Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

[Little Pigbacon]

Do I need one of these? I played one at GC about three years ago and almost bought it over the Hughes & Kettner 30th Anniversary Tubemeister 18 head.

Do you have a Dark Terror? Used to? Tried one? What's your take on it?

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[Demanic]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

Need? Or want?

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[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

Let's go with "want". I haven't needed a piece of guitar kit in my twenty-five years at it.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

I had a Micro Dark and really liked it. It didn't turn out to be necessary (i bought it for gigs two weeks before quitting the band) so i returned it but i had zero complaints about the tone.

Personally if i was looking at 15w Chinese Oranges I'd get the OR15H and a Micro Dark then run the Micro's FX send to the OR15H's effects return when i wanted a Dark Terror.

 

[guitfiddle]

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I have a Dark Terror. It's killer. With my friend's SG, the volume on 4-5 and the gain on 6, and the shape at around 11 o'clock or so, it does a great early Sabbath sound. The gain tones are a bit fizzy with the stock JJ tubes, so I switched V1 to an old Telefunken, and V2 to a 7025 of unknown origin. It smoothed out quite a bit, and got a bit louder, too.

I also have the Micro Dark, and between the two of them, I have my main and backup amps sorted. The MD also has a Telefunken tube in it, and I swear it's louder overall than the DT. What killer little amp.

They're both awesome. Now to sell my Randall combo and get an OR15.

 

[Surgeon]

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Can't help you with the dark terror per se but it's supposedly the same as the dirt channel aas the th30 which is the favorite orange I owned (over the rocker30 and the thunderverb50). The gain is just perfect for me with plenty of mids and low-mids. Plenty of gain yet doesn't really get mushy and undefined until turned up to "ridiculous". It's the only orange for which the shape control didn't make me miss a traditional 3-band eq.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

I had a Micro Dark and really liked it. It didn't turn out to be necessary (i bought it for gigs two weeks before quitting the band) so i returned it but i had zero complaints about the tone.

Personally if i was looking at 15w Chinese Oranges I'd get the OR15H and a Micro Dark then run the Micro's FX send to the OR15H's effects return when i wanted a Dark Terror.

That's pretty smart idea. Though if you go there, would be better to find used TH30 for extra headroom, if budget isn't too tight.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

That's pretty smart idea. Though if you go there, would be better to find used TH30 for extra headroom, if budget isn't too tight.

Right and if i was going to spend TH30 money I'd get an AD30 :smokin: i ended up settling on a 90s OR80 and a Matamp Classic 120.

 

[Pilatvs]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

I had one for a few years really nice tones in there, but very volume dependent. There is a sweet spot right before the tubes start farting out. Good little amp.

 

[Jacew]

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Right and if i was going to spend TH30 money I'd get an AD30 :smokin: i ended up settling on a 90s OR80 and a Matamp Classic 120.

TH30 is 700-800 used, AD30 ~1200. That's quite big difference...

How is the old OR?

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

Guitarcenter.com has several TH30s and AD30s in the $800 range all of the time.

The OR is perfect. It's my favorite amp to gig with.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

Guitarcenter.com has several TH30s and AD30s in the $800 range all of the time.

The OR is perfect. It's my favorite amp to gig with.

Well, then I don't know why would anyone go for TH30... Weird...

 

[Surgeon]

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Well, then I don't know why would anyone go for TH30... Weird...

Well, they are really different sounding amps that cater to very differ t music/player types.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

Well, they are really different sounding amps that cater to very differ t music/player types.

They seem pretty similar on the surface. I haven't tried either, so can't say for sure.

 

[Surgeon]

Re: Talk to me about the Orange Dark Terror.

They seem pretty similar on the surface. I haven't tried either, so can't say for sure.

They are worlds apart, I don't think there are any two amps in the orange line-up that can be this dissimilar. Maybe you should check 'em out (at least video demos) before making such statements.