I bought this little bad boy for metal, and with a tube screamer in front, it does metal very well. Being a big fan of the blues, I had to see how it dialed back, and boy was I not disappointed. This thing is a blues machine! Throw a little reverb in there and oooh man, isn't that sweet.
You are on the money my friend! Absolutely agree! I did exactly the same ! Thought it was just going to do the metal thing with a little help but was sooooo surprised by the lower gain sounds ! Seriously it is such a good amp it's unbelievable!
Yes! This is how I use my Micro Dark too! The traditional way to use a single channel tube amp. Set the amp up for a good crunch with the gain about 1 o’clock. Fir cleans roll back the volume on the guitar, and for high gain leads push it with an overdrive. “3 channels” from one! I have my shape (tone) at ahoy 3 o clock. Great video! Wisdom!
Cheers buddy! Really appreciate your comment! I kinda naturally stumbled on that tone, was playing around with the amp and for me it just hit the right spot of grit and definition! Glad I'm not the only one! Lol
I'm playing a gig tonight in a delta blues 2 piece, guitar and harmonica. I'm playing a steelbody reso-lectric guitar plugged into a Microdark with a 1x12 loaded with a Weber DT12 speaker. Sounds great!
@@SoulStringChannel I'm glad I went with the dark, the fx loop is a major upgrade but also the slightly scooped mids make the clean so much better. I love Orange for doom/stoner but I don't love the mid heavy tones outside of that
I just got one and I am extremely impressed with it. I have had amps in the past 4 times as much $ that I sold. I always use a pedal board with a few overdrive pedals. It definitely is a great blues amp.
I run two at my church gig. Wet/dry. In the dry amp, I subbed a 5751 for the 12ax7. I like it, ymmv. Wet amp is stock. I kind of wish I could get a louder clean sound, but on the other hand I find taming a slightly furry sound to be a fun experiment. Cool little amp! The loop is a great feature.
I run a telecaster through one of these with the gain just at the point of breakup. I find my results vary depending on the cab, but with the little 1*8 orange cab this thing turns in to a very nice blues box. I love it. I do use the dark terror through a 4*12 with all the gain for metal, but I'm blown away with the blues tone on this thing.
I like my Micro Dark. Had it for three years. I have a Tumnus Deluxe in front of it with extra tone controls. Pinch harmonics sound better like that than any other way I've tried.
Thanks for this video! I purchased it on reverb because I'm moving to an apartment and saw it had a tube and headphone jack, as well as an out to go to a cabinet or DI box, which is perfect for me. I didn't know antyhing about the profile and didn't look at this video until it arrived. Figured I'd wing it and it would be part of the adventure (also got a JHS overdrive pedal) with my new PRS hollowbody guitar. That's the sound I'm after, but still a newbie. I like the low-end crunch but high end creamy overdriven cleans that spike through the crunch, looks like I may have just gotten lucky cause I wasn't shopping based on sound, hah.
I use mine for Thrash and Death metal, with an overdrive pedal In front you get a really nice aggressive chugging sound. it's a very versatile and cheap little amp with nice cleans too and with the effects loop you can use it to just to power your cabs also, great bit of kit for the price
Thank you so much for your comment, really appreciate it! You are absolutely correct! They are so affordable that you could even just use it as a preamp pedal! I found the gain structure was really great and "usable" ! You should def try one of you can! Cheers
Orange always as a good warm vintage chunk to the sound. It'd say it good for blues rock, rock and heavy metal tho as stated it does not have that crisp of a marshal stack that you usually associate with American or newer digital studio metal. But with an overdrive that little bugger sure can roar far more than you would expect and swap the tube for an ECC803S then even more so.
Thank you for the nice review! I am looking for a clean tube preamp that i can use with my bouzouki. Is the Orange Micro Dark for this suitable? Can i oly use the preamp of the usint and how? Which other unit would you recommend for clean tube sound as a preamp? Thank you again very much Kosta
Hey my friend. Thank you so much for your comment. Really appreciate it. Wow I love this question, although it is a hard one! So I think although the Micro Dark could definitely work for you, maybe it would be worth looking at something with a bit more clean sound. You could try something like the two notes le clean preamp pedal. I will have a little think of some more! Let me know if you need anything else! Thanks
qué onda con los bots corazones en los comentarios :0 buen video por cierto, tengo el Micro Terror y estoy pensando en comprar el Micro Dark para tener un respaldo
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This amp is very cheap and versatile....you can get great strat tones or humbucker with the turn of the shape knob...I use it for metal....but you have to tighten the sht out of it,and with a boost,EQ,and dist...plus a gate with x pattern loops ...
He bud! Thanks for the comment! That's a really good point! I totally agree with you! It's a great amp, but if you wanna do metal you need to add some things to it as you say! Straight out of the box for me it doesn't really get that sound! However it does get a really good lower gain tone with nothing else. Another great thing to do is blend it with another tighter amp and it sounds fantastic! Have you tried that ?
I wonder if Orange has revised the headphone out since these first appeared. I was an early adopter, the original uses an old talking toy chip for the headphones, so noisy its unusable even for just headphones. The chip was set up exactly like the example circuit on the data sheet, I didnt see any evidence of a cab sim...
Hey buddy! Thanks for the comment. wow that's really interesting. I'm not sure if they have changed it. I do agree that it's still not the best with headphones to be honest! (I mainly used it with a cab and it sounded great) I guess they were trying to appeal to the bedroom practice market but clearly it's just better as a standard tube amp (i.e. played into a cab or with a load box and a cab SIM)
It's really great run clean. The tube is operated at "starved plate" voltage so it's exactly like a pair of diodes in a drive or distortion pedal. There's 4 TL072 opamp gain stages, the tube is in the gain knob part of the circuit. If you run 12A_7 tubes that have lower amplification factors you'll have a greater range of clean tones before breakup. The amp is an older automotive stereo chip L/R X2, one L/R pair is summed to mono. Sounds amazing considering the parts list
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Hey buddy! Thanks so much for the comment! Really appreciate it! It's funny you say that but I didn't use a cab, I used speakermix pro by Celestion Digital with a Greenback IR! If you haven't tried it you should it's awesome
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Thank you for not using is straight without a pedal. Thank you for not demonstrating the diferent settings. Thank you for not showing which cabinet is used. Remove the blah blah blah.
