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Dr. Z Amplification
| Founded | ; 37&#;years ago&#;() |
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| Founder | Mike Zaite |
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Dr.
Z Amplification is an American manufacturer of boutique guitar amplifiers.
Biography dr z amp
History
The company was founded in by Mike Zaite, a.k.a. Dr. Z. Zaite grew up the child of a television repairman and learned about vacuum tubes at an early age.[1] He played the drums, and started producing tube amplifiers in his Cleveland, Ohio, shop while maintaining his day job as a medical electronic technician at G.E.[2] As the son of a TV repair shop owner, Zaite learned the ropes at the age of thirteen when he began tinkering with amps and PAs.
His first amplifier was built on a reverb amplifier for a Hammond organ. He sold a few hundred of those, and then re-engineered them so he could build them from scratch. His first commercially made amplifier was the Carmen Ghia, an watt amplifier with nothing but a volume and a tone control, 12AX7 and pre-amp tubes, and two E