How Can I Get An Analog Sound From Logic's Plug-In's?

Hi all,
I'm working on an 80's New Wave influenced project, for which Logic has many plug-in's -- unfortunately most all of them have a distinctly digital clean sound to them.
What are some ways (filters, compressors, etc?) that I can alter some of these sounds to sound more like they did on 80's analog recordings?

Well, 80's New Wave music was known for lots of things, but clean analog sound wasn't necessarily one of'em in my opinion.
The 80's was the first "digital decade", and as all the new toys showed up musicians everywhere went wild using and abusing them. Hence the 80's proliferation of digital reverb, gated drums, drum machines, buzzy synths and grainy samples.
I'd say that sound would be best approximated with Logic's Silver or Platinum verb, or Space Designer with some old Lexicon patches... And maybe the 'bit reduction distortion' plug, whatever it's called (in the distortion directory).
Are we talking Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson "New Wave", or Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, Human League kinda new wave? There were lots of variations... But again, the over-use of digital effects and synthetic elements is what generally what makes the 80's sound like the 80's.
(at least, that's the way I remember it.... I'm still mad at the guy who convinced me to sell my Jupiter 8 coz that "buzzy" sound was dead now that DX7's had the 'clean digital sound of the future'. !!!)

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