It's back and it's juicy!

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:20 am

Since I started the thread about regretting selling gear I have had my heart set on getting an RV50H back as it was a total mistake to sell my original one. As they have recently brought out the MkII Rockerverbs I figured that I could pick up an original stock MkI for relatively cheaply.
Wrong.
Reading about the MkIIs it seems that despite the additional features they don't sound as good as the originals. After much ringing around and emailing shops I had nearly conceeded that it would have to be eBay. Even the one in Mansons went about 3 days before I went in to trade my Marshall.
I tried one last place, who said they were out, but the guy was friends with one of the people at Orange HQ. He rang and found that Orange had just 2 left at HQ - one orange one white

So it seems that I have got hold of the last orange one in the country!
It arrived on Thursday but I was up in London - such a pain! It's here now, and I am well chuffed - never letting this one go.

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Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:31 am

keeping the orange reaction trend
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benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:33 am

Hooray! Well done Thom, glad luck was on your side!

Should have bought the white one, mind...

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:35 am

I know a guy who has a white rocker 30. not a pretty sight, much prefer the orange.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:58 am

I'm with Haze on this, definitely wanted the orange one!

Post by **Mike** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:52 pm

Beautiful! Well played mate, nothing worse than regretting something you've sold. Fantastic amp.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:02 pm

Yea I don't really like the white orange amps either... they don't look right. The black ones look ok, but I still prefer Orange.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:58 pm

welcome back to the orange clan, thom. knew you'd get another one.

wanna ask you to try your formula five and delay/reverb in front front of the amp drive section. see how good/bad they sound.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:54 pm

Thanks all

Will do Rob and report back. Previously I couldn't find a dirt pedal to sound good with it, but not tried the FN5.
Anyway, will let you know!

riotshield · Post by **riotshield** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:44 pm

your daughter is lovely. and she knows already to go for the GAIN knob! smart girl

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:59 pm

Thanks Manolis

She certainly seems to like the rawk

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:38 pm

Thom, the pedal that matched best with my old TT was, bizarrely, the huge box Dano fuzz - sounded great. Whereas it sounded terrible with my Champ.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:40 pm

the cool cat fuzz?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:54 pm

Nope - biggar. The big one, the Mogwai one. You know. Burgundy.

(My mind isn't working because I'm high as a kite on Rescue Remedy and paracetamol.)

Cody_Pole · Post by **Cody_Pole** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:21 pm

Do you mean the Fabtone?

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:21 pm

The fabtone?

Cody_Pole · Post by **Cody_Pole** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:23 pm

Nope not the one I thought.

Cody_Pole · Post by **Cody_Pole** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:26 pm

Actually it was I looked it up on discofreq and the wrong one came up but upon searching further found the right one with the difference being
the word Fab and Fab Tone.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:36 pm

That's the one - was great with my TT, and shite with everything else.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:44 pm

Looks like a great amp, one day I will own an Orange amp!