Very good mix!
I absolutely enjoyed VTM while demoing it, and what's the most important, the plugin does have it's own character. Listening to the track made me feel the same as I felt when lumbering up my projects with VTM
However, I was lucky saving all my money for the band's needs and not buying VTM, and I said "lucky", cos in the end I felt like for me it is much easier to mix without VTM.
Just one thing I feel a bit unfair, with all my respect to Steven Slate, that VTM instances do slight volume boosts while being turned on. The same as VCC brit N. I made my multitrack tests, with bouncing and then volume matching, the VTM mix sounded darker and less transient. I do understand the company's motives, though. Who would buy a plugin, that would sound LESS pleasing (less pleasing = if it won't boost the volume, but make things darker and more lo-fi at the same time)? I can do the same EQ curve without VTM, I can also saturate without that non-linearity if I need. I also do not want to accumulate hiss and tape artifacts like wow and flutter are not the main thing we are waiting from a tape emu to be emulated, right?
All that said, the plugin is still great for it's purposes. I loved it on bass guitar, etc. It might be good for beefing up the thinner mixes with just a turn of a knob (or even less, by just inserting it). But definitely, not a must for us all to sound better, gentlemen.
