Not true at all.
Try telling that to bob katz, and roger nichols. Extremely highly respected mastering engineers in the world, and advocates (and indeed developers) of the digital revolution.


In fact the Waves maximiser is so popular in all studios it has been made into a hardware version for the soft-o-phobes.

But this isn`t the place for the rather tedious analog versus digital debate.

The only advice I would give is to make sure you use good quality plug ins, and having a knowledge of the hardware sound, or owning some will give you a better insight into which plugins behave like their old skool counterparts.