Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
....... looks like it's my main gigging amp for small gigs. I have a shitload of great amps for louder gigs .... a really nice collection. But getting a small low powered good sounding amp that you can use in a closet sized local bar has been hard. I bought a Laney 30 watt faux-tube amp that sounded great until it blowed up real good after about 6 gigs.
I like my Epi Valve Jr. a lot but it's just not loud enough for anything except the very smallest of gigs and even then, it's only useful as a stage monitor for me to hear ..... won't really put very much out into the room.
So when i went to BR last week to bury my dad, a friend had one he'd quit using after buying a Matchless 15 and he told me to take the TT and try it and pay for it if I liked it.
I do like it quite a bit.
It's loud enough .... WAY louder that the VJr ...... sounds great and it's easy to haul. I'm gonna recone one of my JBL D-110s and build the smallest cab that it'll fit into and I'll have a killer small rig that's super portable.
The amp needs some tube changing I think .... a little noisy ..... and it doesn't really do clean. But its' crunch is nice enough sounding that you can get away with it on rhythm and it sounds good on everything else and that's good enough for me.
Ease of use is uppermost in my mind since the cattle that comprise audiences don't know squat anyway. They wouldn't notice if I didn't use an amp at all ....... so I don't on a lot of gigs. But sometimes I need to have an amp behind me even if it's just for my ears and the Orange fits the bill.
Seems a bit expensive for what it is but I got mine used for $300 and that's not too bad.
Plus ...... now I can tear my Valve Jr. apart and mod the crap out of it.
I like my Epi Valve Jr. a lot but it's just not loud enough for anything except the very smallest of gigs and even then, it's only useful as a stage monitor for me to hear ..... won't really put very much out into the room.
So when i went to BR last week to bury my dad, a friend had one he'd quit using after buying a Matchless 15 and he told me to take the TT and try it and pay for it if I liked it.
I do like it quite a bit.
It's loud enough .... WAY louder that the VJr ...... sounds great and it's easy to haul. I'm gonna recone one of my JBL D-110s and build the smallest cab that it'll fit into and I'll have a killer small rig that's super portable.
The amp needs some tube changing I think .... a little noisy ..... and it doesn't really do clean. But its' crunch is nice enough sounding that you can get away with it on rhythm and it sounds good on everything else and that's good enough for me.
Ease of use is uppermost in my mind since the cattle that comprise audiences don't know squat anyway. They wouldn't notice if I didn't use an amp at all ....... so I don't on a lot of gigs. But sometimes I need to have an amp behind me even if it's just for my ears and the Orange fits the bill.
Seems a bit expensive for what it is but I got mine used for $300 and that's not too bad.
Plus ...... now I can tear my Valve Jr. apart and mod the crap out of it.
