OR50 as clean platform?

[Spaceboy1]

I'm very curious how the OR50 with the master couple disengaged would sound as a clean platform for fuzz, primarily Muff-styled. Has anybody experimented with this much? A full clean isn't really necessary so some grit as the volume is cranked is actually preferred with some amps and fuzzes.

[Eddie Famine]

I've been running mine like that for the last couple years. Works great . As with all Oranges it seems some pedals work better than others. Probably true with all amps I guess .

[davebolden44]

I like mine better as a clean platform than using its natural overdrive. I have used a big muff with it and didn't care too much for it but I have never really got along with that amp.

[msmith4432]

I like mine better as a clean platform than using its natural overdrive. I have used a big muff with it and didn't care too much for it but I have never really got along with that amp.

You don't get along with the Or50?

[davebolden44]

not really, sounds flat to me and the eq has little effect over the tone. im considering a complete retube one day before I decide to sell it. maybe that will help or perhaps it just isn't for me.

[jax510]

Scott Holiday from Rival Sons uses this amp. He has a wide variety of fuzz pedals and gets great sounds out of it.

[Spaceboy1]

not familiar with them but ill check them out

I'm debating on getting an or50 as a base for fuzz or instead waiting for a good fender bassman

[davebolden44]

I know I will be hated on here for sacrilege but I got a vintage fender super reverb and it eats the or50 tonally.

[TESLA_EL34]

crappy choice. get a twin.

[Randy Bass]

I know I will be hated on here for sacrilege but I got a vintage fender super reverb and it eats the or50 tonally.

I don't think anyone will hate you for your opinion. Tonal preferences are unique and subjective. Those two amps do totally different things and have very little similarity. I have an OR50 and a 1968 Bassman. I never use the Bassman. It has tons of low end and is good at what it does, but I never found a pedal that could give it a good enough distorted tone at reasonable volumes. I think that a clean pedal platform with a bunch of dirt pedals is totally inadequate and overcomplicated compared to an amp that sounds great all by itself. I have found the OR50 to be the exact amp I was looking for, even while another amp is apparently eating it.