I last minute tweaked the volumes of the parallel compression busses I have for all the instruments and since those are using the dry/no added reverb signals, it kinda made the dry sound a bit too prominent. It's a fun/usefull trick to add presence and punch to orchestral samples in the DAW though, tried it after seeing it in a few mockup/template videos on YouTube and has felt a great technique (in moderation/tastefully used though 😉.
Working with orchestral sounds in the DAW, especially getting the sounds i use to feel lush and not in your face took me the whole of last year to finally get a bit comfortable with, since the hollywood orchestra package has a really dry-ish in your face tone. I'm probably going to start keeping a spreadsheet with the different send values to my reverb's, so I can have some reference for what values felt good for a distant, medium, close, etc sound 😄
I've done sidechained reverb only for vocals before, but usually I try to just use reverbs with built in ducking instead, like the one in Cubase's vocal chain plugin or in Reaper, the free Tukan Studios Lexicon clone reverb jsfx plugin that also has a ducking option 😅
Glad you liked it!