Orange Amps and Dirt

[Casavettes]

Hey!

What just wondering what dirt pedals you guys like to use with your orange amps.
I was using a CBA Brothers with my TH30 but it just wasn’t doing it for me.

Frazz Dazzler V2 sounds pretty good through it, as well as my speaker cranker.
I found a Baby Thunder on the cheap but have yet to use a big muff variant with the TH30.

[rickenbastard]

Guitarist in my band runs her Orange pretty dirty and the pedals she stacks on top of it that have sounded best are Acapulco Gold, Oath and Minotaur Sonic Terrors Mud Giant

[fcknoise]

Vidret will say Black Forest I think, he has an TH30.

I played a OR80 a little while, but I didn't have the chance to play a wide variety of dirts. Whenever I ran a blunderbuss muff into it though it sounded fucking great

[Feedbacker]

Not exactly the same, but I have a gt120 and have had good results with a yellow Tone Bender (the silicon/germanium hybrid one) or a BAT Crown of Horns. The Tone Benders are pricey but they are the best fuzz I've found with any amp and I'm sure someone makes a clone that's cheaper.

[frigid midget]

I had a hard time trying to make any of my pedals shine through my buddy's TH30. Been using it a lot lately, I can't really afford to get my amp fixed atm :/

I'm used to playing trough a louder amp, with more clean headroom. The TH30's clean channel gets really dirty even at moderate rehearsel volume levels.
That sorta changes the character of everything I plugged into it. For the worse

Fwiw, instead of my usual over the top fuzz/distortion choices, I mostly go with just use a Microamp, and something like a Hotcake should work good as well.
I don't particularly like high gain fuzz with Orange/EL84 amps.

[JTurbide]

I'll start by saying that I've only played my OR15 in my apartment yet (with a Weber MicroMass attenuator) so I don't have loud has hell experience with it but I don't hear much difference using distortion from the OR15 or putting a ToneHungryfx Fuzz Cream (germanium dallas arbiter fuzz face style) in front of it (bias all the way counter clockwise since as you turn it up it gates the signal)... I've had a little more succes with the TAFM but I mostly use this pedal with my Sixtrak to add just a little girt and guts to it so I'm mostly playing my OR15 straight up (with delay and reverb of course).

I really cutted down on pedals lately so I don't even have an overdrive or boost pedal to try on my OR15 but it's something I should look into... something like a DBA intersterllar overdriver (dang I miss this one) probably sounds fucking awesome through an Orange..

I love the sound of my amp straight so I'm not urged to buy other pedals, Orange amps are so great

[coldbrightsunlight]

My dad has an OR30 and I've played vid's TH30 and I agree with him, the dirty channel sounds great with anything I've tried but the clean channels are super picky.

From those two amps, very low preamp gain on the dirty channel is a great 'clean' sound anyway though

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

very low preamp gain on the dirty channel is a great 'clean' sound anyway though

this. whenever we tour in europe i always get different backline amps that i haven't played before just to try them in a full band setup and really fell in love with the rockerverb. i never really had any problems running my exact same pedalboard setup through it as i did through ampegs and fenders - it could get a little mushier overall with the orange, but that was my only complaint.

[Ghost Hip]

I used to play through an OR15 run as clean as possible through a Marshall 4x10 cab at a rehearsal space. I used a Dr S. Elements, EA Supercollider, and I believe a Devi Ever OK (used in combo with the elements to treble blast kids). They all sounded pretty sick but I love the way Orange's are EQ'd.

[BoatRich]

I could never get the AD200 I had to take dirt the way I wanted, but the TH30 at the store I work at takes it pretty well. I feel like the Orange thing needs some power tube break up to work with pedals? Or just a bit of gain in general.

[BoatRich]

I feel like the Orange thing needs some power tube break up to work with pedals? Or just a bit of gain in general.

unfortunately for my apartment yes, i feel as if most pedals are made expecting this.

I feel that, I switched to solid state recently and it’s weird how differently things react. HM-2 style things seem to work better with them though. I find big, loud fuzzes and milder drives are way better with tubes though.

[O Drones]

On the subject of Orange, I'm really liking the look of the new lightweight vertical 2x12 with Neo Creambacks they released at NAMM. They're pointing out it's specifically for their Terror range though and I've got an OR50, so I might end up with the standard 2x12 The Creambacks could take it, but there's a substantial difference in power compared to two V30s.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

very low preamp gain on the dirty channel is a great 'clean' sound anyway though

this. whenever we tour in europe i always get different backline amps that i haven't played before just to try them in a full band setup and really fell in love with the rockerverb. i never really had any problems running my exact same pedalboard setup through it as i did through ampegs and fenders - it could get a little mushier overall with the orange, but that was my only complaint.

I’m happy here, don’t make me stare at those rockerverbs until the price makes sense.

i did end up getting a rockerverb 50 head after one of those tours and i've barely used it since though...

[ibarakishi]

has anyone played through the new rocker terror heads? super expensive, but was curious if they react to dirt in a similar way that other orange amps do

[BoatRich]

has anyone played through the new rocker terror heads? super expensive, but was curious if they react to dirt in a similar way that other orange amps do

The gain channel on the Rocker 32 combo we have at work is pretty awful. Just kinda fizzy and gross sounding. The Rocker 15 kicks ass though. I haven't tried the head but the combos should be pretty close?