Making Recording in Studio sound like it was recorded live in a hall

Hi all,
I have a problem. My recordings sound too good!! What I mean is that there is not the feeling of it being in a hall, because what I call the "sound of the dead air" is missing. There is not the feeling of space in the silent bits of the recording. Any ideas or is there a plug-in for this?
Thanks,
Graham

Some ideas:-
You could mix in some noise, you could record some room tone and mix that in, you could use a small amount of room reverb or ambience on your mix or individual tracks, you could even send the mix out into a real room and mic up the speakers (set up the mics at the back of the room, you want the ambient signal, not the dry signal) and mix some of that back into your mix to taste (this can be a great way to gel a fake drum track together a bit more).
Or just record more real, acoustic instruments in general to avoid that stagnant, 100% digital in-the-box sterile vibe.

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