Orange Amplifiers
TH30 Thunder Head

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The power section of the TH30 is powered by a quartet of EL84 output valves and is rated at 30 Watts Class A. There is also the addition of a valve driven effects loop.
The TH30 is more than an amplifier it is the sound in your head.
Controls
CLEAN CHANNEL: Volume, Bass, Treble
DIRTY CHANNEL: Volume, Shape, Gain
Half-power switch on front
2 or 4 power tube switch on rear
Features
FX Loop • Twin Channels
Output
Class A Switchable between 30, 15 and 7 watts
Valves
Preamp = 4 x ECC83, Ouput = 4 x EL84, Effects Loop = 1 x ECC81
Speaker(1) 16 Ohm, (2) 8 Ohm
Dimensions (W X H X D) 55x24x24cm, 21.6x9.5x9.5in
Weight 15kg/33lb
Reviews
Amazing and Affordable.. 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
Excellent amp 0 of 2 customers found this review helpful
this amp rocks !!! 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
The Bonk Daddy 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
It would perhaps be nice to have a reverb feature built into the amp, but isn't that what pedals are for?
Zero complaints. Best amp I've ever used.
AMAZING 4 of 4 customers found this review helpful
I know a lot of people have griped about the Shape control (I don't know why) but this amp encompasses the best of Orange's line of amps in to one package. All at the turn of a single knob! If you like simplicity and getting a wide array of dirty tones with sparkling cleans then get this amp.
Amazing clean channel, terrible dirty channel 2 of 8 customers found this review helpful
The dirty channel is just terrible though...I tried everything to get a good tone out of the dirty channel - lots of different aftermarket pickups in my several different high-end Gibsons, changing pickup heights, rolled lots of different preamp and power tubes, even replaced the harsh, trebly Voice of The World 12" speaker with a Vintage 30. The gain on this amp just plain sucks...it's fizzy and flat-sounding at all gain settings. I guess that it might be ok for some kinds of metal, but for hard rock, classic rock, stoner rock...forget it...sounds terrible. I used my Bogner Blue through the clean channel for dirt tones, wayyyyy better than the useless dirty channel. Eventually I gave up on the TH30 and sold it to get a Rockerverb MK I and it sounds just amazing out of the box. Then I also got a Rocker 15 combo for a grab and go...simply amazing tone as well!
Avoid the TH30, there are much better Orange amps out there.
Even better than expected. 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
Since you can change the output to half the tubes, and half the power, you can jam in your room at 7W, jam with a drummer friend at 15W, and play a big gig at 30W. I only play in my basement currently, and have it set at 7W, and I have not put the volume past 3 or 4.
I was all about getting that famous Orange gain, and heard clean channel on this amp was good enough, but, after playing for months, I'm more impressed with the clean channel. Its is beautiful warm, lots of variability even though theres only a bass and treble knobs available. Dirty channel is great, It has that classic British gain, which I find a little flat. I palce an OD pedal (Maxon OD9) in front of my amp (not in the fx loop) and it gives it all the boost I need, and I can go from a classic rock tone to a groove/doom/post metal tone metal tone no problem.
The buffered fx loop lets you plug in tons of pedals without losing tone/getting signal interference, and you don't necessarily need to worry about true bypass as much, as the buffering helps prevent tone-suck.
The TH30 is relatively cheaper than other Orange models as it uses Chinese tubes and parts (easy enough to replace the tubes), but I have absolutely no complaints. And the amp sounds so god damn good, I'm not sure I want to change anything regardless.
Unbelievable amp, ignore the 'Chinese parts' worry, and embrace it because this amp sounds like it should be worth well over $2,000.
Awesome amp! 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
Priced Right 0 of 1 customers found this review helpful
Just purchased june 2015 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
TH30 C 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
The gain is sick...huge crunchy tones.
Does whatever you want it to, and easily. 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
Surprisingly versatile considering the lack of options on the front panel. The Dirty channel can do pretty much anything you want. Beatles, Zep, Stevie Ray, Metallica etc.. The shape knob is genius. I was a bit skeptical about it at first but I'm over that now. Still it's understandable if you'd want to add an eq pedal to the circuit. The Gain knob is one of the most responsive I've ever used!
Clean channel is great. Goes with pedals real well. But I found that it lacked headroom a bit. This is okay for me as I like a bit of dirt with my clean. Still you can get a nice punchy Jazz tone if you roll back on the guitar volume knob a bit.
There is no form of guitar music I can think of that this amp would not apply to. It's very easy to get the sound you want with it. There is also no environmental applications that this amp won't perform amazingly under as well. (except maybe stadium rock, In which case, use the P.A.) You can do the quiet bedroom recording thing, or the loud crazy club rock stuff with this. It's a loud 30 watter.
I found the output switch a bit limited. It gives you different tones, but does very little in terms volume attenuation. If you want a good overdrive tone I suggest you open her up a bit anyway.
The amp is very unforgiving in terms of your playing technique. It won't hide your fingering errors. If you make a lot of soloing mistakes, get a Big Muff.
Some may argue that it's "simplistic" "generic" or a "jack of all trades/master of none". These people are probably biased, or insane.
In my opinion, this is one of the most sensible amps on the market right now.
TH30 thunder 30 watt head 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
Tone King 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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