
I’m in a position where I can implement a summing mixer into my workflow via Prism Titan, but I don’t really want to. I agree it adds a level of realness that is not easy to achieve ITB.I thought someone might say this and I totally understand the thinking. I simply just can not get the same sound from a plugin that I get from running something out a high quality DA, processing electricity, and then bringing it back through high quality AD. I know there are plugins that are scientifically perfect. I'm sorry but I feel like you are referring to the "extra 10%" that comes with outboard gear and I feel like you are better off going with hardware at this point. Of course if anyone has recommendations as to plugins that can do this kind of thing, I’d love to hear about them. Perhaps a plugin on busses could transmit audio to a master instance, whilst modeling what happens when sound is passed through an excellent DA, to a summing device, and back through an excellent AD. It seems to me that Acustica could really do a great job emulating this. In those tests, it really felt like painting on different canvas.

Rather, I’m talking about the sense of depth, space and separation I’ve heard from actual analog vs ITB sum tests, conducted with top tier converters.

I’m not really talking about “mojo, flavor, color, or saturation” here. I’ve used VCC along with various plugin saturators and harmonics generators, but I have never actually heard a plugin (or group of plugins) that you can put on busses actually sound like analog summing. I’m writing this as a sort of request to any developer that might be reading.
