Members strtdv Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 My old Orange Reverb Twin was humming quite a lot, and the sound was lacking in places (overly flabby bass, some nasty extra preamp distortion on channel 2), and had a few things I already wanted sorted out, so over christmas I treated it to a full service at a local amp tech. He gave the whole amp the once over, cleaned the inputs/pots etc, replaced all the 35 year old electrolytics, took out a couple of crude mods that had been done previously, power tubes replaced/biased, and generally gave the amp a good tune up. Got it back today. What can I say? It sounds like a whole new amp. It still has the massive bass response you expect from an old Orange, but it's tightened it up a bit, no more flab. The hum is MUCH better now, this is a properly quiet running amp now. And it sounds much better at lower volumes too. It always sounded great at full tilt, but now you get that great sound at much more sensible volumes as well. All in all I'm very happy, and hopefully another 35 years of playing will be got out of it.It wasn't cheap, but well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sfarfsky Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 kewl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JR13 Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 its nice to read an amp tech story that doesn't involve robbery or fraud for once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strtdv Posted January 1, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 its nice to read an amp tech story that doesn't involve robbery or fraud for once Yeah the tech was a really cool guy. Canadian originally. He was very up front and said there was probably more he could do to get rid of even more hum but it would be very labour intensive and cost a lot, but he'd done everything he could up to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y0UNGBL00D Posted January 2, 2012 Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 Would LOVE one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dewysoss Posted January 2, 2012 Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 I'm extremely curious as to what this sounds like Any pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strtdv Posted January 2, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 I'm extremely curious as to what this sounds like Any pics? In many ways it's like a Twin with EL34's, although you get a great roar off it when you crank it whereas a Twin just basically gets louder and louder with not much breakup. It has the typical Orange huge bass response. Here's a few pics: (yeah, the knobs are pretty ugly) It weighs about 90-100lbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y0UNGBL00D Posted January 2, 2012 Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 I actually dig the hustler knobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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