OK, end of a long day yesterday, so I missed the logic part (why can't we have badges of the daws like other fourms?
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Tom Lubin - engineer producer of the 70's and 80's once said about my own mixes "one mans distortion is another mans great sound" - it was sarcasm with an intended message you don't need to be perfect in waht you do to get what you consider a great sound but not everyone will think that it is a great sound.
Bit crushing as a solution to punch doesn't cut it for me, because it is destructive rather than constructive.
You can achieve crispy far more easily by isolating the right frequencies and applying an appropriate amount of boost or cut with a narrow or wide Q.
Obviously, adding boost at low freqs gives a sense of presence in the mix, but it may also introduce unwanted artefacts such as LF masking.
I'm not knocking any of this as such, way back in the days BC, we had to do pretty much this with an analogue desk as there wasn't much outboard gear in the studio at the time (it got better later).
Taking the individual channels, applying a 2:1 - 4:1 compression ratio, setting the threshold low enough to have it working without pumping and then adding some gain makeup (ca.3-6db) will be far more affective at adding punch in the freqs of the instrument.