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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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:31 am
by Haze
keeping the orange reaction trend
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:33 am
by benecol
Hooray! Well done Thom, glad luck was on your side!
Should have bought the white one, mind...
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:35 am
by Haze
I know a guy who has a white rocker 30. not a pretty sight, much prefer the orange.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:58 am
by Thom
I'm with Haze on this, definitely wanted the orange one!
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:52 pm
by Mike
Beautiful! Well played mate, nothing worse than regretting something you've sold. Fantastic amp.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:02 pm
by Billy3000
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.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:58 pm
by Progrockabuse
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.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:54 pm
by Thom
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!
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:44 pm
by riotshield
your daughter is lovely. and she knows already to go for the GAIN knob! smart girl
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:59 pm
by Thom
Thanks Manolis She certainly seems to like the rawk
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:38 pm
by benecol
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.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:40 pm
by Progrockabuse
the cool cat fuzz?
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:54 pm
by benecol
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.)
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:21 pm
by Cody_Pole
Do you mean the Fabtone?
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:21 pm
by Progrockabuse
The fabtone?
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:23 pm
by Cody_Pole
Nope not the one I thought.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:26 pm
by Cody_Pole
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.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:36 pm
by benecol
That's the one - was great with my TT, and shite with everything else.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:44 pm
by Gabriel
Looks like a great amp, one day I will own an Orange amp!
