Played an Orange Dual Dark 100 today....

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and man that thing is a monster. Both channels are supremely tweakable, took a boost well, the loop is dope and that attenuator is pure fuckin AWESOME....we had this thing cranked with the Master until shit was shaking in the room and then just rolled everything down to conversation volume. Punch and low end were still there, all the response was there, there was nothing I didn't love about it. Incredible amp, they really did a fantastic job with these. Great for downtuned tight metal riffing, which was something I've never really experienced with an Orange before.

Tried it with an Ibby Prestige, a couple different ESPs, couple different Gibson LPs and a Schecter with actives...it really didn't like the actives much, but whaddaya gonna do...I'm sure if I had more time with it I could have dialed it in.

The attenuator really blew me away though...you could run this rig in an apartment no problem, true conversational volume is totally achievable, your neighbors would never even know. Shocked at that.

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If you haven't played this and get a chance to do so, get on that shit. It's like no other Orange.
 
Your review surprises me because I've yet to hear a good clip from this amp. Always sounds like a woolly can of bees.
 
Different strokes, man. You know you can't always rely on vids. But if this vid sounds like bees to you then yeah, this amp isn't for you.


 
What I meant was it has that typical wooly Orange sound with an added buzzy transistor type treble. Not desirable personally, but I'm sure there are ears, and a market for that type of tone.
 
The insanely stupid thing about Orange is they make all their cabs loaded with V30's, yet the majority of their amps sound fuzzy and fizzed with them. An Orange into greenbacks and creambacks can be incredible, and take on a fantastic modded Marshall sound. I've played that DD100 also and it sounds better than most Orange thru a V30 cab but sounds completely brutal thru a Marshall 1960 cab. YMMV
 
ive really wanted to try one. could you get a clean sound from either channel?
 
I'd like to try this and some of other Orange amps I've tried in the past through a cab other than Orange. Every model I've tried in the past, I tried through an Orange 2x12 and was thoroughly unimpressed. D-rock's "woolly can of bees" description mirrors my perceptions of the tones I've got out of every Orange I've played through the Orange 212.
 
sleewell2":1guxia03 said:
ive really wanted to try one. could you get a clean sound from either channel?
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Yeah, actually from either. There are a lot of shaping options. This dude messes with the cleans starting around 5:00 in....it's not ever gonna be Fender type clean stuff, but it'll work in a pinch and it's pretty sensitive to rolling the volume knob.

 
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