Re: The End of Timeless Instruments? (Craig Anderton editorial)

[Adrian Likins <adrian@likins.com>]

goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:
>  >>TUBES are probably the most important sound factors 'in my world'.<<
> 
> I agree. I would use more tube-based kit if I possibly could. at the 
> moment, I have a couple of valve tape decks in the studio, while on 
> stage both I & my guitarist use valve heads (he has marshalls & fenders, 
> I play my basses through an old orange 120).
> 
> it's all about even-order harmonic distortion vs the odd-order variety 
> one gets from silicon-based life-forms....

        Of course, it wasn't that long ago that the future of tubes looked 
in 
doubt, as the suppliers all started drying up.

Adrian