Couple of clips of our amp

[ZEN Amps]

Shared over at Rig-Talk so may as well spread the love here...

A few new clips of the Zen prototype amp. Before you ask, no I don't know when it'll be ready for release! Everything is taken 5x longer than it should, but it's coming along great.

It's a multi-mode amp that will cover a lot of ground. This is the Cameron/CCV mode:




Diezel Herbert mode (metal, single)




Herbie (metal, doubled)




C++ mode with the onboard 5-band. This clip also has some external "Het" EQ applied, but we're currently working to integrate this EQ circuit/curve as a switchable, death-to-all-mids option.




And 2203 mode from ages ago



More of a warmer tone on this, may have been G12 65's.


I'll leave the Mayer-esque clean tones for now, perhaps the wrong crowd.

 

[mk5]

That sounds really really great!

 

[RaceU4her]

if you have all those tones, plus a mayer'esque clean, with a universal 5 band.. you win

 

[laxu]

That amp sounds like quite a monster. CCV, Herbert and C++ all in one? With an EQ?

 

[HomespunEffects]

… I'll leave the Mayer-esque clean tones for now, perhaps the wrong crowd.

Are you nuts? This is my #1 complaint of the high gainers. The clean is either stiff or sterile or barky. If you have an actual useful clean let’s hear it.

 

[ejecta]

I'll leave the Mayer-esque clean tones for now, perhaps the wrong crowd.

Or maybe not…. there are people like me who use clean tones as much as gain one’s. It’s one of my main gripes about the over abundance of demos of amps that can get high gain that they only show the chug chug weedly weedly.

 

[Stone]

Wow Sounds Amazing !!

 

[laxu]

Are you nuts? This is my #1 complaint of the high gainers. The clean is either stiff or sterile or barky. If you have an actual useful clean let’s hear it.

Yeah usually most high gain amps fail at either cleans for the reasons you described, or the low-to-mid gain stuff where it sounds "eh, that's fine but not blowing my socks off like the high gain channel".

 

[ZEN Amps]

That amp sounds like quite a monster. CCV, Herbert and C++ all in one? With an EQ?

Yeah it's been a gruelling R&D process but we're getting there! There's lots of digital solutions around but we've always felt a tube amp that could compete in that realm would be great for the real tone sluts.

If you have an actual useful clean let’s hear it.

Or maybe not…. there are people like me who use clean tones as much as gain one’s.

Yeah usually most high gain amps fail at either cleans for the reasons you described, or the low-to-mid gain stuff where it sounds "eh, that's fine but not blowing my socks off like the high gain channel".

Clean and low-gain tones are as important to us as the crunch - no tone left behind!

There are a number of US and UK cleaner options onboard but it's pretty hard to beat 60's Fender types. I had the first one dialled in pretty bright and with new strings so don't expect warm and jazzy. But do expect aimless noodling...

Clean strat:




Mild breakup Tele: