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jax510
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OR100 or AD30

Post by jax510 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:18 pm

After having sacrificed some of my orange gear to the inferior gods of continuing education I am finally going to have a job and get paid in a few weeks. I owned an ad30 for a number of years and loved it, was very unhappy when I had to sell. I enjoyed it's fuzzier overdrive sound among other things. However I've also had my earballs on the OR100 and have enjoyed the sounds of big iron in the past. I primarily like to play more riff based stuff, rock and roll/garage/stoner/psychedelic things. Is the OR100 going to provide some more of that goodness? It's hard to explain exactly what I want, best to hear it in person yes, but or100's are not plentiful at the moment so anyone with experience with or100 or both who could chime in would be much appreciated.

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Re: OR100 or AD30

Post by Les Paul Lover » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:53 pm

They aren't miles away in terms of channel A AD30/ dirty channel OR100.

That fuzzy OD is there in spades. The OR100 is thicker, sounds bigger. Same clean channel as RV as far as I could tell.

The AD30 can have 2 dirty channels though.... but no fx loop.

The master volume works a treat on the OR100. I was very impressed with it.
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Re: OR100 or AD30

Post by jax510 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:55 pm

Thanks for the info. I'm really a one channel guy, mostly stayed on ad30 channel 2, currently use a tiny terror, so not having two dirty channels won't be a problem. Good news on the volume knob. Cons to the or100 for me are potential higher cost, learning to bias tubes, and weight. Really wish I could try an or100 out but I've never seen one locally, for sale or otherwise.

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