Analog tape also provides you with some "glue" that helps tracks work and mix together more cohesively, and a bit of tape compression that can soften the sometimes overly-harsh sound of digital, especially on transients. Analog tape gives you subtle (or not so subtle, if you intentionally hit it really hard) distortion - especially on transients / loud hits / peaks, wow and flutter (think "subtle pitch vibrato" and you won't be too far off), a "head bump" (increased bass usually somewhere around 100Hz, although it varies with different machines and tape speeds), and added hiss and noise. Analog tape imparts sonic characteristics that many people find highly desirable and pleasant.
While many of today's recordists have little to no experience using actual tape decks, I am old enough that I started out using them exclusively, and have logged countless hours operating and maintaining everything from cheap cassette decks to top of the line 16 and 24 track 2" reel to reels - I still own and occasionally use both an analog half track mixdown deck and multitrack tape deck, so not only am I well acquainted with their sound, I also know what some of the disadvantages that come along with analog recording are, and it's some of these imperfections that people actually seem to like. Tape emulation plugins have become really popular with DAW users who would like to bring a bit of that classic "tape sound" to their digital recordings.
Can a plugin really give your DAW the sound of analog tape?
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