The Orange Music Electronic Company, also known as Orange Amplification or Orange for short, is an English manufacturer of amplifiers and loudspeaker boxes for electric guitars and electric basses.
amplifier series
Top part AD30HTC with loudspeaker box PPC412
rocker verb
The Rockerverb series is a guitar amp series that, like all Orange amps except for the Crush, is an all-tube amp designed primarily for rock, punk and metal styles. It has a two-stage structure and has two channels: clean and dirty channel, with the dirty channel corresponding to normal distortion.
thunder verb
The Thunderverb series, on the other hand, is a bit more moderate: Although they have a similar structure to the Rockerverbs, they have a slightly softer sound.
Thunder
Orange's Thunder series are described as Orange's cleanest sounding, highest gain amps. They have a two-channel structure throughout: clean channel with treble, bass and volume; Dirty channel with volume, shape and gain.
In terms of power, they are available in two versions: 30 watts as a TH30H top or TH30C combo amplifier with four EL84 pentodes in the power stage or 100 watts as a TH100H top with four EL34 power pentodes. The preamp is the same for both variants with four 12AX7-ECC83 triodes. The Thunder series also features a tube-buffered effects loop using 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 Micro-Crush Pix 3 combo amp with 3 watts of power and one 4" speaker. The largest combo amp is the Crush CR120C with 120 watts of power and two 12" speakers. This model is also available as a top (CR120H).
tiny terror
The Tiny Terror is a compact all-tube guitar amp with an output power of 15 watts. The preamp is equipped with two ECC83 tubes, in the power amp there are two EL84 pentodes. The Tiny Terror amplifiers are also available as bass amplifiers, with the same preamp, but with power amplifiers in Class D technology with outputs of 500 watts (Terror Bass 500) or 1000 watts (Terror Bass 1000). Characteristic is the white, compact sheet steel housing (except for the Dark Terror) with a carrying handle on the top and the spartan equipment. The Tiny Terror only has one volume, gain and one tone control each, only the bass amplifier and the special model Dark Terror have an effects loop, although 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 power amp 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.
MicroTerror
The Micro Terror is a hybrid guitar head that is based on the Tiny Terror in terms of looks and sound. The amplifier is only 165mm wide, 135mm high, 92mm deep and has one channel. An ECC83 tube works in the preamp, 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 powered by a supplied external power supply. In 2015, Orange introduced the Micro Dark, which is based on the sound of the Dark Terror and Dual Dark amplifiers. Another difference to the Micro Terror is that the case is 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 superior to the Tiny Terrors.
