ups, sorry - for some strange reasons, i didn't get to read any newer posts?!

anyway, i just wanted to mention that a friend of mine who is deeply rooted in the tango tradition (even pre-tango nuevo) wanted to steer one track of a modern album recording of his orquesta not-so-típica into the direction of the early era...

...and was pleased to hear that collapsing to mono, limited dynamics and frequency range, the use of filters, intentional distortion (mainly on vocals) plus adding the (fake) crackling of vinyl got him close enough to what he wanted to hear! ;-)