb than the ensemble trumpets then nudge the MIDI of the solo trumpet to 250 ms to a half second create the "echo?" 

[Xander S.]

That might work, thanks, though I'd prefer a clean solution on the audio end of things. Or is it a usual approach to include MIDI tracks for effects?