KSR Orion 4.2Ch Head

[@Husabuse]

A proper pallet cleanser after living through the latest shred collab. Love your content Michael. Interesting stuff and always face melting riffs. Keep it coming.

[@michaelmitchell5909]

That thing sounds incredible...holy cow.

[@jjmonzon4343]

Is it just me or is that clean channel in Lo mode just awesome? Definitely wasn't expecting it from an amp that has so much gain on tap. Got a feeling that with the right cabs, this amp could do just about everything. Great review and awesome playing as always!

[@dantahoua]

Never heard of this company! Thanks for the discover!

[@mfergel]

Looks about the size of the Carvin Legacy 3. Sounded pretty awesome.

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Yeah, I think they’re roughly the same size

[@MRxr400]

i love the opening track and tones you got out of this amp. like a boogie on steroids to me.

[@OneMoreAstronaut]

Hopefully you'll get a chance to try out a Gemini at some point. What a monster. Love mine.

[@brownsfan7753]

Awesome demo my friend!!!!

[@MercutioUK2006]

Oh word, that really does all the things you might need an amp to do. o.0 Actually blown away.

[@JorisGriffioen]

It's a lot to ask but I'd really love if it had a simple IR loader just to _really_ do everything without adding more boxes or software.

[@MercutioUK2006]

@@JorisGriffioen Fair, and yes. Either way I can't afford it so I'm just drolling from afar :)

[@ProtoplasmaKSR]

@@JorisGriffioen I hear this from time to time, but I wonder if that will still be the case in 10 years? 20 years? That IR tech will long be obsolete, while the amp itself will still sound awesome and function as it always has -- given some maintenance. The Slave Out on the back and built-in load box allow you to use any DAW or unit to capture the raw cabinet signal and process with whatever method of preference. I think this is ultimately the most future-proof solution for an already teeteringly obsolete tube amp system, in my opinion anyway. I'm very curious to see how folks are using their amps in 20 years...my money is on the pure tube circuits without the IR stuff will be more sought after. Innovate, desire, need, reset, new standard, repeat...

[@wea69420]

​@@ProtoplasmaKSRby virtue of the physics behind it, IRs aren't likely to change much in the next 20 years. Add to that the fact that the field of technology for guitar is notoriously slow to adopt new stuff and you really have no excuse to leave an IR loader out in a machine meant to "do everything". It's just missing features without any benefit.

[@JorisGriffioen]

​@@ProtoplasmaKSR Regarding obselescence: I think this is a kind of "trauma" we all have from tech moving so fast in the past decades but if you zoom out the argument doesn't really make sense anymore. We want IRs because they *sound good*, they will still sound good after 20 years. They've been a standard way to do it for over a decade by now because it works really well. There will be improvements of course but they'll be marginal and you can always make it bypassable. Most importantly though: I use the stuff *now* and having a cab sim inside would remove a lot of added complexity in actual practice, there's direct value to it.

[@Manley156]

Surprised I liked the lead tone as much as did! Other reviews the guys just focus on how tight it is and chugg it up

[@b.scottfarthingsworth]

Yipes. I don't even have the volume up much, and I feel this thing in my chest through my computer monitors. I'm pretty sure that this has never happened.

[@billyhughes9776]

Some seriously thick tone -- really cool layout. Does the foot switch on/off the effects loop?

[@ProtoplasmaKSR]

There's a FS input for the Loop, as well as 4 toggle switches on the back for assignment to each channel. Plugging into the Loop FS jack defeats the assignment.

[@fireonhigh100]

could i use the preamp from orion to pwower amp of my dual rec.?

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Yes, but you would need the Orion to be connected to a load box, then go line out (not speaker out) into the Recto FX loop return. It's a lotta work though. KSR makes a preamp pedal, that might be a better route.

[@fireonhigh100]

@@BigHairyGuitars thanks man!

[@Robstafarian]

I would be interested in a two-channel version with the clean channel and its high-gain setting as separate channels. From the crunch channel onward, it was too compressed. Thank everything for Steve Fryette!

[@NikolajChristensen]

Got to 1:38 before I hit the like button. Won't happen again. Sorry.

[@chad6326]

Hey Michael... 2 questions. First have you tried the McRocklin Suite yet and Second... did you do a video sometime back on the Nembrini ADA MP1 plugin and if so do you have a preset pack available for purchase on that particular plugin???

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Hi! I have not tried the McRocklin suite. I use Overloud THU a lot and have lots of packs available for it including a killer ADA pack. I also use Amplitube and ToneX, some Neural stuff. I haven’t made a preset pack for the Nembrini. I bought the plugin and it sounds really good. Everything Nembrini makes is top quality. But as far as MP-1 sounds I think my THU and Kemper and ToneX captured packs are the best representation of the MP-1 in the best light.

[@chad6326]

@@BigHairyGuitars ok, can you tell me the price point needed from THU upon purchase to buy/utilize your THU 80s presets?? I in the video you saying something about needing the higher quality effects to get some of those sounds???