Re: Orange 50th
I can almost always find a clean I can live with. On my Bassman, well just plug in and play at at normal volume and it's perfect. On the Marshall JCM 800, it's sort of the Crunch style clean, so you miss that more sparkly fender stuff, but you get the killer live-amp overdrive that even stacking a couple overdrives in front of the Bassman can't quite develop.
On the Orange I get both. The clean channel is easy to get sparkle and easy to crunch up, and the lead channels is as nice as a overdrive JCM 800, without a dirt box.
(It's funny that my Fender is a single channel, my Marshall is a single channel, and my Orange is dual channel, and does both).
My experience is that Fender overdrive channels never sound as good as a Marshall (I was just listening to the Fender SuperSonic clip and that (for me) is a good example of not that great overdrive channel)
And the Marshall clean channel will never sound as pure true clean just guitar sound as a Fender clean channel.
But the Orange is very very good at both.
Recording I might still be tempted to use a Fender for the really pretty pick-every-note-in-the-chord stuff, and the JCM 800 for "kick it hard in the ass" lead, but for live on Orange covers both really pretty nicely.
But MAN it is a beast to move.
I can almost always find a clean I can live with. On my Bassman, well just plug in and play at at normal volume and it's perfect. On the Marshall JCM 800, it's sort of the Crunch style clean, so you miss that more sparkly fender stuff, but you get the killer live-amp overdrive that even stacking a couple overdrives in front of the Bassman can't quite develop.
On the Orange I get both. The clean channel is easy to get sparkle and easy to crunch up, and the lead channels is as nice as a overdrive JCM 800, without a dirt box.
(It's funny that my Fender is a single channel, my Marshall is a single channel, and my Orange is dual channel, and does both).
My experience is that Fender overdrive channels never sound as good as a Marshall (I was just listening to the Fender SuperSonic clip and that (for me) is a good example of not that great overdrive channel)
And the Marshall clean channel will never sound as pure true clean just guitar sound as a Fender clean channel.
But the Orange is very very good at both.
Recording I might still be tempted to use a Fender for the really pretty pick-every-note-in-the-chord stuff, and the JCM 800 for "kick it hard in the ass" lead, but for live on Orange covers both really pretty nicely.
But MAN it is a beast to move.
