ORange TH30 - opinions

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I need opinion on this amp. My buddy can sell me one.

It will be suitable for classic metal ?
 
If by classic metal you mean Black Sabbath, then yes.

It's a great little amp!!
 
hunter":51kjf7v5 said:
If by classic metal you mean Black Sabbath, then yes.

It's a great little amp!!

Thanks ;)
This ample can handle pedals ( eq , booster like ts9 , flanger ...) well ?
 
sure can, I am actually demoing one this morning in the studio for a RT member. They have lots of gain and a very nice clean channel.
 
Great !
How about built quality (components , transformators , tubes ... ) ?
 
EnGl":2j34lbui said:
Great !
How about built quality (components , transformators , tubes ... ) ?

for a $1200 head new its built well and has quality components.
 
Great amp which as King Guitar stated a good drive and clean channel. It takes overdrive pedals well (I used a Carl Martin Plexitone with mine) and the effects loop is good for delays, modulation, etc. Additionally Orange Customer support is very good.
 
Maybe your buddy will let you play it to see if you like it ?
 
snowdog":1qx8fsaq said:
Maybe your buddy will let you play it to see if you like it ?
This is not possible. Currently he live in other country.
 
I have a Dark Terror, which is like a smaller version of the TH30...and I am thinking of selling the Dark Terror to get the TH30...

I like it!
 
I'm regularly using one in a rental rehearsal studio, here are my 2 cents:
Sounds great alone, immediately disappears in a band context. The lack of mid control on the clean channel and the 1 knob "mid shape" on the crunch channel is a bummer, due to the first sentence, it is quite hard to dial in the necessary amount of minds (It running with an Orange 4x12 ) The clean channel is nice but for a pedal platform, the crunch channel with the gain down and the master up is a lot more organic and dynamic solution. It has a bunch of power scaling options, triode, pentode, 4 tubes, 2 tubes, but I do not like any of them because it sounds like, it only affects headroom and compression, not volume. The downside is reliability, the rehearsal studio has 12 rooms and a TH30 half stack in each room next to an Engl/Boogie halfstack. All of the TH30s broke down after the first 3 months and needed major servicing. As far as I know it's related to the lack of heat dissipation. The other halfstacks take the beating without an issue.
 
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