Guitar Player

Dr. Z

is one of the more original designers on the boutique scene, he has often taken his inspiration from left-field vintage creations rather than the Vox-Marshall-Fender triumvirate to which 90 percent of the boutique market pays homage. So it is with the Jetta, a 30-watt 1x12 combo inspired by a 1968 Ampeg Reverbojet that was brought to Dr. Z for rehab and the jaw-dropping rock and roll tone that the patient exhibited upon recovery. It certainly didn’t hurt that Keith Richards used a Reverbojet on. As Zaite relates, “I finished it up, plugged into it and hit a chord, and it was like, Oh my god, there’s the Rolling Stones!”

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