Animal Factory Orobas II | Why do tubes sound so good?

This video is about Orobas II from Animal Factory Amplification. It’s a dual VCA and saturator that uses vacuum tubes - and while it can certainly do extreme sonic destruction, it’s also capable of adding more subtle character, and it has some very flexible routing options which make it a super-powerful addition to a modular synthesis setup. In this video, I’ve built a few patches that put it through its paces and explore the sonic possibilities of vacuum tubes. Did I get bitten by the distortion bug? Watch to find out. Big thanks to Animal Factory Amplification for supplying the Orobas II for me to check out. You can find out more about it here: https://animalfactoryamps.com/collect... More stuff from me: https://tomchurchill.bandcamp.com/   / tomchurchill     / tomchurchill   Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:45 Orobas II overview 04:16 Saturating sine waves as a VCA 07:47 Distorted drone delights 12:18 Mixing VCOs to feed an LPG 15:22 A more aggressive mixing VCA 19:17 Mixing drums, bass and chords