Review Demo - Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Orange amplifiers have long attracted the worship of high gain freaks. Yes, the amps’ show-stealing visuals make them objects of desire among a wide cross section of players (not to mention great stage dressing), but it’s the massive, gooey crunch that keeps heavy players crawling to Orange like ants to the sugar jar.
In 2003 Orange launched their Rockerverb series-versatile dual-channel heads with reverb and effect loops. The third incarnation, reviewed here, is the 50-watt Rockerverb MKIII, a muscular mid-powered head with improved reverb and scalable power.
Orange On Orange
The Rockerverb is about the same size as most full-sized Orange heads (21.65" x 10.63" x 11.02") and weighs in just shy of 46 lbs. (20.75 kg). The face is adorned with the no-text graphic labels that Orange introduced in the ’70s. These icons can be confusing for the uninitiated, but they’re intuitive enough once you learn their functions.
A 12AT7/ECC81 tube and a custom transformer drive the improved reverb circuit. Another new feature is a built-in attenuator located after the master volume, providing additional control over how the Rockerverb distorts after the preamp stage. It’s a handy feature for playing at home or on smaller stages, helping retain the push/pull dynamic of high-end gain at lower levels. You can also halve the power to 25 watts via a faceplate switch.
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"playing my 1956 gibson les paul custom, basically stock, a few changes over the years ... "
WAIT! WHAT WHAT WHAT????
Exactly. Just playing it on a 30000 dollar guitar...
Maybe it's a reissue
@@Astral_Wave look at the discoloration esp. the binding -- that's a real deal Holyfield!!
5 years later and I still show up here to listen to that intro. Top tier tone and playing.
hell yeah this guy can play
I like how we just glance over this dude playing a '56 Les Paul lol.
I can't watch these videos anymore... It is absolute torture to see all these guitars and amps I'll never own...
XneverstopfightingX LOL!
XneverstopfightingX make a wish list like me... Some good guy will buy it for us ... 😅
Man, you just gotta believe and work hard... Don't buy them all, only 3 or 4
All this amazing gear in these videos, but the real star is always John's playing.
This guy reminds me of an 80's MTV host.
I feel like I'm watching Wayne's world because of him
+1thess523 Kurt Loder
+Mauricio BVM a little
😂😂😂👍
It's my favourite amp that I have. Sounds incredible with a Custom LP. Moreover, the FX insert and send is so clean. It is a real luxury.
Holy crap, I never thought that I would like another amp besides my Boogie Mk IV, but that Orange sounds AWESOME
I love the Marks for metal, but the Orange crushes it for rock tones.
Never mind the amp, that is my dream Les Paul right there!
X175 Ditto! It's a big shame that you can't buy this anymore or the 1955 custom from gibson. :(
More people should play this beautiful guitar!
It's interesting how great the Orange sounds with the Mesa cab. I would expect that the cab would compromise the orangeness of the amp. It still sounds like an Orange just a touch less aggressive and bassy, but a touch smoother with a bit stronger lower mids. John you are great player BTW. I am big fun!
"A very modern tone" .... *proceeds to play a VH riff*
The guy makes this video look like it was filmed in 1987 tho so maybe that is modern to him.
@@kyleman55555 he also said he was using ProTools lol maybe its a weird time chamber
He said a modern "tone" not "song"... I wish people could listen to what others exactly say. Basic imho...
@@oliverberglas4188 did you imply ProTools is dated or something?
😂😂🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌💯💯💯💯💯
Man, that rig sound awesome! Great playing John!
Damn this amp sounds wicked. I guess its time to sell all my mediocre gear and get a beast amp like this
JOHN DOES THE BEST REVIEWS
That Illuminati bit lmao. Gotta love Bohlinger.
*proceeds to explain the orange hieroglyphs for all the heathens out there that don’t already know*
Thanks John , I could listen to you play guitar all day!!!
John was very pleased with his Illuminati joke at around the 2:25 mark
Great demo! Good range of tones and just the right ratio of playing to talking.
Awesome to see some slide in a demo for once. Who doesn't love some gnarly slide work?
orange is my favorite color and my favorite sound
Love Johns reviews great player and good fun reviews!
This is an awesome amp that is very versatile. Orange amps aren't typically known for the best clean and just on the verge of breakup tones, but the new Rockerverb does a great job with it. And the dirty channel just sounds incredible -- even with the gain set high, it does not fizz out.
I find it odd that Orange nixed the 3-band EQ on the clean channel from the MKII and went back to the original Rockerverb's 2-band EQ. I think they should have added a mid EQ knob with a switch to take it in and out of the circuit. That way we could choose between the original 2-band EQ and the MKII's 3-band EQ depending on our preferences.
***** I agree with you. or a push pull pot for the mid range, pull out to bypass.
Only amp I may love equally to my Marshall
Great, great reviewer! Classy player would love to hear your solo stuff...
this guy looks like he had to burp the whole time.
What you dont realise is that he was filling his D pants courtesy of Simco. Look it up . D pants. For your health. No solid loafs thou, they'll tear right thru the bag.
Made me laugh way more than it should have...
this guy is so baked
I thought the intro was a great demo of the amp. The Rockerverb definitely does great metal, but it's hard to find a bad rockabilly sound with it, too
Awesome review. I also loved that black Les Paul. (As if you already didn't know that.) Anyway, that amp totally rocks. I miss getting to see you gig like in the old days. These demos help quite a bit though.
All those Orange crush pro 120 advocates should listen to this demo and really hear how far apart a Tube amp and transistor version still are... So thick and creamy on both clean and gain stages and the amp just sounds so alive on the Rockerverb..
my roland cube 10gx has this model amp choice. it sounds very great. i really love it sounds.
Good Demo, Great Amp, I would of liked to hear another guitar with Humbuckers.
amazing amp and amazing player! you rock john!
COCK MEAT YAY
fabulous clean playing
that guitar holds tune very well, you can acctually use the bygbsi
Killer demo as always!!
excellent excellent excellent demo. Thanks, John.
7:20 a very modern tone... aint talkin bout love... 1978...
As a prior owner of a rockerverb, never understood the draw of these amps. Unless the gain is at 10, they sound flat and overly compressed. At 10, I can't tell how they sound better than another amp with some nice OD/fuzz pedals in front. Unless you're playing lead like all the time, I feel like a vox or a fender with some decent stomp boxes is way more cost effective.
Interesting. I'm kicking myself for getting rid of mine.
Hey guys hope you guys can use sm57s more often. It's a more common mans mic
Stonedest reviewer ever. Love him.
the number of times I've heard "but unlike other amps this amp does many different things well"....
+Vahlir no shit! i think we've come to a point where there is so many great choices and no one knows how to stand out. its not bad though look at how we've come from 2 main guitar brands and now there's tons of great choices. rock on!
Fantastic demo...thank you. At 2.05 you mention a 'something quartet' I couldn't quite make it out. Is that a DI box? Thanks in advance.
awesome amp. I want one
I have a Mk ii. My favorite amp.
I'm a big John Bolenger & PG fan. I've watched a million of his videos. His demos are great! But, for my two cents - during the demo, this amp never sounded good. The speakers used seem completely wrong for the amp, the tube bias seemed too cold, and the guitar was not sounding that good either - not the holy grail I expected for that 50's mention. I have a Thunderverb (similar) and it sounds a lot better than this demo. And, sorry John, but Nashville licks on a Rockerverb? Are any of those twangy studio cats up there using this amp for that?
That rig, tho!
From Bollinger's underrated fingers...to that perfect '56 Custom with-bigsby-and-staple-p90 (!!!)...to that stupendous amp! Fender cleans...badass blues/rock grit....pedal to the metaaaaal!
Good review!
This thing sounds great
I was just thinking about how a mesa cab would be nice with a Gibson…. I came here for the amp and happen to have what I’m looking fir
that p90 bigsby les paul ..
this guy is awesome to watch.. entertaining
I'm thinking of using a 2x12 cab with jensen blackbird speakers with this amp. Thoughts?
NOT a bad amp. NOT a big fan of Oranges (the amps anyway ;oP)
But this 1 is none too shabby!
ha 'its an illuminati thing' !! Great review as always
I'm not sure if I should buy this or get a second hand mkii at a steal price. Any thoughts???
both
Loving this 50w head soooo much... ive got a SG Supreme (Lava flame) with hummers... I gather it would sound warm as hell?
Anyone out there played this through an high grade SG?
One of the biggest, if not THE biggest thing that determins your sound is your speaker ...... What speaker is in the cab, I´ll guess it´s NOT V30´s because they sound like shit and this is like the best sounding review EVER made !! G12H 30´s not a year later than mid 1971 ?!?
is the reverb an actual spring reverb with a reverb tank and all?
Yep!
Les used a Fender Twin When I saw him
this week its Premier Amp
These amps haven’t been out that long. Weird seeing how much this guy has aged since then.
Is that an actual '56 custom, or a reissue?
asdf It's a REAL 56, NOT a RI!
Thats really cool
It IS!
7:12 "We'll just see how filthy this pig can get" 🐖
Omg look at your hair!!!
Oh my goodness.
Jimmy Page's Orange
I like this guy he's a great reviewer
Have I been playing Van Halen's song wrong all these years???
Hi John, can you tell me what brand of EL34 has MKIII? Thanks a lot
Hagstrom4ever JJ electronics
What kind of slide is that?
“It sounds like an amp” …so insightful .Honestly , is this guy drunk?
Can the MK III use KT88 Tubes?
+MetalMaster The New MKIII line can use any tube you can plug into them. Check out the review from Rob Chapman where they have Ade Emsley. He says you can use 6l6, EL34, KT88. 6550. You can even mix them "2+2" because each socket has its own multiturn bias adjustment.
Is it made in UK or Chinese?
Kristian Silva UK
+Mystic38 Are you sure?
+Mystic38 Are you sure?
Made in England. It says on the back just below the serial number. For the record, the Chinese built Oranges are top quality. I own an Orange CR120C, made in China, and its as solid as a rock, just as well built as a British built Orange.
+Kristian Silva indeed I am :)
One comment ive heard many times in forums is that these amps dont cut well in a band mix like marshall's..they sound great on their own , thick juicy and slightly dark sounding
Youve heard wrong.
I've only heard from those who claim they own one...so don't tell me otherwise
Every Marshall I've played in a band setting cuts but it's got so much high mid that it sounds like a scratchy mess and is literally painful to listen to. My Orange cuts through fine.
Thats why more people use Marshall's isn't it...idiot !
This amp cuts through just fine, in theory any amp can. You just have to set a tone for the instrumentation you are mixing with. But yeah I'm in a band with an acoustic, a mandolin, bass, drums, and 3 vocals, and my SG rockerverb combo sits nice in the mix, and cuts like a knife for solos.
Young John Malkovich..
Van Halen!
The symbols in place of words for the tone controls is lame and kind of stupid. Fantastic sounding amps though.
4:13 8:01
Does he kinda sound like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho to anyone else?
sorry ... not really the clean or dirty that lights my fire. Nice that life is full of choices.
Doesn't sound clean
Adrian Teo it’s an Orange sooooooo
Passable clean. This ain’t no Fender clean.
(Previously at Premiere Guitar HQ) "Hey, we have one of the world's highest gain amps from a company synonymous with high gain...so, let's get Skippy to trot out there and play some country riffs and for heavy tones for him to go with that cutting edge, devil's, high-gain, over the top, black metal group Van Halen! Oh, and have him dig up that crappy 50's Les Paul. What? No, no, not even vintage humbuckers...have him get the one with the crappy single coils in it. Kid's love high gain amps with old, 50's guitars! With their Michael Jackson basketball shoes and their jazz cigarettes and frisbees!"
Premiere Guitar -- We have our hand on the pulse of what musicians want...if you lived in the 50's, or have really, really bad taste in your uncles old music. No, not that uncle, the one with the long arrest record who is not allowed near schools anymore. YEAH! Rock on! This is why magazines go bankrupt.
Orange has a very confusing way of labeling their speaker outputs. its never ok to pug into a 8ohm spesker or cab. the amp has 1-16 and 2-8ohn outputs, the 16 ohm output is obviously for plugging into 16 ohm speaker. here's where it gets confusing, the 2 - 8 ohm outputs are only used to plug into 2-16 ohm speakers which = 8 ohm. you are never supposed to use an 8 ohm speaker with this amp. ORANGE AMPS ROCK! just think of a hot rodded marshall tone on steroids.The clean channel is not pristine. its thick with a little hair on it. which is what I like. the amp does not work well with all drive pedals. Fulltone OCD and a tube screamer sound awesome with these amps. the amp has a huge mids. If youlike scooped mids ,experiment with different speakers. Is if you crank the mids, this amp will cut thru the band like a knife. you will be heard at lower volume level and sound great doing it, OR there's a switch alowingthe amp to run on different types of tubes. they presently come with 2-el34 's. Always rebias when changing power tubes
You CAN put one 8 ohm speaker cab to the Rockerverb, but NOT two! ln-media.orangeamps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Orange-Rockerverb-50-MKIII-4-1-1030x1030.png
you clean sound is a joke for an Orange. stop demoing damnit
his van halen copy sucks