Originally posted by finger_cruncher
Point is, pinch harmonics and artificial harmonics are way different.
I've just looked pinch harmonics up on the forums and from the description i got it seems they are exactly the same as pinch harmonics ! Both where you play a note and let the edge of your thumb touch the string slightly.
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.
