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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Not having as much volume doesnt bother me and i find it would actually be better for using in the house. Its just i want all the gain and quality i can get. I really like having pleanty of gain... i mean, whats worse than having an amp thats got half assed gain. It might as well just have a clean channel ! If i'm going to use distortion i want it to sound good. Its even at the point where i'm having to have distortion on my effects and amp and even that amount of gain isnt good enough and sounds horrible.
