Distortions that the human ear likes. Are there any ?

Funny you should mention that, Geoff. When composing, auto spell first spelled that instead of the word I wanted to use. I almost missed it. 🤪

No problem, it’s been a little slow here at Subway today.

Would it not be better for the all the usual suspects commenting 
on this thread to consider their own Skype group grope?

Yeah I think your missingbthe point here. And that’s because there is an assumption that distortion is bad. The fact is, it is the way you use it that makes a record or I should say the music in a record found the way it sounds. 

I was producing an electronic classical record at a studio The Beach Boys used in Santa Barbara. The engineer was very familiar with the composers music but I didn’t like the over all sound he was getting so I took the tracks to a Village Recorders in LA to mix. The engineer there had no idea what to do with this sort of music but he did make it sound the way I wanted. So I took the project back to Santa Barbara and said this is what I’m looking for somicly. So the original engineer used the headphone buss to do the mix instead of the main part of the board. And it was what I was looking for. Basically it was distortion which instead of being a negative thing, made the music more exciting. 

There if vourse other stories about why soul singers and drummers recorded in the 60’s sound the way they do but this is long enough. 

Damn I need to edit that. Is there a way to do that?