Man I gotta agree with this thread 150%! These plugins can't touch what the outboard is doing. The coolest thing about the outboard is that the harder you push it, the more character you get out of it, with respect to compressors anyway. That's not to say plugins suck at all, I still use them, and I find that the PSP Old timer is a great plugin, but it still can't touch the hardware, because the hardware just has soo much more character. For example I just picked up a Distressor and before I was adding plugin after plugin to get my bass sound, now I just run it through the distressor and I'm done. Last 2 mixes I didn't even EQ the bass. So yeah, I have to re-print stuff but its faster to dial in the sound than using plugin compressors and trust me I have quite a few compressors to choose from including CLA and the ones that come with Waves Gold, plus a few PSP compressors. Before I got the distressor I was running my vox through an RNC which was pretty nice, but it doesn't go near the distressor on vox! Big difference on outboard gear! I'm hooked!