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Orange "Bass Butler" preamp pedal

I’ve heard a few Orange emulation preamp pedals and honestly was never that impressed. Plus I played through a bunch of Orange amps at rehearsal studios in london where they were for some reason really popular and I never ever got along with them.

Honestly there are cooler amp emulation styles out there if you ask me.
 
I’ve heard a few Orange emulation preamp pedals and honestly was never that impressed. Plus I played through a bunch of Orange amps at rehearsal studios in london where they were for some reason really popular and I never ever got along with them.

Honestly there are cooler amp emulation styles out there if you ask me.
WHAT?!? I had no idea!! Thank god cause this is the only thread on TB and I was starting to wonder if there was anything else out there.
 
I’ve heard a few Orange emulation preamp pedals and honestly was never that impressed. Plus I played through a bunch of Orange amps at rehearsal studios in london where they were for some reason really popular and I never ever got along with them.

Honestly there are cooler amp emulation styles out there if you ask me.

I haven't used anything that beats the grunt of my Tech21 Oxford. There may be clankier, but nothing has matched the grunt it produces for me. It turns my Ric into a growling beast. Add a clanky overdrive in front (like the YYZ or Darkglass X) and it only enhances it. But nothing has reproduced my mids like it.
And I've been through quite a lot of fantastic preamps.

I hope this one bests it.

And I absolutely dislike what the Ampeg SVT thing does for my tone. So maybe that puts me in a different ballpark. Lol.
 
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Bi-Amp with compression on the cleans.

Colour me interested :D

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