> (Why can't that modeling shit come up with something original and leave the tubing to the tubes? Hundreds of millions of transistors switching in two voltage

> (Why can't that modeling shit come up with something original and leave the tubing to the tubes? Hundreds of millions of transistors switching in two voltage levels, to simulate an evacuated glass bottle with a couple of electrodes. That's like using Postgress DB to construct a thread mutex. Abstraction Inversion: http://tunes.org/wiki/abstraction_20inversion.html http://tunes.org/wiki/abstraction_20inversion.html) There are plenty of VST waveshapers. Just...everybody wants to use them to reproduce tube amps and pedals instead of different distortion ideas. Hell, personally I can't even hear the difference between whatever different models of distortion people come up with anyway...