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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I should be up there too. I can play 16 notes per second at the most so far. I've heard people like danny joe carter play way faster though.. i'm can play sure he can play faster than 20 notes a second. Also depends on if they are talking about alternate picking or tapping ! I heard that when vai taps the amp is producing about 23 notes per second sometimes. What about someone like marcus paus though, he beats them all with 46 notes a second.
