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Published on 08/18/12 at 05:49Amp all-tube 30 Watts, but can operate in either 15 Watts or 7.5 Watts. Presence of two channels, clean and dirty, can connect a footswitch to change channels, and the presence of an effects loop. The amp has 3 speaker outputs, two 8 Ohms and 16 Ohms. Not integrated reverb (damage).
The finish is perfect, and if we do not say that it's Made in China, it is impossible to guess.
UTILIZATION
Operation is child insofar as there are only 3 knobs per channel (volume, treble adjustment and bass management for the clean channel, volume, gain, and a single EQ knob called "shape" for dirty channel. hyper manual is optional.
We place all at noon and at first it sounds right now (I leave at Mesa Boogie, I can say that from this point of view it changes me ...)
Soon, we hack a bit and found what you want, not need to have done ten years studying sound engineering to make it sound is super intuitive!
For power, this is the top for me, this amp is capable of playing all the usual conditions, and this OPERATING IN THE LAMPS, which is almost never the case when it has 100 watts of tube .. .
Note that the 30 Watts are very powerful ...
SOUNDS
Incredible versatility! If a year ago someone had told me that I resell my Mesa Boogie head to buy Orange "Made in China", I would not have believed it.
Yet! I tried to get three sounds: clean as possible organic, beautiful vintage style overdrive and a large distortion. On my previous amps, I often had two of these sounds, and I had to go through a pedal to get the third.
I have owned many pedals, including the high-end, and that the ultimate conclusion that I finally made: in terms of overdrive and distortion, NOTHING replaces the grain of a good tube amp.
Hence these three sounds are in the box: the clean channel delivers a super clear sound, dynamic and friendly (good reverb in the loop and it is wonderful). By mounting the volume on that channel, the sound begins to twist and get the second half of the race of vintage overdrive knob beautiful in the purest spirit Orange 70's, also enjoyable with single coil pickups with the double. By lowering the power 15 Watts or 7.5 Watts, you can enjoy this delicious overdrive exploitable volume.
On the channel and dirty ... Watch out! Headroom is huge, there is little more than a Rectifier I heard this level of gain, although the grain is very different between the two amps. I plugged the TH30 on PPC212C of the same brand, the bass is just hellish and flood the local snooze 'so that my bassist review of its settings to be heard ...
The shape knob is very effective, and I did not regret the fact countless settings Mesa amps. We spend a grain of mediums stuffed with shape 0 (ideal for the solo singing) a grain very "mid scoop" shape with the bottom, and there was good if you scratch that sends large metal task, but have the very right side and very "cold" American amps (although this approach is subjective).
However, I found it much less suitable dirty channel with single coil pickups in my strat, unless it is very measured gain.
I read here and there that the amp could make a noise on the channel unpleasant dirty, I have not had this feeling. I also read that some models were equipped with original lamps China low end, mine is equipped with JJ Electronics of good quality, this may be explaining this.
OVERALL OPINION
I use this amp for two months, and I have no regrets. I have owned and / or played on many amps all lamps from different backgrounds (Fender, Vox, Mesa Boogie, Marshall ...), and every time one of the three sounds I need was disappointing or no: sometimes it is clean which is arbitrary, sometimes there is no real distortion ...
I hesitated a lot with the big brother of the range, ie the Thunderverb 50, but I was afraid of the quality of its clean (it works with EL34 that are not strictly lamps we are looking for clean sounds ...), and then I did not need such power.
I had to buy a cover to protect the head and an Orange footswitch and cable. I also put a reverb in the loop to compensate for its absence on the head.
Even with these additional expenses, the price is relatively affordable in terms of price that can be done for some all-tube amp heads ...
I am amazed by the sound that this amp delivers, and I recommend it without moderation of course, this is a amazing head!
The finish is perfect, and if we do not say that it's Made in China, it is impossible to guess.
UTILIZATION
Operation is child insofar as there are only 3 knobs per channel (volume, treble adjustment and bass management for the clean channel, volume, gain, and a single EQ knob called "shape" for dirty channel. hyper manual is optional.
We place all at noon and at first it sounds right now (I leave at Mesa Boogie, I can say that from this point of view it changes me ...)
Soon, we hack a bit and found what you want, not need to have done ten years studying sound engineering to make it sound is super intuitive!
For power, this is the top for me, this amp is capable of playing all the usual conditions, and this OPERATING IN THE LAMPS, which is almost never the case when it has 100 watts of tube .. .
Note that the 30 Watts are very powerful ...
SOUNDS
Incredible versatility! If a year ago someone had told me that I resell my Mesa Boogie head to buy Orange "Made in China", I would not have believed it.
Yet! I tried to get three sounds: clean as possible organic, beautiful vintage style overdrive and a large distortion. On my previous amps, I often had two of these sounds, and I had to go through a pedal to get the third.
I have owned many pedals, including the high-end, and that the ultimate conclusion that I finally made: in terms of overdrive and distortion, NOTHING replaces the grain of a good tube amp.
Hence these three sounds are in the box: the clean channel delivers a super clear sound, dynamic and friendly (good reverb in the loop and it is wonderful). By mounting the volume on that channel, the sound begins to twist and get the second half of the race of vintage overdrive knob beautiful in the purest spirit Orange 70's, also enjoyable with single coil pickups with the double. By lowering the power 15 Watts or 7.5 Watts, you can enjoy this delicious overdrive exploitable volume.
On the channel and dirty ... Watch out! Headroom is huge, there is little more than a Rectifier I heard this level of gain, although the grain is very different between the two amps. I plugged the TH30 on PPC212C of the same brand, the bass is just hellish and flood the local snooze 'so that my bassist review of its settings to be heard ...
The shape knob is very effective, and I did not regret the fact countless settings Mesa amps. We spend a grain of mediums stuffed with shape 0 (ideal for the solo singing) a grain very "mid scoop" shape with the bottom, and there was good if you scratch that sends large metal task, but have the very right side and very "cold" American amps (although this approach is subjective).
However, I found it much less suitable dirty channel with single coil pickups in my strat, unless it is very measured gain.
I read here and there that the amp could make a noise on the channel unpleasant dirty, I have not had this feeling. I also read that some models were equipped with original lamps China low end, mine is equipped with JJ Electronics of good quality, this may be explaining this.
OVERALL OPINION
I use this amp for two months, and I have no regrets. I have owned and / or played on many amps all lamps from different backgrounds (Fender, Vox, Mesa Boogie, Marshall ...), and every time one of the three sounds I need was disappointing or no: sometimes it is clean which is arbitrary, sometimes there is no real distortion ...
I hesitated a lot with the big brother of the range, ie the Thunderverb 50, but I was afraid of the quality of its clean (it works with EL34 that are not strictly lamps we are looking for clean sounds ...), and then I did not need such power.
I had to buy a cover to protect the head and an Orange footswitch and cable. I also put a reverb in the loop to compensate for its absence on the head.
Even with these additional expenses, the price is relatively affordable in terms of price that can be done for some all-tube amp heads ...
I am amazed by the sound that this amp delivers, and I recommend it without moderation of course, this is a amazing head!