Backline Engineering Announces a New Version of ZenTone 7

December 10, 2007

ZenTone7™ is a class-A tube amp combining a vintage design with several advanced features. The main change is a new power supply design that provides a higher voltage for slightly more output power. This new design also provides a low power mode which cuts the output power by more than a factor of 2 in order to proved more output tube overdrive. When combining lower power mode with triode mode, the output power is reduced to around 1 watt. Other changes include an improved direct out speaker emulation design and a preamp design change for smoother high-gain tones.

The new Zentone7 features include:

7 watt class-A single-ended amp head (Low Power mode reduces this to 3 watts)
Authentic 300V tube amp signal path based on classic designs
Two 12AX7 preamp tubes (substitute 12AT7, 12AU7, 12AY7, 12AZ7 for different tones)
Select between 3 preamp gain structures (Clean, Crunch, Lead)
Switch between EL84 or octal output tube with the push of a button
The octal tube socket can accept 6V6 (included), 6L6, EL34 or KT77 output tubes without re-biasing
Select output tube Pentode mode or output tube Triode mode for a darker tone with lower output power and more compression Gain, bass, mid, treble and master volume controls
Bright switch
All the above control values can be stored in 64 preset locations
Unbalanced and XLR direct outputs with level control
Direct out contains entire tube signal path from the input to the speaker output
Built-in reactive speaker load when external speaker is unplugged
Direct out has speaker emulation frequency curve
Direct out level control can act like a power attenuator allowing you to overdrive the output tube
Cycle through presets or different groups of presets using the supplied external footswitch
Preset zero is a true bypass from input to unbalanced direct output
MIDI input for selecting presets or controlling any parameter
DC tube filaments for reduced noise
Free Windows software for controlling the amp using MIDI

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