Are SINGLE Channel Amps ENOUGH? | Orange OR30 

Orange OR30 - thmn.to/thoprod/568277?offid=1&affid=367 More info - orangeamps.com/or30/ The Orange OR30 is a LOT of amp, despite it only being single channel. Huge transformers give it the low end thump and headroom of a more powerful amplifier - putting this into the territory of seriously heavy music. This video contains paid promotion from Orange Amplification More details on how CSGuitars implements product promotion - www.csguitars.co.uk/disclosure #orangeamps #or30 #csguitars Time Codes: 00:00 - What is the Orange OR30? 01:05 - Let's Talk Tone 01:45 - Isolated Guitar Sounds 04:45 - Keeping Things Bright 05:24 - Treble Boosters ROCK! 05:57 - Judas Priest Medley Mix 07:55 - Does it DOOM?! 10:00 - One for the Studio More from CSGuitars: Support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/csguitars Join CSGuitars Discord - discord.gg/csguitars Buy CSGuitars Merchandise - www.csguitars.co.uk/store Website - www.csguitars.co.uk Contact - colin@csguitars.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________ *Description contains affiliate links. Purchasing using one of these links will generate a small commission for CSGuitars at no additional cost to you.* Affiliate Links: Thomann - www.thomann.de/gb/index.html?offid=1&affid=367 Sweetwater - imp.i114863.net/2mGGg Reverb - reverb.grsm.io/csguitars Spectre Digital - spectredigital.com?aff=CSGuitars Crimson Luthiery Tools - www.crimsonguitars.com/?ref=csguitars + Discount Code 'CSGUITARS5' for 5% OFF MrGugu Clothing- mrgugu.com & 15% OFF Discount Code: CSGuitars ____________________________________________________________________

First off: Killer SIlmarillion reference Second: Tube amps made my life so much better and easier. I was all digital, programming a million patches and it cannot touch the diversity you can get from one channel of a killer tube amp. I can put it on the lead channel of my amp and dial back for beautiful cleans, crunchy mids and dig in and turn up for that searing lead. Nuts what a good amp is capable of. Orange isn't talked about enough these days. Nice video :) Also: Using a great clean platform with a pedalboard can get tones that are just astounding. love my digital stuff but jeez is it a classic combo for a reason.

I don't know about everyone else, but I've had it with button-pushing, and knob-twisting. Technology has produced some exceptional things. But, the irony is that it's come at the expense of the music itself. ANY amp that sound great, and is one channel, with as few knobs as possible, the better. Same with guitars. Two pickups, a toggle, and a volume knob covers 99% of the tones that made most of us guitar players, fans of the instrument in the first place. The Friedman Little Sister was a lot like that. Set the EQ, and then just twist the gain, and/or your guitar's volume knob for a clean channel (assuming the amp cleans up well). That's an unnecessarily long way of saying I love where Orange has gone with this amp. This was a killer demo, as well. Playing all the right riffs. Very well done.

Love the sword riffage!! Pretty appropriate too considering JD Cronise used an OR100 extensively too

This is the amp I wanted Orange to make. I actually thought it would cost more. Good demo mate!

Great to see some love for The Sword in your riffage here - they've been one of my favourite bands since I saw them support Metallica back in '09

Your medley made me want to grab my Judas Priest records and give them a spin. Thanks Colin. Stay metal! 🤘🤘

Damn that was quick! Your AD30 demo is my favorite on RU-vid so I know this is going to be killer!

came for the science, stayed for the Judas Priest leg stance and wrist band. Deadly \m/

Just got my OR30 in black tolex today. All I can say is WOW. this thing is the real deal. I have a few 5150s including an OG, have had a few PRS, have a Marshall getting fixed, and have had a few others too. This thing may truly be the best amp I’ve ever played or owned. The cleans are fantastic, it’s incredibly versatile, more dynamic than any other amp I’ve owned. EQ dials at noon, bright to the left, presence at 2, gain at 1-2 o’clock with an SD-1 is just unbelievable for both rhythm and lead. Colin is right, if you’re in the market for a legit plexi or JCM800 you need to check this thing out.

The OR15 was already fantastic, but you need an EQ pedal in the loop to make the most of it, Orange fixed it with the bright switch and presence! So they made a fantastic amp based on an old fantastic amp even more fantastic.

Judas Priest and some Sword riffs. Nice!

Fantastic video for the Judas Priest medley alone! Great work Colin

I have just got a 90s OR100 bloody amazing. Now I want this!! Great range of tones in the or series indeed and I can’t understand why more guitarists outside the metal and doom genres don’t use them more. I wish orange would make the AD30 single channel again as that was any awesome amp!

Sounded hella frickin' awesome, man!

Every video you release reminds me of why you’re my favorite guitar-tuber! Excellent riff selection in every video to boot, love to hear The Sword get some love!

Fugg yeah this was awesome! Nice one!

Excellent as always Colin - hearing The Sword was a nice surprise 🤘

Thanks for sharing.

I’ve had this for 5-6 months and I still love this amp so much. every time I play it I’m always just amazed at how good it sounds. I’ve learned how to make it as versatile as any of my multi channel amps and I’m seriously questioning how many amps I want to keep since this one seems to be my go-to anymore.

Sounds incredible in the mix.

This was like…the best and longest jam session you have posted in a while dude. Well done 👍🏻

Ive got the OR 15. Love it. This looks great.

I really like your channel and the videos you make. I watch them all and I have to say: The best tones you have are you playing through a gunned Orange amp. You and Orange amps are a match made in Guitar Heaven! Really enjoyable to watch. Awesome demo man!

An SG and an Orange Amp. 🤤 And nice Priest Medley 💜

One hell of an amp comes with one hell of a price tag.

Tipton is smiling, well done, and wow what a sound!!!

Really love the OR series amps. With good volume dynamics, one channel is all you ever really need.

Loved the Stuck With Me cover!

Great vid. Recently, I've found myself drifting back to the simpler format of a single-channel amp too. Like you say: it can't do on-the-fly switching at a gig, but there's something intuitive and just plain fun about it, which helps when recording rather than complicating things. If it's voiced well - which this amp seems to be - it just...works. I got a Matamp Series 3000 recently, and after taking the time to get used to its controls, I don't think I'll need to buy another amp again (apart from, perhaps, an OR30...)

Freya! Loooooove that song. Takes me back.

I love single channel amps - the simpler, the better for me. No wasting time, just start playing and rocking out. Nice playing throughout!

I was already salivating over this amp... and then you mentioned treble boosters. The GAS overfloweth.

08:06 The Sword ❤

That "into the void" tone is absolutely perfect.

nice Priest medley!!

Thanks so much for the classic metal tones. So many demo’s of Orange are about the jangle and the sludge but I want to know how it’s going to dial in for hard rock and those muted roots and fifths.

I treat even my multi-channel amps like single-channel amps. I pick a channel (usually the low/mid-gain channel) and get all my tones out of that one channel using pickup selection, volume knob and, to a lesser extent, pedals.

Bark at The Moon! perfect!! 🤘

Your Bark at the Moon riff was bang on.

That's quite the tone machine you got there

Most of my amps are single channel, I love a simple base that I can just tweak to where I need it to line up with my pedal board. Oh and as someone who's tried it, these suckers don't make for half bad bass amps either despite the sorta low wattage on em.

Loved hearing The Sword riffs at 8:08 🤘

That Judas Priest medley is real cool!

yeh nice one mate.

This is the reason i will always go for analog when i have the chance. Digital only has what you program into it. It rarely gives you unintended useful outcomes. When you have an analogue machine, you can get to learn its ins and outs, all of the intended and unintended artifacts that digital and modellers can only reproduce if they have been expressly inserted. Once you know what you want then sure, go digital, but i always choose my gear for the journey

I need one of these

That Bark At The Moon riff sounded so killer!

Marshall killer! Beautiful clean sounds (as long as you do not excpect mid-scooped Fender cleans), iconic, Orange typical classic overdrive sounds and even very covincing, unique high-gain to Metal sounds. And this all from a single channel! What more can you expect? Not very cheap, but for me one of the best sounding and most flexible new amps, which I have heard during the last years. For me the best sounding Orange since the release of the Rockerverb. The additional bright switch and Presence control are really an improvement, add a lot more flexibility and some more Plexi-like bite, if wished and also the power reduction is an advantage, while the amp itself still sounds, like an Orange should. Amp of the year for me!

The amp sounds really good, very articulate. I thought the addition of a presence know and a bright switch was a really great move. I love my Rockerverb MKii, and while I love the thick, heavy, saturated tones, I do wish it had a presence control just for the ease of adding some high mids when I want them. It's not an issue as throwing the Guptech Pdeq pedal (which simulates a presence and depth control) in the loop does the trick, but the ease of having it on the amp would be nice.

10:20 What an about face in the guitar world. It used to be the tube amp was for the stage and the digital stuff was for messing around at home and demoing. Glad I spent my gigging years in the former way of doing things.

Hey Colin! I was wondering if maybe at some point you might consider making a video on potentiometers... how different values effect your tone, what impact different taper types have on how they work, what effect combining different values would have (for example 1M volume & 250K tone vs 250k volume & 1M tone), etc... I think it could be really useful to people!

Epic amp. Some tuned 800 stuff in there. I hope they do a high power JFET version of this - a "Turbo Crush" or something.

Aaand the Priest medley... 🤘🤘🤘

Thank you so much! Not needing an orange amp but wanting one, I'm now confused and torn tween 3 of them. Hate to love your Vids at this point 😭

Really dig you snuck some Sword riffs in there!

Single channel amps rules💜 just love my tweed

I was looking at a used Friedman Dirty Shirley, but this threw a wrench into my plans!

This amp fixes all the issues I had with my OR50 like having an adjustable boost for soloing and I just read that the bright switch turned the left acts like a treble booster and on the right it makes the amp like Plexi like. It has tube rectification too. I'm glad they used a big transformer. This is really good news from Orange. I was getting tired of seeing their dumb pedal releases.

Very cool review Colin! In the face of the latest Mesa/Boogie Mark VII! 😜

Omg Colin, such a soulful playing and amazing chops. Please, please can we have more of that. P.s. whats the ozzy’s Randy Rhodes solo you’ve played? I know it well but it bugs me baaaadly. Thanks

Man oh man! I love orange, Judas and sabbath !! Not sure I need this as I bought the RVmkiii... but damn it sounds great. 🎉

Best reviews I heard n seen in a long time, Heroic sound with that blue single Humbucker Strat. ...Nice Judas medley as well, but the guy needs more tattoos! 🤘🤩

Ah, a fellow The Sword enjoyer I see! Sounds ripping man!

Killer Priest Medley, I want to see you and Glen from SMG do a guitar battle of Priest covers now

I simply enjoy listening to Collin talking about amps, whilst drinking Benriach on my vacation in Edinburgh ❤ Cheers, mate 🎉

Gotta say, metal Colin is one of my favourite Colins. When the studded wrists come out, I'm instantly enjoying a better quality of life!

Just got sad remembering how good the sword once was

I have both- a digital modelling amp with all the bells and whistles (Mustang III) and a plain ol single channel tube amp without all the extras (Bassbreaker 15). I find I spend more time actually PLAYING with the latter. And more time faffing about with all the nifty neatos on the former. You can get all the sounds you want out of the BB15 just by adjusting the few controls, and using the pots on your guitar. One shiny it does have, is an additional speaker jack with a switchable impedance control. So a speaker swap is as easy as pluggin in another cabinet. Both sound great, it's just that one is plug n play, the other is programmable, and takes some setting up to get it to sound just so. (BUT you don't NEED to also haul around a pedal board- all the effects are built in, so there's that real convenience factor. plus, it's WAY lighter!) Anyhow, this amp sounds pretty darn good to my ears!

This is a dream amp. This is what tube amps are about.

Treble boosters are the secret sauce to great tone.

Youre awes9me buddy

There’s an OR30 now?? coool

My two amps are single channel monsters - Orange Dark Terror and a Randall RD1C. Versatile if I need them to be, but mostly it’s the simplicity of turning on and getting good sound without messing about.

I'd love you to try out a marshall plexi, it's unbelievably versatile for a single channel amp and does it's sound better than any digital or tube copy I've ever tried

I play Freya and Into the Void almost every time I pickup a guitar 😂. Also the Judas priest tone was SICK.

The mighty Sword!

Soo goood ... damn. 'tis heavy indeed. One item that most of the first reviews skip is that Bedroom 2W mode, or even that the powersupply is technically universal, though you do need to switch fuses of the correct value if going between 110 - 230. That's pretty epic and "road worthy", or said in a different manner: shop it where you score the best value. If my houseful of Traynors amps, smattering of Fenders, Yamaha, Roland and Marshall gets culled, this could be the "one classic tube amp here". Who am I kidding ? This would just be "one more", joining the excellent SC100.

Mere seconds between comparing dense instruction manuals to the silmarillion, and making an "I like shorts!" reference. I feel like I have whiplash.

Those P90's are giving that SG some awfully sexy growl. Looks like I'm getting P90's for mine.

0:44 headroom/bedroom switch, lol 😆

oi mate amazing video! Wondering what guitar was that you were using to demo?!!!!! the strat with the three pickups...

I'm pretty sure this amp would stand up pretty well in a rehearsal room as well. I use a 50W rockerverb, and thats way more than enough to rock out in a stoner/doom setting. If you have a 4x12" with nice sensitivity, you'll make yourself heard for sure.

I really don't know about versatility.. but FUCK dude, you sounded fucking RAD!

very cool. What do you think of line 6 amps? I have the spider classic 15. very cool amp

Sounds like Orange DNA with the ability to dial in a bit of the Marshall top end bite. My singular (albeit small) complaint with my Rockerverb MKIII has been a bit of the lack of upper mid bite. Ordered and on its way!

My dream rig is a Dark Terror through an Orange bass cab with one of them Doomy ass single knob fuzz pedals. Ever think of doing a video on guitar amps through bass cabs?

I’ve moved from a Spark to a 20 year old Matamp R28 combo. Whilst the Spark is a great piece of technology it gave me a bad case of “option paralysis”, andi never really bonded with it. To be fair that probably says more about me than it does the Spark, but that’s just the way I roll. With Matamp I can adjust the EQ, gain, reverb and volume so I spend more time playing and less messing around with controls/app. The Spark is great, just not for me.

Try and get hold of an H|H IC100S for a review. It's an oldie, but mine is still going strong. Phil Campbell (Motorhead) asked me how I got my sound when gigging in Cardiff back in the day.

Love the sound with the blue guitar at 4:34. What guitar is it?

I have found my next amp. Just add a Synergy clean-ish module and I'll be set for a while.

One channel, no waiting.

Hey there, did you use the waza TAE for this video? Thanks.

Simple layout. Easy to dial. Extra knobs and switches are confusing to me. That’s why I like my OR15. I don’t need the volume, but the OR30 would be cool.

u should show us how to convert a open back combo to a closed back 1x12 cab i would pay for this vid

What position was the bright switch in when you used the treble booster?

With the right pedals, you can get by just fine with a good one channel amp.

Simple, single channel tube amps are my favorite also.

Ever since i sold off my OR50, I've felt stupid when they got discontinued. That amp hit harder than my friends 100 watter

How versatile is a single channel amp? Kind of a loaded question because it all depends on the design quality and dynamic quality of the circuit. I have a Ceriatone Chupacabra 100 head running through an EVH 4x12 cab. With that setup, you would think “big, thick overdrive monster”. And you wouldn’t be wrong. But, you roll down the guitar volume and it cleans up really well. Not like an old Fender clean. But what I call a “Texas clean”. And the pickup selector switch with different pickup combinations really changes and gives you different tones that pop out. So, depending on the quality of the circuit, sometimes a single channel is all you need.