There's three things related to tape plugins:
- Soft clipping
- Bass boost (a bell, not a low shelf)
- High frequency control (remove digital harshness)
If you want a low frequency boost in a region that actually adds something valuable and want to de-harshen the high frequencies, ReelBus4 is excellent for this. Hornet Tape always boosts high frequencies, no matter what "preset" you choose, you have no control over this. In addition, Reelbus4 also has saturation, delay, flanger, tape stop, but most importantly full control over the amount of EQ'ing that is taking place with the "spectrum" slider.