9 Awesome Facts You (Probably) Didn't Know About Orange Amps! - Orange Amps History & Cool Stories!

[@Infinighost]

The Orange Thunderverb 50 was my dream amp starting in 2008. I taped a pic of it from a magazine above my desk at work. Finally got a used one in 2020 and I've been having so much fun with it ever since. Worth the 12 year wait! Orange rules, they make the tone I always heard in my head.

[@EchoApexFirstEcho]

The attenuation knob should have become standard and my white Thunderverb 50 has the same harmonic qualities as the much more expensive big name amps I have in my recording studio. Orange Rules⚡️

[@Infinighost]

@@simon_patterson Thanks, it totally was!

[@duanephillips2343]

Fun video; I always wondered about this brand.

[@RayLawrenceJrMUSIC]

I now have an Orange Super Crush 100 head. I need an Orange 412 cab to go with it. This is one amazing product. Learning about the company just adds to the fun. Thank you for this video.

[@leebuck8532]

I am an orange amp owner, please do the 45min video about the shop! That's some history I would love to learn!

[@ericlackford6718]

I met MR Matt Mathias ( Matamp) in 1982 when I needed a 12 inch bass speaker for a cab for the school I taught in.He gave it for free and we spoke for a good while about amps. ( I had a Matamp amplifier at the time) He told me about working with Fleetwood Mac and loads of others. A fascinating gentleman.

[@chusmusic]

what a cool story eric

[@billydotleeds]

First band I saw live with Orange Amps, was Wishbone Ash (1972?). The sound in the hall was fantastic! Great and interesting video, Dagan . thanks,,, BTW - LOVE that orange Gretsch :)

[@philipanastasi9840]

I had the pleasure of playing with Cliff Cooper and his brother Ken in the Millionaires. I played bass on Wishing Well. The picture you show is not the Millionaires but Ken and Cliff's original band who were called the Rocking Chairs. Stasi bass guitarist the Millionaires.

[@fortunatejeremy]

I play guitar in an 11 piece 1960s Soul tribute band. I got tired of lugging my tube amp around all the time so I bought an Orange Crush 35rt and I love it. It sounds great and holds up volume wise. The clean tone with my Strat is exactly what I want, it takes pedals well, sounds sweet with my Holy Grail reverb and is very easy to carry around.

[@09philj]

My first amp was the Orange Crush 12. Nice, as little solid state practice amps go. I personally prefer the Marshall sound but Orange is probably my second favourite.

[@williamz7011]

I just bought my first amp last night and it's am Orange Crush 12. It sounds awesome

[@Synathidy]

I like combining the two and pairing my Orange Micro Dark with a 2x12 Marshall cabinet.

[@Mark_of_the_Bear_Studios]

First amp I bought my daughter when she started learning was a Crush 12, but I never realized how much I’d dig the sound. Orange is now one of my go-to sounds for blending with other amps, because it’s sooo deeply saturated and rich. It warms up a mix like nothing else!

[@markmcdonald5711]

I have a Crush 12 and a Marshall DSL1CR setup in my bedroom, I love them both.

[@JoelCSabo]

As a TH30 owner and operator I approve of your enthusiastic mini history lesson. Well done, sir.

[@PMTVUK]

Thanks for watching Joel! 🤘

[@JoelCSabo]

@@PMTVUK it's always my pleasure.

[@thecarolinashreds196]

Of all the amps I have had in my 48 years of playing guitar I always go back to Orange. The Orange Crush series of amp are hands down the best solid state amp ever made. For the last few years I have used a Super Crush 100. If you are not a valve snob these amps do the trick no matter what type of music you play. The Orange Crush delivers and is a hell of a lot less expensive also. For $500 you can’t beat em’. Never had any complaints on my sound. Their valve amps are the best also. I would rather have an Orange amp than a Marshall any day. The look is also too damn cool.

[@TheSavagederek]

Love Orange amps. Saving for the 120watt Crush for gigging with.

[@Robbie28]

I always look forward to your videos sir. Informative and just fun to watch/listen to. Tell them i said you deserve a raise :)

[@KaddysJamKave]

Been waiting for my Orange Super Crush 100 to arrive for over 4 months now! Arghhhhhh. For some reason, they are available all over the UK & Europe but I've had it on back order here in Australia for all this time... keeps getting postponed. I hope it's worth the wait! haha

[@Aditya_Paliwal_9]

It will be worth the wait! I have the exact same head and it is awesome 😎✌️

[@westernrider100]

@@Aditya_Paliwal_9 Tried one at a local store and I have to agree with you. The Super Crush is nice and we don't have to change tubes in these beasts.

[@hydeane]

If you have a Tiny Terror hook it up to a Fryette Power Station PS100, then you have a beast with an effects loop and it is not a Tiny Terror anymore! It is a great rock amp🙂 Bought my PS100 out of Aussie!

[@ogretattoo]

I love, love, love my Orange amps for both clean and dirty sounds. After trying other brands, Orange has become my go-to sound. Rich and saturated but distinct.

[@PMTVUK]

Top class 👌🍊

[@mikeg.9238]

Same here , i use it as my main amp. I run my pedal board through it and it sounds amazing on both channels like you stated. I have the RT35 , i also have a Katana and a Fender but the Orange is my favorite. There's something about the sound of it that stands out from others!

[@ogretattoo]

@@mikeg.9238 I started with a Crush 20RT, love it, but needed something for silent recording so Orange themselves recommended several options. (Yes, they responded quickly to my email, THAT is service!) Now the Butler connected to a Headrush is my go-to. Eagerly awaiting the Getaway Driver pedal for that 70s sound!!

[@mikeg.9238]

@@ogretattoo Nice! That's gonna sound killer , i love Orange amp's. I was thinking of getting cab and Micro terror , something about their tone is different from other amps. Plus i like that they are stripped down , no modeling crap. Just the basics , treble , bass , mid , gain and reverb. Run the board through on dirty and good to go!

[@TheSupart91]

Sameeee i started out on a line 6 (don't judge) so i bought a orange amp now my line 6 is collecting dust

[@PeteCarlton]

Definitely the best and most interesting of your vids, Dagan - really interesting and inspiring. Thank you. I remember thinking how cool Orange gear looked back in the early 70s, when I was booking bands for the University of Sussex, and they've held on to that vibe for the last 50 years. Awesome!

[@sjazzp]

Great video Dagan, Orange history couldn't be presented is a better way! I own a Crush 35 RT that is fantastic for both clean and dirty tones, also takes pedals very well.

[@johnoneill919]

I have the same one and i love it !

[@pjmtry7]

Awesome info! All this leading up to my Super Crush 100 and their new pedals! So cool!

[@djlehara]

I bought the Boss Katana Mini as my practice amp when I bought the new Kramer Baretta Special to learn how to play. I quickly upgraded to the Orange Crush 20 and Im blown away. This thing is insane. I LOVE IT.

[@BOBANDVEG]

I've got the 20rt. It's rock n a box. It takes pedals well . The 3 band eq actually works. The voice of the world speaker is a celestion, made on the same assembly line with a slightly larger magnet for more natural gain. Some people call it a one trick pony.......but that one trick is 75% of all rock ever written. If you can, get a fender champion 20 as well. Super versatile. I also have the katana 50

[@TheSoundofForgetting]

Could anyone please tell me what Orange amp and Guitar model Dagan has behind him and playing?

[@richrig5848]

I think it's the Gretsch Electromatic G5655TG. Super guitars - I have the G5655T in gold colour with chrome hardware. The orange one featured looks great!

[@pauldncn1]

Dagan thank you for your research and enthusiasm I really want a terror stamp !! Thanks man 👍👍👍

[@jeffhebert2449]

The gain symbol (squiggly line with an arrow through it) is also the symbol for a potentiometer in electronics schematics and my guess as the inspiration for this symbol.

[@davidmurray9193]

JD and this video......... Bliss. Think you need to do a full history of orange with ups and downs and funny shit that happened vid, I'd be up for watching it even if its a LOOOOOONNNNGGGG vid 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@kyojitsu1]

Great video @pmtvuk and love the nerdy facts - an amazing brand story. Especially the coat of arms - the symbols at the bottom are for 'crescendo' and 'decrescendo' btw which means 'gradually get louder' and 'gradually get quieter' which makes sense...just bought my first Orange amp, a Crush 35RT. Pick up tomorrow and can't wait! 😊

[@mrcopeland3996]

Dagan, I enjoyed this very much. Thank you so much. Best Wishes. Mike

[@johnnyola2205]

I had a 1x12 Orange 30 watt combo around 2003 and loved it. It was stamped “Traynor” inside. Wasn’t sure what that meant.

[@larryroybal6946]

Traynor was a name brand amplifier maker in the day. I don't know if they still exist?

[@michaelsablan8772]

Aloha Dagan! Very interesting history lesson and you present it well because of your charismatic personality. No wonder why Jack Sparrow was created after your personality and became a very powerful presence in the movie, hahaha! Eh Braddah, I lived in the UK for 6 1/2 years and served 2 tours with the US Air Force there. I learned that some very British names derived from an occupation or skill that one did(I don’t recall how one didn’t have a name or was needing a name to begin with?) i.e., a person named Potter came from the skill of pottery, Smith….from blacksmith and the big one here….COOPER….from the trade of making barrels. It’s the orange barrel in the Orange Coat of Arms…..yes!? I’m guessing that is why that was put in there. Mahalo nui loa for sharing your time with us Dagan!

[@Ten80pete]

It's funny, I've been playing guitar for going on 24 years now, and only starting about 2 years ago did I start researching amps (Got a 120W Line 6 Spider II as a gift about 10 years ago and thought it was the last amp I'd ever need). Heard about Orange about a year ago, and the simplicity and tone made me go out and pick one up the very same day. Granted, it was the 3 Watt Mini model, but I only ever played it with headphones or a cabinet. Absolute favorite all-rounder amps!

[@Jackie_Rosewood]

Love my Orange amp!!! Great History review Dagan!!🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@PMTVUK]

Thanks for watching Jackie! 🙌

[@shanethackeray1988]

Thanks for the interesting video, I have admit I knew sweet FA about Orange Amps. Always been a Marshall and Ampeg player. Going to have to get me an Orange.

[@Nomdeguerre]

Good work. I'm inpressed. You got some stuff right where others fail. Although I'd like to point out that #8 isn't correct. Peter Green had a Matamp Series 2000 which he used with Fleetwood Mac prior to Orange and Cliff Cooper was impressed by the amp and it was what inspired him to seek out Matamp to help them build their first amps. Cliff wanted them to be orange colored and he came up with the "TV-frame" look, but the amp itself was very much based on the Series 2000 but with a more powerful power amp section. The first ever "Orange amp" was a Series 2000 in an Orange sleeve. Then they built 10 prototypes with the circuit altered to go with Fleetwood Mac on their US tour. Mat Mathias followed as well and had to continiously make repairs as the amps kept breaking down repeatedly. These 10 prototypes including the first non-official one were all made in 1968 and were all disassembled when FM returned to the UK. (The non-official one is still around to this day, sadly re-tolexed in black.) Improvments were made and production then started in 1969 as you claimed correctly.

[@PaulDakin-u7b]

I've been playing an Orange OR-80 Amp for over 50 years. There is none better to get that overdriven, midrange heavy blues rock sound.

[@Merjia]

I’ve recently become exclusively an Orange player. No other amp sounds like me when I play them. I feel so at home.

[@PMTVUK]

🔥🤘

[@westernrider100]

Wanted a new practice amp and the store owner had me turn around, and he started plugging me into amps to see what I liked ...... I told him starting out that I didn't want an Orange cause I hated their sound. Ended up picking an Orange Crush CR60 ...... still got it and swapped out the original speaker with a Celestion V30. Nice, real nice. I'm running a MXR Timmy to cut a bit of bass going into the amp. If I had to change speakers again, I might select something different from a Celestion V30 that has a bit more top end shine. Regardless, the amp and the V30 is going to be staying around for the foreseeable future.

[@BenState]

The British also invented the street sign symbols we almost all use today. A lady from London I believe. I own the tremlord 30, such a nice amp.

[@richardbspeck147]

Paul Kossoff (Free) used them, so in 2020 I brought an Orange Crush Bass 50 & a SX VTG series VEP62B black left-hand Bass guitar.

[@alexwoolridge94aw]

Orange amps are kickass indeed. I love my Rockerverb 50 mkii. Cool stuff

[@victorramsey5575]

I have the Rocker 15 Terror head running into 2 stacked PPC112's. Its a nice little mini stack in the living room for when the party is in full swing! Yeah Baby!

[@TheMrMars]

Love the thiccnes of Orange amps, absolutely uncopyable

[@philf4086]

Yep, perfect guitar for this video! Good job.

[@jhonnysrivera2002]

I demoed a cheap strat style guitar on a orange amp and I just fell in love with the tone and sound you can get out of em I decided I should buy one for myself bought a orange crush 20 added some reverb through guitar rig 6 and some delay and this thing sounds CRAZY good

[@TylerJohnstonGuitar]

Orange makes great sounding amps, whether it’s in the 100 dollar range or the 2000 dollar range.

[@weedyguitarstudio1715]

My favorite symbol is the Power one of Frankenstein all I have is a Orange 20 but for the price throw your pedal board down and rock the night away as you said they have some awesome saturation which makes for mean tone and full bodied clean and driven notes Rock On Brotha 😎💯🤘

[@Cherokie89]

I love orange because they have so much personality- both in branding and in sound.

[@ironmantran]

Oh , have not visit for a while ----------- seriously dig that look and dark shade of Toni Iommi ----------- orange is the NEW black ! --------------- Dagan, is that YOU ???

[@pyroheart6801]

I always believed the "sound" Orange were going for the electric guitar instrument focused on the lower-midrange frequency spectrum, which the guitar is known for within that hearing range. Orange is, and will always be, an electric guitar amp business reflecting on their slogan (Voice of the World).

[@westernrider100]

And the voice of the world speaker sounds like a muffled fart.......and the V30 will bring out some really nice detail especially in the clean break up tones.

[@EvilMerlin]

The Orange Crush, 35 was my first real amp. Still play it today. Yeah its been replaced mostly by my Katana-50 Mk.2. But still the Orange makes a sound you just don't get unless you run it thru a computer.

[@djlehara]

Bought the Katana Mini as my very first amp and practice amp, quickly upgraded to the Crush 20 and I love it!!

[@allighast9714]

I wish they would make their paint fluoresce under blacklight, that is The only thing I would change

[@sid35gb]

I have a few orange amps tube and solid state but the Super Crush 100 does it for me.

[@ParaBellum2024]

13:46 It's a marking gauge and a chisel, both of which are woodworking tools.

[@thomasjames5722]

Thank you for the education on Orange!

[@rj308]

Dagan, what's the cab on the bottom? Love the RV2 and want and ext cab with larger logo. Been playin Orange for 40 years. Def my fave amps over the years. Chatted with Cliff and Ade at NAMM at the 40yr anniversary. Cliff a legend and Ade right behind him.

[@Rocktalk101]

I love my orange amps! I currently own 3 of them and they are amazing hands down my favorite amps out there!

[@PMTVUK]

They're awesome! 👊

[@raybrodeur3886]

How about for country music like Brent Mason style sound.Can you get that sound out of an orange amp.And what wattage are you talking about?And what price are we talking about?

[@Rocktalk101]

@@raybrodeur3886 wel I do not play country music nor do I know who Brent mason even is so can't answer that for you as far as price watts and price 100watt orange crush 120 head will run you $500 new and a orang 2x12 or 4x12 cab they start at $699 if you go for orange crush pro 60w 1x12 combo it runs $599 or the crush2x12 combo which runs $699 which I actrually own all 3 set ups. I will say you should be able to play country with an orange amp I do not see why not. But I play rock and metal and they are great for that!

[@josuegarcia879]

Awesome video, dagan now do facts about the awesome fender amps

[@blakesmith3308]

Been playing the guitar since 1994, own over 15 guitars and have played every make of amp in the last 27 year and I never heard of this company. Went into a Guitar Center the other day and these amps are half of their stock. I swear Orange Amps is a product of the large hadron collider.

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

Not sure if they were available when this video was made, but Orange also has not one, but TWO Bluetooth speakers! And, of course, they look like mini combo amps.

[@davidpowers9023]

Count me in. I own an Orange Crush 35RT. I've been thinking about modding it with an Ext Speaker Jack so I can run it on a 212 cab. Sound good? I think it should.

[@johnjohnson3709]

I just bought an Orange amp and I love it.

[@Synathidy]

The info on the coat of arms was good, but I must know more. 12:56: WHY is there a barrel with beautiful foliage, who put it in the barrel and for what purposes, and moreover, what type of foliage is it, where does it grow, and what are its uses? Is it a marijuana stash?

[@codelicious6590]

So, when pedals and such say, "british sound" Ive always wondered if its Orange or Vox they predominantly are attempting to emulate? Im also curious as to when Orange started manufacturing their own speakers?

[@BillyE5150]

Awesome stuff!

[@MichaelMoore-od4jz]

love the history facts well done!!!!

[@lilmoe4364]

I love my orange amp. It gets a great blues tone

[@john_torres2021]

Great video Mr. Dagan , regards from Lima Peru

[@TheMoneyMakingMentor]

I have the Orange 20 RT and it's great

[@michaelbevins2405]

Hey Dragon man ,hows it goin? yeah man i got 2 of those little micro darks ,i conect them 2 mono out of a m x r 10 band e q ,sounds really good

[@DevNarayann]

Just bought an Orange 12 amp, can i connect it directly to my macbook or should i use a digital interface?

[@PFB1994]

First time I heard of these Orange Amps was from some old Canned Heat video on MTV.

[@mickbrown4606]

I knew Stevie Winwood in 1969, and he was using what appeared to be a 100W Orange head into a 4x12" cabinet for his Hammond. I am not sure how that fits into this story.

[@miketurnbull7410]

Awesome. Mind, I'm Orange obsessed, so I guess that's no surprise. We all know how good they are technically and for that unique range of tones, but there's also the aesthetic. As a teenager of the late Sixties and early Seventies, the gear evokes so many memories for me, of bands seen, girls met and - ahem - trips out! I keep spider and cheese plants next to mine and sometimes just steam music by the bands of the time doing their thing whilst looking at my stacks - Wishbone Ash, to name just one. It's a Goddam legal time machine and I bet you didn't know that TENTH fact about Orange!!

[@littleninpo]

Brilliant vid.🙌

[@coldwar1977]

Love the iconic look too!

[@DavMajor56]

Can you do this exact video for Laney

[@StevenSimpson-it5mv]

They were basically forgotten and off the radar until Line 6 put an Orange setting on the POD. Than everyone Everyone was like, Oh yeah...Orange. I'm gonna pretend like I've always been hip to them.

[@davidmurray9193]

Shite for vitamin C but excellent at smashing yours ears 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 have the orange pro crush 120 and love it and it takes pedals soooooooo well🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@yucatansuckaman5726]

The oranges are really pedal friendly.

[@davidmurray9193]

@@yucatansuckaman5726 just what I said there brilliant 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@Curt.dammit]

I thought you were gonna say, "it's so rich and full of soup."

[@ferrimusbueller]

I want to know what gorgeous model of Gretsch Dagan is using?! Hollowbody?

[@g1cranford431]

Awesome intro

[@lutkedog1]

Love my Orange Stomp!

[@topov425]

I was told that Orange relaunched after sueing Orange phones back in the 90's. Don't know if that's true but the guy who told me seemed to know and had stacks of Orange amps from 70's and 90's This was in about 20 years ago.

[@Satchmoeddie]

I had a Mike Mat Matthias era Orange Hustler amp. I dropped it down a flight of stairs after a sound check but no harm no foul. I actually learned the amp was missing two power tubes, and had been running at 50 watts rather than the 100 is was designed to run at. Vox had tarnished their image with the Thomas Organ USA deal and Burns had another ill fated mfg & dist deal with a Baldwin USA, a deal that also included Dallas Arbiter's Sound City amps. I have to admit Baldwin did a stellar job making Partridge copies. Thomas just made solid state crap, but Baldwin's Burns amps were not that bad. Amps like Orange, Mattamp, Laney, Selmer, Hi Watt, and Vampower were all hard to find but 100% unadulterated proper English amps in the 1970s & 1980s.

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

PS: what the heck is that 3 hamuckers SG on the back, is it a special/limited model ?

[@bce3210]

Gibson vs63v reissue sg with the covers off.

[@Malegys]

you say that the first proper Orange amp came out in 1971, yet Black Sabbath are seen using these amps on their appearance on the BEAT CLUB on German TV in 1970. I remember SLEEP looking for Orange or Matamp gear in 1991 as those amps had been unavailable for decades by then.

[@Polyphemus.]

Depends on their definition of 'proper' I suppose! The first amps were manufactured for Orange by Mat Mathias of Matamp in Huddersfield starting in either late '68 or early '69. They have both Orange and Matamp branding labelled on the front and looked very similar to today's amps. By '71 an attempt was made to expand production in Huddersfield but it didn't work out, so Cliff hired his own amp designer and started producing them in-house in a basement not far from the Orange shop in London, and then expanded again to a factory in Bexleyheath two years later. They were still making amps in '91, but very limited quantities and almost certainly unobtainable outside the UK. The 80s and early 90s weren't kind to old hippy brands. Fortunately things got better!

[@oliverdepauw5663]

I love my crush 20 it sounds amazing even with no pedals but its glorious with a tube screamer on the clean channel

[@ogmakefirefiregood]

Big bottoms, Big bottoms Don't you know that our amps got 'em.

[@ericnelson966]

I used a mesa v twin pedal to over drive my 35 rt and I can easily tell you that is a match made in heaven provided you are just talking about blues and classic rock. That mesa pedal will almost make that 35rt jump off the floor. The orange is a cool amp. Do your self and replace the stock speaker. The speaker is the only weak point on this amp.

[@JIMIIXTLAN]

Dagan your so freaking COOL Just saying

[@CorrosiveMatter]

10th Fact, Russel Brand loves Orange!

[@MrKulturembargo]

Hey, did you star in Spinal Tap?

[@crazeyjoe]

I very much enjoy my Super Crush 100!

[@ricksrealpitbbq]

I read someplace that the color orange was because it was Cliff’s favorite color.

[@chrishenderson9130]

I love my microterror. I run it through 2 1×10 marshall Microstack cabs. Too cool for school

[@Yu2beFool]

fav symbol on the amp, you ask? Well, the footprint looks good! Besides: I'm lookin' at Apple... didn't they look at Orange? Not once?

[@mikewright9428]

I used Marshall for 30 years when I joined my new band they had dark terror fell in love I run mine thru Marshall cab love it

[@jordanpratt3821]

Yeah I bought my first orange,then another,and then another.Prob not done yet.

[@tonk-8]

the backwards bass clef is driving my OCD insane

[@rocker8692]

Orange started out picking Oranges in Florida.

[@nicksonthevet]

Fact no 10: I need the super crush 100, but my wallet won't let me be!

[@KingJTheGr8]

Can I do a gig with a 35 rt?

[@PMTVUK]

The amp will be loud enough for you to hear on stage, but you'd need to mic it up for the audience 👍

[@lonesomespike]

Which Gretsch is that?

[@michaeltuggle3177]

I kinds prefer purple amps.

[@JasonViator]

Cliff was the Steve Jobs of Amps....