Orange OR30 - thmn.to/thoprod/568277?offid=1&affid=367 More info - orangeamps.com/or30/ The Orange OR30 is a LOT of amp, despite it only being single channel. Huge transformers give it the low end thump and headroom of a more powerful amplifier - putting this into the territory of seriously heavy music. This video contains paid promotion from Orange Amplification More details on how CSGuitars implements product promotion - www.csguitars.co.uk/disclosure #orangeamps #or30 #csguitars Time Codes: 00:00 - What is the Orange OR30? 01:05 - Let's Talk Tone 01:45 - Isolated Guitar Sounds 04:45 - Keeping Things Bright 05:24 - Treble Boosters ROCK! 05:57 - Judas Priest Medley Mix 07:55 - Does it DOOM?! 10:00 - One for the Studio More from CSGuitars: Support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/csguitars Join CSGuitars Discord - discord.gg/csguitars Buy CSGuitars Merchandise - www.csguitars.co.uk/store Website - www.csguitars.co.uk Contact - colin@csguitars.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________ *Description contains affiliate links. Purchasing using one of these links will generate a small commission for CSGuitars at no additional cost to you.* Affiliate Links: Thomann - www.thomann.de/gb/index.html?offid=1&affid=367 Sweetwater - imp.i114863.net/2mGGg Reverb - reverb.grsm.io/csguitars Spectre Digital - spectredigital.com?aff=CSGuitars Crimson Luthiery Tools - www.crimsonguitars.com/?ref=csguitars + Discount Code 'CSGUITARS5' for 5% OFF MrGugu Clothing- mrgugu.com & 15% OFF Discount Code: CSGuitars ____________________________________________________________________
Mad respect for busting out the studded gauntlets when playing Priest Colin!! Haha! Truly another brilliantly engineered epic win from the genius of Ade Emsley. Cheers!
First off: Killer SIlmarillion reference Second: Tube amps made my life so much better and easier. I was all digital, programming a million patches and it cannot touch the diversity you can get from one channel of a killer tube amp. I can put it on the lead channel of my amp and dial back for beautiful cleans, crunchy mids and dig in and turn up for that searing lead. Nuts what a good amp is capable of. Orange isn't talked about enough these days. Nice video :) Also: Using a great clean platform with a pedalboard can get tones that are just astounding. love my digital stuff but jeez is it a classic combo for a reason.
I find this super interesting -- I went over to a modeller just about a decade ago, and haven't looked back. At the time, I had enough money to get one of a half dozen amps I wanted, OR a modeller. But now, going from a bedroom musician playing Metallica to annoy my parents and neighbors to a gigging musician playing in wildly inconsistent venues, I love it for an entirely different reason: safety and portability. My $5k usd rackmount rig goes at the backline, safely far away from spilling drinks, tripping bassists, and flying beers. XLR out to FoH and a 2x12 cab for backup. Only thing in danger of getting mangled up by my feet is a $40 blower fan, a $60 tuner pedal, and a $110 midi footswitch, rather than what I am sure would be nearly $1,500 or so in effects. The philosophies building the rigs are totally different, the rigs are totally different, but the result is the same: a great sounding set up. And I love it.
Of course, shame on me for not commenting before watching the whole video. This very thought process was brought up right after where I paused, thinking I was at the end.
Amp modelers aren't my thing either. I'm looking at the Orange Super Crush 100 seriously. It's solid state, gig-able and sounds amazing, just like a tube amp. Plus the price is reasonable. I'll be able to assemble a $600 US half stack when I finally get my hands on one. My cab was used and only cost $100 some for a Fender Mexican made 4x12. A simple and great sounding half stack with no tubes nor ridiculous presets. Two channels, a few pedals and a good guitar are all we really need.
@@brostoevsky22 Honestly, the OR series is vastly superior to the Super crush, at least in my personal opinion. They're not bad by any means, but those power tubes and transformer is a big part of where the magic is at. The OR15 isn't much more expensive that the crush, but plenty loud and capable enough. (Do you really need 100W?) If you have the extra cash, the 30 is worth every penny.
I don't know about everyone else, but I've had it with button-pushing, and knob-twisting. Technology has produced some exceptional things. But, the irony is that it's come at the expense of the music itself. ANY amp that sound great, and is one channel, with as few knobs as possible, the better. Same with guitars. Two pickups, a toggle, and a volume knob covers 99% of the tones that made most of us guitar players, fans of the instrument in the first place. The Friedman Little Sister was a lot like that. Set the EQ, and then just twist the gain, and/or your guitar's volume knob for a clean channel (assuming the amp cleans up well). That's an unnecessarily long way of saying I love where Orange has gone with this amp. This was a killer demo, as well. Playing all the right riffs. Very well done.
I guess it all has its place, but for me it’s a jcm800 style amp a few pedals and something with a set of humbuckers. I tinker with all kinds of stuff as it’s kinda part of my job, but when I’m recording or playing less is more. 😊
Just got my OR30 in black tolex today. All I can say is WOW. this thing is the real deal. I have a few 5150s including an OG, have had a few PRS, have a Marshall getting fixed, and have had a few others too. This thing may truly be the best amp I’ve ever played or owned. The cleans are fantastic, it’s incredibly versatile, more dynamic than any other amp I’ve owned. EQ dials at noon, bright to the left, presence at 2, gain at 1-2 o’clock with an SD-1 is just unbelievable for both rhythm and lead. Colin is right, if you’re in the market for a legit plexi or JCM800 you need to check this thing out.
We are, defenders of the faith. For sure. I love the sound of this amp and I'm all for plug and play. I like Orange amps in general but this one is different. And I like it a lot. Thanks for a great review! Keep the faith
I’ve had this for 5-6 months and I still love this amp so much. every time I play it I’m always just amazed at how good it sounds. I’ve learned how to make it as versatile as any of my multi channel amps and I’m seriously questioning how many amps I want to keep since this one seems to be my go-to anymore.
The OR15 was already fantastic, but you need an EQ pedal in the loop to make the most of it, Orange fixed it with the bright switch and presence! So they made a fantastic amp based on an old fantastic amp even more fantastic.
I have just got a 90s OR100 bloody amazing. Now I want this!! Great range of tones in the or series indeed and I can’t understand why more guitarists outside the metal and doom genres don’t use them more. I wish orange would make the AD30 single channel again as that was any awesome amp!
10:20 What an about face in the guitar world. It used to be the tube amp was for the stage and the digital stuff was for messing around at home and demoing. Glad I spent my gigging years in the former way of doing things.
Every video you release reminds me of why you’re my favorite guitar-tuber! Excellent riff selection in every video to boot, love to hear The Sword get some love!
Great vid. Recently, I've found myself drifting back to the simpler format of a single-channel amp too. Like you say: it can't do on-the-fly switching at a gig, but there's something intuitive and just plain fun about it, which helps when recording rather than complicating things. If it's voiced well - which this amp seems to be - it just...works. I got a Matamp Series 3000 recently, and after taking the time to get used to its controls, I don't think I'll need to buy another amp again (apart from, perhaps, an OR30...)
Marshall killer! Beautiful clean sounds (as long as you do not excpect mid-scooped Fender cleans), iconic, Orange typical classic overdrive sounds and even very covincing, unique high-gain to Metal sounds. And this all from a single channel! What more can you expect? Not very cheap, but for me one of the best sounding and most flexible new amps, which I have heard during the last years. For me the best sounding Orange since the release of the Rockerverb. The additional bright switch and Presence control are really an improvement, add a lot more flexibility and some more Plexi-like bite, if wished and also the power reduction is an advantage, while the amp itself still sounds, like an Orange should. Amp of the year for me!
This is the reason i will always go for analog when i have the chance. Digital only has what you program into it. It rarely gives you unintended useful outcomes. When you have an analogue machine, you can get to learn its ins and outs, all of the intended and unintended artifacts that digital and modellers can only reproduce if they have been expressly inserted. Once you know what you want then sure, go digital, but i always choose my gear for the journey
I actually did the opposite- got a modeller, because I had no idea what sort of sound I wanted- or what gear to get that MADE those sounds. Then zeroed in on what models I used the most. The intention was always to get a simple tube amp- I just didn't know which one!
@@chidorirasenganz i ended up gravitating towards Fendery amps. Particularly tweedy, brownfacey types. The Blues Deluxe and Super Somic 60 were right up my alley- but WAY too much amp for this home player, lol. So was Peavey's classic 30 /Delta Blues. Then they came out with the Bassbreakers. I Got the 15 watt one. The lo/med/high gain switch and master volume allow me to get the sound i want- and not blow the walls down. It IS a rather loud 15 watts, and heavy as a boat anchor, but damn it sounds good!!! I put all my dirt pedals away- no need- the amp gets me what i want on its own. A darn versatile combo! And if i want to try different speaker or cab combos, it has an extra speaker out that can do 4, 8 or 16 ohms. I' d love to hear it through a vintage voiced 10 or two.
Thanks so much for the classic metal tones. So many demo’s of Orange are about the jangle and the sludge but I want to know how it’s going to dial in for hard rock and those muted roots and fifths.
Thanks for a great demo.... although Mrs C is fuming as I 'really do not need a 4th EL84 amp' apparently.... not quite her words but you know what I mean... pressed the buy button and the simple nail-a-tone approach is just mad... grunt bottle howling like demented banshees being 'robustly loved' in the back alley.
Super Crush is a great amp and can get even more filthy that this, but one thing that solid state lacks over valves is how the low end from the OR30 feels like a horse kick to the baws. I'm going through an attenuator out of necessity, but if I were to open this up straight into a 4x12 in a practice room it would be monstrous!
I do hope they add a similar wattage solid state version. I like the super crush but it’s too high wattage for my speaker of choice (greenbacks) it lacks a bright switch and a presence knob
Does the OR50 have a presence control… that’s my one problem with orange… they are too dark… what’s closest to a Marshall? The or30 or or50… or the rocker30
The amp sounds really good, very articulate. I thought the addition of a presence know and a bright switch was a really great move. I love my Rockerverb MKii, and while I love the thick, heavy, saturated tones, I do wish it had a presence control just for the ease of adding some high mids when I want them. It's not an issue as throwing the Guptech Pdeq pedal (which simulates a presence and depth control) in the loop does the trick, but the ease of having it on the amp would be nice.
Most of my amps are single channel, I love a simple base that I can just tweak to where I need it to line up with my pedal board. Oh and as someone who's tried it, these suckers don't make for half bad bass amps either despite the sorta low wattage on em.
Great content. I wish many of these videos would go through basic mixing to balance the dialogue and the music clips to the same level. I know I'm not the only one that has to turn it up during dialogue to hear what is being said, and then quickly turn it down during the music so neighbors do not bang on the wall. Come on guys you are better than that.
Hey Colin! I was wondering if maybe at some point you might consider making a video on potentiometers... how different values effect your tone, what impact different taper types have on how they work, what effect combining different values would have (for example 1M volume & 250K tone vs 250k volume & 1M tone), etc... I think it could be really useful to people!
I really like your channel and the videos you make. I watch them all and I have to say: The best tones you have are you playing through a gunned Orange amp. You and Orange amps are a match made in Guitar Heaven! Really enjoyable to watch. Awesome demo man!
I have both- a digital modelling amp with all the bells and whistles (Mustang III) and a plain ol single channel tube amp without all the extras (Bassbreaker 15). I find I spend more time actually PLAYING with the latter. And more time faffing about with all the nifty neatos on the former. You can get all the sounds you want out of the BB15 just by adjusting the few controls, and using the pots on your guitar. One shiny it does have, is an additional speaker jack with a switchable impedance control. So a speaker swap is as easy as pluggin in another cabinet. Both sound great, it's just that one is plug n play, the other is programmable, and takes some setting up to get it to sound just so. (BUT you don't NEED to also haul around a pedal board- all the effects are built in, so there's that real convenience factor. plus, it's WAY lighter!) Anyhow, this amp sounds pretty darn good to my ears!
This amp fixes all the issues I had with my OR50 like having an adjustable boost for soloing and I just read that the bright switch turned the left acts like a treble booster and on the right it makes the amp like Plexi like. It has tube rectification too. I'm glad they used a big transformer. This is really good news from Orange. I was getting tired of seeing their dumb pedal releases.
I'd love you to try out a marshall plexi, it's unbelievably versatile for a single channel amp and does it's sound better than any digital or tube copy I've ever tried
Soo goood ... damn. 'tis heavy indeed. One item that most of the first reviews skip is that Bedroom 2W mode, or even that the powersupply is technically universal, though you do need to switch fuses of the correct value if going between 110 - 230. That's pretty epic and "road worthy", or said in a different manner: shop it where you score the best value. If my houseful of Traynors amps, smattering of Fenders, Yamaha, Roland and Marshall gets culled, this could be the "one classic tube amp here". Who am I kidding ? This would just be "one more", joining the excellent SC100.
Sounds like Orange DNA with the ability to dial in a bit of the Marshall top end bite. My singular (albeit small) complaint with my Rockerverb MKIII has been a bit of the lack of upper mid bite. Ordered and on its way!
@CSGuitars I hear ya, I was always a Marshall guy until prices got waaaay too high and my 800s failed twice live. Rockerverb is KILLER but a but modern/fuzzy for what I play (i.e. your Green Day snippets or Bad Religion style punk rock). Top shelf content, as always my dude!
My two amps are single channel monsters - Orange Dark Terror and a Randall RD1C. Versatile if I need them to be, but mostly it’s the simplicity of turning on and getting good sound without messing about.
I'm pretty sure this amp would stand up pretty well in a rehearsal room as well. I use a 50W rockerverb, and thats way more than enough to rock out in a stoner/doom setting. If you have a 4x12" with nice sensitivity, you'll make yourself heard for sure.
I treat even my multi-channel amps like single-channel amps. I pick a channel (usually the low/mid-gain channel) and get all my tones out of that one channel using pickup selection, volume knob and, to a lesser extent, pedals.
Best reviews I heard n seen in a long time, Heroic sound with that blue single Humbucker Strat. ...Nice Judas medley as well, but the guy needs more tattoos! 🤘🤩
My dream rig is a Dark Terror through an Orange bass cab with one of them Doomy ass single knob fuzz pedals. Ever think of doing a video on guitar amps through bass cabs?
Try and get hold of an H|H IC100S for a review. It's an oldie, but mine is still going strong. Phil Campbell (Motorhead) asked me how I got my sound when gigging in Cardiff back in the day.
How versatile is a single channel amp? Kind of a loaded question because it all depends on the design quality and dynamic quality of the circuit. I have a Ceriatone Chupacabra 100 head running through an EVH 4x12 cab. With that setup, you would think “big, thick overdrive monster”. And you wouldn’t be wrong. But, you roll down the guitar volume and it cleans up really well. Not like an old Fender clean. But what I call a “Texas clean”. And the pickup selector switch with different pickup combinations really changes and gives you different tones that pop out. So, depending on the quality of the circuit, sometimes a single channel is all you need.
Omg Colin, such a soulful playing and amazing chops. Please, please can we have more of that. P.s. whats the ozzy’s Randy Rhodes solo you’ve played? I know it well but it bugs me baaaadly. Thanks
I have both. They’re totally different amps to me. I love both but the AD30 is really more of a quintessential rock amp. You can make it metal with an overdrive and cranking the gain then adjusting the master to taste, but it doesn’t have a ton of low end. And if you dial in the low end with a pedal it doesn’t tighten up quite as good as the OR30. Not bad at all, just a little looser. The OR30 on the other hand has an obscene amount of low end for being a 30w amp but it’s never flubby or out of control. It just has the kind of low end you’d expect from an el34 or 6L6 50w or even 100w amps which is kind of nuts. The output transformer is legitimately bigger and heavier than a lot of 100w amps I’ve played. Overall I think I prefer the OR30 more because it gets such a great thick, tight, aggressive metal tone with an SD-1, and that’s really my wheelhouse. But I also like the AD30 - it gets really loud in its own right, cleans up great, has two channel flexibility and really nails that more 60s, really overdriven, mid-forward, not-quite-metal plexi type vibe.
Simple layout. Easy to dial. Extra knobs and switches are confusing to me. That’s why I like my OR15. I don’t need the volume, but the OR30 would be cool.
I’ve moved from a Spark to a 20 year old Matamp R28 combo. Whilst the Spark is a great piece of technology it gave me a bad case of “option paralysis”, andi never really bonded with it. To be fair that probably says more about me than it does the Spark, but that’s just the way I roll. With Matamp I can adjust the EQ, gain, reverb and volume so I spend more time playing and less messing around with controls/app. The Spark is great, just not for me.
"When Connected to a decent cabinet" is a massively subjective catch all! 99% of people swear by Vintage 30s. I like K100s. Some people like high gain modern sounding heads... I like Laney's and Marshalls with a Russian Muff or a Rat pedal driving it. Orange preamps tend to be more accommodating to the frequencies I create with an Acapulco Gold or a horrible fuzz. I'm keen to try the OR30 so this was a good look at it, though It sounds a bit scooped in places. Definately worth playing with in a studio. You tried a Super Crush? Also, does it come in Black? Live rig wise tho... I'm really after an Egnater Armageddon or Vengence head. those things are AMAZING!
I have two videos on the Super Crush, both with over 100K views: Valves are DEAD 💀 Long Live Super Crush! | Orange Super Crush 100 - ua-cam.com/video/H0twktMOCQo/v-deo.html JFETs and Solid State Amplification | Too Afraid To Ask - ua-cam.com/video/_XZbbNnUeKU/v-deo.html OR30 does indeed come in black - but I think orange looks way better on camera.
Orange OR30 - thmn.to/thoprod/568277?offid=1&affid=367
More info - orangeamps.com/or30/
The Orange OR30 is a LOT of amp, despite it only being single channel. Huge transformers give it the low end thump and headroom of a more powerful amplifier - putting this into the territory of seriously heavy music.
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Mad respect for busting out the studded gauntlets when playing Priest Colin!!
Haha!
Truly another brilliantly engineered epic win from the genius of Ade Emsley.
Cheers!
First off: Killer SIlmarillion reference Second: Tube amps made my life so much better and easier. I was all digital, programming a million patches and it cannot touch the diversity you can get from one channel of a killer tube amp. I can put it on the lead channel of my amp and dial back for beautiful cleans, crunchy mids and dig in and turn up for that searing lead. Nuts what a good amp is capable of. Orange isn't talked about enough these days. Nice video :) Also: Using a great clean platform with a pedalboard can get tones that are just astounding. love my digital stuff but jeez is it a classic combo for a reason.
I find this super interesting -- I went over to a modeller just about a decade ago, and haven't looked back. At the time, I had enough money to get one of a half dozen amps I wanted, OR a modeller. But now, going from a bedroom musician playing Metallica to annoy my parents and neighbors to a gigging musician playing in wildly inconsistent venues, I love it for an entirely different reason: safety and portability. My $5k usd rackmount rig goes at the backline, safely far away from spilling drinks, tripping bassists, and flying beers. XLR out to FoH and a 2x12 cab for backup. Only thing in danger of getting mangled up by my feet is a $40 blower fan, a $60 tuner pedal, and a $110 midi footswitch, rather than what I am sure would be nearly $1,500 or so in effects.
The philosophies building the rigs are totally different, the rigs are totally different, but the result is the same: a great sounding set up. And I love it.
Of course, shame on me for not commenting before watching the whole video. This very thought process was brought up right after where I paused, thinking I was at the end.
Amp modelers aren't my thing either. I'm looking at the Orange Super Crush 100 seriously. It's solid state, gig-able and sounds amazing, just like a tube amp. Plus the price is reasonable. I'll be able to assemble a $600 US half stack when I finally get my hands on one. My cab was used and only cost $100 some for a Fender Mexican made 4x12. A simple and great sounding half stack with no tubes nor ridiculous presets. Two channels, a few pedals and a good guitar are all we really need.
People really throw beers at your band at bars? Sounds pretty rowdy. Yikes! What a waste of wonderful golden beer.
@@brostoevsky22 Honestly, the OR series is vastly superior to the Super crush, at least in my personal opinion. They're not bad by any means, but those power tubes and transformer is a big part of where the magic is at. The OR15 isn't much more expensive that the crush, but plenty loud and capable enough. (Do you really need 100W?) If you have the extra cash, the 30 is worth every penny.
I don't know about everyone else, but I've had it with button-pushing, and knob-twisting. Technology has produced some exceptional things. But, the irony is that it's come at the expense of the music itself. ANY amp that sound great, and is one channel, with as few knobs as possible, the better. Same with guitars. Two pickups, a toggle, and a volume knob covers 99% of the tones that made most of us guitar players, fans of the instrument in the first place. The Friedman Little Sister was a lot like that. Set the EQ, and then just twist the gain, and/or your guitar's volume knob for a clean channel (assuming the amp cleans up well). That's an unnecessarily long way of saying I love where Orange has gone with this amp. This was a killer demo, as well. Playing all the right riffs. Very well done.
I guess it all has its place, but for me it’s a jcm800 style amp a few pedals and something with a set of humbuckers. I tinker with all kinds of stuff as it’s kinda part of my job, but when I’m recording or playing less is more. 😊
@@JamesSClapperton Amen!...
Love the sword riffage!! Pretty appropriate too considering JD Cronise used an OR100 extensively too
This is the amp I wanted Orange to make. I actually thought it would cost more. Good demo mate!
Just got my OR30 in black tolex today. All I can say is WOW. this thing is the real deal. I have a few 5150s including an OG, have had a few PRS, have a Marshall getting fixed, and have had a few others too. This thing may truly be the best amp I’ve ever played or owned. The cleans are fantastic, it’s incredibly versatile, more dynamic than any other amp I’ve owned. EQ dials at noon, bright to the left, presence at 2, gain at 1-2 o’clock with an SD-1 is just unbelievable for both rhythm and lead. Colin is right, if you’re in the market for a legit plexi or JCM800 you need to check this thing out.
Damn that was quick! Your AD30 demo is my favorite on UA-cam so I know this is going to be killer!
One hell of an amp comes with one hell of a price tag.
All UK made which results in a more expensive product
What's the listed price ??
@@CBGypsy03 If you go into the description you'll find a link which will take you to the product and show you accurate up to date pricing.
@@ScienceofLoud Thank you.
Great to see some love for The Sword in your riffage here - they've been one of my favourite bands since I saw them support Metallica back in '09
I was already salivating over this amp... and then you mentioned treble boosters. The GAS overfloweth.
Your medley made me want to grab my Judas Priest records and give them a spin.
Thanks Colin. Stay metal! 🤘🤘
Make sure you spin Defenders of the Faith, that's probably my favourite Priest record.
@@ScienceofLoud Will do.
We are, defenders of the faith. For sure. I love the sound of this amp and I'm all for plug and play. I like Orange amps in general but this one is different. And I like it a lot. Thanks for a great review! Keep the faith
🤘Rock Hard Ride Free🤘 Man that is one AMAZING sounding amp. Want one.
I’ve had this for 5-6 months and I still love this amp so much. every time I play it I’m always just amazed at how good it sounds. I’ve learned how to make it as versatile as any of my multi channel amps and I’m seriously questioning how many amps I want to keep since this one seems to be my go-to anymore.
Fantastic video for the Judas Priest medley alone! Great work Colin
came for the science, stayed for the Judas Priest leg stance and wrist band. Deadly \m/
Heavy Metal is mostly about making sure your thighs look good while you power stance.
The OR15 was already fantastic, but you need an EQ pedal in the loop to make the most of it, Orange fixed it with the bright switch and presence! So they made a fantastic amp based on an old fantastic amp even more fantastic.
I have just got a 90s OR100 bloody amazing. Now I want this!! Great range of tones in the or series indeed and I can’t understand why more guitarists outside the metal and doom genres don’t use them more. I wish orange would make the AD30 single channel again as that was any awesome amp!
Sounded hella frickin' awesome, man!
10:20 What an about face in the guitar world. It used to be the tube amp was for the stage and the digital stuff was for messing around at home and demoing. Glad I spent my gigging years in the former way of doing things.
Judas Priest and some Sword riffs. Nice!
Ive got the OR 15. Love it. This looks great.
Every video you release reminds me of why you’re my favorite guitar-tuber! Excellent riff selection in every video to boot, love to hear The Sword get some love!
Great vid. Recently, I've found myself drifting back to the simpler format of a single-channel amp too. Like you say: it can't do on-the-fly switching at a gig, but there's something intuitive and just plain fun about it, which helps when recording rather than complicating things. If it's voiced well - which this amp seems to be - it just...works. I got a Matamp Series 3000 recently, and after taking the time to get used to its controls, I don't think I'll need to buy another amp again (apart from, perhaps, an OR30...)
Loved hearing The Sword riffs at 8:08 🤘
THIS. 🥰
What song is it?
@@redstrat5976 Freya
I just love this channel! Informative, entertaining af and great playing too!!! Thanks. Great review on the OR30
That Bark At The Moon riff sounded so killer!
Freya! Loooooove that song. Takes me back.
I'm slowly learning all the Guitar Hero classics for real
@@ScienceofLoud gotta put 3s & 7s in your next video 🤟🏾
Excellent as always Colin - hearing The Sword was a nice surprise 🤘
I love single channel amps - the simpler, the better for me. No wasting time, just start playing and rocking out. Nice playing throughout!
That "into the void" tone is absolutely perfect.
An SG and an Orange Amp. 🤤
And nice Priest Medley 💜
You know I love me a bit of Priest
Marshall killer! Beautiful clean sounds (as long as you do not excpect mid-scooped Fender cleans), iconic, Orange typical classic overdrive sounds and even very covincing, unique high-gain to Metal sounds. And this all from a single channel! What more can you expect?
Not very cheap, but for me one of the best sounding and most flexible new amps, which I have heard during the last years.
For me the best sounding Orange since the release of the Rockerverb.
The additional bright switch and Presence control are really an improvement, add a lot more flexibility and some more Plexi-like bite, if wished and also the power reduction is an advantage, while the amp itself still sounds, like an Orange should.
Amp of the year for me!
This is the reason i will always go for analog when i have the chance. Digital only has what you program into it. It rarely gives you unintended useful outcomes. When you have an analogue machine, you can get to learn its ins and outs, all of the intended and unintended artifacts that digital and modellers can only reproduce if they have been expressly inserted. Once you know what you want then sure, go digital, but i always choose my gear for the journey
I actually did the opposite- got a modeller, because I had no idea what sort of sound I wanted- or what gear to get that MADE those sounds. Then zeroed in on what models I used the most. The intention was always to get a simple tube amp- I just didn't know which one!
@@pyroman6000I had a similar journey and found the tone I liked was a vox through a closed back marshal style cab 😅
@@chidorirasenganz i ended up gravitating towards Fendery amps. Particularly tweedy, brownfacey types. The Blues Deluxe and Super Somic 60 were right up my alley- but WAY too much amp for this home player, lol. So was Peavey's classic 30 /Delta Blues.
Then they came out with the Bassbreakers. I Got the 15 watt one. The lo/med/high gain switch and master volume allow me to get the sound i want- and not blow the walls down. It IS a rather loud 15 watts, and heavy as a boat anchor, but damn it sounds good!!! I put all my dirt pedals away- no need- the amp gets me what i want on its own. A darn versatile combo! And if i want to try different speaker or cab combos, it has an extra speaker out that can do 4, 8 or 16 ohms. I' d love to hear it through a vintage voiced 10 or two.
Single channel amps rules💜 just love my tweed
This was like…the best and longest jam session you have posted in a while dude. Well done 👍🏻
Tipton is smiling, well done, and wow what a sound!!!
Thanks so much for the classic metal tones. So many demo’s of Orange are about the jangle and the sludge but I want to know how it’s going to dial in for hard rock and those muted roots and fifths.
Thanks for a great demo.... although Mrs C is fuming as I 'really do not need a 4th EL84 amp' apparently.... not quite her words but you know what I mean... pressed the buy button and the simple nail-a-tone approach is just mad... grunt bottle howling like demented banshees being 'robustly loved' in the back alley.
This is a dream amp. This is what tube amps are about.
Epic amp. Some tuned 800 stuff in there. I hope they do a high power JFET version of this - a "Turbo Crush" or something.
Super Crush is a great amp and can get even more filthy that this, but one thing that solid state lacks over valves is how the low end from the OR30 feels like a horse kick to the baws. I'm going through an attenuator out of necessity, but if I were to open this up straight into a 4x12 in a practice room it would be monstrous!
I do hope they add a similar wattage solid state version. I like the super crush but it’s too high wattage for my speaker of choice (greenbacks) it lacks a bright switch and a presence knob
Does the OR50 have a presence control… that’s my one problem with orange… they are too dark… what’s closest to a Marshall? The or30 or or50… or the rocker30
The amp sounds really good, very articulate. I thought the addition of a presence know and a bright switch was a really great move. I love my Rockerverb MKii, and while I love the thick, heavy, saturated tones, I do wish it had a presence control just for the ease of adding some high mids when I want them. It's not an issue as throwing the Guptech Pdeq pedal (which simulates a presence and depth control) in the loop does the trick, but the ease of having it on the amp would be nice.
Most of my amps are single channel, I love a simple base that I can just tweak to where I need it to line up with my pedal board. Oh and as someone who's tried it, these suckers don't make for half bad bass amps either despite the sorta low wattage on em.
08:06 The Sword ❤
Your Bark at the Moon riff was bang on.
Great content. I wish many of these videos would go through basic mixing to balance the dialogue and the music clips to the same level. I know I'm not the only one that has to turn it up during dialogue to hear what is being said, and then quickly turn it down during the music so neighbors do not bang on the wall. Come on guys you are better than that.
Strange. I didn’t have to do that at all.
That Judas Priest medley is real cool!
Hey Colin! I was wondering if maybe at some point you might consider making a video on potentiometers... how different values effect your tone, what impact different taper types have on how they work, what effect combining different values would have (for example 1M volume & 250K tone vs 250k volume & 1M tone), etc... I think it could be really useful to people!
Very cool review Colin! In the face of the latest Mesa/Boogie Mark VII! 😜
I really like your channel and the videos you make. I watch them all and I have to say: The best tones you have are you playing through a gunned Orange amp. You and Orange amps are a match made in Guitar Heaven! Really enjoyable to watch. Awesome demo man!
I have both- a digital modelling amp with all the bells and whistles (Mustang III) and a plain ol single channel tube amp without all the extras (Bassbreaker 15). I find I spend more time actually PLAYING with the latter. And more time faffing about with all the nifty neatos on the former.
You can get all the sounds you want out of the BB15 just by adjusting the few controls, and using the pots on your guitar. One shiny it does have, is an additional speaker jack with a switchable impedance control. So a speaker swap is as easy as pluggin in another cabinet.
Both sound great, it's just that one is plug n play, the other is programmable, and takes some setting up to get it to sound just so. (BUT you don't NEED to also haul around a pedal board- all the effects are built in, so there's that real convenience factor. plus, it's WAY lighter!)
Anyhow, this amp sounds pretty darn good to my ears!
Gotta say, metal Colin is one of my favourite Colins. When the studded wrists come out, I'm instantly enjoying a better quality of life!
This amp fixes all the issues I had with my OR50 like having an adjustable boost for soloing and I just read that the bright switch turned the left acts like a treble booster and on the right it makes the amp like Plexi like. It has tube rectification too. I'm glad they used a big transformer. This is really good news from Orange. I was getting tired of seeing their dumb pedal releases.
Sounds incredible in the mix.
I'd love you to try out a marshall plexi, it's unbelievably versatile for a single channel amp and does it's sound better than any digital or tube copy I've ever tried
Really dig you snuck some Sword riffs in there!
Loved the Stuck With Me cover!
I was looking at a used Friedman Dirty Shirley, but this threw a wrench into my plans!
Fugg yeah this was awesome! Nice one!
Thank you so much! Not needing an orange amp but wanting one, I'm now confused and torn tween 3 of them. Hate to love your Vids at this point 😭
Soo goood ... damn. 'tis heavy indeed. One item that most of the first reviews skip is that Bedroom 2W mode, or even that the powersupply is technically universal, though you do need to switch fuses of the correct value if going between 110 - 230. That's pretty epic and "road worthy", or said in a different manner: shop it where you score the best value. If my houseful of Traynors amps, smattering of Fenders, Yamaha, Roland and Marshall gets culled, this could be the "one classic tube amp here". Who am I kidding ? This would just be "one more", joining the excellent SC100.
nice Priest medley!!
Man oh man! I love orange, Judas and sabbath !! Not sure I need this as I bought the RVmkiii... but damn it sounds great. 🎉
I play Freya and Into the Void almost every time I pickup a guitar 😂. Also the Judas priest tone was SICK.
Thanks for sharing.
That's quite the tone machine you got there
Sounds like Orange DNA with the ability to dial in a bit of the Marshall top end bite. My singular (albeit small) complaint with my Rockerverb MKIII has been a bit of the lack of upper mid bite. Ordered and on its way!
Rockerverb was good, but just not what I was looking for at all.
OR30 is MUCH more my speed, I'm considering swapping my AD30 for it.
@CSGuitars I hear ya, I was always a Marshall guy until prices got waaaay too high and my 800s failed twice live. Rockerverb is KILLER but a but modern/fuzzy for what I play (i.e. your Green Day snippets or Bad Religion style punk rock). Top shelf content, as always my dude!
Bark at The Moon! perfect!! 🤘
Aaand the Priest medley... 🤘🤘🤘
0:44 headroom/bedroom switch, lol 😆
Killer Priest Medley, I want to see you and Glen from SMG do a guitar battle of Priest covers now
Ah, a fellow The Sword enjoyer I see! Sounds ripping man!
Treble boosters are the secret sauce to great tone.
I need one of these
Love the sound with the blue guitar at 4:34. What guitar is it?
This with a Gibson 500T humbucker in it: ua-cam.com/video/MGBLvtj1xYI/v-deo.html
My two amps are single channel monsters - Orange Dark Terror and a Randall RD1C. Versatile if I need them to be, but mostly it’s the simplicity of turning on and getting good sound without messing about.
I simply enjoy listening to Collin talking about amps, whilst drinking Benriach on my vacation in Edinburgh ❤
Cheers, mate 🎉
Enjoy Edinburgh, plenty of good drinking and eating to be had in the city.
I'm pretty sure this amp would stand up pretty well in a rehearsal room as well. I use a 50W rockerverb, and thats way more than enough to rock out in a stoner/doom setting. If you have a 4x12" with nice sensitivity, you'll make yourself heard for sure.
I treat even my multi-channel amps like single-channel amps. I pick a channel (usually the low/mid-gain channel) and get all my tones out of that one channel using pickup selection, volume knob and, to a lesser extent, pedals.
Those P90's are giving that SG some awfully sexy growl. Looks like I'm getting P90's for mine.
I really don't know about versatility.. but FUCK dude, you sounded fucking RAD!
Mere seconds between comparing dense instruction manuals to the silmarillion, and making an "I like shorts!" reference.
I feel like I have whiplash.
Best reviews I heard n seen in a long time, Heroic sound with that blue single Humbucker Strat. ...Nice Judas medley as well, but the guy needs more tattoos! 🤘🤩
There’s an OR30 now?? coool
My dream rig is a Dark Terror through an Orange bass cab with one of them Doomy ass single knob fuzz pedals.
Ever think of doing a video on guitar amps through bass cabs?
oi mate amazing video! Wondering what guitar was that you were using to demo?!!!!! the strat with the three pickups...
This one: ua-cam.com/video/Z_5eILBG-Ak/v-deo.html
yeh nice one mate.
Try and get hold of an H|H IC100S for a review. It's an oldie, but mine is still going strong. Phil Campbell (Motorhead) asked me how I got my sound when gigging in Cardiff back in the day.
3:40 what riff is that I can’t remember and it’s killing me
1 year later lol but it’s Stuck With Me by Green Day
Damn it, I'm gonna be that guy. What's the name of the first doom riff?!?!?!
Freya - The Sword
@CSGuitars my man!!!! Your tone was so freaken gnarly i just had to mainline them at work today! Great video bro, much love from down here in texas!
Hey there, did you use the waza TAE for this video? Thanks.
How versatile is a single channel amp? Kind of a loaded question because it all depends on the design quality and dynamic quality of the circuit. I have a Ceriatone Chupacabra 100 head running through an EVH 4x12 cab. With that setup, you would think “big, thick overdrive monster”. And you wouldn’t be wrong. But, you roll down the guitar volume and it cleans up really well. Not like an old Fender clean. But what I call a “Texas clean”. And the pickup selector switch with different pickup combinations really changes and gives you different tones that pop out. So, depending on the quality of the circuit, sometimes a single channel is all you need.
Omg Colin, such a soulful playing and amazing chops. Please, please can we have more of that.
P.s. whats the ozzy’s Randy Rhodes solo you’ve played? I know it well but it bugs me baaaadly. Thanks
Thoughts on this vs the AD30? Love my AD but I'm getting tempted to sell for for this!
I have both. They’re totally different amps to me. I love both but the AD30 is really more of a quintessential rock amp. You can make it metal with an overdrive and cranking the gain then adjusting the master to taste, but it doesn’t have a ton of low end. And if you dial in the low end with a pedal it doesn’t tighten up quite as good as the OR30. Not bad at all, just a little looser. The OR30 on the other hand has an obscene amount of low end for being a 30w amp but it’s never flubby or out of control. It just has the kind of low end you’d expect from an el34 or 6L6 50w or even 100w amps which is kind of nuts. The output transformer is legitimately bigger and heavier than a lot of 100w amps I’ve played. Overall I think I prefer the OR30 more because it gets such a great thick, tight, aggressive metal tone with an SD-1, and that’s really my wheelhouse. But I also like the AD30 - it gets really loud in its own right, cleans up great, has two channel flexibility and really nails that more 60s, really overdriven, mid-forward, not-quite-metal plexi type vibe.
The mighty Sword!
Simple layout. Easy to dial. Extra knobs and switches are confusing to me. That’s why I like my OR15. I don’t need the volume, but the OR30 would be cool.
I’ve moved from a Spark to a 20 year old Matamp R28 combo. Whilst the Spark is a great piece of technology it gave me a bad case of “option paralysis”, andi never really bonded with it. To be fair that probably says more about me than it does the Spark, but that’s just the way I roll. With Matamp I can adjust the EQ, gain, reverb and volume so I spend more time playing and less messing around with controls/app. The Spark is great, just not for me.
"When Connected to a decent cabinet" is a massively subjective catch all! 99% of people swear by Vintage 30s. I like K100s. Some people like high gain modern sounding heads... I like Laney's and Marshalls with a Russian Muff or a Rat pedal driving it. Orange preamps tend to be more accommodating to the frequencies I create with an Acapulco Gold or a horrible fuzz.
I'm keen to try the OR30 so this was a good look at it, though It sounds a bit scooped in places. Definately worth playing with in a studio. You tried a Super Crush?
Also, does it come in Black?
Live rig wise tho... I'm really after an Egnater Armageddon or Vengence head. those things are AMAZING!
I have two videos on the Super Crush, both with over 100K views:
Valves are DEAD 💀 Long Live Super Crush! | Orange Super Crush 100 - ua-cam.com/video/H0twktMOCQo/v-deo.html
JFETs and Solid State Amplification | Too Afraid To Ask - ua-cam.com/video/_XZbbNnUeKU/v-deo.html
OR30 does indeed come in black - but I think orange looks way better on camera.
How would you compare the AD30 to the OR30? Which would be better for doom, or as a pedalboard platform?
very cool. What do you think of line 6 amps? I have the spider classic 15. very cool amp
What position was the bright switch in when you used the treble booster?
I have found my next amp. Just add a Synergy clean-ish module and I'll be set for a while.