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 think they might be banning smoking in public places soon ! At the moment people smoke where they want. People even seem to smoke in no smoking areas which i think is quite annoying considering i have to put up with my mums smoke all the time at home as well.
