help you explain?
to whom?
distillate is that which has been distilled.
source biomass might have been stored in the barn for two years first. it might have been harvested and bailed wet…and left for months. biomass is extracted, possibly warm, solvent choice is irrelevant, and goes through a number of other steps before being distilled under high vac at about 200C. amoung those steps is deliberately stripping the terpenes and other volatiles that give extracts their flavor.
“Live resin” is an extract made from biomass that was flash frozen at harvest.
It can be accomplished with a number of different solvents, but light hydrocarbons are generally agreed as the best approach. it is extracted cold (-40 to -60C), and treated gently to preserve the terpenes.
Night and Day.
see eg: First distillation underway! and Running Fresh Frozen
edit: and if you’ve been custie’d, you might be looking at distillate with HTE added back from a fresh frozen run and being called live resin. Making Live Resin Cartridges
maybe @beaker can explain distillate best: Time lapse start to finish Sublimator run although it’s been a long time since I’ve seen hot-dog water looking that good 