The zenTera wins an Editors' Pick Award . The time was well spent. We attained oneness with the zenTera with an Ibanez Artist, a Gibson Les Paul, a Guild Brian May model, and a variety of Fender Strats. If all this sounds familiar, it should.
Most modeling amps make similar claims.
However, the zenTera's Dynamic Sector Modeling attempts to reproduce not just the tone of a given amp, but the interactions of all the internal components that contribute to the amp's sound and dynamics. Scrolling through the various amp types is another treat. The tweed Deluxe preset, for example, leaps out of the speakers in all its rich, three-dimensional glory, the blackface Twin model is big and clean, the tweed 4x10 breaks up in a gloriously swampy SRV fashion, and the plexi models reek of classic rock at any gain setting. But it's the zenTera's Brit EL84 simulation that's the real showstopper. Yet, the zenTera's Vox tribute sounded so accurate that we pulled out a real AC30 for a reality check.