What's the deal with effects and pedals? (Also: sound in general)

[howard]

Yup. We have a tube topic

Tubes

We’re talking about tube preamps, other pedals, and tubes in general in like three topics now. So I made a new one. Latest round, we’re discussing things like the Eden Glowplug: [Eden GlowPlug Tube Warmer Pedal - Product Demo] a cute little simple inline tube preamp to add tube color to a pedalboard. This started from looking at tube preamp pedals, like the Le Bass: [Two notes Audio Engineering - Le Bass Dual-channel tube preamp DEMO]