PastToFutureReverbs Ampex AG 440-8A 1 Inch 8 Track Tape Recorder Plugin Extension For NAM and GENOME!

I actually ran some of their A/B demos through a highly complex system of audio metering tools (... or maybe just Youlean ) and, as a lot of their stuff is tape/saturation, the majority—of the ones I grabbed that people were complaining about elsewhere, not being level-matched—were actually level-matched and just sounded louder. Some demos are clearly louder though, and they obviously don't have any auto-gain feature for when they're cranking up the input on NAM/Proteus.
As far as snapshots vs emulations, I have a place for both. I tend to have IRs for tape and saturation units more for color and natural EQ, as opposed to utilitarian compression or glue. It's really about experimenting with these captures and keeping them as an option, if you think your audio might benefit from whatever sonic goodness you've discovered.
I'm currently debating whether to grab a couple more mic IRs from them before their current sale ends... those bastards are gonna nickel-'n-dime me to death.

NAM is huge in guitar emulation world at present time. Profiles, if they are trained right and whit high number of epochs, can sound spectacular with guitar amps, cabinets and pedals. But they can sound just as good with anything that involves distortion and saturation like tape machines, preamps, and mixing consoles profiling! Indistinguishable from real hardware. They slay any algorithmic tape or chanal preamp, mixer, saturation-overdrive-distortion plugin, and wipe the floor with Nebulas tape and preamp emulations. They react with full dynamic with input gain change. Dynamically change EQ curves with difrent input gain levels, just like when you overdrive real mixing desk, or tape machine. Marvelous ! Lately some of this companys started to profile analog compressors. Few days back I downloaded some LA2A profile from AnalogXai free profiles pack, and it sounds spectacular. Never in life heard more belivable compression in software form. It comppress, and open at the same time. The transient are squeezed but at the same time the whole picture of the drums, toms, bass opens up. Compare it yourself on some nice detailed headphones on some, for compressors, demanding tasks like heavy bass guitar. I tested it against some algoritmic LA2A software emulation , FabFilter C2 on opto settings. They all sound pathetic compared to NAM profiles. FabFilter C2 in particular fail miserably. This is just the beginning of NAM and similar tehnology, there is some things that this companies that made this profiles need to to improve, like sampling on more different gain settings, you should certainly drive NAM Input knob, that is a whole purpose of this plugin, but you can't just push NAM profile in to a "red" much beyond 0 dbfs, because it can start to sound "unrealistic" , you must take new profile on higher gain settings on hardware itself. Also they need to sample indipendently left and right canal, or multi-canal, so we can have slight phasing and flanging from combining both signals in stereo on something like tape machines. But even when it stands now, I never been more impressed with new tehnology since I heard IRs, and Nebula some 20 years ago. But NAM compared even to them is in the whole other ligue.

Sorry on my bad English.

Thanks for all your replies, opinions and explanations
Okay, I'm sold. Definitely going to have to try some of these now...

& Thanks to trae_hym and PiRAT