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OUR HISTORY

BUILT THROUGH EVOLUTION.

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ZP Microphones began with a simple ambition:

To build microphones we wanted to record with ourselves.

What started as an exploration of classic microphone design gradually developed into something more

our own approach to capsules, circuits, components and, ultimately, sound.

Every ZP generation has taught us something.

We listened. We changed things. We built again.

And we kept the ideas that sounded right.

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2021 — WHERE IT STARTED

The ZP800G became our first step into professional studio microphone design.

Inspired by one of the most recognizable modern vocal sounds in recording history,

it established an idea that remains part of ZP today:

Study the classics — but don't be afraid to rethink them.

The original piano-black ZP800G began a development path that would continue

through multiple generations and eventually lead to today's ZP 8000X.

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2022 — REFINING THE IDEA

The ZP800G MK1 represented the next stage.

We continued experimenting with capsule tuning, electronics, components

and construction while refining the character that had defined the original microphone.

The goal wasn't simply to make another version.

It was to learn from the previous one.

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2023 — EXPLORATION

2023 became an important development year for ZP.

The ZP800G MK2 continued the evolution of our modern vocal microphone,

while new designs allowed us to explore completely different sonic directions.

The Corti Flagship, Corti Master One, APX 207 M7 and first-generation Luminus expanded our understanding

of capsule behaviour, signal paths and how different design choices translate into what we ultimately hear.

Some became production microphones.

Others became stepping stones.

All of them contributed something to what came next.

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FROM RECREATION TO OUR OWN SOUND

As ZP developed, our focus gradually changed.

Recreating the character of great microphones taught us a great deal.

But eventually the more interesting question became:

What would we build if we weren't trying to recreate anything?

That thinking became increasingly important in the development of the Luminus.

Its purpose-built ZP M7 capsule and carefully voiced signal path

represented a shift toward a microphone with a distinctly ZP identity.

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Not a recreation.

Not a clone.

Our sound.

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THE NEXT GENERATION

Years of development eventually converged into the current ZP range.

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ZP 8000X

The idea that started with the original ZP800G evolved into the ZP 8000X

a modern interpretation of the celebrated C-800G-style vocal character,

developed through multiple generations of ZP engineering.

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ZP LUMINUS

The Luminus represents our own sonic direction: smooth, dimensional and controlled,

built around the ZP M7 capsule and designed to provide a balanced starting point for a finished vocal.

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ZP DUO VINTAGE

The Duo Vintage brought another idea to life:

Why choose between two legendary microphone characters when one microphone could offer both?

Two purpose-built capsules allow the microphone to move between U47-inspired weight and intimacy

and ELA M251-inspired openness and air.

It represents exactly what ZP has become about:

Respect the past. Learn from it. Then build something new.

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EVERY MICROPHONE LEAVES SOMETHING BEHIND

Our discontinued microphones are more than old models.

They are part of the development process that created today's ZP microphones.

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Different capsules.

Different circuits.

Different components.

Different ideas.

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Each generation brought us closer to understanding what we wanted a ZP microphone to be.

And that development doesn't stop.

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Because we don't believe a microphone is finished when the specification sheet looks right.

It's finished when we listen and don't want to change anything anymore.

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ZP MICROPHONES — BELGIUM

EST. 2021