re: #378 William Lewis

Had that discussion the other day with a semi-pro musician who had just bought his first tube amp and an old engineer who is in our parish. It was a bit mind bending. The engineer couldn’t really quite understand why we 2 musicians loved the sound of pushing a tube beyond what it was spec’ed to handle. Overdrive!

One of my church guitarists uses a tube amp and puts it in our amp box for Sunday worship. He has by far the best guitar sound out of any of our semi-professional musicians that volunteer for our bands. I love advanced technology and all, but there’s a few cases where the classics really do rule, and a good tube amp is definitely one of them.