OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
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OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Hey, guys. If you own one of these 2 amps please share your favorite settings
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
My OR50
Volume, 11:00 o'clock
Master Volume 2 to 3 o'clock
Punch. 3:00 o'clock
Tone controls, treble and bass, noon, mids about 1 or 2
With that I get a great crunchy rhythm sound, that can easily be cleaned up with guitar volume or coil splitting . For lead , just add an EP boost and there you are.
Volume, 11:00 o'clock
Master Volume 2 to 3 o'clock
Punch. 3:00 o'clock
Tone controls, treble and bass, noon, mids about 1 or 2
With that I get a great crunchy rhythm sound, that can easily be cleaned up with guitar volume or coil splitting . For lead , just add an EP boost and there you are.
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Thanks, sounds like a good setting, for some reason lately I have had to dial back the bass on mine, I don't feel like I have ever had to do that before but I ran it at about 10oclock last night
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Time for a valve change maybe?..... It's not that's there more bass there's just less Treble and presencemsmith4432 wrote:Thanks, sounds like a good setting, for some reason lately I have had to dial back the bass on mine, I don't feel like I have ever had to do that before but I ran it at about 10oclock last night
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Thanks Eddie Famine for the cut and paste. I was really surprised to see how close we run things.
OR50
Volume, 11:00 o'clock
Master Volume 11:00 o'clock - noon
Punch. 3:00 o'clock
Tone controls, treble and bass, noon, mids about 3 o'clock
OR50
Volume, 11:00 o'clock
Master Volume 11:00 o'clock - noon
Punch. 3:00 o'clock
Tone controls, treble and bass, noon, mids about 3 o'clock
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Probably not that IMO. Valves generally wear very gradually and typically lose both top and bottom end punch.Ronnie Robinson wrote:Time for a valve change maybe?..... It's not that's there more bass there's just less Treble and presencemsmith4432 wrote:Thanks, sounds like a good setting, for some reason lately I have had to dial back the bass on mine, I don't feel like I have ever had to do that before but I ran it at about 10oclock last night
Nah, it is just msmith4432's musical ear finally developing!
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Dunno, it's funny as well as you, one night, played in tone heaven...... The following day, your amp, cab haven't moved, you have the same guitar and cable exactly the same way..... And it doesn't sound right????!!!????
It's happened to me so many times before.
I swear your ability to hear the music changes depending on mood, tiredness and other factors....
It's happened to me so many times before.
I swear your ability to hear the music changes depending on mood, tiredness and other factors....
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Yeah I get that too with most amps frankly. I think there are a lot of factors, but for me being a fine tweaker of things like the guitar volume / tone controls it is sometimes down to little things like not quite setting them right or playing a little closer to the bridge than usual or whatever.
Or maybe just how inspired / not I am on a given day.
Other factors of course are that your ears do get tired and the frequency balance you hear changes after an hour or two playing, especially if playing fairly loud when it happens faster. And amps do change in sound as they warm up properly. Funnily enough they always seem to get better, not worse, neat trick. This doesn't just happen with valve amps either!
About the only amp I find totally consistent every time I switch it on is my DR103 Hiwatt. It is almost impossible to get a bad sound out of it no matter how you set it or what you put through it. The next best I own in that respect is actually my Peavey Classic 30 combo, again I can always get good sounds out of it fairly easily.
My two Oranges seem better than most at letting me get what I want soundwise without any hassle. But sure, somethimes they sound 'better' than others for no really obvious reason.
Least consistent sounding is my old Top Boost AC30. Probably largely down to voltage sensitivity, but also because the controls are both strong and highly interactive so slight tweaks can sometimes mess the sounds right up and it isn't that easy to dial in. At it's best it is truly wonderful, at it's worst I just can't seem to get it to sing at all. Well odd, but a real enough phenomenon I've simply learned to accept.
Andy.
Or maybe just how inspired / not I am on a given day.
Other factors of course are that your ears do get tired and the frequency balance you hear changes after an hour or two playing, especially if playing fairly loud when it happens faster. And amps do change in sound as they warm up properly. Funnily enough they always seem to get better, not worse, neat trick. This doesn't just happen with valve amps either!
About the only amp I find totally consistent every time I switch it on is my DR103 Hiwatt. It is almost impossible to get a bad sound out of it no matter how you set it or what you put through it. The next best I own in that respect is actually my Peavey Classic 30 combo, again I can always get good sounds out of it fairly easily.
My two Oranges seem better than most at letting me get what I want soundwise without any hassle. But sure, somethimes they sound 'better' than others for no really obvious reason.
Least consistent sounding is my old Top Boost AC30. Probably largely down to voltage sensitivity, but also because the controls are both strong and highly interactive so slight tweaks can sometimes mess the sounds right up and it isn't that easy to dial in. At it's best it is truly wonderful, at it's worst I just can't seem to get it to sing at all. Well odd, but a real enough phenomenon I've simply learned to accept.
Andy.
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
I would really be suprised if the tunes were fading, I have somewhere between 30-40 hrs on these valvesa.hun wrote:Probably not that IMO. Valves generally wear very gradually and typically lose both top and bottom end punch.Ronnie Robinson wrote:Time for a valve change maybe?..... It's not that's there more bass there's just less Treble and presencemsmith4432 wrote:Thanks, sounds like a good setting, for some reason lately I have had to dial back the bass on mine, I don't feel like I have ever had to do that before but I ran it at about 10oclock last night
Nah, it is just msmith4432's musical ear finally developing!
Andy.
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
I have had this exact same experienceLes Paul Lover wrote:Dunno, it's funny as well as you, one night, played in tone heaven...... The following day, your amp, cab haven't moved, you have the same guitar and cable exactly the same way..... And it doesn't sound right????!!!????
It's happened to me so many times before.
I swear your ability to hear the music changes depending on mood, tiredness and other factors....
Mesa boogie Stiletto ace
OR 50 40th anniversary
Orange CS50
Orange 2x12 ppc
Avatar 2x12 G12-65s
Mesa Boogie wide body 1x12
Gibson Les Paul custom black beauty(maple Fretboard)
Gibson Les Paul custom 58 vos
Gibson les Paul custom 57 vos
OR 50 40th anniversary
Orange CS50
Orange 2x12 ppc
Avatar 2x12 G12-65s
Mesa Boogie wide body 1x12
Gibson Les Paul custom black beauty(maple Fretboard)
Gibson Les Paul custom 58 vos
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Are you sure you were running your cable in the same direction???Les Paul Lover wrote:Dunno, it's funny as well as you, one night, played in tone heaven...... The following day, your amp, cab haven't moved, you have the same guitar and cable exactly the same way..... And it doesn't sound right????!!!????
Talking of consistency, I've been using my OR120 again for the last two gigs and it's been consistently impeccable! Honestly I hadn't used it live since about 1990 when I switched over to a valve/midi effects rack setup and it's blowing me away all over again... probably more than ever now that I have a much better pedal board.
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Re: OR50 and CS50 owners, share your favorite settings
Yeah, I know that phenomenon well. It's almost like some days I can't hear treble as well (amp sounds muddy), and other days I hear it too well (amp sounds tinny, harsh). Or maybe my hands are stiff and my pick attack is off. Or maybe the temp, humidity, density of the air in the room is different and the resonance of the room has changed. I don't know what causes it! I've gotten better at controlling the urge to take out a soldering iron when it happens.
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