Welcome to The Club, and congratulations! The Club is ZT Ampliers’ premium,
stage-ready musical instrument amplier. It offers a no-compromise output level and
frequency range while remaining true to the ZT design spirit of compact and lightweight
gear for the real world.
Like all ZT products, the Club is simple and intuitive enough to allow anyone to plug
and play without much effort. However, reading this document can help you get more
out of your amp, and take your sound to new places.
Design Philosophy:
The Club is further proof that ZT has “cracked the code” of ne amp sound. Sharing
many basic components with ZT’s Lunchbox, the Club obtains a much higher output
and broader range thanks to its larger speaker and enclosure. It’s an amp that performs
in almost any situation, providing no-compromise sound and tone in situations where
larger amps are not an alternative. And, it’s an amp with a personality all its own; a
exible and adaptable problem-solver in the hands of a musician. The Club delivers
more, for the player who needs it, wants it, and has to have it.
The ZT Club is the result of many years of study into the sound, feel and science of
the world’s best musical instrument ampliers. Our goal was not to clone or “model”
any particular product. Rather, we have tried to understand, in a methodical way,
what technical factors give an amp great tone, exibility and playability. As a group
of experienced audio scientists and passionate musicians, we set out to learn what
makes a classic amp survive for generations, giving artists of many styles and genres
a consistently great playing experience over the years. ZT’s research investigation was
“clean slate.” We didn’t assume we knew any secret, magic formula; we set our own
techno-biases aside. Likewise, we did not assume that conventional wisdom is always
all that wise.
What we found is that guitar amps are fantastically complex systems. Many aspects of
the overall product design interact with one another under real-world playing conditions.
Sections of the electrical circuit inuence each other, the electrical system interacts
with the acoustical system, etc. Some of these interactions are well known to amp
acionados and designers. Others have been underrated, or overlooked entirely. Thus,
we soon came to realize that guitar amps have plenty of mysteries to reveal, and plenty
of room for improvement in areas that musicians would appreciate.
Eventually, ZT started collecting real, practical insight into what makes great amps tick.
In our view, optimization between electrical, acoustical and mechanical subsystems
is the key to bringing more tone, power, smaller size, and lower costs into the picture.
By applying sophisticated technical understanding to overcome limitations that have
previously been considered facts of life, ZT is able to re-write some of the rules
while working in complete harmony with more traditional approaches. We believe it
is time to re-think the fundamental design of the guitar amp, bringing in advanced
audiotechnology without losing the wonderful benets of proven classics.
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