Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
To muddy the waters a bit, the most 'correct' sound isn't always the
best sound. Consider so many people's love of tube amps. They have
higher distorsion than transistor amps, yet so many people think they
sound better.
i remember reading about people recreating the Roland 303 and one of the things that made its distinctive sound was that the original power supply was a bit crappy and couldn't really handle it - in fact if you wound up one the filters' resonance too high it would be drawing more power than was available, which would lead to all sorts of fun distortion across the whole circuit.
one of my aims for the next little while is to build a pd external that tries to mathematically model the distortion that's going on when an analog (transistor or tube-based) circuit is overpowered, perhaps on a molecular level, to get a nicer sound when i push the delay feedback up too high (which i like to do).
lalala...