![]() ![]() Sometimes it was expressed in emotional terms. As a young guitarist I was told over and over that only tube distortion mattered. But guitarists of my generation were reared on tube dogma. Take tubes and distortion, for example.Īre Tubes for Rubes? No-it’s just a rhyme, silly! Tubes are awesome. I’m simply suggesting that it’s good to question our analog assumptions. Once you get an inkling of its power, you start wondering whether many aspects of traditional analog tone are popular because they’re great, or because they’re traditional.īoth, obviously. ![]() I flashed on that kindergarten Gnosticism decades later when I started learning about digital audio. Sure, we need A, B, and C to communicate, but we can dream in Yuzz, Fuddle, and Zatz. I loved its premise that the alphabet could extend past the letter Z, and that only our lack of imagination confines us to the usual 26 characters. Seuss’s bestsellers, but it was my childhood fave.
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