The famous Winter NAMM show has a lot of surprises for us every year. This 2012 edition will take place from 19 to 22 of January, and Orange Amps will be here to reveal 10 new products! The first one has just been revealed: a stack signed by Jim Root (Slipknot, Stone Sour). Named Signature 4 Jim Root Terror, the head has a 4 as the identifier of the guitarist in the band Slipknot. As the Dark Terror, it is switchable 15/7 Watts, but got a little more controls: volume, Bass, Middle, Treble and Gain. The sound gets closer to the dirty channel of the Rockerverb 100, used by Root during its gigs. For heavy Rock and Metal, we can also have Vintage Rock and Blues tones thanks to this 3-band EQ. The head will go with a black PPC212 cab, signed too.

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Originaire de Toulouse, A-wai fabrique des amplis à lampes sur mesure depuis 2006. Sa dernière tête, la Eddie Baby, rentre dans la catégorie “Low Watt”. Mais ne vous fiez pas à ses 5 Watts et écoutez plutôt les samples disponibles sur la page produit, vous verrez qu’elle est clairement faite pour jouer du lourd ! Le seul canal Lead de la bête est inspiré du Peavey 5150. A-wai ne s’en cache pas, donnant même le prénom du guitariste Van Halen à son modèle. Sonorités Metal puissantes et précises avec une accentuation de basses grâce à l’effet “Depth”, la Eddie Baby est une tête à utiliser de préférence en studio ou chez soit. Elle possède une apparence aussi fidèle à la marque que le son, même si pour de telles sonorités, un look plus agressif que des finitions “Racing” n’aurait pas été de trop à mon goût. Prix : à partir de 895 €.

After the success of its mini amps, Vox adapted a small cab to the amPlug. Funny and beautiful, it has one Vox Original speaker of 3″. Powered by an AC adapter sold separately, we can also use a 9V battery for more portability. This last one will offer till 10 hours of autonomy, and the small size is perfect for the travelers. With this accessory, the brand go off the point from the ingenious utility of the amPlug, but we can see that Vox really looked after this mini-stack, even if the color of the cab is only adapted to the AC30 model. Price is approximately 20€.

Two of the classical Vox Amps are now available for sell in a hybrid version: the AC15VR and the AC30VR. The Valve Reactor (VR) circuitry is now near the 12AX7 pre-amp to keep a good sound quality with a two times cheapest price, if we compare with the Vox AC15 and AC30 amps (with just lamps). The design stay the same, even if we now have a 12″ VX12 Celestion Custom speaker for the 15 Watts amp and one more for the other model. Price: between 300 and 500 €.

For those who know me for a long time know that I always liked Orange Amps. And it is not today that the brand is going to disappoint me: their new series seems to be very nice. Yes, the second version of the powerful Rockerverb arrives, declined in two heads Rockerverb 50 MK II and Rockerverb 100 MK II, and even in combo Rockerverb 50 MK II. With one or two Celestion Vintage 30 12 “, this last one was revised in particular on the configuration panel, displayed on the front of the amp. These new models will be available in March, with not surprising prices: between $2099 and $2299 for the head, and between $1980 and $2100 for the combo (according to the power and the speakers number). To know more about this new series, look at the video at the end of the post. We have to hope that prices of the first generation will go down because of this second generation…