Curious how others are using Tape Sim.
Across all tracks
Master Bus only
Settings  used
 
I've been placing on the master and twiddling. I'm not sure what setting are best or what my base start settings should be EX: level meter should be reading on the Tape sim itself.
 

I've played around with various methods.
 
Mostly now I only use it on certain tracks - drums being the main one, and sometimes after amp sims.
 

I have used it a few times on vocals. medium setting.  It gives just a hint of grunge to the track so it's not so pristine sounding. I don't overdo it.
 
It can be used on anything in your project to emulate that natural compression sound that came from tape. I also think I have used it a time or two in the master bus as well. Again, very lightly.

I've thought about this a lot since it was announced. I think the first thing I'm going to try is use it on all my main busses (drum bus, rhyth guit bus, bass bus, lead guit bus, premaster bus, etc). I figure that would be a little more like how things would be sent out to tape from a board during live sessions. Putting it on every track seems like it would be far more tape effect than you would get in a real world setting.
 
Oh and I was a little disappointed it was locked to X3 exclusively. I wanted to try it out on the Beepster Creep in X2 but it yelled at me "NO TAPE SIM FOR YOU!" Loading the project into X3 was causing problems so I just left it alone.

I just did a country mix and used the S type console with some tape emulator on the master, then spread it slightly with the BT spatial.  I just kept squishin' it until it was very noticeable then backed off about a quarter, like I do with many effects.  Sounds nice, but then I like the older analog sound on traditional stuff.  I prob won't use it on my electronic mixes.  

I"ve used this one http://www.voxengo.com/product/analogflux/ on the drum bus and it works magic.  You could probably do the same thing with careful use of eq, compression and subtle distortion/saturation, but the tape bus does it all for ya! I'm planning on trying to duplicate what the Voxengo does with the new Sonar tape emulator.

I use it on the drum buss and have recently started using it (lightly) during the mastering stage.

Tape compression traditionally manifests its benefits on drum tracks and bass tracks. I find this to be true of the ProChannel's TapeSim as well. Therefore I tend to use it on individual drums tracks as well as bass tracks. Careful not to overdo it.

I've been using TB Reelbus and it is quite nice. Mostly the same way everyone else is. Depending on what's going on, I use it on the guitar tracks as well.

I use my Kramer Master Tape on the drum bus and the bass. Bass especially sounds awesome when you crank that input.