By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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Neil22 you dont know what your talking about. Loads of people have made amazing solo's actually and some people on this forum have acutually achieved a lot. I think a lot of people on this forum are far better than most mainstream guitarist that are said to be good !