I have both Slate Digital’s Virtual Console Collection (VCC) and Virtual Tape Machine (VTM). It seems like Slate Digital’s recommendation is to put both on every track as well as the two buss.  But as I’m thinking about this, if you want to emulate the analog world should you only have the VTM plug on your two buss because an analog board would only feed into a tape machine from one source?  I know this is strictly a theoretical question. Just wondering if there are other thoughts on this?

If I were selling software I might suggest using it everywhere too. Seriously, in the analog world most studios use multi-track tape decks in addition to 2 track mastering decks. I guess Slate is suggesting adding the VTM to simulate multi-track tape units too.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.

I think you're confused about how tape works on analog recording. The tape machine is the multi-track recording medium. So let's say I'm recording a band and I have a  24 track tape machine, I'd record each individual "channel/microphone/DI" part onto it's own track. The tape itself is where these tracks are stored, and played back from. 
 
Then, there's the mixdown...once you have your mix setup, you're going to route the stereo mixdown to a separate tape machine, usually a 2-track mixdown or mastering machine.
 
So for VTM, you'd probably want to use the 16-track model on individual tracks and the 2-track on the stereo output. On the tracks, you could put VCC after the tape plugin, and the master output bus, you could put VCC before VTM. Really though, there are no rules and you should do what sounds best to you.