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Electric Amps

#3
Yeah, that's one notable difference, is Orange has factories producing their set range of goods on a comparatively large scale, while Electric/Green/Black/etc. is a very small custom shop operation. Orange is less expensive and more readily available, while Electric is more kvlt.
 
#5
Why Emperor or Orange? Electric and Orange are practically the same except one's more mass produced. They're all good, but if money was no object I'd definitely go with Electric or Emperor over Orange.

Also, you can get a purple cab from Electric. That even says purple on the front. Freakin purple!
 
#8
I'm going to be ordering a KT88 Power Unit soon.

Got an email from them, for a head unit you're looking at a 7-10 month wait.

All hand built, custom order.

I'd say the customization, hand-wiring and one of a kindness of Electric Amps makes the wait + extra $500 bucks over an Orange AD200 worth it.

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This is essentially what I'm getting. And will be running a 70s Traynor YBA-1A Bass-Master MarkII through it and into my 70s Ampeg 2x15.
 
#11
He does say he'll be running another head through it, so that sounds like using a slave amp to me. :)

I do think the Traynor will need its own speaker load though, in order not to self-destruct, unless the slave amp somehow connects the final speaker load to the original head. Not sure if/how that would work, though.
 
#12
bongomania said:
He does say he'll be running another head through it, so that sounds like using a slave amp to me. :)

I do think the Traynor will need its own speaker load though, in order not to self-destruct, unless the slave amp somehow connects the final speaker load to the original head. Not sure if/how that would work, though.
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My bad, didn't catch that it was a head. I'm not well versed on Traynor stuff.

I thought you were usually supposed to run a cab from both the main amp and the slave amp?
 
#13
Pre-Amp Out ---> Slave In ---> 2x15

It's like using the pre-amp section of the Traynor and the Power Amp of the Electric Amp.

I love the sound of my Traynor, but its only about 80 watts. So that paired with 180 watts of KT88 goodness into 2x15 inch drivers will be unspeakably good.

Unfortunately I'm gonna need to find a cheap temporary power amp to use during the 7-10 months I'm waiting for my Power Unit.

I'm still having trouble justifying spending over $3000 on a head. I spent $150 on my Ampeg 2x15 (haven't replaced the speakers yet, shouldn't be more than $250), $350 on my Traynor and my Fender MIA Jazz was essentially free (I traded an old Tama Rockstar drum set which was given to me when I was young). So really, this will be the only expensive piece of gear I'll have bought.

Someone here on TB has an Electric Amps 2x15 Cabinet, I forget who. I think he was running an Ampeg SVT-CL into it.

Let's hope he chimes in with an opinion on it.
 

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