Just got my second orange amp, the micro dark. I came a long way with amps, now owning a Marshall DSL50, origin 20, Fender Bassbreaker 007.
Last year I bought a micro terror and fell in love with this sound so I thought I'd have to add the micro dark.
It arrived today and the first tryout left me thinking, if my example is defective.
It felt a lot quieter than the micro terror, but then I remembered that I changed the tube on the terror to an older Marshall 12ax7. So I swapped the JJ on the micro dark too for one of those old Marshall's and suddenly it came to live. Much louder and clearer. Which leads to my first question :
1. Are the JJ ECC83S really that low in terms of output?
And my second and biggest problem with the amp is its ability to sound clean:
2. No matter which tube I use, with the gain set to about 9 o'clock it always sounds a bit like it's clipping/distorting when I strum some chords. BTW I'm using a new Gibson Les Paul studio tribute 2019. The stock pickups are on the higher output side.
Has anyone experienced the same thing?
It sounds clean, but only when I gently pick the strings. As soon as I start strumming it starts to distort (or clip, however you want to call it).
I hope this behavior is normal for the micro dark and that nothing is wrong with my amp. I'd hate to send it back.
Hope you can help me out!
Thanks
