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dazedbyday wrote:Apparently Orange is also coming out with a 1k watt bass amp too. Not too many examples of its sound but what seems cool about it is the built in blend section. You can mix in a dirty sound with the clean sound. I always like that for bass.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88VNeaH_tuE[/youtube]

That actually looks pretty tasty...... looks like a step up from the terror bass 1000, I definitely like the preamp more.

Hahaha, not to your liking? I think it sounds ok in that clip but I would want to play around with it more to see if it actually sounds good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_YWRFdBFso[/youtube]

Also found this rig run down. Ben talks about his signature guitar some in it.

Blew up my Matamp at the weekend, well, one of the output tubes and the HT fuse went. There was some sooty trace between two of the valve pins, so I'm thinking it might end up needing a new socket, hopefully there's no other issues in there. I don't think anything else fried, or at least I couldn't smell anything. So far I'm feeling fairly sanguine about it. At least until I get the tech bill...

Perfect time for the pedalboard I ordered to turn up...

Spiffy looking board!

I guess Orange wants to expand their offerings and capitalize on their currently popularity. I'm fine with that as long as they don't overextend themselves. Their amps aren't cheap and coming out with more and more top end ones that most people can't afford may or may not be the best business strategy. I don't know.

I would like to see more amps that someone like me could afford and have a use for. How about a Micro Terror version of the Dark Terror? Charge $200 USD. I would be all over that.

Nice looking board. What is the company? And it sounds like there was an arc between the valve pins. Might be a good idea to replace the socket as you said. But you might need to figure out what caused the arc.

dub wrote:Blew up my Matamp at the weekend, well, one of the output tubes and the HT fuse went. There was some sooty trace between two of the valve pins, so I'm thinking it might end up needing a new socket, hopefully there's no other issues in there. I don't think anything else fried, or at least I couldn't smell anything. So far I'm feeling fairly sanguine about it. At least until I get the tech bill...

Perfect time for the pedalboard I ordered to turn up...

Sorry to hear about the matamp...

But peep that board!!!!

dazedbyday wrote:Hahaha, not to your liking? I think it sounds ok in that clip but I would want to play around with it more to see if it actually sounds good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_YWRFdBFso[/youtube]

Also found this rig run down. Ben talks about his signature guitar some in it.

99% of the time I don't like clean blends.

The board was made a by a local guy here in NZ, "L8onboards". Pretty small business, he gets a run fabricated every few months.

Yeah, I'm hoping it's just the socket losing contact or something, the guy I'm sending it to knows his stuff though. I'm just guessing and crossing my fingers.

Our guitar player might be picking up one of the new OR100's. All the ones I've heard clips of online sound kinda scooped but I'm assuming that's due to how the EQ is set. Are they any good/nice? I told him to go for the custom shop 50 instead but we both agree that might not give us enough volume. Apparently he's dealing directly from orange through an inside person. I don't know. I just said to get a good deal so I can get one on the cheaps!

No currently produced Orange amp has given me longer than fifteen minutes of GAS. The Rocker 30 was solid as an affordable, low wattage pedal amp, but they've discontinued that. The original single channel AD30 was nice, but that's been gone for a while now and is very hard to find even here in the UK at reasonable prices. The small amps are a lot of fun for a while, but I'd only consider them because they're small and easily found inexpensively.

I actually think that their Tiny Terror was the smartest thing they'd put out in a long, long time.

Totally agree. The Tiny Terror was a genius idea. It was one of the first designs to bring compact amplifiers to the masses, and make them portable, affordable, and fun. It sparked a whole slew of follow-ups from other companies like Vox, VHT, Ibanez, etc. It's really good sounding as well, but more for messing about than serious recording and writing.

See, I disagree with that. I actually think the original Tiny Terror was great because it nailed the "orange pre" sound that so many people are/were infatuated with while being low-wattage enough that you could drive the shit out of it without blowing out eardrums. You can get a really nice sound out of an OG Tiny Terror and a 4x12.