Orange Dual Dark announced

Grumpyrocker

New 50 and 100 watt heads from Orange. Company says its the highest gain Orange amps yet.

The 50 can run at 50 and 25watts, the 100 at 100, 70, 50, and 30 watts.

Pictures on the Orange site.

samzadgan

That is sweet…finally they do an affordable 30'ish watt amp with EL34's!!!

now…if that only made that in Orange rather than black…

edit: I'm hoping its affordable?!?

not_the_dj

Any idea if they have an FX loop?

not_the_dj

...found the spec, yes they an FX loop. Interesting.

Bidley

Holy shit, finally they do a high-powered amp with more than one channel. If they're anything like the Dark Terror, they'll be awesome.

ThePrettyDamned

Wish they were a dual Jim root, but it might be an improvement over the original dark series, which I really didn't like.

Then again, a dual Jim root would probably just be a rockerverb...

dampoldman

Dark Terror is a quality amp but let down by only one channel...so yeah, this does look interesting!

gearaddict

How much gain is it possible to have?

I've never stood in front of my TH30 thinking "how can I get more gain?"

I do very much like the prospect of EL34s, 3 band eq...and I like the black!

Hmm....

Bucket

Does it do clean? Or is it just filthy and filthier?

I can't believe that, of all people, I was the one to ask this.

Drew_TNBD

They look really nice in the flesh!

timmysoft

Looks like a winner, I think orange are a company listening to what users want.

samzadgan

gearaddict said:

How much gain is it possible to have?

I've never stood in front of my TH30 thinking "how can I get more gain?"

I do very much like the prospect of EL34s, 3 band eq...and I like the black!

Hmm....

the EL34 is a big draw i think...they've almost answered the requests of people who wanted the rocker 30. the only potential problem...how clean can one of the channels be? given they are both overdrive channels, i cant see that even with the gain all the way down you could get much headroom...

Tat2dstesh

to be honest it looks like the jim root and the dark terror in 1 amp and from the description this is very dirty and very dirty  

Still want one though, Give me a price god dammit 

ThePrettyDamned

It looks like channel 1 is a regular tiny terror sound and channel 2 is the dark terror gain.

Maybe they'll bring out one with the Jim root sound though. One of the best sounding gain amps I've heard, compared to the dark which I thought was okay, but paled in comparison.

Bugger all headroom, so nice to see a proper power section.

Bidley

I take back what I said if it's two OD channels... Seems pretty limited. I'd have thought clean and filth would have been a better way to go, if you really wanted crunch you could use a pedal, like loads of people do anyway.

Having a 100w amp with no clean headroom doesn't seem right.