What do you mean by "physical summing aspect"? In the end if you press play and the resulting mix makes you smile, you're on the right track. Some people like the color of certain hardware boxes, and that's great. In the end, this is just a matter of taste. Personally I don't have to work any harder when using the VCC, it's quite easy for me to get there, but perhaps BM it's easier for you to go the hardware route. More people chose the VCC's Brit 4k E and the VCC's Tri emulations over the hardware, but that doesn't mean the hardware also doesn't sound nice. No way.When we did a blind comparison of VCC versus the Nicersizer mk2, the results were rather interesting. I wouldn't trade my SPL MixDream for any plugin. But you have to "work" those plugins hard to get the same as running it through an analog summing device. You MAY get close to the same result with some plugins (not better or worse, just different). No matter how many or what plugins you use it is NOT the same as analog summing (the summing is still done in your DAW). With a good quality analog summer you get better results FASTER (once set up your routing/template). Oh and one more thing - If money is no object than by all means go for the summing hardware I would (Loved Tube-tech one) Also remember that you need really good ADDA converters for summing and 16 of them (8 does not make sense at all IMO), plugin summing mixer to some cheaper converters is waste of time and money as all conversion flaws will be multiplied by the number of channels and return conversion. I've tried softube console 1 at the same time and that gave me "analog hands on" approach - so my workflow is so much quicker (got bank of faders as well). That meant I'd have to spent a lot more than just for the summing mixer and I just couldn't justified it in terms of real sound and sonic benefits. So to summarise - in my case the only benefit of summing mixer vs VCC (especially V2) was when you have or plan to use good quality "colourful" hardware outside the box before the summing mixer. Where hardware really shined to me in this case was how quickly I could get settings and sound I wanted - obviously thanks to the real knobs vs mouse and keyboard, but also gain staging issues mentioned above. I played a lot with tube tech eq and summing mixer and softube counterpart and was able to get similar results (at least to my imperfect hearing). However I wouldn't go as far as saying it sounds better. Personally to me the best thing about outside summing is ability to plug in hardware EQ out of the box before summing mixer and push it, without ITB gain staging headache. Not all plug emulations like to be "driven hard" some have been designed to give "that analog sound" at normal levels not when driven, so they may sound weird or unpleasant when pushed. If you use high quality plugs and maintain proper gain staging all along you should achieve similar sonic qualities. I would only consider external summing mixer if you want to use hardware (or already got hardware) I've recently "demoed" Tube-Tech summing mixer and Dangerous 2bus with some nice hardware EQs. Your best bet is only that the signal coloration that VCC does, would lead to something that sounds more or less similar to a LFAC. A LFAC or a summing device with 32 channels electrically sums 32 channels and VCC on 32 channels in your DAW doesn't sum anything at all. My friend and I (a bass player who also mixes) looked at each other and said "wow, this really does sounds like VCC!"Not at all. The other day I was tracking in a room with a Neve 8078 board, which we were of course listening to playback on. Unless you have really great DACs, its diminishing returns. The Dangerous stuff by contrast doesn't add any crosstalk, and in my opinion most of the change in sound/degradation comes from the DACs. The cross talk of VCC completely changes the stereo field of a mix much like running through a board would. A summer doesn't sum either, it only sums 8-16-32 channels of your signal, the DAW and the crosstalk of the DACs does the rest.
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