Lynn
I started using the console emulation a few songs ago, and I love it! I think my latest mixes have more of an analog sound than ever before.
I'll give that a real +1. After watching Craig Anderton's video's, and resetting the desk on a few projects and adding the CE to all the tracks and buses then redoing all my EQ's and effects, I did hear a difference.
I even A/B'd it with and without the +2db Trim increase he recommends. Your mind can trick you with the 'louder is better' thing, so I set it at 0db and adjusted the 'Depth. I still heard a difference. Not Earth shattering, but it was a difference and I did like it.
The only thing bad, if you can call it that, that I have run in to is, when you do use the +2db Trim adjustment he recommends, you can get clipping. So you have to be careful where you're gains are at. At least that's what I ran in to.