Orange Tiny Terror

[maverickf1jockey]

Tried one out in Rock and Roll Music of Swindon (if you're interested in Orange amps then its definitely a good place to look) and bought it with a matching cabinet. It is truly the best amp sound I have ever heard and it has loads of gain on tap and cleans up really well. I have no idea why I would really want an EQ or channel switcher any more...
To prove I'm not here to plug Orange I tried it against a rocker 30 and could not really justify the difference in price.
Has anybody else found that the 15-watt mode is so much fuller and heavier sounding?
Only gripe really is that it lacks compression for lead work so higher pitched harmonics and pinches on the bass strings don't ring through quite as I would like but I could add a compression pedal before it in order to use it as a lead booster.
One of the greatest rock amps ever in my opinion as it is impossible to screw your tone with an EQ that doesn't quite help as much as hinder the quest for great sound.

[Davey]

just stating my opinion here, but you should have bought the MatAmp Little Rock instead. same price, MUCH better quality of tone and worksmanship

[ailean]

I love my TT, there seem to be quite a few owners on the board now.

I've not played with the 15 watt much, at the volume control settings I'm using it doesn't make a great deal of difference, but as I'm in a flat I can't really crank it.

I found this on the dolphin site after I'd bought mine.

15 watts may not seem like a lot, but Orange rate their amplifiers the British way – 15 watts RMS clean. This means that when it comes to power the Tiny Terror will give many 30 watt amplifiers a run for their money!

Not sure who rates their amps what way, but I thought it was interesting.

[indysmith]

just stating my opinion here, but you should have bought the MatAmp Little Rock instead. same price, MUCH better quality of tone and worksmanship

I just don't understand all these people saying this!
All the clips of the little rock that I've heard are hideous. it sounds hard and harsh, and just disgusting. The same goes for all matamp clips actually. Also - I'm growing to hate my minimat for those reasons. It just has a horrible breakup, a nasty, flat, small tone. Matamps just don't do anything for me. I can't understand what the fuss is about, or why anyone would part with £300 for an amp as horrid as the LittleRock when there is the Tiny Terror out there which sounds positively ORGASMIC. Sure, the built quality may not be quite as good, but it's primarily a bedroom amp for most that buy it, and it's not gonna be bashed around a lot surely. In fact, what your saying about the TT's  less good workmanship is bollucks anyway - who do you know that's had one break?
Rant over. Sorry if you disagree, but EURGH. i had to get this off my chest.

[Crazy_Joe]

just stating my opinion here, but you should have bought the MatAmp Little Rock instead. same price, MUCH better quality of tone and worksmanship

I just don't understand all these people saying this!
All the clips of the little rock that I've heard are hideous. it sounds hard and harsh, and just disgusting. The same goes for all matamp clips actually. Also - I'm growing to hate my minimat for those reasons. It just has a horrible breakup, a nasty, flat, small tone. Matamps just don't do anything for me. I can't understand what the fuss is about, or why anyone would part with £300 for an amp as horrid as the LittleRock when there is the Tiny Terror out there which sounds positively ORGASMIC. Sure, the built quality may not be quite as good, but it's primarily a bedroom amp for most that buy it, and it's not gonna be bashed around a lot surely. In fact, what your saying about the TT's  less good workmanship is bollucks anyway - who do you know that's had one break?
Rant over. Sorry if you disagree, but EURGH. i had to get this off my chest.

Haha you go indy :P

[badgermark]

I'm very tempted by one and a 2x12. Looking for a good low (<20W) valve amp with some awesome clean tones and be very pedal-philic. Might make a thread about it when I have some spare cash.

[DeanS]

I bought a TT about a month ago and its just as I expected- (except its phenominally loud-even at the 7 watt setting) great crunch and rawk and has a real retro vibe running thro a 2X12 with a G12 H and a G12M. Oh and I 've not heard a convincing lttle rock soundclip as yet......

[_tom_]

just stating my opinion here, but you should have bought the MatAmp Little Rock instead. same price, MUCH better quality of tone and worksmanship

I just don't understand all these people saying this!
All the clips of the little rock that I've heard are hideous. it sounds hard and harsh, and just disgusting. The same goes for all matamp clips actually. Also - I'm growing to hate my minimat for those reasons. It just has a horrible breakup, a nasty, flat, small tone. Matamps just don't do anything for me. I can't understand what the fuss is about, or why anyone would part with £300 for an amp as horrid as the LittleRock when there is the Tiny Terror out there which sounds positively ORGASMIC. Sure, the built quality may not be quite as good, but it's primarily a bedroom amp for most that buy it, and it's not gonna be bashed around a lot surely. In fact, what your saying about the TT's  less good workmanship is bollucks anyway - who do you know that's had one break?
Rant over. Sorry if you disagree, but EURGH. i had to get this off my chest.

+1, all the little rock clips I've heard have been pretty shite, whereas most of the TT clips have been awesome.

edit - I think its just a case of people being b00teek snobs really :P

[Brow]

I just don't understand all these people saying this!
All the clips of the little rock that I've heard are hideous. it sounds hard and harsh, and just disgusting. The same goes for all matamp clips actually. Also - I'm growing to hate my minimat for those reasons. It just has a horrible breakup, a nasty, flat, small tone. Matamps just don't do anything for me. I can't understand what the fuss is about, or why anyone would part with £300 for an amp as horrid as the LittleRock when there is the Tiny Terror out there which sounds positively ORGASMIC. Sure, the built quality may not be quite as good, but it's primarily a bedroom amp for most that buy it, and it's not gonna be bashed around a lot surely. In fact, what your saying about the TT's  less good workmanship is bollucks anyway - who do you know that's had one break?
Rant over. Sorry if you disagree, but EURGH. i had to get this off my chest.

It's all opinion mate.

I spent a good 40 minutes or so with a TT (the shop started bitching at me after that!  :roll:) when I was looking at low wattage amps. I then tried the Matamp Little Rock and bought 1 of those as I preferred the sound of it.

I'll agree with ya, the distortion channel on it's own can sound a little dull/flat, but whack a decent Overdrive or Boost infront and it'll sing  8)

[jt]

:D Gotta say love my TT. Great little amp & i`ve got no build quality issues with it either, solid as a rock with a great tone to boot all for £300. What more do you want ?

 :D  8)

[Twinfan]

If you're all basing your Little Rock opinions on my clips then you should really hear one in person.  My clip recording gear is cr@p.

However....

In my opinion, the Little Rock sounds cack when compared to a Tiny Terror.  I'm actually going to get mine checked to see if there's a fault with it.  It permanently sounds like there's a c--ked wah in front of it.

[sgmypod]

Have heard good L/rock clips..some on the Matamp forum.....but for me I still prefer the sound of my TT...need a better cab but can save up for that(tried it through my Prosonics 2x10 and sounded far better)

[indysmith]

If you're all basing your Little Rock opinions on my clips then you should really hear one in person.

I wasn't actually; yours were the best I'd heard (still not as nice as a lot of TT clips I'd heard though). There's a lot of clips of the little rock on the matamp forum and they sound really bad.

[gwEm]

If you're all basing your Little Rock opinions on my clips then you should really hear one in person.

I wasn't actually; yours were the best I'd heard (still not as nice as a lot of TT clips I'd heard though). There's a lot of clips of the little rock on the matamp forum and they sound really bad.

tried a minimat and decided i'd rather just use my JMP50 at low volume levels. really dissapointing.

[indysmith]

If you're all basing your Little Rock opinions on my clips then you should really hear one in person.

I wasn't actually; yours were the best I'd heard (still not as nice as a lot of TT clips I'd heard though). There's a lot of clips of the little rock on the matamp forum and they sound really bad.

tried a minimat and decided i'd rather just use my JMP50 at low volume levels. really dissapointing.

yeah my minimat is pretty nasty. it just doesn't do any useable tones! it was sort of novel for the first few days, messing around, trying different pedals in front of it, trying to get a nice sound, but after over a year and not really finding one that wasn't coloured entirely by the pedals, I'm a little bit pissed off. It sounds really harsh... like somebody's tried to recreate the sound of a transistor amp on the edge of breakup using valves! it makes no sense.