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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oh i ment to say the fact that you never see some guitarist fingerpick doesnt mean they cant. Look at someone like jason becker. He plays lots of shred etc and he can fingerpick and i'm sure lots of other guitarist like SRV can too.
