A good use for the dbx160. I read it in Tape Op.
Page 18, Nov/Dec 2011, issue #86
"Yeah. You take a [dbx] 160 and turn the threshold all the way off, then you turn the ratio all the way down so there's no compression at all, and then turn the output all the way up to where it distorts."
I've been saying the same thing for years... just in a different way. :-)