Originally Posted by: alucard0941
Its not all about being the shed king and playing at like 190bpm. It helps ALOT, but you can live without it.
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I cant live without it. I love to shred. But its true that you dont have to be able to shred to be good. Its always a nice thing to be able to do though.
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.