[anodyne33]

In a similar vein, I worked (eg: interned) at a few recording studios in my 20s. Most tracking in both was done to a 2" 24tk analog tape deck and the majority of post and mixing was all done digitally. I don't know what progress has been made in plug-ins in 20 years, I suspect a lot, but at that point there was nothing digitally that came close to the sound of electric guitars overdriven into the tape deck and saturating the tape to an extreme. Now I'm curious if anybody has gotten it right, but there are fewer and fewer studios with 2" tape decks to do a true A/B.