NEWS
Rock Blues Album - Already Free Derek Trucks Band
Song of the Year - "Pearl River" Cyril Neville & Mike Zito
02/2010 - RedPlateAmps is proud to welcome Mike Zito to the RedPlate Family. Watch for some clips in March!
RedPlateAmps is proud to welcome Kirk Fletcher to the RedPlate Family. Watch for some clips in Mayl!
At this time, RedPlateAmps is no longer offering the stand alone buffered effects loop unit.
The Carr Slant 6 lead channel mod has been discontinued.
REVIEWS:
Here's a sampling of some RedPlate player's impressions:
"Sounds
great...very loud. It's barely bigger than a champ but I'm a little worried it
might be too loud for small gigs. I'm doing two gigs with Elvin this weekend
and will really get to try her out so I'll let you know then.
It doesn't
sound like a Super Reverb, which I think is good. It has more of a tweed
quality the way it breaks up, but it's a little more "in your face"
like a class A amp. What I really notice is the touch sensitivity...you can
strum lightly and it's real clean and then when you dig into it it really
barks.
Oddly
enough he designed it for my Tele, and it sounds great with that, but when I
plugged in my ES 175 with P-90s WOOOOEEEE! It just sounded huge!
I am into
Fender tones, but more importantly I want to sound like me...I like any amp
that sounds fat and interesting.
Also the
reverb is about as good as your ever gonna hear in a combo amp."
Mighty
Mike Schermer
"Nothing
but thumbs up all week long on 'lil red...4 completely different gigs too.
Actually I walked out in the crowd on Sunday during the last song and it was
unbelievably clear and punchy, much cleaner than standing next to it but not
that "Fender hot spot 30 ft out into the room" thing either...the
reason guitarists are always told to turn down...just a nice full developed
tone. Great with the Tele, but you oughta hear it with my 175 with two p-90s
WOOOEEEE! T-Bone Walker on steroids..." - Mighty Mike Schermer
"Well I never thought I would put my
super to rest, but I did.
This amp kicks ass." - Tommy Castro
"I
kept pushing the amp trying to get it to fade - those Fender's they fade. This
amp just wouldn't Fade" - Michael Burks after the first time he used a
TweedyVerb for a show..
"The
amp made me feel like I was a kid again - all I wanted to do was play and play
through it." Ronnie Baker Brooks
"When
you plug into an amp and it sounds great without adjusting anything, you know
it's a good amp" Smokin Joe Kubek
"I
am really enjoying this amp! There is a
high degree of polish and smoothness in the sound. More of the note
articulation is coming though when I solo and the rhythm sound is the best of
any amp I've ever had." - Garth Webber
"Holy
Cow! What a dynamic amp!
Blew
everyone away, including myself. Ended up playing very loud and it held
together well. Pretty much the same sound as SJK. Of course at these levels
nothing stays clean but the incredible headroom kept all of the dynamics
intact. I'm especially liking the Raw function, it just opens up the amp.
I like
the way that all of the controls are interactive.
Interesting
side note: Someone saw a Marshall half stack sitting behind me and asked if I
was playing through that"
- Paul
Dembek
"Fantastic
,,, that amp is the bomb,,,,," -
Smokin Joe Kubek
"Man
, that amp is bad ass,,," - Smokin Joe Kubek
"Hi
Henry
Just
letting you know I am loving the amp. The OD works so well – I can easily dial
in my favourite driven tones from my favourite non MV amps – at home or at gigs
– without the soundman hassling me to turn down. I also love the clean headroom
it has for the occasions when I need it.
It’s a
very versatile amp and sounds killer.
Thanks
very much." - Dave Scott
"Henry,
First
impression is amazing. I love it. I'm
getting some really good tones right now. Been playing it for three days
straight" Jeff Stinco
"The
amp is fantastic. I am very pleased with it. Its a wonderful amp. I can't wait
to bring it on the road with me."
Jeff Stinco
"Hi
Henry,
The package
arrived on Wednesday in Florida, and missed the weekly Wednesday
plane, so
it was supposed to arrive here on next Wednesday's plane. By a
happy
accident, they had extra freight this week and put on a second plane,
so I got
it by surprise yesterday. Having received it, I would have called
you over
the weekend anyway, because it is clear that you have a huge
passion
for your work, which is great.
Well,
it's an absolute cracker! I hesitate to single out any aspect because
it seems
that the remaining elements are then diminished, and truthfully it
is ALL
great. But I have to say that the blackface channel is a truly
beautiful
thing. I realize that it's not exactly
like a blackface, but the
way you
have voiced that is something else -- everything is perfectly
balanced,
there is air around the notes, the tone controls could have been
designed
by god -- they are perfect. They provide exactly what I want to
hear, and
there is not a bad sound I can find amongst all the permutations.
I do love
the tweed channel too, but I find the blackface channel magical.
The
overdrive does what no other overdrive has ever done for me. I don't
want to
hear overdrive, I just want the sustain I want to hear, and the
point
where the amp sounds 'liquid'. I have always sought out the
best-sounding
amps. I am far more interested in amps than guitars, I have
always
thought the amp is actually more critical to the sound than the
guitar,
and just as much an instrument. Not every amp ever gets to sound
'liquid'
at any point, and those that do tend to get that way when
approaching
full output power, which is why I have leaned towards smaller
amps
which I can drive hard. Well, of course, you know I can now get that
sound at
just about any volume.
I also
love how adding the overdrive to either channel can get that sound
where
it's just transitioning from clean to dirty -- again, not easy to get
except
with certain types of amp and then usually only at a particular point
on the
volume scale. Once again, here it is at any volume.
I also
really like the 'clean' chord sound I can get with the blackface
channel
and the overdrive left on, with the guitar volume backed off. This
is the
way I run most amps anyway -- running the amp at overdrive levels and
using the
guitar volume to back off for clean sounds. This amp also allows
me to do
that -- I'm not using huge amounts of overdrive anyway, and with
the
overdrive left on, backing off the guitar volume gives a lovely chord
sound --
not pristine clean, but clean-sounding, and very organic. It's
another
palette which is perfect for certain things.
So
there's an argument for keeping the overdrive on and running everything
off the
guitar volume -- everything is there, from 'clean' chords through
the edge
of breakup, into full-on lead tones. But I won't run it that way
all the
time, just because the clean channels sound so great at the click of
the
footswitch and I'll want to hear them.
I'm not
much of an effects sort of guy -- I haven't played with a pedal
since the
70's. But the Holy Grail in the FX loop, as you suggested, sounds
great.
With that in mind, I also picked up an MXR Carbon Copy analog delay,
which
also sounds great in small quantities at certain times. The last time
I had a
'delay pedal' was my WEM Copicat tape echo - also in the 70's!!
So, it's
a thing of beauty, Henry. Undoubtedly the nicest amp I have ever
played.
Congratulations
on a tremendous piece of work...
Regards,"
Bob
Hawkins
"The
best ampliier ever produce - Redplate (Just got mine last night when I step out
of the plane from Taipei City)
Hi H2,
Thanks
for amp, is good.
Friends,
Please
try to believe." - Lim See Min
"Wow...can’t
believe how much depth, power and tone
this amp has!!!! LOVE IT! The single volume knob works great!!
Thanks" - Mike Andersen
“I took it
(the combo only) to a gig last night and tried it out. The Master
was on about "1" (that's 1 out of 10, not
"H just back from a full day of playing. The amps just makes you want to play. I was pulling tones I could only dream of. Tight, puchy, dynamic, vibrant, roars, cries, whines, sighs, whispers, sings. set things up and then you barely touch the amp again. Foot pedal takes you where you want to go, with so many great choices. It does what you want it to do. Oh yeah !!! and its dead quiet." - A