this amp is only 30 Watts yet it is so
loud it can permanently damage your
hearing
a little heavy as hell and just might be
the greatest thing ever for Stoner rock
this is the orange or30 vacuum tube
guitar amplifier orange amps the very
name conjures up images of Black Sabbath
live on TV cranking out paranoid but so
many others are playing these amps
Slipknot Mastodon Corrosion of
Conformity and Andreas kisser from
sublettera the list is long and varied
everybody from Billy Gibbons to Stevie
Wonder and two guys who used to be in
one of my all-time favorite bands kaius
Nick oliveary and Brant Bjork are both
in the band Stoner using you guessed it
orange amps Orange has a long history of
cranking out high quality high powered
amps everything from the full tube
rockerverb 100 which is a total monster
to the surprisingly awesome super Crush
100 solid state head which totally blew
me away last summer so when they hit me
up asking if I wanted to do a video on
their new 30 watt head the first thing I
said said was
why is it only 30 watts and I'm sure
that's exactly the question that most
guitar players would ask is 30 Watts
actually going to be enough and the
answer to that question is if you build
the amp correctly then yes 30 Watts will
be more than enough and this is a big
misconception among guitar players that
more watts equals more volume there's a
bit of Truth in there but there's a lot
more to it than just straight up wattage
the loudest amp I own isn't my 120 watt
5150 but a 40 watt Trader yb1a from
1966. it's ear destroying loud here's
the truth of the matter ant volume is
mainly dependent on the one thing that
guitar players consistently Overlook and
that's the speaker looking up a
speaker's sensitivity rating will tell
you far more accurately how loud
something is going to be the Mojo tone
bv25m is rated at 97 decibels which
means that with one watt of power it
will put out 97 decibels at a distance
of 1 meter now if you multiply the power
by 10 it will double the volume and this
continues to scale up as we add more
power into the speaker so that means a
100 watt amp won't be three times louder
than the or30 it's closer to around a
quarter louder
to get double the maximum volume of this
you'd need 300 watts and good luck
finding a speaker that can handle that
kind of power and still sound good and
it gets even more complex as we add more
speakers more speakers means more air
being physically moved and the perceived
volume will increase as well but keep in
mind that double the speakers doesn't
mean double the volume now this all gets
pretty confusing and trying to find a
mathematical formula online to calculate
this is pretty much Mission Impossible
bottom line paired up with a set of
mototone bv25ms this amp is
excruciatingly loud let me show you what
I mean but first let me find some
hearing protection to show off just how
crazy loud the or30 is I've devised a
little science experiment with this SPL
meter
what I got over here is Reaper with a
little reamp setup so we're going to see
just how loud things get out in my amp
room with a 30 watt amp and two puny
little 25 watt speakers here we go
so right now we're at about about 80 DBS
let's open this up see what we get
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okay I was reading in about 117 DBS at
the loudest that's freaking insane that
kind of volume can be dangerous to be
clear 100 decibels can cause hearing
loss in 15 minutes 105 to 110 can cause
hearing loss in only five now this app
will definitely keep up with your
drummer at practice or on stage but for
the love of crime put in some ear plugs
because damaging your hearing is no joke
not wearing earplugs doesn't make you
tough it makes you an idiot
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okay yeah that's the first sound out of
the or30 I gotta say I got the gain
cranked up all the way and it is slimy
and I like it
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wow I gotta say yeah that just sounds
fat that's for sure now I'm not messing
around too much with the EQ and whatnot
everything's kind of like right in the
middle just a little bit of a tweak
maybe a little bit of a mid scoop
bringing the game down here I just want
to show you guys what's going to happen
if we throw on an overdrive just to kind
of tighten it up for a little bit more
modern metal sound
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yeah I'll say an overdriver really does
tighten that up it has still a really
cool bite it just kind of cleans up the
bottom end a little bit and that's
really cool but what about the whole
Stoner Doom thing tell you what let's
grab a seven string let's crank the gain
up all the way turn off the overdrive
and see just what kind of a grimy sludgy
tone this orange can deliver
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wow that was just absolutely nuts if
you're in a stoner bed you might want to
start taking a look for one of these
things because damn it really delivers
the goods but what about clean tones
Glenn can it do cleans
well let's find out shall we
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kind of grimy for cleans but yeah I
guess it'll work in a pinch all right
guys so I'm over the desktop here just
wanted to take a couple seconds here and
show you how we're getting this tone of
course we got the or30 that's the key
but we're also using a pair of these
amazing Austrian audio mics we're using
the oc7 and the od5 and that's getting
us this
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we've got this wonderful grimy thing
going on so it's a combination of two
mics if we uh just mute out one if we
got just the oc7 this is what we're
getting
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uh that's their condenser microphone and
then we've got the od5 which is their
Dynamic which is taking phantom power
which is a little different but I'm not
complaining because it sounds great
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a little quiet there I'll bring that up
in volume so you can hear what's going
on
definitely a little bit brighter and the
key here is when we combine the two this
is where it gets interesting
and what I like to do is I like to use
the faders as a sliding EQ so I'll start
with the oc7 because I really love that
tone and I'm going to bring in the
brighter mic The od5 Watch What Happens
here this is really cool
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bringing it right about there
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maybe a little brighter
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and there you go that's two mice
combined to create a bigger fatter sound
and if you want to hear what's really
going on what we can do is we can flip
the polarity on one of the mics so we
can hear the sound that's being removed
from the total
hear that brittleness
that's what's coming out
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any bit of phase cancellation to our
advantage and we're getting an awesome
result because of it of course the most
important test of any amp is how well it
works in the context of a full mix in
the studio so I brought in Jackson Ward
Eric Arco and inspector digital's brand
new Singularity based virtual instrument
for some classic rock Vibes check it out
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at 30 Watts the or30 might not seem like
much at first glance but it delivers
punishing volume when paired up even
with a very small 2x12 with a slippery
almost grimy type of Kai gain it's great
for classic metal and rock tones and the
next time I get a stoner Doom band
through the door you can bet this is the
first amp I'm going to reach for price
is roughly 22.50 USD and I'll have some
links in the description below where you
can find it now if you're curious about
this incredible one-of-a-kind custom V
from vicious guitars I've got a video on
it right here I highly recommend
checking it out