Pretty big "if" in there. And studies show that many people prefer the "further sounding".
"Should be used 1:1" is not some law or rule, just a preference ... neither better nor worse
and his preferences! Basically, he does whatever sounds better to him.
When I add 'distiortion' at home (e.g. with tubes or whatever) I do the exact same.
I'd say it'll
surely sound different: different speakers, different room ...
I do not hear/see "the problem with sounding". And even on engineering-heavy-ASR, people voted "
signal is not holy"
Beg to seriously differ here.
So called
tube-microphones are most popular, particularly for voices. That's anything but "untreated voices".
Also pretty sure that voice tarcks also go through exciters/reverb/effects like all else. The kind of electronics that suposedly make those tracks sound 'bad'. Many thousands of studio engineers say the exact opposite .. and billions of customers seem to agree
A very few 'purists' do stuff like record-direct-to-lp or direct-to-dsd. But even those records contain the (electronic) mic 'distortion'.
And that's probably the most liked quality of tube amps: the way they "influence the voice"
What is "acceptable" is an interesting subject too. A bit far though since we already jumped to preferable/craved