Author Topic: Any love for Orange amps? (Read 10900 times)

sambo · « **Reply #15 on:** December 11, 2006, 11:52:51 AM »

ahh excellent, cheers for the info daisy. looks more and more like Orange could be what im after

Skybone · « **Reply #16 on:** December 11, 2006, 12:15:25 PM »

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A buddy of mine bought a King Street and loves it. They drove right out to his studio and dropped it off in person.

If it's alec's KS, he got the same "custom" covering that Jeff bought in especially for my amp. The KS looks ace, he's posted pics on their forum.

Twinfan · « **Reply #17 on:** December 11, 2006, 01:46:17 PM »

All this talk has got me GAS-ing even more...

screamingdaisy · « **Reply #18 on:** December 11, 2006, 05:20:18 PM »

Here's some clips of Orange ODs in action.

The first one is the Screaming Trees. I always liked this clip because it gives good examples of the 'fuzzy' edge the amps can have. The tone I get out of my AD30 is alot like the tone Josh (the skinny guitarist) is getting from his amp....particularily the cleanish tone heard around 1:53. The fat guy is using a distortion pedal....that's not Orange dirt. The rest is pretty accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamJIe332R0

The next couple are by a band called Boris. They may not be your taste musically, but they're a good example of how an Orange can sound;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t3dHC2qcBc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb14rWGRYp4

This one is long, but it covers the whole gamut from cleans to distortion, fuzz, delay, feedback....pretty much everything. If a sound can be made using an Orange this woman can get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1HEjgjZp8

screamingdaisy · « **Reply #19 on:** December 11, 2006, 05:39:55 PM »

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A buddy of mine bought a King Street and loves it. They drove right out to his studio and dropped it off in person.

If it's alec's KS, he got the same "custom" covering that Jeff bought in especially for my amp. The KS looks ace, he's posted pics on their forum.

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I just found an hour to break out the screwdriver and camera, so here you go...

I've been slack with the soundclips I know. They're coming - bear with me.

About the Orange/Matamp thing though....they may have started together but they've grown apart over the years. Orange still tends towards that slightly fuzzy sound, but the modern Matamps seem to have moved away from that and more towards the Hiwatt end of things. It's still a great sound, but Matamp really shouldn't be considered a better Orange anymore.

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #20 on:** December 11, 2006, 05:54:02 PM »

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A 1224 mkII, the one that won the first Guitarist Gold award. I've been GASing for one since then! ;)

You can keep on GASing, then. I think they're up to Mk6 now!! :)

Skybone · « **Reply #21 on:** December 11, 2006, 09:44:48 PM »

Ben, the 1224 mkVII has been available for a while. ;)

daisy, that's not the KS I was thinking of, but it's a sweet looking combo all the same, check out the Greenbacks! ;) The one I was thinking of was a head & 2x12.

screamingdaisy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 12, 2006, 01:26:05 AM »

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Ben, the 1224 mkVII has been available for a while. ;)

daisy, that's not the KS I was thinking of, but it's a sweet looking combo all the same, check out the Greenbacks! ;) The one I was thinking of was a head & 2x12.

Yeah....I didn't think it was the same guy. The owner of this one is named Stu. :D

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #23 on:** December 12, 2006, 03:43:31 AM »

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Ben, the 1224 mkVII has been available for a while. ;)

LOL. I don't think they do odd-numbered versions!!

froglord · « **Reply #24 on:** December 12, 2006, 09:41:50 AM »

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Quote from: Skybone
Ben, the 1224 mkVII has been available for a while. ;)

LOL. I don't think they do odd-numbered versions!!

'Course they do. There's the high gain MkV:

http://matamp.co.uk/1224Vhead.htm

No idea what happened to the III and IV, but then chaotic genius is the Matamp way. :D

Skybone · « **Reply #25 on:** December 12, 2006, 11:36:09 AM »

I always wondered what happened to the mkI. ;)

JJretroTONEGOD · « **Reply #26 on:** December 14, 2006, 12:46:51 AM »

Orange are my all time favourite amps for sound, tone, balls AND looks, they are incomprehensably amazing (thats the valve amps I'm talking about) Why do you think Page used them? over anything else, listen to the guitar on 'Grace' by Geoff Buckley, he used Orange amps! as well as mesa's. Countless artists have used them in the studio AND live, and I fecking want one (he stumbles, frothing at the mouth, eyes red)

I think that Orange, Mesa Boogie, vintage Marshall and Vox are my all time favourties, but especially Orange and Vox, we should be proud, it's part of british history!

One day I will buy an Orange head and cab as well as a combo, but that day is far away and the dream is a distnant one, until I have serious money.

screamingdaisy · « **Reply #27 on:** December 14, 2006, 02:37:55 AM »

Orange and Mesa blended together sound huge.

hunter · « **Reply #28 on:** December 14, 2006, 05:19:16 AM »

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we should be proud, it's part of british history!

One day I will buy an Orange head and cab as well as a combo, but that day is far away and the dream is a distnant one, until I have serious money.

Hmm, maybe I should be proud now about Reinhold Bogner being German :)

Anyway, if you'd get an Orange today, which model would it be?

TwilightOdyssey · « **Reply #29 on:** December 14, 2006, 04:08:43 PM »

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Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
Quote from: Skybone
Ben, the 1224 mkVII has been available for a while. ;)

LOL. I don't think they do odd-numbered versions!!

'Course they do. There's the high gain MkV:

Sorry, I meant to say EVEN NUMBERED. It's clear they do odd numbered ones!

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