With the Orange Rocker 15 Black, the British cult company presents a full-tube combo for electric guitar that is ideal for use in the living room, recording studio or on stage. The power of the amplifier can be reduced from 15 watts to 0.5 watts, while two channels with an effect path cover a wide sound spectrum. In addition, a 10" Voice often he World model is used as loudspeaker in the compact combo.
The output stage of the Orange Rocker 15 is equipped with two EL84 tubes and offers a total of four power stages for each application. Accordingly, the combo delivers 15 watts or 7 watts in headroom mode, providing sufficient volume for a band rehearsal or the next club gig. In bedroom mode, however, 1 watt or 0.5 watts are available, whereby the amp retains a large combos despite the significantly reduced volume. The power is delivered via a 10" Voice of the World Gold Label speaker, which promises a creamy reproduction of the guitar sound.
The preamp of the Orange Rocker 15 Combo works with three ECC83 tubes and offers two channels of different character. The "Natural" channel, for example, which has a volume control, convinces with its particularly transparent reproduction, which reproduces the instrument character and playing style unadulterated and thus supports expressive guitar playing. The channel delivers both crystal-clear clean sounds and harmonic overdrive. The "Dirty" channel, on the other hand, offers a classic design with 3-band tone control as well as gain and volume controls. The sound is convincing with its typical British character, which brings every note to life with a crisp mid-bite and the right portion of "dirt". A tube-driven serial effect path is also provided for additional effects.
This combo is simply outstanding. You get brilliant clean and versatile overdrive tones with reasonable volume levels, thanks to headroom/bedroom and half/full switches that allows to run it on 0.5, 1, 7.5 and 15w power.
The only downside is the location of the FX loops connection, but if you set it only once for home use it's not an issue.