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Sound is a relative thing.
If the sound you have is lower-fi or just plain cheap (Wal-Mart cheap), it can still pass as acceptable because there may not be a quality sound in the mix to compare it with.
A cheap guitar played through a horrible sounding amp can sound pretty good if there are no other guitar sounds present.
Some of the most famous recordings were done with low quality, half broken junk.
Jeff Beck used a road weary, barely working old tube amp on a recording back in the mid 60s. They say it was one of the first times distorted guitar was recorded. It sounds like trash, but relatively speaking, it's not too bad.
They eventually made distortion boxes to get that sound.

What is distortion? Mostly noise, right?
Now why would anyone intentionally put noise in there signal?
Think about that when you're recording your next song in your 24/96 pristine digital studio.

Cheers!

G'Gone,

There is a world of difference between considering something "un-playable" and un-musical.

Some things that are clearly unplayable can still be musical as hell.

Dave Stewart or Eurythmics used to tell the story of musicians accosting him on the street over how to get a particular synth sound that was on "Sweet Dreams" -- what the hell was that glassy, percussive, atonal synth, Dave?!?

It was glass milk bottles played with a spoon.

Our challenge as musicians is to make the world our instrument.

BB