By the way, since I'm a little more experienced with rock/metal music and know the frequency fundamentals of the components like bass guitar, kick, snare and so and having very limited number of instruments compared to a huge orchestra, I'm mostly in control of low-end power with those kind of mixes.
But I can't really sort it out with orchestration... The main concern is to lose the air and feeling of the instruments -mainly sttrings- if I go along with heavy EQ and being afraid of making them more synthetic that they're already feel so compared to live musicians and performances.
