Re: I finally had the chance to play the AD30 out last night.
Personally, I believe in single channel amps as oppsoed to do-it-all Swiss Army amps like the Mesa. If you like the Orange overall, great. Make it the centerpiece of "your" tone. Set it to give your basic crunch rhythm sound more or less. For cleans, roll back the guitar volume (or use a compressor). For high gain, use a pedal or two - some combination of tube OD, clean boost, and/or SS distortion as your tastes dictate. This gives you the versatility you need while keeping your tone centered around your core.
This beats having to dial in a Boogie, which IMO has no "center" - it's too versatile. Dialing your tone "in" is in large part an exersize in dialing all the other tones "out".
In my case, my "thing" is a single channel Marshall. Long ago it was a 2204 or 2203, these days it's my 18 Watter clone, but the idea is the same. The amp makes it "me" and the pedalboard adds the various flavours. I went through a whole exersize over the last couple weeks to make it a bit more flexible (swapped out my old GE-7 for a DS-1) but it's still me.
Orange amps are among the coolest in the world. If you one (or two) and like them, stick with them and add flexibility pedals. You don't need no stinkin' Boogies.
