if you really want to be nuts
and this is a big if.
Say you have 3 simultaneous horn parts that build your virtual brass section.
See if you have 2 or 3 different mics around.
Choose a different mic for each horn.
Solo each horn part and match it with a mic and record that piece.
Rinse and repeat until you have all the sections of your brass tracked. Get back into the DAW and blend to taste. If you're absolutely OCD and you own a reel to reel, you WILL print your brass captures to tape. You WILL peg the meters in the red. You WILL have NR turned off when you do it! haha.......
I started doing this after watching the stuff on Youtube about how they tracked Stevie Wonder's songs and other great songs with brass and seeing all those different mics at a time on the horns.
I'm in the middle of doing R and D on a ribbon motor with an American fabricator. Once I get my first prototype in hand, I'm throwing that bad boy up on horns, real or fake!!
Peace
Illumination