I’m trying to do some
bombastic orchestral arranging, and I can’t quite get that “blow you away with a exploding wall of sound” effect. Katt thinks it might be that I only have one trumpet instead of three playing parts of a chord.
I tried to look at the Star Wars score, but John Williams is aggressive about his copyright. I did find The Planets score. That part in Mars, Bringer of War in which the horns are bringing down the house with the riff that the rest of the orchestra’s been playing the whole time seems to just have the trumpets playing in octaves? I’ll have to give it a try.