A new idea to improve after-sales service Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO The Orange log book was essentially a guarantee card and a service record which showed the age of the amplifier, its history and maintenance record. In those days, by law, every car had to have a log book which showed details of […]
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO When Stevie Wonder played his legendary Rainbow Theatre concert, he was using Orange gear – and so was Suzi Quatro, who did a great support slot for him. That night I discovered the lengths to which rival amplifier manufacturers would go in their attempts to discredit the reputation of […]
Dennis Sinnott. Head of Orange Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri, USA I heard a lot about Orange in the early 1970s when I was Head of Copyright at EMI. The first impression for me was seeing this amazing 100 watt Orange amplifier, which was selling in the Orange shop for an unbelievably low price – I […]
In the late afternoon of September 17th 1970, Eric Clapton was walking around London’s West End and dropped by the Orange Shop. That evening he was going to a Sly and The Family Stone concert at the Lyceum on the Strand, where he had arranged to meet up with Jimi Hendrix. The next day – […]
Ade Emsley – Technical Director The TH30 replaced the Rocker 30 and is also available as a 1×12 combo. With the TH30 we took the old Clean Channel from the original Rockerverb and re-voiced it slightly for the EL84s used in this. We also took the RV lead channel – which is four stage – and […]
Ade Emsley – Technical Director When the original Rockerverb was introduced in 2003, everyone really liked the Dirty Channel – especially its mid-range crunch – so we kept it the same for the Rockerverb MK II, which was available as a 50 watt and 100 watt head and 50 watt combo. But we decided to […]
Isobaric Bass Speaker Technology – pioneered by Orange The 2009 ‘Smart Power’ Bass Cabinet range continued the kind of cutting-edge bass cabinet design which began back in 1970 with the Parabola/Reflex 2×15. This bass cabinet was way ahead of its time and ahead of anything made by Orange’s competitors back then. In 2009, the same […]
Ade Emsley – Technical Director Tiny Terror Hard Wired Edition The Hard Wired Edition amplifier was completely point to point, hand wired and made in the UK. It was the standard Tiny Terror circuit, but featured carbon comp resistors, ‘mustard’ capacitors and high specification transformers. This gave the Hard Wired Edition a wider frequency response. […]
White is the new Orange Previously only available for artists’ special orders, White Finish had already been used by artists as diverse as Madonna, Monte Pittman and The View. There were so many enquiries and requests for this colour of Rexine (aka Tolex) that Orange decided to make it a Limited Edition option for all […]
Crush PiX combos now also featured the legendary Orange hieroglyphs 2008-9 saw the introduction of FOUR new Crush PIX guitar models: the 35 watt CR35LDX, the CR20LDX, the CR20L, and the CR12L. They were the same size respectively as the original CRUSH series CR30R, CR15 and CR10, but had extra output. All except the CR12L […]