Orange

Looking for a single channel practice amp or small-venue workhorse with a warm, distinctive clean tone? Look no further than the all-new Orange O Tone 40.

This Class A/B solid-state combo has 40W of power going through a custom-designed 12-inch Voice of the World speaker, making it equally at home in rehearsal or club environments. Onboard reverb and tremolo give the O Tone 40 enhanced vintage tones, whilst a buffered FX loop lets players insert modulation and time based effects in a single chain. Reliable and oh-so-sweet sounding, the O Tone 40 is a classic in the making.

Building on the overwhelming success of Orange's acclaimed Dark Terror and Dual Dark amps, Orange has distilled thousands of customer demands into a pint-sized valve hybrid head - the Micro Dark.

The Micro Dark shares the same intuitive Shape control combined with a new 12AX7-driven high gain preamp section which yields screaming dirty tones that make a mockery of its miniature frame. Like its bigger brothers, however, the Micro Dark's smoky black chassis and simple layout actually disguises its cunning versatility.

MEET THE NEW DISTORTION PEDAL: Same as the old Orange Distortion pedal — at least that’s how it seems on the outside.

After all, apart from the modern tweaks of an added LED and a 9V DC input, this looks like a straight-up reboot of the 1970s relic, right down to its simple type stencilled onto the classic chunky aluminium shell to ape the original units. Under the hood, though, it’s a different story: the circuitry of the new Orange Distortion has been rebuilt from the ground up, ditching the original’s back-to-back diode design and replacing it with an amp circuit including a tone stack, where bass and mids are preset but treble is user-adjustable via a little trimmer inside the casing.