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 The
Route 66 is an all original Dr.Z design based on the incredible
KT-66 tube originally built by Genelex. This tube generates the
"Milkshake Thick" tones, as heard on John Mayalls "Bluesbreaker"
album featuring Eric Clapton (the "Beano Album" as it is
known to many).
 This
is not a duplicate of the Marshall JTM-45, but completely original
spin with new tonal end results. The "Route 66" has a EF-86
front-end. For those not familiar with this tube, it is a 9 pin
pentode , offering incredible gain and input dynamics. It is normally
used in high-end stereos, most often for its accurate transfer of
input signal, balance, and headroom.
The amp features
a deceptively simple tone stack, consisting of Volume, Bass, and
Treble, which feeds a non-negative feedback Phase Inverter, for
true harmonic content and full output tube dynamics. It has a GZ-34
Tube Rectifier to complete the round enveloped tone. The amp has
piano-like clarity with endless sustain, even at low volumes. Its
32 watts truly sing when driven hard in a focused, thick distortion,
with the tightest bass response you've ever heard.
The Route
66 received the first ever "Editors' Pick Award" from
Guitar Player Magazine.
Here's
what Mike Fuller of Fulltone
Custom Effects had to say about the Route 66:
"Hey
Doc,
When
Jeff Jourard brought this Route 66 over I was semi-disinterested.....simply
because, frankly, I've never played an amp made after 1971 that
I could stand. So he plugs it in and $%#^.....immediately the jaws
drop, and we start busting out old Strats, old Les Pauls, old SG/LP's
...didn't matter, they ALL sounded great, no, spectacular!. So much
compression, sustain, harmonics, touch, AND when you turned down
the guitar, that damned amp cleaned up without losing apparent volume
to 50 fabulous shades of dirty to semi-dirty to clean.
Anyway,
thanks for making the best New amp, period...certainly the Best
amp made in at least the last 30 years, and one of the best amps
I've ever heard!"
--Mike
Fuller, Fulltone
 Doyle
Bramhall II got Route 66 Fever... rumor has it Doyle is gearing
up for another tour...stay tuned!
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Guitar Buyer magazine provided us with a great review of the Route 66.
Check out the following
comments taken from Harmony
Central reviews:
"It
appears to be a very simple amp, but in the end, it's quite complex.
I dare you to get a bad sound out of it (I can't!)..."
read more
"Z
wants to make a product that will last a lifetime, I wanted a product
that would last a lifetime. It's a perfect match..." read
more
"Nothing...and
I do mean nothing tops this amp's warmth. A few short years ago,
you couldn't buy tone this good at any price..." read
more
"It
has a nice low volume bite. I have never had an amp of this power
that did single note stuff this nice at a low volume level..."
read more
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Route
66 
...and speaking of the Route 66, how about an entire CD where the
Route 66 was used for the lead guitar parts? Check out the CD
from "The Howlers" featuring Perry Roper... Perry has
provided us with MAZ Jr clips in the past, and this new CD is chock
full of great Route 66 tones (the rest of it ain't bad, either!)...
lots of MP3s at their web site: