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The idea is just that consoles add something - call it glue, unity, crosstalk, harmonic distortion or sonic character - that makes mixing a bit easier. And you lose that in the digital world where everything is coldly presented exactly as it was recorded.
So if you use an emulation across all your channels and mixbuss and it sounds a bit better and makes it a bit easier to get on with the mix, it's doing its job. Depending on your own taste, personal biases and working methods, you might find that a "Neve" or "SSL" or "Trident" or whatever works best for you.
Personally, I've tried the Waves NLS system, Sonimus' SSL, and Airwindows console series. I don't know what I'll feel about it all in a year, but where I am at the moment is that Airwindows' system is best, because it does the least. I still use NLS on individual tracks or busses when I want character and to dirty something up, but Airwindows Console 5 does the job for me in giving the mix a bit more width and depth and cohesion. It is, however, particular about how it's set up so it's not for everyone.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
Sound is a component but it isn't the most important thing and certainly there are certain tools available that can give you a certain tone- the main thing though was the ability to group and manage tracks in sensible ways.
That stopped being so important once we had the ability to save session s and have endless numbers of busses and routing combinations with DAW's.
I have all of the Slate plugins, including VCC- I don't use VCC and haven't for quite a while.
A couple of decent bus comps are more useful IMHO.
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If you're fairly new to stuff I'd stick with things that improve functionality or give you something you can't already get. Fabfilter is a good place to start for functional, and Slate or Plugin Alliance for character compressor/channel strip type stuff.
The good thing is most companies do demos these days, so you can usually try something out to figure if it works for you.
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