The Steel Guitar Forum

Hi, have anyone tried the zt club amp with pedalsteel?
I have a chance to swap my Recording king lapsteel with this amp.
Sounds like a good deal?

The ZT Club was my first pedal steel amp.
Since I have the Roland Cube 80XL I don't use it for pedal steel anymore. The Club is a dark sounding amp. Maybe with a nice Multi-FX pedal you can make it sound brighter.

Thomas

i tryed one but sent it back next day just wasnt for me

I went to see Nels Cline and Julian Lage play a couple of weeks ago. Nels was playing through a ZT club and Julian was using a Carr Rambler (really fancy tube amp). Fwiw, Nels' tone wasn't lacking at all compared to Julian. Never heard one with pedal steel though.

.I tried one and sent it back the next day. Too sterile sounding for me, and it is meant for guitar (overdrive), controls were too fiddly to try and get a clean sound out of...

If you want a solid state amp, check out the GK MB-200 in a Tommy Huff (he is on this forum) cab with 15"SICA....22 lbs, 200 watts. I have one of those as a backup to my tube amps (never use it, but it is around if I need it).

Hi, thanks for the replies
I did trade my Recording king lapsteel for it. Seemed like a good deal, and if im not happy with it, i can sell it
Got it yesterday, just barely tried it. Didnt sound bad, but i see what you mean about it beeing a dark sounding amp...
Will use it for a couple of rehersals and maybe a gig....

Hi, thanks for the replies
I did trade my Recording king lapsteel for it. Seemed like a good deal, and if im not happy with it, i can sell it
Got it yesterday, just barely tried it. Didnt sound bad, but i see what you mean about it beeing a dark sounding amp...
Will use it for a couple of rehersals and maybe a gig....

I use 2 of them. I use them with a Telonics volume pedal, a Sarno Black box, and a POD XT with the Marshal Plexi 100 head and the four 10 inch cabinet simulators, along with the barest touch of compression and chorusing as the default preset.

The combination sounds great. Everybody says I get a lovely tone.

The Black Box makes a MAJOR difference in the way the amps sound. It adds warmth and life and soul to the amps (which do sound somewhat sterile without it.) I turn the reverb on the amps off, and use the reverb in the POD.

They are designed to distort, and you have to turn down the gain in order to get a clean sound out of them.

But the best thing is that they weigh only 22 pounds. I'd rather play though a pair of Webbs, Or Peavey Session 500s Or Fender Steel Kings, if somebody else would carry them around.

I just turned 67. I want equipment that won't break my back when I carry it around.

Hi again, , thanks for the reply. I have been playing it a bit now. And the size and weight thing is gteat , ,but i was not happy with the sound.....
Too dark and sterile.
But the strangest thing...today i got to trade it for a cube80x.
That worked great.