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 agree with you. I hate those cheap squires. Some of the expensive ones are quite nice though. Havnt played any old ones though apart from this fender bass which was really nice. They arent really my type of guitar though since i play mainly metal :)
