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Would Matt Schofield fall into the "getting bloom" category?
Matt Schofileld, no.
As I said earlier in the thread, I think what's happening is harmonics are starting to feedback - but as someone else said, these type of amps seem to do this without needing to max-out the gain. With a compressor, they often drop the initial transient down too far and the sound appears to swell, as the circuit recovers and allows more signal through; Dumble ODS-style amps seem to exhibit the same characteristic.
I've no idea on a techinical level how this is accomplished - but my guess is cascading gain stages, none of which are driven too hard - so the signal's transients are softened but not to the point of creating massive distortion.
There are plenty of people on here who understand the topology of amps - I'm sure one of them would be able to explain the physics involved.
There must be something in it though as certain amps do have a characteristic feedback.
Lately iv been using it with the Deeflexx and the sound is really good ...it will fill the room with no beaming .... its a expensive piece of plastic but highly recomended... you will be heard by everybody crystal clear ...even the drummer regardless of where the speaker is pointed
6V6 cathode baised, low plate voltage, ac30 top boost type pre amp with extra mids
To be fair I can get this with most decent quality amps.
That and a strat...its bedroom level..i think the CDS2 has more of the rock type of sound
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I think it's a particularly good bit of marketing from Redplate, frankly, but the whole "it's not compression, it's note bloom" he comes out with is BS, to be honest. Redplate amps DO compress a fair chunk - play some choppy rhythm on the bridge pickup of a tele through one and you'll hear that immediately - and that's where the alleged "bloom" is coming from in the first place.
They don't bloom any more than any number of other amps - and I say that as someone who gigged two different Redplates for a while alongside my J20. Nice enough amps, but no particular magic there that you won't get from any number of others.
The feel of that amplifier is something unlike anything I've ever played through.
Its a glorious piece of work.
One of my very favourite amplifiers I've ever owned.
A belated "wisdom" for this.