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: Tube-based microphones and compressors are used to add "weight" and "presence" to digital recordings.

: Enthusiasts often describe tube sound as "lush" or "natural." This is due to even-order harmonic distortion , which the human ear finds more pleasing than the "harsh" odd-order distortion typical of early solid-state circuits.