History
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2006 - Advanced Transformer Designs
It was while we were designing the Retro 50 that we started taking transformers apart to see what made the good ones so effective. We wanted something that sounded like the original Pics Only Woden transformer.. Ade Emsley – Technical...
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2006 - Queens Award Winners
Orange wins The Queen’s Award For Enterprise and International Trade 2006 and 2009 and once again in 2012 www.queensawards.org.uk, Nov 09 “The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance. They recognise and reward outstanding achievement...
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2004 - The Rocker
Rocker 30 Combo- Twin Channel Valve Combo. Ade Emsley – Technical Director I always wanted to do a channel with just one knob on it. Just one control that I call the ‘natural channel’, which is a one stage clean...
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2003 - The Rockerverb
The Rockerverb came about because with the AD30 we continually received emails asking if we could incorporate an effects loop… Damon Waller – Former MD .. The short answer was ‘no’, because it would need a complete redesign and the...
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2002 - Custom Shop
The Retro 50 and AD 50 amplifiers were the first to feature ‘Custom Shop’ on the front panel. Retro 50 Ade Emsley – Technical Director During 2001 – which was really the year of the AD140 – a number of...
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2000 - Introducing the Orange Crush
Crush came along almost by accident back in 2000 Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO We realised a lot of the smaller music shops were choosing not to stock Orange because they saw our products as being out of their...
