NAD: but I'm not home yet...

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Got a very very good deal on an awesome head today! :banana:

It's sitting in my car right now (-15 celcius...poor thing), calling me telepathically and telling me to get home early (which I can't).

I guess, just like me, you guys will have to wait until I put the kid to sleep...

It feels good to be a tease. :wall:

With this one, I should be good for a good while before I feel the need to buy another amp (wishful thinking I know...).
 
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Here we go:

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Got this thing for a song! The guy wanted a couple of pedals (Deep Blue Delay and Centaur), which I built for him. Knocked 300$ off the asking price which was quite low to begin with. These, while more common in the US are quite rare over here (actually, this is the first one I've seen out of Montreal [I'm 6 hours north of Mtl in a remote location]) and finding one this low is quite amazing.

Couple this amp with my two other heads: Mesa Rectoverb and Orange Rocker 30, and I've got quite a nice versatile quiver... I'm gonna do some testing and if there's a lot of overlap between the two Oranges, the Rocker will probably go.

I had been missing the TH30 ever since I sold it, I bet this'll cure it!
 
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Good god that thing sounds Massive! Spent 30 minutes playing it (low volume) and it just sounds splendid... I'm in love...
Will wait a while to post a proper review but both channels do very nice cleans and the gain on both is awesome from what I can tell so far.
 
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Nice! Congrats Surge! I bet thats a tasty Orange right there. Never tried the Thunder but the Rockerverb 50 that I've tried on a couple occasions was killer!!

Juice that sh!t up and bring the thundah!!
 
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Thanks! I'd never do anything else!


JOEBACCA said:
Nice! Congrats Surge! I bet thats a tasty Orange right there. Never tried the Thunder but the Rockerverb 50 that I've tried on a couple occasions was killer!!

Juice that sh!t up and bring the thundah!!
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Go hard or go home.

Apparently, you did both simultaneously. Congratulations sir, that is a hell of an amp. You'll like it even more when you play it at baby-free volumes, I'm sure.
 
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Having played both the Rockerverb and the Thunderverb, I'd keep the Thunderverb. I'm looking forward to your impressions.
 
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Nice Score!! Is this the big brother of the TH30?

Also, any of the other higher wattage Orange heads have an attentuator like the TVERB?
 
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That90'sGuy said:
Having played both the Rockerverb and the Thunderverb, I'd keep the Thunderverb. I'm looking forward to your impressions.
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I'll have to play it more but so far I'm more than impressed... the attenuator (which is in fact a post-phase inverter-master volume) is quite transparent and very efficient. I played both channels everywhere from clean to crunch to full gain and both are very versatile while having quite different characters. As I said, full review in a while but so far I'm more than happy! It's (for me) pretty much a "why didn't I just save my money longer and get this thing in the first place" kind of amp right now. Of course, it's always easy to say this after the fact... I expected it to sound great but not to be so versatile... eye-opener for me.

JeffB said:
Nice Score!! Is this the big brother of the TH30?

Also, any of the other higher wattage Orange heads have an attentuator like the TVERB?
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Sort of... They're not direct descendents but quite close nonetheless. The TV is quite versatile, moreso than the TH30 (which was quite an amazing amp in its own right, I only sold it because it was the only one of my two oranges at the time that had a chance of selling around here, being more modern).

Unless I really missed something, only the Thunderverbs (200 and 50) have the attenuator. The THs have power reduction through selecting the number of tubes used and either pentode or triode modes (Th100 = 100, 50 or 25 watts; TH30 = 30, 15 or 7 watts) same as the Terror series. Otherwise, none other have anything like that.
 
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200-something views and 16 replies (half of those are from me)... what? you guys were expecting a Dumble on my salary? ;)

I still expected Everdrone to chime in and teach me the secret handshake and everything. I should've written the brand in the title of the post, he'd have showed up faster than Rob Ford's likeness in a caricature.

24hrs later and that thing still rules by the way!
 
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I love Rob Ford jokes. He just made it too damn easy.

Which channel is the clean? Or if there's no specific clean channel, which one has less gain? And how do you like whichever channel it may be?
 
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Agileguy_101 said:
I love Rob Ford jokes. He just made it too damn easy.

Which channel is the clean? Or if there's no specific clean channel, which one has less gain? And how do you like whichever channel it may be?
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Yes he does!

No clean channel, that's the beauty of it.
Cleans: A tends to be a bit chimier and can better eq'ed with the 3-band eq control, very nice. B tends to be much smoother and what I think of when I think Fender-clean (and I'm no expert at all with fenders), just definitely less mids, more bass and highs, very under control.
Channel A has a bit less gain to my ears (could be wrong again). It can go quite high but still retains a certain "rock" quality with good definition. Lots and lots of fun.
Channel B has more gain and can sound quite high-gain metal to me (but I'm not into death though). Sounds really good and chunky. A 3-band Eq would've made it quite nice but I'm used to the shape control and know how to work it to good effect (it's trickier than one would expect to really dial it nice in conjunction with the amount of gain, they really need to be adjusted together). It's my drop-D default channel.

The bass on this thing is quite monstrous, I understand all that jazz about the bigger OT on this amp and how it keeps the bass massive.
 
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