Once you go Orange, you never go Banana

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'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

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.

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

Favorite guitar channel on KZfaq, your authenticity and enthusiasm is so palpable and inspiring!

I love the fuzzy sound Orange has. And it gets downright filthy when you add an overdrive on top of the amp gain.

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!!

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.

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!

Waiting for the video where Mike discovers Doom, buys a Dunable, tunes it to B Standard & blows out his windows with the OR30.

Great videos man. Great demos of the tones. Fun watching you enjoy playing and trying out gear. Keep on!

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is one of the most informative and enjoyable sites I make it a point to visit. You do good work, Mike.

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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’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.

MIKE! It’s so cool to hear you rock out on that first jam with the orange!!! 🤘😃🎸

I really like your channel.. you really got me into blues and it was from a random video I saw but it stuck with me . .Thanks man

Good video! I play through a Rocker 32. I was a Marshall player, and now really enjoy the detail Orange delivers.

I use a small Orange solid state amp for home practice and love it. Both the clean and the crunch are awesome and versatile!

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 .

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.

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.

Great production Mike!

a Les Paul + an Orange (OR50) amp cranked is literally heaven. Another great one is a ('57) Tweed twin cranked.

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.

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!

This is my dream amp. Thanks for the demo.🤘

The head sounds leaps and bounds better than the emulator. It sounds darker and deeper. Clean sound was phenomenal.

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!

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 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

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.

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.

Got a super crush 120 a month ago and I'm loving it! Running it thru a 2x12 with vintage 30s

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.

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 👍👍

Yes, I have an OR15H and it is an awesome 15/7 watt amp. I’m glad I got it!

The clean tones are cool 👍

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

Orange’s clean tone is the best.

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.

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.

Just ordered a LP junior. Been thinking about this amp lately lol thanks Mike

I’ve got an Orange AD30 and I love it. My first amp that I bought and thought I’ll never sell this

You should bottle your enthusiasm and sell it on line. Well done, sir.

Very much enjoyed this video! Thank you!

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

I got a Micro Dark and I think it’s great. It’s my second Orange amp with the Crush 20 being my first. The little speaker cab that the micro dark came with wasn’t great sounding so I bought a new speaker cab, a cheap 1X12 with a Vintage 30, and it made a huge difference.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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...

The greatest "Amp Tone" I ever heard was a Marshall Head through an Orange Cab. It was amazing!

Hey Mike, glad you tried an Orange amp! There’s a lot of heritage there, in different styles. The idea that both Stevie Wonder and Matt Pike could use the same amp and get such distinctive playing styles out of ’em, it speaks to the versatility of Orange. There’s more to it than just the high-gain image that most people perceive. Personally I’ve been an Orange player since I picked up the electric guitar. I play a discontinued (black) Rocker 30 combo, to me it just really sings. It’s not a high-gain model but has such good crunch. Also it’s a very honest amp, if that makes any sense. It’s got two channels, Natural and Dirty. And that Natural channel… boy is that something special! It’s a one-knob control, no EQ, I believe it goes directly to the power tube or something. Horrible when dialled in low, but when you have the opportunity to crank it up or use an attenuator like I do… Whoooooohoo! My favourite thing to do is bi-amp with either a Fender Twin Reverb-style amp. Those really compliment each other perfectly.

You gotta get yourself a Blackstar my guy, a lot of them have this ISF dial that seems like EQ but is meant to help it sound more like an "American" or "British" style, ie. It sounds like a Fender on one end and a Marshall on the other. I'd love to hear what you think about them! Especially seeing as you're branching out into gainier stuff! 😊

The clean tone on an orange is so good tuns of character

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 amps just look cool too. A lot of them are a black box with a cool front, but these, they stand out.

I have recently “discovered “ Orange amps and am really impressed by my OR15. Btw, I appreciate your thoughtful and measured approach in this video.

Orange Amps are awesome, and I love the sound.

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I always forget about orange, but if I really think hard, my favorite amp I’ve played that wasn’t my own was an old rockerverb 100. Those things are amazing!

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

Orange that is the go for! Love my Rockerverb50 mk1🥰

I had a limited run handwired valve Orange AD5 for around 20 years. Cool little amp but very clean and a different vibe to the OR amps.

Orange amp with a Fender style guitar is all I played for years. They compliment each other perfectly.

Hey Congrats on the Amp! Small recommendation…grab the Two Stroke Pedal from Orange as well!! It REALLY helps with dialing in specific EQ frequencies!!! Get ready to discover A LOT of Kyuss and High On Fire Riffs!! 10,000 years is a great one to start off with!!!

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.

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

Congrats on the amp and nice video! I was wondering what OD or Boost you've tried upfront for crunch tones, one pedal I found to be really fun upfront with the OR30 is the MXR Duke of Tone.

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 think both Orange and Marshall have great clean tones. Lot of character.

I don't have an orange amp *yet*. From the sounds I heard online and from music in general it is definetely one of my favourite guitar sounds out there. The crunch is just classic and the cleans are some of the best I've heard so far. Just need to scrape enough money together to finally get one! It's crazy to me that from one amp you can get some of the best cleans, but you can still push it into some of the greatest metal tones. Incredible stuff.

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.

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 :-)

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.

I have an Orange Crush 12 solid state and love it. I just wish it had reverb but a pedal gives me a quick solution for that issue.

Daniela ("Dany") and Alejandra ("Ale"), guitarist and bassist for The Warning, also use Orange.

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!

Play a hollow body into an orange, it's super crunchy.

Marshall will never surpass the cool factor of orange. Full stop.

I just got hip to Orange this year also! rockerverb 50 sounds awesome!! basically that amp but also has reverb

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.

ROCKERVERBMKIII is my favorite...clean is fantastic and crunch has an amazing range....attenuator makes is bedroom friendly

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.

I really like some Orange amps that I have tried. Have some Kemper profiles too. They also look great.

Have two Orange and love them both plus the one thing that wasn't hit on there cabinets , did you play through an orange cabinet?, if you didn't you didn't get all the orange sound i have a PPC 2x12 its a game changer

great stuff Mike. What are you using for drums on your demo or loop? I would love to make a loop with drums like that for practice jam. Thanks