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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When i first heard them i thought they were quite good. Then i heard some of there other stuff and it just sounds similar and i didnt really like it. They have just gone commercial now and people's mums are buying darkness albums. I mean they are even being played on radio one.