Hey,
www.GuitarVoice.com is giving away a Keeley Compressor pedal ($219 new on Keeley's site). Go check it out.
Robert Keely Pedal Giveaway
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I've checked it out and it looks good to me. Apparently you get more chance of winning if you sign up to the forum if you sign up before may the first because your name will get entered twice :)
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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