Fresh Cream’s overall sound character to me obviously must have involved tube desks, tube everything. I bet even the urinals in the loo of Decca studio at the time of FC were tube, lmao. That album’s sublime unique sounds are due to hordes of tubes breathing, arcing, some tube sets playing well with others down the line while other tubes fought other tubes, resulting in “wrong” processing which only lended more of the right kind of anarchy to everything. “Fresh Cream” involves much tube processing in which I at least can actually hear the tubes. That album features the warmest, most harmonically damaged/sumptuously-delivered toneage of any other album in rock’s history. The Doors’ debut album wins an honorary 2nd-place mention re much tubage and the edgy, glowingly-tube character which was part of what made that album sound sublimely wonderful, adding to its raw, vaguely dangerous and grandmaw offending feel.
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Clapton's '66 tone: Beano thru Fresh Cream
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goldtop0
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The tubes were 'rollin' and tumblin' 