Orange amps?

[teddy07x]

anyone familiar with Orange amps?

their model names confuse me......

Why can't it be Marshall simple? JVM and Vintage Modern. It pretty much explains it all.

DSL and TSL.... Also explains it all....

[Slash1337]

I played the tiny terror, and the Rockverb.

Both sounded pretty good, gives you a great 60's and 70's vibe.

[rccCrawler]

Has anyone ever tried a thunderverb? I always thought that the built in attenuator would be a good feature.

[OdgeUK]

The 'classic' Oranges are the OD and Overdrive amps. The Overdrives being Master Volume amps. The first Oranges are the holy Grail I think, the ones called 'Pix Only' as they had no text on the frontplate and all controls were just labelled with pics. I've never been that interested in the OD's as 100W of Non Master Volume isn't for me!

Orange pretty much died out in the 80's and got revived in the mid-90's. I think Matamp built the first 90's reissues of the OD's and Overdrives (and the OTR which I have and just LOVE). I think then that Gibson bought Orange and in the last few years Orange seem to be on the rise again with a totally new range of amps. I really like the Rockerverb 50 which uses 6V6 tubes instead of it's older brother the Rockerverb 100 (with EL34s). The Thunderverb 50 is an EL34 50watt amp and looks pretty cool too. The 40th Anniversary head also looks stunning and I think it's the only model (apart from the discontinued Retro 50) which was designed to sound like the Orange's of old.

Jimmy Page used Orange AD heads on the reunion gig, alongside Marshall, Petersberg and something else I can't remember. Never played an AD head ut if it's good enough for Jimmy....

There's something very special about the Orange sound. It's close enough to a Marshall sound that you can happily play Led Zeppelin and Guns and Roses etc through one but it has this woody and direct quality. I want to say it's 'stiffer' sounding than a Marshall sound but that might suggest it is not warm and it's definately warm. It can be brutal but never painful or shrill or buzzy. On my Orange OTR-120 head, you literally cannot dial in a bad sound.

[snatch]

i had an orange tiny terror and a rocker 30 combo. both sounded incredible. the tiny terror had more gain, but the rockers clean channel which is called the natural channel was awesome.

[Green Manalishi]

I love my Tiny Terror. Super versatile with only 3 knobs.