your a brave man standing up and say so
on a more serious note, i agree to some extent. i find theres certain things i can do with better results in a DAW environment than by going outboard, especially things like clinical EQ cuts, for other things i can get acceptable results but switching to outboard just yeilds even better ones. for me i want to get the best result i can.
one area where i do have an issue, and this is not levelled at zetterstroem, is the use of analog emulations within a DAW realm.
its seems somehow inherently wrong to my mind on several levels.
i guess the main one being the insinuation that users are getting everything on offer from the real world originals.
ive been trying to think of some sort of unoffensive metaphor but this is the best i could muster.
it may be akin to vegetarian beefburgers. they look like burgers and may even taste slightly similar but they are not beefburgers.
if you are vegetarian, theres much better cooking you can do with vegetables than eat some sort of psuedo burger meanwhile if you eat meat they have little merit.
this leaves a middle group who just like how they taste. they couldnt care that they look like burgers or are trying to be them. it wouldnt matter if they were called product x and square, they just like them for what they are and how they taste, not for the mental feeling that they can somehow pretend to be eating a real burger.
with plugins however i sadly doubt that many fall into this middle group.
