Orange is my favorite amp brand due to their consistency. You can spend 80 dollars or 2000 dollars on their products and always get a quality piece of gear.
I can testify to this my micro dark for 150 bucks rocks just as good as my dark terror 5-600 $ difference and honestly not worth it for home playing only. Get the micro dark and boost it with a tube screamer and throw a ISP decimator in the loop 😊
@@icemann155 no problem, I have a monoprice 1x12 and 2x12 cab both with Celestion V30s. Any decent cab with a V 30 should do it justice. Oh and the ts808 is a must, as is the isp decimator, but I run a demonfx filtration Ii g string it’s 54 bucks instead of the isp that’ll run u 250…
I'm a dedicated Orange Amp user. With that being said I love every other amp brand for their strengths, but for me Orange Amps make the tone that sais "write with me and never stop playing me". As an Orange User, I reccomend experimenting with your tube screamers, and combining Chorus or any other effect through fx loop with the distortion is just lovely
Using the luxe pedal in loop with the orange sound, SOLD the brand on me. I guess the pedal is discontinued, but it seems like a non-lfo, light detune/chorus type effect to me.
Orange is insanely characteristic. Never had one myself but always admired them. I have mad respect for the people who tame those huge 50 watt monsters
LOVE my Orange amps!! I'm a cheap@$$ and haven't ponied up for any of the tube stuff, as much as I'd love to play those, but have played a Crush 20 a LOT, as well as a Micro Dark (highly recommend checking that little lunch box head out!!), and now my Super Crush 100. The Orange sound is perfect for me, that mid forward/dirty but still articulate is exactly the sound I want when I plug in and turn up. Great video as usual!!
Try a heavy tube variant. Youll be pleasantly surprised at how much smoother those high gain sounds can be. I had a couple smaller and solid state oranges. The larger tube variants are even better.
@@shanesplanetshane3795 A Rockerverb is on my wish list, hard to justify that purchase though when the Super Crush scratches all the itches for me as a hobbiest player.
@@shanesplanetshane3795 A Rockerverb is on my wish list, hard to justify that purchase though when the Super Crush scratches all the itches for me as a hobbiest player.
@@axtonkahler7360 If you like the amp you've got, maybe there's no need to succumb to the lure of spending money on another. Whatever makes you happy is what you need. Im a hobbyist and horrid 'player'. Im just a sucker for valves and got my or100 to be the last amp i bother buying.
For years my tone was Clean Channel & Overdrive Channel from my Orange AD30TC amp. I can clearly remember my first taste of the orange tone. I was at a shop testing one out but playing it at a really low volume (I was nervous/shy). As a sale rep was passing through, he just turned up the volume and said " This is a tube amp, you gotta crank it!". The tone that came out of that amp at the moment was amazing to me. I've had that amp for 15 years now.
I think they have a unique voice in all of their amps and im a fan. I have the micro dark, the stomp, rocker 15, and bass lunchbox and they are good at what they do. they don't disappoint.
My Holy Grail amp was always the Rockerverb. Went to my local dealer one day and he had the 100 Watt head and the matching 412 cab. Ended up getting rid of two amps and all of my pedals for it and haven’t looked back. There’s something magical about single coils through it, clean and on the edge of breakup alike. I had the Tiny Terror and Crush 120 at one point or another as well and can say the same for those. The Crush series amps are worth their weight in gold!
Best tone I’ve ever gotten was a Tele with P-90’s and a AC30. It wasn’t particularly versatile, but at that moment, with those settings, it sounded so freaking good.
Really good and balanced piece, many thanks. I'm Orange through-and-through. for the exact reasons you highlight. You forgot to mention that, yes, whilst they're heavy to lug around at gigs, they're also built like a proverbial tank and take loads of abuse. Also, as you say, there is nothing - and I mean nothing - to match the feel of the air moving and the smell of the hot valves of an old school amp head pushing at maximum load through a full cream half or full stack. Bliss you feel in body and soul.
I first heard an Orange amp back in 1978... and wanted one.... 50 years on - I've just bought my first - an Orange Crush 20RT! It's awesome as all hells - lovely warm cleans and a nice crunchy channel to play with, as well! I've already gigged it at an open-mic night - and I didn't need to over 3 on the volume - so it's got room to spare for any venue I'll ever play. Also - keeping all the modelling and fancy tricks out of the amp means that you can concentrate on the music - which people forget. My only concession to 'silly' is that I have a small, simple (ie cheap) multi-effects pedal with IR capability - and I've loaded some very expensive guitar IRs so that on the clean channel I can get a huge acoustic sound for some folk and country numbers! I thought I wanted a Fender amp... I was wrong!
I love Orange amps. Lots of folks don't like them when they play alone because they can be a bit mid-rangy. But they sit sooooo good in a mix exactly because of the pronounced mid-range. They are a staple of both the country, rock, and metal worlds.
Mike, Mike, Mike....I played through everything in my 50 years of guitaring. Nobody had Orange amps...Marshall, yes...but no Orange I went to a jam night at a large bar....I got onstage with my Ibanez Roadstar strat. I had a DigiTech multi RP pedal. I plugged into an Orange Head with a 4-12 cabinet. I played " I only have eyes for you". People in the audience Melted. It was as if the clouds opened and these golden notes fell to earth. I couldn't believe it. I think it was an orange 50 watt. Vintage. Some kid got it from his Uncle. Nobody had them. They're just too expensive in this town. And for a damn good reason. This was 20 years ago. I still can't afford one, but I'll never forget it. These are awe striking sounding amplifiers .
I’ve had an OR15 with an orange 12” cab for years now and I’ve never thought about another amp at all. It’s so loud, it sounds incredible clean or dirty, just perfect.
Yes have owned one since 2004 where I had the AD 30 twin up until 2010 where I upgraded to the 1st generation of the Rockerverb 100 watt head which I still own today played through an Orange 4x12 Andy Dunlop Cab.
Good choice on the Orange you got. Easily one the best ones they have ever put out. I used to have the OR15 and it was tight. Really could get that vintage sound from the late 60s and early to mid 70s because of the low wattage and how much it pushes the tubes and works them. Also had a fender 63 reverb boss pedal for the clean tone.
Orange has a different eq curve than Marshall, Fender, Mesa Boogie, etc and they’re my favorite amp maker these days. Something about the mids. I use mine as a clean pedal platform. Also use an alnico Jensen 112 and it just works and sounds so great.
I purchased a $300 Orange Crush 35rt about a year ago. I loved it so much that I said “ if this made in China amp can sound this good, I can only imagine what a made in England tube amp sounds like. I just have to get one.” So I bought the Rockerverb 50 mkiii Combo with 2x12 NEO Celestians. Dude, talk about face melting tube amp perfection. Rockerverb 50w mkiii combo is the greatest amp ever created. Ever.
YESSSS I've owned a Marshall DSL, a 5150, an EVH 5150, but my ears and heart just seem to love Orange the most. I now own a Rockerverb MKIII and it's my favorite amp so far for high-gain and lead tones. Unboosted you get everything from Zep and AC/DC to Sabbath and modern hard rock. Boosted it's brutal af for all modern metal needs. But in a very different way from a 5150. I've been meaning to check out the OR30 too.
Hey Mike, I almost went with the OR30, but after some research found that orange solid states are amazing. After my own testing, I'm now the happy owner of the Super Crush 100. If you have a chance, check one out! Take care and keep up the awesome content!
If you look up the band sleep. Their guitar player does the Jimmy Page thing with the marshal 4x4 Stack but with orange amplifiers. But they all work instead of them being duds. They did a rig rundown almost I think 10 years ago or so. It's pretty cool.
Orange makes great amps, but they are usually a little too dark sounding for me. So I tend to gravitate more towards amps like Friedman or Soldano when I want higher gain, or Magnatone when I want cleaner tones.
I know this is like over a year old but I just picked up a new OR30. It has blown me away. I am now a dedicated Orange user: 1976 OR80, Tremlord, Rocker 30, Micro Terror, 70s PA120. I wasn't always an Orange freak--I had played through a Thunderverb 100 and while it was fine it didn't blow me away and I sold it. I was looking for something that was easier to gig with than my 1976 OR80 (as I need to also bring an attenuator)--OR30 sounds fantastic. Gets that vintage-like crunch, and takes a treble booster well.
i don’t own a les paul or anything but my tele through my orange micro terror is one of the most perfect sounds i’ve heard, i can get glassy tones all the way to korn and i love it
This last year I’ve been playing a 100W crush bass amp with a fender 60’s jazz bass n it is so much fun. The tones of the bass with the amps characteristics is crazy
Yeah the Orange OR series like the OR15 or the OR30 you have here, paired with an OxBox, make an amazing combo that's super versatile and sounds amazing no matter what type of music you play. Congrats on the new amp! I love your reviews and find your enthusiasm and overall insight to be very inspiring!
Orange for worship the last couple years. Very satisfied, especially coming from amp/cab sim world. Terror stamp, 1x12 cab, drive from pedals, no strymon products (carbon copy and eqd ghost echo in loop). That "alt rock" clean is great. More than enough volume for church and college ministry ( actually, at the college , I just go straight amp volume ). Great video, subbed.
For many years, I kept hunting gear. buying, trading, and selling amps, finally traded up from an EHX MIG-50 to a Rockerverb 100 MII, and honestly, I see the hype. I'm in love with my amp, I will never change brands again.
Mike, the rocker 32 combo is an overlooked gem in my opinion. Has a great clean pedal platform channel and a dirty channel but the cool thing about it is the 2 10” speakers that you can run wet dry or ping pong delay, all of the stereo tricks.
this is literally my favorite amp. I never owned any but everytime I go to my local guitar shop, this is the amp I get to play, and I daydream of buying it everytime
I’ve been waiting for Mike to do a video on Orange. I got an orange crush 20 a while back as my first high quality practice amp and to this day I still love it as a great overdrive/distortion platform. Whether it’s coming from the amp or from a pedal the distortion and overdrive played on that amp seriously has insane tone
Great video! I love Orange amps. I have an OR15 right now (home player) and have had others in the past. It really does its own thing that my other amps don't do.
I got an AD30 HTC and an orange 2x12 about 15 years ago and it’s one of the best guitar related choices I’ve ever made. It’s by far my favorite sounding amp even though it doesn’t have reverb or an effects loop. It’s just a great sounding old school amp, and it scratches every single tube tone itch that I have.
Great review. I did the same thing. Found through amp modeling that I often used Orange. For our small house and budget I went with analog solid state Orange 20. Really love it. It's plenty for me.
I love My Orange Rocker 30. People often overlook the cleaner sounds you get from Orange on the “dirty” channel. I like to set mine up so it’s just got some crunch distortion when picking/strumming hard, but clean when picking soft or just rolling the guitar volume back a touch. This gives some great warm clean tones with some chime and a bit of aggression when needed. An overdrive like an SD-1 or Tubescreamer takes it into a great overdriven Plexi/JCM800 area. I can do everything I want with that amp.
I have the Orange Amp Crush Mini. Not a tube amp but a great little practice amp. I keep it in my office during the day to practice with my Monoprice Indio. I also have the Positive Grid Go Ultra Portable in my office as well. Between the two I get the tones I like.
I've settled on orange because of the broad frequency range, unique overdrive voicing, takes pedals great, easy to work on, reliability, etc. I first got 2x or15s for my stereo rig but the wattage wasn't there to play with my drummer. Then got a 70s or120 that i loved but was too clean until the volume was on 8 & that will literally drown out the entire band. I now have an ad140 and ad200. The ad140 is one of the best all around amps I've played because of its scooped mid vox-y 2nd channel, and the OR-like first channel. The ad200 reminds me of the or120 with the fac in the first position. Mids are placed where an E standard's lows would be and bass brings up everything under that and together they cover the range and punch I crave. Instead of scaling down amps, i have 3 pair of cabs lol😅 2x 1x12 theile cabs, 2x 212s, and the orange 412 slant/ straight stack.
Love this episode! The same counts for my Marshall 2210 JCM800 (100W), which is my BIG BABY I'll never get rid off (for clean, crunch and boost). Although I don't do gigs as much anymore, only recording in my bedroom studio, combined with the also great Marshall Power Break! Thanks for sharing 🤩
I have a Rocker 30 head and an AD30 twin channel head and I absolutely love them. I seem to have developed a thing for the 30W class A Orange sound. Worryingly, I can't stop watching videos about this new one. I may have a problem here...
Get that gain a little up there with crunch and roll back the volume on the guitar to get your clean with an orange it will surprise you more. The real AD30 I think you will fall in love with more. I have a rocker32, a or15, ad30 head wanting the combo lol, cr120 and the terror stamp. The rocker 32 and ad30 are my favorite two. Once I bought my first orange I never looked back at other amps.
My first real amp was a Vox Valvetronix as well haha. Then I moved to an Egnater Rebel 30 which was awesome. I ended up moving to an Ac15 because I really wanted that sound, which then lead me to an Ac30. Then I bought my holy grail amp, the Orange AD30. Man what an amazing amp. I ended up selling it after 10 years because I needed something smaller and lighter, but I miss it all the time and would definitely buy one again. Wow, such an incredible amp.
love that bud my first amp getting back into guitar playing is a little orange solid state i upgraded to a blackstar kt88 studio 10 and i don't regret anything
Great video and excellent head! Ive had the tiny terror, micro terror, micro dark terror, Super crush 120. Talked a buddy into a larger dark terror. Dave Simpson swears by his crush 120. I currently sold everything and running a boss katana 100 head or a Pignose G40 made into a head. Good stuff!
You do a great job and I always enjoy your videos. I just bought this amp because I find the Orange tone is different and lets me find my own sonic voice. I'm also a sucker for the sage and bloom of a warm rectified tube amp.
I have an OR80 combo that was the last one of this model from the original Orange company to be sold retail in the USA. They found some in a warehouse in New Jersey around 1979. As I was walking past the guitar store in Portland, Maine, dude came running out and told me I needed to buy this. He was right.
No man, there is one and ONLY ONE. Engl Savage 120 mkii. That amp can literaly do ANYTHING! It's expensive. But worth it, since it does literaly every style of music, and makes it sound amazing.
Hear me out, I know this sounds crazy, but I prefer a Dark Terror plugged into a bass cab. Playing dark ambient doom music. I'm currently in the works to build a new weapon of sonic mayhem. A celestrial tone that will manifest a gravitational wave that will open the doors to other dimensions.
Don’t forget to setup your drive tone with your guitar volume on ten, then roll it back and see the different tones you can get from just the guitar’s tone and volume settings. Btw, I think the tone in the first section with this amp is pretty much the best I have heard in your videos. I loved the Supro and the Vox was cool, but you hit a Gary Clarke Jr thing in that section. If you got that tone fairly easily, you may want to consider getting a load box/ IR sim and use the OR 30, sims are great, but that amp is really sweet!
I'm almost exclusively an Orange player. My current rig is a Micro Terror through a 4×12 cab. It's loud enough for rehearsal and I recorded an album in a home studio with my old band on it. The album turned out great for some guys rlwuth regular day jobs. My rig looks looks silly but it can scream, especially with the tube in the preamp stage. I wanted a British style amp to go with my Epiphone Les Paul and ended up with Orange. I'm thinking hard to upgrade to the Super Crush 100 head. It's basically undistinguishable from an Orange tube amp and has just the right amount of features for a local gigging musician. Orange is killing it with their solid state lines now. I'm a sucker for that ugly and beautiful orange tolex. It screams 1970s. Hell yeah!
After much trials and tribulations at 62 years old, I play through a Tonr king imperial. I pulled the trigger on this thing and now I am never afraid that I can’t match someone’s tone. Just do it already. Lol. You’re gonna wind up with one anyway. My friend has a 5150 along with the PV cabinet that comes with it. I never have any trouble hearing myself nor does anyone else. If I want to take that tone home I just use the Iron Man attenuator and dial down the watts. You’re welcome.. oh and there’s a huge difference between the plug-in and the real thing just like there was a difference with the orange.
Played mesa boogie duel rectifier for years. Use to just plug and play when I was giging with my old band . But never really cared for the clean channel. A friend of mine had an orange amp not sure which one but I remember it sounding big if I’m not mistaken it had some great headroom. The Mesa duel rec with a mesa traditional cab is a lot more focused. Great video as always 👍👍
Been playing Orange since I first plugged into an Orange/Matamp, and brought it home. Still playing Orange 38 years down the road and still loving the tone. I am going to buy a Vox, though. LOL
I have a couple of other really nice tube amps, but my fave is the lowest power one: my Orange "Rocker 15 Terror" (horrible name, amazing amp). It sounds a lot like the OR30, but has two channels, so it's easy to set up a fantastic clean sound as well as the dirt you want. It does 15/7/1/0.5 watts output, and amazingly it keeps it's sound characteristic at all but the 0.5 watt setting (it's a little thinner than the rest, I presume you only get 1/2 the preamp at that point). It's a lunchbox head, so not too heavy/large. I built a compact 1x12" cab for it with an Eminence "The Governer" speaker, and the head sits neatly on the cab as both are the same exact width. It gets loud enough to play with a drummer at full power, but the 1 watt setting is great for playing at home.
Orange Amps are wonderful. My OR15 is perfect for my needs. Handles all my pedals exceptionally. The thing about Orange is that the clean is underestimated and has so much life to it compared to the Fender clean amp standard. Enjoy the amp...a classic. The weight is worth it.
awesome sauce! Orange amps sound so good :-) One thing you might want to check: your speaker cable. "better" cable has lower capacitance, & thus will react slightly more quickly & have slightly less high-frequency rolloff. You can hear the difference between a crappy cable & a good cable. The good news is that "better" doesn't necessarily mean expensive. The main things are quite simply (in order of importance): - use the shortest cable you can possibly get away with - larger wire gauge than the minimum required by the amp - good quality oxygen-free copper next time you're at a guitar store, see if you can hear the difference between whatever's on there in the shop, & a decent 12-gauge 2-foot cable with Neutrik connectors (Guitar Center sells these for about $30 (they used to be more like $15 not that long ago...). This is especially important with higher-power amps (I'm a bassist, "entry level" is more like 400W than your new 30W friend here :-)
My first real amp was an orange and I love it and it may be collecting a bit if dust since I got a katana but I still break it out now and then and it still inspires something in me and I think its one of my favorite amps to have ever played on
I have an Orange solid-state cab and head and they served me pretty well in my short-lived stint in a crappy pop rock band. Now I have to sell them, which makes me sad but they’re just collecting dust in my garage.
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Once you go Orange, you never go Banana
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I personally am bananas *for* Orange amps
This guy
True, after buying the dark Terror I never meedes something else... even thou I don't even play metal :D
Meh. Goodsell.. try and find one.
Orange is my favorite amp brand due to their consistency. You can spend 80 dollars or 2000 dollars on their products and always get a quality piece of gear.
I can testify to this my micro dark for 150 bucks rocks just as good as my dark terror 5-600 $ difference and honestly not worth it for home playing only. Get the micro dark and boost it with a tube screamer and throw a ISP decimator in the loop 😊
I've had my eye on an orange rocker 15 or a crush pro 60...I probably don't need that much amp but I want it!!!
@@icemann155 I’ve heard the rocker is a beast
@@JeremyAnderson-kg7cq what cab are you running on the micro dark? Scrolling previous comments
@@icemann155 no problem, I have a monoprice 1x12 and 2x12 cab both with Celestion V30s. Any decent cab with a V 30 should do it justice. Oh and the ts808 is a must, as is the isp decimator, but I run a demonfx filtration Ii g string it’s 54 bucks instead of the isp that’ll run u 250…
I'm a dedicated Orange Amp user. With that being said I love every other amp brand for their strengths, but for me Orange Amps make the tone that sais "write with me and never stop playing me". As an Orange User, I reccomend experimenting with your tube screamers, and combining Chorus or any other effect through fx loop with the distortion is just lovely
Using the luxe pedal in loop with the orange sound, SOLD the brand on me. I guess the pedal is discontinued, but it seems like a non-lfo, light detune/chorus type effect to me.
Waiting for the video where Mike discovers Doom, buys a Dunable, tunes it to B Standard & blows out his windows with the OR30.
Orange is insanely characteristic. Never had one myself but always admired them. I have mad respect for the people who tame those huge 50 watt monsters
I love the fuzzy sound Orange has. And it gets downright filthy when you add an overdrive on top of the amp gain.
Favorite guitar channel on RUclips, your authenticity and enthusiasm is so palpable and inspiring!
Wish I could hire him to play lead on some of my Christian pop rock songs. 🎵
Your description about orange amp. is absolutely right. I have just owned one that suits my taste. The natural, warm & crunchy classic tone is good.
LOVE my Orange amps!! I'm a cheap@$$ and haven't ponied up for any of the tube stuff, as much as I'd love to play those, but have played a Crush 20 a LOT, as well as a Micro Dark (highly recommend checking that little lunch box head out!!), and now my Super Crush 100. The Orange sound is perfect for me, that mid forward/dirty but still articulate is exactly the sound I want when I plug in and turn up. Great video as usual!!
Try a heavy tube variant. Youll be pleasantly surprised at how much smoother those high gain sounds can be. I had a couple smaller and solid state oranges. The larger tube variants are even better.
@@shanesplanetshane3795 A Rockerverb is on my wish list, hard to justify that purchase though when the Super Crush scratches all the itches for me as a hobbiest player.
@@shanesplanetshane3795 A Rockerverb is on my wish list, hard to justify that purchase though when the Super Crush scratches all the itches for me as a hobbiest player.
@@axtonkahler7360 If you like the amp you've got, maybe there's no need to succumb to the lure of spending money on another. Whatever makes you happy is what you need. Im a hobbyist and horrid 'player'. Im just a sucker for valves and got my or100 to be the last amp i bother buying.
@@axtonkahler7360you could always sell the supercrush and get an OR15, if you’re just a hobbiest it’s a perfect bedroom tube amp
For years my tone was Clean Channel & Overdrive Channel from my Orange AD30TC amp. I can clearly remember my first taste of the orange tone. I was at a shop testing one out but playing it at a really low volume (I was nervous/shy). As a sale rep was passing through, he just turned up the volume and said " This is a tube amp, you gotta crank it!". The tone that came out of that amp at the moment was amazing to me. I've had that amp for 15 years now.
Yeah, that’s how Orange gets you! 🤘
I think they have a unique voice in all of their amps and im a fan. I have the micro dark, the stomp, rocker 15, and bass lunchbox and they are good at what they do. they don't disappoint.
Play a hollow body into an orange, it's super crunchy.
My Holy Grail amp was always the Rockerverb. Went to my local dealer one day and he had the 100 Watt head and the matching 412 cab. Ended up getting rid of two amps and all of my pedals for it and haven’t looked back. There’s something magical about single coils through it, clean and on the edge of breakup alike. I had the Tiny Terror and Crush 120 at one point or another as well and can say the same for those. The Crush series amps are worth their weight in gold!
Orange are by far the best looking amp on the market... on my own taste!
I agree, they really have got their aesthetic down. I really want one of these amps
I've had everything from the Micro Terror to a Thunderverb head and Orange 4x12 cab. Loved them all!
Best tone I’ve ever gotten was a Tele with P-90’s and a AC30. It wasn’t particularly versatile, but at that moment, with those settings, it sounded so freaking good.
Really good and balanced piece, many thanks. I'm Orange through-and-through. for the exact reasons you highlight. You forgot to mention that, yes, whilst they're heavy to lug around at gigs, they're also built like a proverbial tank and take loads of abuse. Also, as you say, there is nothing - and I mean nothing - to match the feel of the air moving and the smell of the hot valves of an old school amp head pushing at maximum load through a full cream half or full stack. Bliss you feel in body and soul.
I first heard an Orange amp back in 1978... and wanted one.... 50 years on - I've just bought my first - an Orange Crush 20RT! It's awesome as all hells - lovely warm cleans and a nice crunchy channel to play with, as well! I've already gigged it at an open-mic night - and I didn't need to over 3 on the volume - so it's got room to spare for any venue I'll ever play. Also - keeping all the modelling and fancy tricks out of the amp means that you can concentrate on the music - which people forget. My only concession to 'silly' is that I have a small, simple (ie cheap) multi-effects pedal with IR capability - and I've loaded some very expensive guitar IRs so that on the clean channel I can get a huge acoustic sound for some folk and country numbers! I thought I wanted a Fender amp... I was wrong!
I love Orange amps. Lots of folks don't like them when they play alone because they can be a bit mid-rangy. But they sit sooooo good in a mix exactly because of the pronounced mid-range. They are a staple of both the country, rock, and metal worlds.
Daniela ("Dany") and Alejandra ("Ale"), guitarist and bassist for The Warning, also use Orange.
Mike, Mike, Mike....I played through everything in my 50 years of guitaring.
Nobody had Orange amps...Marshall, yes...but no Orange
I went to a jam night at a large bar....I got onstage with my Ibanez Roadstar strat. I had a DigiTech multi RP pedal.
I plugged into an Orange Head with a 4-12 cabinet. I played " I only have eyes for you". People in the audience Melted. It was as if the clouds opened and these golden notes fell to earth.
I couldn't believe it. I think it was an orange 50 watt. Vintage. Some kid got it from his Uncle. Nobody had them. They're just too expensive in this town.
And for a damn good reason. This was 20 years ago. I still can't afford one, but I'll never forget it. These are awe striking sounding amplifiers .
You should bottle your enthusiasm and sell it on line. Well done, sir.
I’ve had an OR15 with an orange 12” cab for years now and I’ve never thought about another amp at all. It’s so loud, it sounds incredible clean or dirty, just perfect.
The head sounds leaps and bounds better than the emulator. It sounds darker and deeper.
Clean sound was phenomenal.
I’ve got an Orange AD30 and I love it. My first amp that I bought and thought I’ll never sell this
Yes have owned one since 2004 where I had the AD 30 twin up until 2010 where I upgraded to the 1st generation of the Rockerverb 100 watt head which I still own today played through an Orange 4x12 Andy Dunlop Cab.
Orange Amps are actually an insane value for their prices, especially their mid-tier combo amps
Marshall will never surpass the cool factor of orange. Full stop.
Yes, I have an OR15H and it is an awesome 15/7 watt amp. I’m glad I got it!
I bought one on a whim. Orange 20RT. It's got a nice warm tone, a good crunch and the clean is classy. Its great
Good choice on the Orange you got. Easily one the best ones they have ever put out. I used to have the OR15 and it was tight. Really could get that vintage sound from the late 60s and early to mid 70s because of the low wattage and how much it pushes the tubes and works them. Also had a fender 63 reverb boss pedal for the clean tone.
Orange has a different eq curve than Marshall, Fender, Mesa Boogie, etc and they’re my favorite amp maker these days.
Something about the mids.
I use mine as a clean pedal platform. Also use an alnico Jensen 112 and it just works and sounds so great.
Good video! I play through a Rocker 32. I was a Marshall player, and now really enjoy the detail Orange delivers.
I purchased a $300 Orange Crush 35rt about a year ago. I loved it so much that I said “ if this made in China amp can sound this good, I can only imagine what a made in England tube amp sounds like. I just have to get one.” So I bought the Rockerverb 50 mkiii Combo with 2x12 NEO Celestians. Dude, talk about face melting tube amp perfection. Rockerverb 50w mkiii combo is the greatest amp ever created. Ever.
YESSSS I've owned a Marshall DSL, a 5150, an EVH 5150, but my ears and heart just seem to love Orange the most. I now own a Rockerverb MKIII and it's my favorite amp so far for high-gain and lead tones. Unboosted you get everything from Zep and AC/DC to Sabbath and modern hard rock. Boosted it's brutal af for all modern metal needs. But in a very different way from a 5150. I've been meaning to check out the OR30 too.
a Les Paul + an Orange (OR50) amp cranked is literally heaven. Another great one is a ('57) Tweed twin cranked.
I'll do one up. Orange + Les Paul + Wampler Tumnus.
Hey Mike,
I almost went with the OR30, but after some research found that orange solid states are amazing. After my own testing, I'm now the happy owner of the Super Crush 100. If you have a chance, check one out! Take care and keep up the awesome content!
If you look up the band sleep. Their guitar player does the Jimmy Page thing with the marshal 4x4 Stack but with orange amplifiers. But they all work instead of them being duds. They did a rig rundown almost I think 10 years ago or so. It's pretty cool.
Matt pike rules! High on Fire and Om are great too. They aren't as loud as Sunn o))) tho. It's unlike anything I've experienced
Wishbone Ash used Orange amps. Good enough for me.
Orange makes great amps, but they are usually a little too dark sounding for me. So I tend to gravitate more towards amps like Friedman or Soldano when I want higher gain, or Magnatone when I want cleaner tones.
I know this is like over a year old but I just picked up a new OR30. It has blown me away. I am now a dedicated Orange user: 1976 OR80, Tremlord, Rocker 30, Micro Terror, 70s PA120. I wasn't always an Orange freak--I had played through a Thunderverb 100 and while it was fine it didn't blow me away and I sold it. I was looking for something that was easier to gig with than my 1976 OR80 (as I need to also bring an attenuator)--OR30 sounds fantastic. Gets that vintage-like crunch, and takes a treble booster well.
Orange Amps are awesome, and I love the sound.
i don’t own a les paul or anything but my tele through my orange micro terror is one of the most perfect sounds i’ve heard, i can get glassy tones all the way to korn and i love it
I use a small Orange solid state amp for home practice and love it. Both the clean and the crunch are awesome and versatile!
This last year I’ve been playing a 100W crush bass amp with a fender 60’s jazz bass n it is so much fun. The tones of the bass with the amps characteristics is crazy
Yeah the Orange OR series like the OR15 or the OR30 you have here, paired with an OxBox, make an amazing combo that's super versatile and sounds amazing no matter what type of music you play. Congrats on the new amp! I love your reviews and find your enthusiasm and overall insight to be very inspiring!
Orange for worship the last couple years. Very satisfied, especially coming from amp/cab sim world. Terror stamp, 1x12 cab, drive from pedals, no strymon products (carbon copy and eqd ghost echo in loop). That "alt rock" clean is great. More than enough volume for church and college ministry ( actually, at the college , I just go straight amp volume ). Great video, subbed.
The clean tone on an orange is so good tuns of character
For many years, I kept hunting gear. buying, trading, and selling amps, finally traded up from an EHX MIG-50 to a Rockerverb 100 MII, and honestly, I see the hype. I'm in love with my amp, I will never change brands again.
Mike, the rocker 32 combo is an overlooked gem in my opinion. Has a great clean pedal platform channel and a dirty channel but the cool thing about it is the 2 10” speakers that you can run wet dry or ping pong delay, all of the stereo tricks.
The Trem Lord is also an absolutely awesome clean to slightly overdriven amp!
Love my rocker 15! Such an awesome amp
My main amp for 10+ years now has been the Rocker 30, I’ve always wondered how the 32’s compare.
Rocker 32 with creambacks is the best sounding amü ever. My deluxe reverb gather dust.
@@jensschettler1732 got me wanting to try a swap
I listened to early The Fall of Troy back in the day. They were my introduction to the OG OJ. Such an awesome sound.
this is literally my favorite amp. I never owned any but everytime I go to my local guitar shop, this is the amp I get to play, and I daydream of buying it everytime
I’ve been waiting for Mike to do a video on Orange. I got an orange crush 20 a while back as my first high quality practice amp and to this day I still love it as a great overdrive/distortion platform. Whether it’s coming from the amp or from a pedal the distortion and overdrive played on that amp seriously has insane tone
Single channel amps are fantastic. Set it up for some crunch and then just roll back the volume to like 7 or 8 for chimey clean tones
Great video! I love Orange amps. I have an OR15 right now (home player) and have had others in the past. It really does its own thing that my other amps don't do.
I knew the minute that you played the clip with the Orange SIM that you were in for a surprise, that sim did zero justice to a real orange.
I got an AD30 HTC and an orange 2x12 about 15 years ago and it’s one of the best guitar related choices I’ve ever made. It’s by far my favorite sounding amp even though it doesn’t have reverb or an effects loop. It’s just a great sounding old school amp, and it scratches every single tube tone itch that I have.
This is one of the most informative and enjoyable sites I make it a point to visit. You do good work, Mike.
Got a super crush 120 a month ago and I'm loving it! Running it thru a 2x12 with vintage 30s
Great review. I did the same thing. Found through amp modeling that I often used Orange. For our small house and budget I went with analog solid state Orange 20. Really love it. It's plenty for me.
I love My Orange Rocker 30. People often overlook the cleaner sounds you get from Orange on the “dirty” channel. I like to set mine up so it’s just got some crunch distortion when picking/strumming hard, but clean when picking soft or just rolling the guitar volume back a touch. This gives some great warm clean tones with some chime and a bit of aggression when needed. An overdrive like an SD-1 or Tubescreamer takes it into a great overdriven Plexi/JCM800 area. I can do everything I want with that amp.
Orange’s clean tone is the best.
Orange amp with a Fender style guitar is all I played for years. They compliment each other perfectly.
I have the Orange Amp Crush Mini. Not a tube amp but a great little practice amp. I keep it in my office during the day to practice with my Monoprice Indio. I also have the Positive Grid Go Ultra Portable in my office as well. Between the two I get the tones I like.
I've settled on orange because of the broad frequency range, unique overdrive voicing, takes pedals great, easy to work on, reliability, etc. I first got 2x or15s for my stereo rig but the wattage wasn't there to play with my drummer. Then got a 70s or120 that i loved but was too clean until the volume was on 8 & that will literally drown out the entire band. I now have an ad140 and ad200. The ad140 is one of the best all around amps I've played because of its scooped mid vox-y 2nd channel, and the OR-like first channel. The ad200 reminds me of the or120 with the fac in the first position. Mids are placed where an E standard's lows would be and bass brings up everything under that and together they cover the range and punch I crave. Instead of scaling down amps, i have 3 pair of cabs lol😅 2x 1x12 theile cabs, 2x 212s, and the orange 412 slant/ straight stack.
I've been using an Orange Crush 20 since 2012, and I must say it blows every amp I've had in the past out of the water.
The greatest "Amp Tone" I ever heard was a Marshall Head through an Orange Cab. It was amazing!
Amp sims are like looking out a window at a forest - playing a real tube amp is like standing in the forest next to a mountain lake
Many world famous artists use amp sims - for example, Mark Knopfler. I guess he must not have your standards of ears to tell the difference!
@@robinr22 i am sure they used an amp sim to record their famous stuff during the 70s and 80s
I think both Orange and Marshall have great clean tones. Lot of character.
Love this episode! The same counts for my Marshall 2210 JCM800 (100W), which is my BIG BABY I'll never get rid off (for clean, crunch and boost). Although I don't do gigs as much anymore, only recording in my bedroom studio, combined with the also great Marshall Power Break! Thanks for sharing 🤩
Every great clean is dirtier than you think.
Every great dirt is cleaner than you think.
I have a Rocker 30 head and an AD30 twin channel head and I absolutely love them. I seem to have developed a thing for the 30W class A Orange sound. Worryingly, I can't stop watching videos about this new one. I may have a problem here...
Get that gain a little up there with crunch and roll back the volume on the guitar to get your clean with an orange it will surprise you more. The real AD30 I think you will fall in love with more. I have a rocker32, a or15, ad30 head wanting the combo lol, cr120 and the terror stamp. The rocker 32 and ad30 are my favorite two. Once I bought my first orange I never looked back at other amps.
My first real amp was a Vox Valvetronix as well haha. Then I moved to an Egnater Rebel 30 which was awesome. I ended up moving to an Ac15 because I really wanted that sound, which then lead me to an Ac30. Then I bought my holy grail amp, the Orange AD30. Man what an amazing amp. I ended up selling it after 10 years because I needed something smaller and lighter, but I miss it all the time and would definitely buy one again. Wow, such an incredible amp.
love that bud my first amp getting back into guitar playing is a little orange solid state i upgraded to a blackstar kt88 studio 10 and i don't regret anything
Great video and excellent head! Ive had the tiny terror, micro terror, micro dark terror, Super crush 120. Talked a buddy into a larger dark terror. Dave Simpson swears by his crush 120. I currently sold everything and running a boss katana 100 head or a Pignose G40 made into a head. Good stuff!
Love this amp and loved your impressions and playing 👍
You do a great job and I always enjoy your videos. I just bought this amp because I find the Orange tone is different and lets me find my own sonic voice. I'm also a sucker for the sage and bloom of a warm rectified tube amp.
MIKE! It’s so cool to hear you rock out on that first jam with the orange!!! 🤘😃🎸
Your reviews are so excellent I love your honesty
I have an OR80 combo that was the last one of this model from the original Orange company to be sold retail in the USA. They found some in a warehouse in New Jersey around 1979. As I was walking past the guitar store in Portland, Maine, dude came running out and told me I needed to buy this. He was right.
Orange that is the go for! Love my Rockerverb50 mk1🥰
Orange amps just look cool too. A lot of them are a black box with a cool front, but these, they stand out.
I'm a huge fan of orange amps. I don't own one myself but I've olayed quite a few and am saving up to get one for my studio setup.
No man, there is one and ONLY ONE.
Engl Savage 120 mkii.
That amp can literaly do ANYTHING!
It's expensive. But worth it, since it does literaly every style of music, and makes it sound amazing.
Hear me out, I know this sounds crazy, but I prefer a Dark Terror plugged into a bass cab. Playing dark ambient doom music. I'm currently in the works to build a new weapon of sonic mayhem. A celestrial tone that will manifest a gravitational wave that will open the doors to other dimensions.
Don’t forget to setup your drive tone with your guitar volume on ten, then roll it back and see the different tones you can get from just the guitar’s tone and volume settings.
Btw, I think the tone in the first section with this amp is pretty much the best I have heard in your videos.
I loved the Supro and the Vox was cool, but you hit a Gary Clarke Jr thing in that section.
If you got that tone fairly easily, you may want to consider getting a load box/ IR sim and use the OR 30, sims are great, but that amp is really sweet!
ROCKERVERBMKIII is my favorite...clean is fantastic and crunch has an amazing range....attenuator makes is bedroom friendly
I'm almost exclusively an Orange player. My current rig is a Micro Terror through a 4×12 cab. It's loud enough for rehearsal and I recorded an album in a home studio with my old band on it. The album turned out great for some guys rlwuth regular day jobs. My rig looks looks silly but it can scream, especially with the tube in the preamp stage. I wanted a British style amp to go with my Epiphone Les Paul and ended up with Orange. I'm thinking hard to upgrade to the Super Crush 100 head. It's basically undistinguishable from an Orange tube amp and has just the right amount of features for a local gigging musician. Orange is killing it with their solid state lines now. I'm a sucker for that ugly and beautiful orange tolex. It screams 1970s. Hell yeah!
After much trials and tribulations at 62 years old, I play through a Tonr king imperial. I pulled the trigger on this thing and now I am never afraid that I can’t match someone’s tone. Just do it already. Lol. You’re gonna wind up with one anyway. My friend has a 5150 along with the PV cabinet that comes with it. I never have any trouble hearing myself nor does anyone else. If I want to take that tone home I just use the Iron Man attenuator and dial down the watts. You’re welcome.. oh and there’s a huge difference between the plug-in and the real thing just like there was a difference with the orange.
Played mesa boogie duel rectifier for years. Use to just plug and play when I was giging with my old band . But never really cared for the clean channel. A friend of mine had an orange amp not sure which one but I remember it sounding big if I’m not mistaken it had some great headroom. The Mesa duel rec with a mesa traditional cab is a lot more focused. Great video as always 👍👍
Been playing Orange since I first plugged into an Orange/Matamp, and brought it home. Still playing Orange 38 years down the road and still loving the tone. I am going to buy a Vox, though. LOL
Great videos man. Great demos of the tones. Fun watching you enjoy playing and trying out gear. Keep on!
I have a couple of other really nice tube amps, but my fave is the lowest power one: my Orange "Rocker 15 Terror" (horrible name, amazing amp). It sounds a lot like the OR30, but has two channels, so it's easy to set up a fantastic clean sound as well as the dirt you want. It does 15/7/1/0.5 watts output, and amazingly it keeps it's sound characteristic at all but the 0.5 watt setting (it's a little thinner than the rest, I presume you only get 1/2 the preamp at that point). It's a lunchbox head, so not too heavy/large. I built a compact 1x12" cab for it with an Eminence "The Governer" speaker, and the head sits neatly on the cab as both are the same exact width. It gets loud enough to play with a drummer at full power, but the 1 watt setting is great for playing at home.
Orange weighs a ton
Orange Amps are wonderful. My OR15 is perfect for my needs. Handles all my pedals exceptionally. The thing about Orange is that the clean is underestimated and has so much life to it compared to the Fender clean amp standard. Enjoy the amp...a classic. The weight is worth it.
awesome sauce! Orange amps sound so good :-)
One thing you might want to check: your speaker cable. "better" cable has lower capacitance, & thus will react slightly more quickly & have slightly less high-frequency rolloff.
You can hear the difference between a crappy cable & a good cable.
The good news is that "better" doesn't necessarily mean expensive. The main things are quite simply (in order of importance):
- use the shortest cable you can possibly get away with
- larger wire gauge than the minimum required by the amp
- good quality oxygen-free copper
next time you're at a guitar store, see if you can hear the difference between whatever's on there in the shop, & a decent 12-gauge 2-foot cable with Neutrik connectors (Guitar Center sells these for about $30 (they used to be more like $15 not that long ago...).
This is especially important with higher-power amps (I'm a bassist, "entry level" is more like 400W than your new 30W friend here :-)
My first real amp was an orange and I love it and it may be collecting a bit if dust since I got a katana but I still break it out now and then and it still inspires something in me and I think its one of my favorite amps to have ever played on
I have recently “discovered “ Orange amps and am really impressed by my OR15. Btw, I appreciate your thoughtful and measured approach in this video.
I have an Orange solid-state cab and head and they served me pretty well in my short-lived stint in a crappy pop rock band. Now I have to sell them, which makes me sad but they’re just collecting dust in my garage.