Orange Music Electronic Company
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| legal form | Limited Company (Ltd.) |
| founding | 1968 |
| Seat | Borehamwood , Hertfordshire , England |
| management | Clifford Cooper |
| Branch | Music electronics |
| Website | www.orangeamps.com |
The Orange Music Electronic Company , also called Orange Amplification or mostly just Orange , is an English manufacturer of amplifiers and loudspeaker boxes for electric guitars and electric basses .
history
The first Orange guitar amplifier was built in 1968. Clifford Cooper, who heads the company to this day, is responsible as the spiritual father.
The orange amplifiers became known not only for their full sound due to the all- tube circuit but also for the orange vinyl cover, which was the only material available at the beginning and which later gave the brand its name.
The first Orange amplifiers were pure power amplifiers . They could only produce distortion at high power and were throttled with incandescent lamps . Well-preserved and unmodified amplifiers from the 1960s and 1970s are rarities and are traded as collector's items. The amplifiers experienced a renaissance at the end of the 1990s when, in the wake of a musical retro wave, interest in pure electron tube amplification broke out again. Almost forgotten in the 1980s, orange production in England is now back in full swing. Based on the classic circuit structure of the founding time, hand-wired custom devices in full-tube configuration are still manufactured in addition to the series products.
Amplifier series
Rocker verb
The Rockerverb series is a guitar amplifier series that, like all Orange amplifiers, except for the Crush, is an all-tube amplifier that is primarily intended for rock, punk and metal styles. It is structured in two stages and has two channels: clean and dirty channel, where the dirty channel corresponds to normal distortion .
Thunderverb
The Thunderverb series, on the other hand, is a bit more moderate: They are structured similarly to the Rockerverbs, but have a slightly softer sound.
Thunder
Orange's Thunder series are described as the Orange amplifiers with the cleanest sound and the most gain. They consist of two channels: clean channel with treble, bass and volume; Dirty channel with volume, shape and gain.
Performance-wise, they are available in two versions: 30 watts as TH30H- top unit or TH30C- combo amp with four EL84 - Pentode in the final stage or 100 watt than TH100H head with four EL34 output stages-Pentodes. The precursor is in both variants with four 12AX7 ECC83 - triode same structure. The Thunder series also features a tube-buffered effects loop with an ECC81 triode.
Both variants can be switched to different power levels. The 30 watt variant can be switched to 15 and 7 watts, the 100 watt variant to 70, 50 and 35 watts.
Crush
The Crush series is Orange's entry-level guitar series: It includes numerous models of transistor amplifiers as combo amplifiers or heads. The smallest model is the Combo amplifier Micro-Crush Pix 3 with 3 watt amplifier power and a 4 "loudspeaker. The largest combo amplifier is the Crush CR120C with 120 watt power and two 12" loudspeakers. This model is also available as a top part (CR120H).
Tiny terror
The Tiny Terror is a compact all-tube guitar amplifier with an output power of 15 watts. The preamp is equipped with two ECC83 tubes, two EL84 pentodes work in the output stage. The Tiny Terror amplifiers are also available as bass amplifiers, with the same preamp, but with output stages in Class D technology with outputs of 500 watts (Terror Bass 500) or 1000 watts (Terror Bass 1000). Characteristic (except for the Dark Terror) is the white, compact sheet steel housing with a handle on the top and the spartan equipment. The Tiny Terror has only one volume, gain and tone control, only the bass amplifier and the special model Dark Terror have an effects loop, whereby only the latter is equipped with an additional preamp tube for this purpose.
Dual terror
The largest model in the Terror series is equipped with four ECC83 tubes in the preamp and four EL84 tubes in the output stage and has two channels. The output power is 30 watts. The white sheet steel housing is similar to that of the Tiny Terror, but slightly larger.
Micro terror
The Micro Terror is a hybrid guitar head that is optically and sonically modeled on the Tiny Terror. The amplifier is only 165 mm wide, 135 mm high, 92 mm deep and has one channel. An ECC83 tube works in the preliminary stage, the 20 watt output power is generated with a transistor output stage. The four control elements are located on the front of the white sheet steel housing: an on / off switch, a volume control, a tone control and a gain control. The amplifier is operated via an external power supply unit supplied. In 2015 Orange presented the Micro Dark, which is based on the dark terror and dual dark amplifier. In further contrast to the Micro Terror, the housing is kept in black. In addition, the aux-in input has been omitted, but the Micro Dark has an effect loop.
AD series
The AD series stands for the retro sound. The AD series is available for electric bass and electric guitar. In terms of quality and price, the AD amplifiers are above the Tiny Terrors.
Further products
Orange also produces effects pedals for electric guitar and bass: the Bax Bangeetar Guitar Pre-EQ , the The Amp Detonator ABY and the Two Stroke.
At the 2016 NAMM Show , Orange presented its first electric bass: the O Bass. It is an electric bass with a split pickup and a screwed neck. The body of the O Bass is made of okoumé ; the neck made of maple with a fingerboard made of rosewood .
Well-known Orange users
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ NAMM 2016: Orange goes Bass! January 26, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .