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Orange th3012/13/2023 If you want a more saturated lead sound, you would start by setting the lead channel preamp knob fairly high, and the master volume low (remember, this is a loud amp). That will typically be a fairly low gain setting for the lead channel. Then, in order to get channel volume parity, you are limited to only turning the lead channel preamp knob up to reach parity output with the clean channel. If you want pristine clean, you have to run the clean channel preamp knob low, with the master knob high. The SD amps have a shared master volume, so there can be compromise. The TH30 is like having two separate amps in a single cabinet. I really consider the Budda as a single channel amp from a practical standpoint. The TH30 will still do that, plus a whole lot more. If all I needed was a loud amp for playing in a loud rock band, the Budda would be OK. I play a wide variety of music, including blues, classic rock, and country. I don't have either now, but I would buy another TH30 before I would buy another SD-18. Easier to use, flexible, and great sounding. Also, the Budda seems to eat EL-84s, and they need changed fairly often. The Budda is a great amp, but it's a loud amp geared primarily for gigging with a band. This makes the amp sound great for gigs or for home studio use. And the other feature that makes the TH30 great is the selectable output power. If you don't want that much gain, (which I usually didn't) it sounds great dialed back to only mild crunch. There is a lot of gain available with the TH30, but it's totally controllable. The clean sound is not like any other Orange amp, and in my opinion it's a strong point of the TH30. It sounds a lot like a Vox, but without reverb. The clean channel is NMV, so you get a really nice punchy clean with sparkle and chime. First, the TH30 has completely independent channels, so no compromise. The TH30 also has great sounds, but is much easier to work with. You have to compromise somewhat with a Superdrive. The Budda has great sounds, but is always LOUD, and difficult to get precise level control between the clean and dirty sounds. I really liked both amps, but found the TH30 to be more useful in most situations and more versatile. But since I'm playing lot of different guitars with different pickups i feel a bit limited and an built-in EQ would not hurt.īut compared to the price of an TH30 it's a really great amp.I went from an SD-18 to a TH30c. Not that it's bad with just three knobs for each channel, very easy to adjust to the sound you want. My friend plays Metal Core i think it's called (I'm not so much into the newer kind of metal, but drop C tuning and loads of distortion), he took his guitar with EMG active pickups and played it and was really thrilled with the sound.Įdit: I should warn you that this is a gateway amp to heavier (and more expensive) Orange stuff, after playing mine for about a year i have set my eyes on a Thunderverb 50 or something like that. If you roll back on the shape and gain you'll have the classic Black Sabbath sound and the higher you go on both shape and gain you'll get more modern kind of distortion. On the dirty channel you have a pretty wide range of distortion types. With my SG and the clean channel volume up to 10 it's a pure AC/DC amp, you can feel Angus strutting around in the room (warning, it's pretty loud even in the 7,5W mode, at least for smaller venues and rehearsal spaces, an attenuator is recommended). Yeah it's great for that, a very versatile amp.
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