UB48: Orange Gain Baby 100 – BIG Disappointment! – Buyer Remorse! Ready to Return?… and Then…!
Orange Gain Baby 100 Watt Amplifier – Stand-Alone or Rack-Mounted
While Orange has never really been on my radar, I do have fond memories as a young teenager back in the early 1970s when I first clapped eyes on an Orange half stack in my local music store… boy did it stand out from the crowd.
This is what Orange says about their Gain Baby 100: Not just for gain, the unit’s silky clean channel includes an integrated VCA compressor to alleviate the need for an additional stomp box. Plus, integrated bass and treble controls make it simple to dial in the desired frequencies.
Four distinct stages are available on the high gain channel allowing players to dial in their preferred level of crunch and saturation. Boost solos with a foot-switchable volume control and patch in effects pedals courtesy of a buffered FX loop. Then, utilize the onboard 3-band EQ and Tight switch to tweak your tone even further.
Output options include a Balanced DI XLR out, allowing producers to add their own IRs downstream. Dual speaker outputs are also included, making the Gain Baby equally suitable on a festival stage or in the studio. Plus, Gain Baby‘s 100W into 8 ohms or 70W into 16 ohms can power any full-sized guitar cab with ease! (End Quote)
In this video overview you will hear that I was at first not pleased in the slightest with what was coming from this little box – notably the High Gain section… however, once I rolled back the volume controls on the various guitars I was testing the amp with… everything changed! With guitars at full volume the distortion sounded thick and mushy and in some cases, the edginess of tone was really unpleasant to my ears. Rolling the guitar volume back and now I could hear a solid overdrive / distortion with good separation and clarity of tone… gone was that muddiness and shrill edginess.
While this particular amplifier (on of three) is more geared towards the heavy mettle player I was not interested in the other two which are geared for a more classic rock tone. I already have amplifiers that excel in that area so for me, this choice was about having the option of something just a bit different… the amp now sits nicely in my cabinet rack. I hope others find this video helpful… Enjoy.
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Originally posted by UCIzLPebyg0H23oOP9qrDEoQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIFdIsnhgKE
Maybe it’s faulty. Sounds completely different from other demos.
That baby is not for you. You need one of the others. Gain baby is modern orange gain. Clean is a pedal platform clean. I actually like it.
I think you may have the wrong model of the Baby 100 series for what you seem to want. The Gain Baby 100 has a Clean channel paired with a Modern High Gain channel. You probably would prefer the Tour Baby 100 with its Clean channel paired with a Vintage Gain dirty channel. The distortion on the Tour Baby 100 is voiced to be much more like the Orange amps of the 70s. Just a thought. Thanks!
A customer brought in a 70s Orange 120 . It had a post phase master volume where the presence knob was and the presence moved to the rear panel . It would blow the nuts right off the Baby Gain 100 .
Why does Orange always sound so bad to me?
I have had several and never liked any of them.
I tend to lean Mesa Boogie, my fav being the Mark Five 35 head and 2×12 closed back cab.
I like a great clean channel with lots of headroom and luckily the Mark Five 5 has both great cleans and dirty sounds just damn expensive.
Interesting. The clean tones sounded an awful lot like what I can get out of my Katana MKII 100 and once you switched to dirty, I curled my nose. But I am glad you were able to obtain sound you enjoyed from it.
Nice vibe – subbed,-
Hello Stu. I think this is a versatile amp but there is something about it – I can't say what it is that says no. Like you I have never had any experience with Orange Amps but know that one of my fave guitarists Peter Green used one. Cheers.
Awesome video have a great weekend Stu happy valentine's day from Canada also as always ????????
Hmmm… very interesting. I've never used an amp that behaved like that. However, I have had a pedal that did it. Sounded like a can of bees with guitar on full volume, but a rich, warm overdrive when turned down.
Orange certainly has its own sound. And I think the old 70s Orange sound is completely different from anything they've done in recent decades, which makes me wonder why nobody is out there making boutique "old school Orange" amps? Solid state is a sound some people grew up on and love, but it just hits me smack in the ear hole sometimes and this is a great example of that. I found that clean tone made my teeth bleed just as profusely as the dirty sounds, but to each his own. Glad you found a use for it; I am not so forgiving.
I had an orange micro terror and it was fantastic, just not the sound I was looking for. The clean channel sounds muddy even with the treble up and could do with a mid control. Can't say I liked the dirty channel at all. It would be interesting to hear it with the volume rolled back. Look forward to seeing your rack when it is finished.