That Meazzi thread - though covering lots of old ground - still fascinates me, because a number of our members write with cast iron certainty about how to do it, what they can hear when they listen to certain tracks or echo machines etc etc...
The question which exercises me is much more basic than all of that: How do you know that what you hear is what everyone else hears?
So here's an exercise for you all... I've included a brief clip from Apache below. Although I'm not much impressed by the playing, I reckon that some elements of the sound get close to "that" sound.
So come on... tell us what you hear... Do you hear a warm Meazzi, an EF86 front end, a digital clank... pull no punches!