Ok now that I know terratard doesn't know how to calibrate a tape deck i can put him on "ignore" since obviously he has no professional experience with a tape deck. By the way a RADAR sounds infinitely better than your stupid MOTU box. You may be able to find a "RADAR" emulator plug-in that will make your MOTU box sound just as good, I mean a vintage warmer sounds just like a tape deck right? Don't forget to put your helmet on before you go outside!
Becuase I don't feel the need to answer the quiz from professor "25 years" nubz? I dunno maybe I'm just ignorant, I just can't hold up to the power that is your studer...it's melting my brain with it's radiance as we speak. If it sits there too much longer, it just might make you a world class engineer...don't you know, that's the secret trick of all the greats..they just bought a whole bunch of gear and then the gear infused with their nervous system while they slept and they created godlike mixes. Brian Eno was a simple librarian until he bought his Neve... Bob Rock was a christian minister with a bone to pick with the rock and roll scene...that avalon sure changed things, didn't it?
RADAR has the same preamps as the MOTU dumbfuck. If you remember, RADAR is from Vancouver, which I am from, and I know some of the people who used to be at the head of their R&D and engineering teams. Same preamps... It sounds better to you, beause it has an analogue workflow...simple as that. If I really wanted to get some of the best a/d and digital preamps, I'd go for apogee... I used to work with a buddy on his apogee (one of the older 24, 48kHz ones.. but it was really lovely)
Actually, the "Vintage warmer" is a plugin that emulates a sort of LA2A setup mixed in with some channel strip functionality, and includes a multiband limiter, and shelfing EQs.. It does actually sound quite good on most sources, and has, from some amusing experiments of mine, in blind listening tests, fooled some folks into thinking it was an analogue recording (the analogue recording was the one they thought was digital... hahahaha.)
For such an old school guy, you have taken on the "internet tough guy"/anime nerd/ etc.. cliche for whenever they cannot think of valid arguement...make up a fake "quiz" for the other, and when the other person lacks the patience to submit to their dumb assed "test", they get something equivilant to a sexual arousal from creating fake contractions from their name/username (e.g. terratard) and no doubt the "I have 10 women sucking my cock under my Neve right now, will ensue. You should try a more origional approach, if you lack the ability to actually back up your arguement with intelligent thought, and reality. Or you could just refrain from talking right from your sphinkter..that might work better for your arguements, granted they have any basis in reality.
To your quite silly "vintage warmer" quote: It takes experience, and somewhat complex techniques (that often are independant of what exact "plugin" to achieve a good result) If I require a tape sound for something, I track down a tape machine and dupe off the track to tape...simple as that. In much of modern production, the ammount of source material that absolutely requires tape is not that significant (drums sound nice on it, IMHO).
As I said before, a good modern engineer can have the ability to pick and choose between what suits the sound the best...sometimes it's analogue, sometimes digital, sometimes broken gear through distortion pedals, through a fischer price karaoke mic... Experiment, and maybe if you make it lucky, you won't be sweet "25 years" nubz, the fucktard crossdresser on the homerecording.com forums...but actually someone who ammounts to more than a pile of rat shit.