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ribbon mics have had a grand history of recording brass (unless i've got my history wires crossed).
the AEA R-84 is a large size ribbon mic in figure-8. that mic is freakin' awesome, and looks like it would be the perfect "next mic" for you in your collection.
it comes in right around $999.
i would be looking for a way to do this:
record all three players once through the AEA. then have them do their part again through it. then pan it left-right in the mix and compress/limit as needed.
so you get monster-fat doubled track.
that's only if their parts are always together as one "brass blob", and the session is amenable to this type of overdub setup.
you would need to play around with positioning the players a little to get the instruments to blend. but i bet you could find that sweet spot in about 10 minutes (or even 10 seconds). which would be better than messing in your DAW for two hours trying to fix sounds.
as a random note, i've seen Miles Davis play live with a U87 on stage as his mic.
another idea would be to have them play into the AEA ribbon, and then have the U-87 several feet back in omni-mode. then blend in the daw.
those are the ideas that come to my mind (not that that counts for anything).
these would be "ideas" on brass recording rather than advice, fwiw.
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