orange owners....

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:24 pm

tell me about the rocker 30, i've fell in love with the looks/thought of an orange amp. anyone own one of these?

Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:27 pm

Kim does. Hurb, James and I played the Classic Player Jaguar through a combo version in Birmingham. It sounded Good to my ears.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:33 pm

thats the one i'm after, the 30 combo.
i've been hangering after something a little different. plus i could afford to get an orange combo and still keep my blues deluxe.

finally got the right setup for the strat/pedalboard/amp. the tonebender cures all.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:37 pm

haha.. glad to hear it!

Definitely a good sounding amp.

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:40 pm

didn't get to play the amp very loud unfortunately sounded nice, but the low volume hindered a proper opinion of it.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:33 pm

It's a great amp - I played one before I went for the 50. The clean channel has no EQ, but it sounded great as is, something I really liked about just having a volume and nothing else.
Has got a fair amount of gain on tap on the dirty channel.
I think that V30 speakers really suit the Orange amps as well.
In the end I went for the RV50 because I liked the sound of the 6V6s over the EL34s in the R30.
I think that they probably suit a slightly brighter guitar too - the Strat will sound great.

euan · Post by **euan** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:40 pm

I still get chills thinking about the Rockerverb 50.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:47 pm

i would sell everything for that rockerverb, how you getting on with the new cabs lamp?

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:48 pm

funny you post this now, i was gonna do a quick little youtoob vid for the rocker's clean channel with both a 'midrange price' guitar and a cheapo guitar (cij mustang and hondo II). of course both aren't 'great' guitars, but it'll show how the amp just gives you the sound of the guitar itself. i might be able to do that tomorrow. there's soooo much more though, like aout the dirty channel, well i've said this before, it gets more high gain over the top than say a rockerverb or ad, it sounds less 'refined' more raw... well hard to explain. you actually have to hear them next to eachother.

also i don't have the combo but run the top into an ampeg 4 10" which is actually a cab designed for bass so that changes the sound a lot too so i can't actually make a proper demo of what an orange rocker 30 actually sounds like with certain guitars etc. what i can say though is that its simplicity is a pro for some, and a downside for others depending on what your after eh ? and the extra gain stage is also not something everyone likes, it's not 'classic' orange.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:55 pm

i'm after that single coil orange crunch kinda tone and probably a nice clean sound out of it. is yours the 30 watt head? i did think of getting the head and using the tweed as a cab. getting a head-switcher to switch between the two.

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:02 pm

yeah it's 30watts (but that's more than enopugh of tube powarr

)

hm, head might be handy, if the cab and top 'work well' together, but if they don't oh noes ! haha

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:03 pm

i still have my ashdown bass cab that i could use with it at a pinch.

kim · Post by **kim** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:24 pm

sorry it's such shit quality prog !

didn't do more because i didn't have time

[GVideo]http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid= ... 4186&hl=nl[/GVideo]

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:39 pm

The bit at the end when you say FAIL is cute as fuck.

I think it sounds dead good with the Mustang, the character of the guitar really shines through. I wasn't really a fan of the Hondo which was pretty muddy.

kim · Post by **kim** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:42 pm

yeah it is, it's shit for cleans but awesome for light overdrive trashy garage type stuff, only for that really. well, also with a heavy distortion or fuzz. just not cleans

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:45 pm

I can definitely imagine it sounding glorious drenched in filth.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:17 pm

That hondo sounds like it would be amazing through something like the champ 600 on full volume.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:30 pm

thanks heavium, i'm quite liking that sound. do you find you have problems with just having a volume on the clean channel?. it sounds really nice.

what is that your playing? sound familiar.

FTW heavium

dawnofzion · Post by **dawnofzion** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:34 pm

I love my rocker 30. The natural channel sounds great IMO. It works great for what it is supposed to do....and you just cannot beat the sound of the dirty channel. I push mine with a overdrive on top of dirty channel and I get great harmonics out of it. You won't be disapointed with a R30.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:44 pm

i'm actually thinking of using an R30 Combo and the tweed together live.