INTRODUCED IN 2008-9 Ade Emsley – Technical Director Tiny Terror Combo The design of the Tiny Terror combo is similar to the classic OR80 combo, in that you see the entire front panel on top of the cabinet. The combo is fitted with a 12” Celestion G12 H30 speaker, and its dimensions are the same […]
Every one of the forty heads is identified by a girls name and not a serial number, and each name was chosen only after the tonal character, playability and response had been checked out. Ade Emsley – Technical Director 40th Anniversary Custom Shop The 40th Anniversary series was introduced in 2008 as a limited edition […]
The Thunderverb could be used as a bass amp or lead amp or both combined. Ade Emsley – Technical Director The thinking behind the Thunderverb was to create an amp for guitarists who wanted to use a lot of preamp distortion – they didn’t want to work the power amp very hard. There is a […]
Over 10,000 Tiny Terrors were sold in the very first year of production. It has become the guitarists’ ‘must have’ and a studio industry standard. Ade Emsley – Technical Director The concept of the Tiny Terror is an amp you can carry anywhere. You turn up to play at a gig and there are three […]
It was while we were designing the Retro 50 that we started taking transformers apart to see what made the good ones so effective. We wanted something that sounded like the original Pics Only Woden transformer.. Ade Emsley – Technical Director The original Pics Only Woden transformer was stick-wound – it didn’t have a bobbin, […]
Rocker 30 Combo- Twin Channel Valve Combo. Ade Emsley – Technical Director I always wanted to do a channel with just one knob on it. Just one control that I call the ‘natural channel’, which is a one stage clean channel combined with a three stage lead channel. So that began as the Rocker 30 […]
The Rockerverb came about because with the AD30 we continually received emails asking if we could incorporate an effects loop… Damon Waller – Former MD .. The short answer was ‘no’, because it would need a complete redesign and the character of the amplifier would change out of all recognition. So we designed the Rockerverb. […]
The Retro 50 and AD 50 amplifiers were the first to feature ‘Custom Shop’ on the front panel. Retro 50 Ade Emsley – Technical Director During 2001 – which was really the year of the AD140 – a number of people approached us asking if we could produce Custom Shop 30 watt and 50 watt […]
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO The Crush Guitar Package featured an entrance-level solid body electric guitar and the Orange Crush CR10 combo….then came the Crush Bass range, with a black speaker grille. Damon Waller – Former Managing Director It was really important to ensure that the Crush range should be seen to offer […]
Crush came along almost by accident back in 2000 Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO We realised a lot of the smaller music shops were choosing not to stock Orange because they saw our products as being out of their league price-wise. At that time, we didn’t have an entrance level range of amplifiers, and […]