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The Orange Rocker 15 Terror is my first venture into the realm of Orange Amplifiers. Having owned and used it for the past several months here are my observations:1. The clean channel is very nice. No EQ but it isn't sterile. There is a nice degree of warmth with clarity that holds its own as a true clean or a nice pedal platform. It doesn't chime like an AC30 and doesn't pull off the coveted Fender clean. I doubt most people are purchasing this amp for the clean channel apart from a place to run pedals... which is does very well. Might not be the top of the list for true clean players but it can and will do cleans that are more than satisfactory.2. The gain channel is fairly diverse. Light grit, classic rock, and depending upon your definition of metal... yes it can do metal. It will need a boost or some other type of a pedal if you like a tighter metal gain or want to go into sludge territory. It has that distinctive orange darkness to it that has just a touch of hair/fuzz when cranked. Perhaps the gain could be described as a bit loose but not saggy if that makes sense. The gain is tighter when dialed back to pull of some great crunch tones. 3. The EQ. I hate to say it... but... this is why I picked the Rocker 15 rather than the OR15, Dark Terror, or TH30 when shopping around. Those other amps have a 'general' EQ knob that they call a shape control. The reason why I 'hate' to say it... is that the EQ controls don't really have a lot of useful range on the Rocker 15. At best they are effective on the extremes of 0 or 10. The middle range of the sweep is just kinda there. You can have no bass or all the bass. You can have no treble or all the treble. You can no mids or all the mids. And everything between 2-9 on the dial is very subtle. It's there. It does something minimal. I've found keeping most of the tone controls on the EQ around or slightly above noon nets the best result. Anything above or below that doesn't do a lot until you hit the shallow or deep end of the sweep. That being said... it sounds great with everything right around the middle of the range. I mean that. It sounds really great. In other words: if the three band EQ is what is pushing you in the Rocker 15 direction over others... don't let it factor in that much. Let the other features such as the FX loop, headroom/bedroom, and small package be the guiding light. Especially if you're not looking for over the top gain like the Dark Terror. 4. I haven't spent much time with the 'bedroom' setting on the amp. If very low wattage cranked is your thing it does it. I typically run the amp through an Orange PPC212 in my home jam space on the headroom setting at the 7 watt power level. The volume is very easy to control while maintaining good tones at the quiet jam/practice levels. Since I don't have to compete with an acoustic drummer (he's gone digital) keeping up with the drums hasn't been a concern. The 15 watt setting does provide a significant volume jump over the 7 watt mode. I assume cranked it would do fine in a band mix at a small venue without a massive PA to help along. I know it gets more than loud enough to make these old ears hurt a bit when cranked up. 5. It's a lot of amp for such a small package. It's been a great practice amp as far as transport is concerned. It comes with a nice gig bag to load your amp, cables, and other small items. Oddly enough for practice I run it through an old Peavey Classic 115 extension cab that I leave with the drummer. Sounds great even through an old cheap speaker. There are bigger options for a slightly higher cost in the Orange market that will give you more headroom on the stage. A 100 watt DSL from Marshall sits in the same price range as well. But, for those looking for a small amp that can be used for home or even light gigs - or big ones if you have a full front of house - this Rocker 15 can cover the bases and has great tone in a small package. I can't give it a full 5 star rating because of the limited EQ capabilities of the amp. But, for a plug in and rock out amp without the frills or tweakability... it's a great platform.

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I used to own an OR15, and I loved it. I was hoping this would sound similar. It sounds good, but I feel it doesn’t have a good crunch tone. It definitely has a good heavy/dirty tone and clean tone. It feels sturdy and well made. The only other thing that bugs me is when you put it in bedroom mode, it sucks a bit of the tone, and it’s also still too loud for a “bedroom”. Overall though, it sounds good, sounds like an Orange amp.

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Having owned this amp for 3 years now, I can definitively say that I use this amp more than any other amp I own: one simple reason - versatility.I have and love several other high end amps, including a Mk3 Rockerverb 50, but everyone knows that you need to use the right tool for the job at hand and for most of my situations the Rocker Terror 15 fits perfectly. It's also a straight forward, simple to dial in amp that yields excellent tones quickly, I like that.The dirty channel sounds very typically "Orange" which is to say fairly saturated and harmonically rich. It is pretty quiet too at higher gain, especially if you roll the stock EL84's for some Tung-Sol ones. You'll have plenty of gain for classic and hard rock, and with a boost or proper OD pedal it will creep into metal territory. Sound is very similar to the Rockerverb's dirty channel, but with less headroom and runs out of gain earlier (The Rockerverb is a high gain amp btw).The clean channel has a single volume control and goes from clean and chimney (a little dark like a Vox AC) to pushed, crunchy with nice breakup at higher volumes. When you crank the clean you really get the EL84's cooking and they have a nice growl to them. The most useful aspect of the clean channel is that IMO it is the perfect pedal platform. Basically anything I've thrown at it sounds amazing, plus with a tube buffered efx loop the options are many.Where the key to versatility is with this amp is in how the power scaling is implemented. You have several options from all 15w which allows you to dial in for a small venue, all the down to the half power + bedroom mode, which lets you achieve all the saturation and power tube tone at a level that is comfortable in a small room. The two other middle options are perfect for studio use and lets you juice every last drop of mojo out of this amp.Lastly it is a cathode biased, class A amplifier, which means that when the time comes to change power tubes, it is user serviceable in that new tubes can simply be popped in with no biasing required.Downsides to the amp are that for the very heavy metal folk this might not have enough gain for the pre-amp distortion you require. Also the amp is assembled in China not the UK so that is kind of meh, however, by doing this the cost of this amp is very reasonable. There are not many amps that allow the type of usability that the Rocker Terror provides!

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