New Orange Pedal Day! Getaway Driver

[DiabloS]

Just got the Getaway Driver pedal today and I was grinning as soon as I started playing through it. Wow, it sounds great!!! It's maybe the first pedal that I've played that claims to sound like a cranked tube amp and actually does. It's fat, punchy, responsive and has a really sweet high end in its attack. I think that's where the magic lies to make it feel like a real cranked amp.

The range of gain is really nice too, even with the gain knob cranked it still comes through clear and is just a phenomenal classic rock sound. Perfect for ZZ top type riffing. Although it's not really a typical metal sound, palm mute chugging is possible with the gain cranked and sounds good for a more Mastodon-esque stoner rock/metal sound. It's really versatile!

The headphones output is ok, good enough to practice with or maybe record scratch tracks. I probably wouldn't record anything serious with it, but it would do in a pinch. My only other minor complaint is the sweep of the volume knob, if you want unity volume to use your clean channel with the pedal disengaged, the volume knob needs to be at around 8'oclock. But that's not a huge deal.

Orange got it right with this pedal, highly recommended!!!

[langmurf]

Congrats!

[Les Paul Lover]

I'll have to try one of those one day.

What do you play it with?
Do you still have your DT? Does it stack nicely with the amps own dirt?

[thejay]

Awesome congrats!

[DiabloS]

I'll have to try one of those one day.

What do you play it with?
Do you still have your DT? Does it stack nicely with the amps own dirt?

So far I've tried it with my Boss Katana 100 2X12 combo, Traynor YCS90 2X12 combo and Dual Terror with Orange PPC212OB. I've played with it for several hours now and it's ridiculous how good this pedal sounds. It's not just a honeymoon period either, I've been using the MI Audio Super Crunch Box (same thing as a JHS Angry Charlie) as my main dirt sound for a few years now, so I have a good basis for comparison. I've A/B'd them several times and there's just something really special going on with the Getaway Driver. The Getaway Driver definitely sounds fuller, responds a bit better to picking dynamics and has an incredible percussive quality to it when hitting muted strings that makes it inspiring to play.

It stacks really well with the amp's own dirt as a clean boost too. I've A/B'd it against my Zvex channel 2 (basically a SHO) and the Getaway Driver wins there too. It sounds so good as a clean boost I'd probably use it as an always on pedal if I were to use it that way. It's not as transparent, but that special thing going on is in there even as a clean boost and only enhances what's already coming out of the amp.

The only thing it didn't do well with the Dual Terror was using it with high gain with the Dual Terror as a clean platform. But that has everything to do with the amp, none of my dirt boxes have sounded that great through the Dual Terror set clean.

Btw, if you live in the UK, there's a contest through this guy's youtube channel to win this pedal. Only a little over 100 views on the video too, so odds are probably good if you enter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AALxCML7bcc&t=20s