ORANGE VALVE AMP that fits in your pocket?!

[eSGEe]

 

[LRT]

It's only $200 from sweetwater, not a bad price.
The micro terror is only $149 though. So in reality the only benifit is that it will fit on a pedal board. This could be nice for a gig amp making it easier to set up and less heavy gear to move.

 

[eSGEe]

also has an effects loop Micro Terror doesnt.

 

[eSGEe]

Love the name -- Terror Stamp...............you know someone at Orange WANTED to call it the TRAMP STAMP

 

[ivan H]

That in the video title they call it "a valve amp that fits on your pedal board" is a bit miss-leading. While it does have a 12AX7/ECC83 in the pre-amp, like the micro terror series of amps it's a "hybrid" amp with everything after the 1st & 2nd gain stages being solid state (it feature a solid state 20 watt class A/B push pull power amp, meaning there's more solid state stages than valve).
All that said, it's still a neat little amp package that would be very convenient. Cheers

 

[LRT]

also has an effects loop Micro Terror doesnt.

I did not know that

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Just right for the living room.

 

[LRT]

That in the video title they call it "a valve amp that fits on your pedal board" is a bit miss-leading. While it does have a 12AX7/ECC83 in the pre-amp, like the micro terror series of amps it's a "hybrid" amp with everything after the 1st & 2nd gain stages being solid state (it feature a solid state 20 watt class A/B push pull power amp, meaning there's more solid state stages than valve).
All that said, it's still a neat little amp package that would be very convenient. Cheers

Its pretty much like the joyo amps. The little joyo zombie has a nice tube feel to it for one 12AX7

 

[gball]

It's only $200 from sweetwater, not a bad price.
The micro terror is only $149 though. So in reality the only benifit is that it will fit on a pedal board. This could be nice for a gig amp making it easier to set up and less heavy gear to move.

It's a very cool idea, and I think the second volume stage makes it a good value. But...I had a Micro Terror and I could not get a decent sound out of the thing at anything less than gigging volume, which to me kind of defeated the purpose of having a tiny amp. At home/practice volume it was sterile and lifeless and that single tone control didn't offer enough range. Maybe I just expected too much from $150 amp the size of camera.

 

[eSGEe]

FUNNY--- I thought the EXACT same thing with the first one I owned--
then I got s steel on another -- and figured WTF Ill give it a go ---if I dont like it I can flip it for PROFIT

but (im playing through it RIGHT NOW actually) I have found several things.....
1. RUN IT THROUGH A 12" cab -- min---(and actually I prefer it through my Hartke BASS cab)
2. you gotta really fiddle with the knobs to get a sweet spot at low volume-- but it can be done -- and when you get the balance right between vol and gain---
there are LOVELY jazz ish Voxie cleans---- all the way up to mega ORANGE CRUNCH in that little box

 

[mcblink]

It's a very cool idea, and I think the second volume stage makes it a good value. But...I had a Micro Terror and I could not get a decent sound out of the thing at anything less than gigging volume, which to me kind of defeated the purpose of having a tiny amp. At home/practice volume it was sterile and lifeless and that single tone control didn't offer enough range. Maybe I just expected too much from $150 amp the size of camera.

Did you try replacing the valve with a tube? That there is the secret nobody talks about.

 

[gball]

Did you try replacing the valve with a tube? That there is the secret nobody talks about.

Yeah I rolled every preamp tube I had in the box through the thing and it remained unusable at low volume. Sounded pretty good turned up through my 4x12 but wasn't about to take over for any of my other amps.

 

[gball]

FUNNY--- I thought the EXACT same thing with the first one I owned--
then I got s steel on another -- and figured WTF Ill give it a go ---if I dont like it I can flip it for PROFIT

but (im playing through it RIGHT NOW actually) I have found several things.....
1. RUN IT THROUGH A 12" cab -- min---(and actually I prefer it through my Hartke BASS cab)
2. you gotta really fiddle with the knobs to get a sweet spot at low volume-- but it can be done -- and when you get the balance right between vol and gain---
there are LOVELY jazz ish Voxie cleans---- all the way up to mega ORANGE CRUNCH in that little box

I was always using it through a minimum of a 12" cab (I did have the little 1x8 cab that matched it but that thing was a JOKE so never used it). Depending on the gain level It was either flat and lifeless or box of bees. Never could find a pleasing sound using the tone knob. The only way the thing was of any use at all was with my pedalboard in front of it, which kind of defeated the intended purpose, so I just got rid of it.

Again, through my 4x12 at high volume it sounded pretty good but it was too compressed to really use that way.

 

[eSGEe]

SHoulda used a bass cab
lol

thats the lovely thing about these things-- you dont HAVE TO LIKE IT

what I would like...................................is for someone to send me one of these for "testing"

 

[eSGEe]

I also run my little SS Marshall LEad 15 into the bass cab-- -makes CHUGALICIOUS Metalica tones like you cant believe at low volume--
its not worth a gnat stinker in a hurricane for HIGH volume or CUTTING THROUGH A MIX -- but for dicking around in my office its a BALL OF LAUGHS

 

[jtcnj]

I had the Micro Terror for a while.
I ran mine through a 12" Greenback type.
It was pretty damn good, but not any better than what I have, and yeah it is small but sounds best loud, and loud it was.
If I didnt already have 5-ish, 12-15-ish, 18w all tube amps I would have kept it.

THe pedal size package is nice, but the micro is small enough I dont see any real / substantial difference in portability.

 

[Session 5]

This thing is in English terms, is Funtasic!!!!! I really like this little Gem. It has its own spot in the chain of things. Yea its an ORANGE Baby,

 

[eSGEe]

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Awesome

 

[Col Mustard]

It's a very cool idea, and I think the second volume stage makes it a good value.
But...I had a Micro Terror and I could not get a decent sound out of the thing
at anything less than gigging volume, which to me kind of defeated the purpose
of having a tiny amp. At home/practice volume it was sterile and lifeless
and that single tone control didn't offer enough range.
Maybe I just expected too much from $150 amp the size of camera.

Wow, I totally loved the tones of my Micro Terror, and very rarely ever cranked it
much more than half. It would rattle the windows in my house if I did.
I thought mine sounded best powering a hand made 8 ohm cab with
1/10 and 1/12" speaker. I called that the
"tall rig."

But we all have different styles. I always played mine with my pedal board
in front of it. Tuner, EQ, Blues Driver, reverb. Getting great tones was easy
with my pedals in play. The amp never sounded sterile with me.

If if did, I'd tweak the lower mids on the EQ pedal, without fuss. *shrugs
Below is what I called the "short rig" with 1/10 and 1/8" speakers. This
sounded great at low volumes. I got my distortion from my blues driver, and didn't
need to bust my eardrums overdriving anything.

So I liked mine for its light weight and tiny size. I fostered it with friends
because I decided to take only one guitar amp when I moved, and settled on
my Vox VT-30 because it does everything I need.
A hard choice, but I made it. Now my friends get to enjoy this.

Now that I'm settled in, I feel the G.A.S. bubbling again.
But I'm not buying anything right now.
Just looking, thanks...