Orange Amplifiers
Guitarworks is now the home of ORANGE amplifiers. The legendary Orange amps started arriving in earnest this week! From the least to the greatest – Orange now lives at GUITARWORKS!
Orange amps are once again an international phenomenon! Unique design looks meets outstanding sound quality and attention to detail. Today hundreds of professional bands from around the globe are choosing Orange. Now Orange is at home at Guitarworks! Come play and hear the legendary Orange amps today.
WE now have in stock the renowned Tiny Terror 15/7 watt class A tube head, Dual Terror 30/15/7 watt head, the TH30H, Orange cabinets, Crush series combos, and the insanely powerful Rockerverb 100 Head!
The Return of Orange Amps
In the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s Orange amps were a status symbol. The original box was black with a mesh grill and a psychedelic “Orange” logo. The concept was the brainchild of Cliff Cooper, an electrical engineer with an entrepreneurial flare. This was long before words like “brand identity” and “corporate structure” were coined. Basically Cliff was going on “gut reaction” and “common sense.” When advised not to take on the established musical equipment manufacturers (aka Marshall and Hi Watt) Cliff’s ambition was bolstered to create a successful amp company.
Central to Orange amps’ identity is the visible styling. A brilliant orange-colored cover, picture-frame amp sleeves and cabs, and ‘50s retro sci-fi knobs gave Orange it’s unmistakable, totally identifiable look.
Cliff was friends with Peter Green, the guitarist with the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac – England’s premier 60’s blues band. Mac was the first big group to tour America with Orange in late 1968, using the very first Orange 100-watters. Orange introduced a 200-watt head in time for Fleetwood Mac’s spring 1969 tour with BB King. It was Peter Green who encouraged Cliff’s engineers to re-voice the amps to produce more distortion.
Orange caught on fast- with stars as wide-ranging as Jimmy Page and John Mayall to Stevie Wonder and BB King, to Ike and Tina Turner and James Brown joining the client list. By 1972 the 120-watt and 80-watt Orange OR series lead Orange to truly become the voice of the world - even outselling Marshall!
The mid-1970s saw the launch of the Orange master volume overdrive series.
In the early 1990s, the music scene went back toward the heavy rock of the ‘70s, setting the stage for the return of Orange Amplification. Soon Orange was back on the world stage. By 2000 Orange, again, thrived with the newly designed
AD series of Class A combos to mark their 30th anniversary. These amps proved to be so popular it was expanded to include 30 watt and 140 watt twin channel guitar heads and a 200-watt bass amp.
The summer of 2006 saw the launch of the 200-watt Thunderverb - featuring “ETR”; and extended tone range going down to 30Hz without distorting. The Thunderverb was both a bass and guitar amp with a revolutionary new transformer design. 2006 also saw the release of the 15-watt Tiny Terror Head –combining cool styling, portability, power and value in a deceptively small package. That gave birth to the Tiny Terror Combo and AD5 Combo.
In October 2011, Orange will ship the first Dark Terror amps in the US- and Guitarworks will be among the first to receive them. The Dark Terror promises an even more aggressive preamp to serve the metal crowd, plus an effects loop. All Orange products are built like a tank and perform equally well at home, on stage or in the studio.
Come see and hear the Orange line at Guitarworks in Greenwood! Our introductory Orange amp sale assures you your best price on whichever model you choose- and remember, your Trades are Welcome
