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So yes, you might get a warmer sound using ONE analog outboard gear
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Pass.
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however, there's no problem getting the same sound with several plugins.
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Fail.
Y'all can be as relativistic and qualifying and nuanced as you wish, but for my money 100% of the time every time the best analog sounds light years better than the best digital.
The tone is better, it has better depth, it is more musical. It compresses better, it eq's better, it mixes better, it blends better, it behaves better.
I don't know what kind of sound you're going for that digital is better for, but if you've got it then more power to you. I'm over it, I have zero energy left for making do with what I perceive to be a sonically inferior platform. Playback, reproduction, sure. Processing, mixing, treating, no.
It's hard for people to hear, but that doesn't make it less true. It just isn't there, and while it continually gets 'less bad', it still utterly lacks the ability to generate or create 'good'. It has no additive qualities of euphony whatsoever. None.
You can stack up a lot of good will on the front end, and then you can minimize the damage with dsp inside a computer, but it won't ever come out the back end of a daw sounding 'better', only different.
Things routinely come out the back end of analog compressors, eq's, and mixing busses sounding better, sometimes much much better.
This is how it is.
Let the beatings commence.
Gregory Scott - ubk