Its all about the money not the talent(even though some people think it does involve talent). Slipknot didnt really used to be commercial though and didnt really change when they became commercial though. I think the fact that so many people hate them is because they have become commercial and there are too many little 8 year old kids walking round with slipknot hoodys on !
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.
