Orange .......Gibson years

[Seanman]

Howdy!
I have been seaching the internet, looking for tiny tidbits
of info on the mid-90's Oranges. There is little or no info (I have found) on these amps.
There is one mis-conception I do see, Gibson never built the Orange amps, They were just distribution for the USA. They were all still built in the UK. I had three OR80's, now down to one (#557).
I got them when Gibson was cleaning out there stock and parts about five years ago. My buddies all have Orange stuff from this sale.
Is anyone keeping a serial number data base out there?

[User]

Best place for orange info is :

http://users.pandora.be/geertjacobs/orange_page.htm

Well on the Gibson point, well i suppose how its confused is that Gibson own Trace Elliot, And orange (some think along these lines) now uses Trace Elliots production plant to make part of their amps (I might be wrong here)!

Well anyway if you look at these Schematics :

http://users.pandora.be/geertjacobs/OFG ... tpanel.pdf

You can see on the bottom it has some connection to Trace Elliot!

So i suppose there is some sort of link to Gibson making Oranges!

Dave
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Edited by - user on 31 May 2004 20:32:28

[bclaire]

I think what it is is, that it's impractical from a financial point of view, for Orange to setup their own PC board manufacturing and farm it out to another manufacturer. Used to be, that a couple of smaller companies in the US made boards for other companies, too.

The boards were designed by Orange and then manufactured by Trace-Elliot, then shipped to Orange for assembly. I think some other company might have been making them too...

I definitely feel that the Gibson-era Oranges were not as up-to-snuff as the original 70's models. I know the transformers are different- and there's a world of difference between my 70's head and my 90's reissue head. They're both Orange but the 70's head is way louder for one.

Billy

[bclaire]

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I got them when Gibson was cleaning out there stock and parts about five years ago. My buddies all have Orange stuff from this sale.


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Nice... did you get a good deal on them? What kind of money?

My 78 head was acquired in a similar deal in 1989- there was a warehouse in NJ that had about a dozen amps and cabs (weird cabs though) and my friend John A. and I managed to work a deal through LaSalle Music in Boston for the lot. I got a 78 OR80M head for $350 with original Mullards...! Great amp, too.

Billy



Edited by - bclaire on 31 May 2004 20:16:45