Orange Micro Terror 20W Hybrid Guitar Amplifier Head

I bought this several months ago to try with my Yamaha YEV Electric Violin. I paired it with BUGERA 112TS 1x12 Cabinet. It quickly became my amp of choice for practice and live gigs in smaller venues. I really like this head. I play a variety of musical styles including, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Celtic, Folk, Bluegrass, Country, and Pop and this head seems to give me the tone I need to pull off any of these styles. I go from my electric violin, into my multi effects pedal, a pre-amp eq then into this amp head. It has that wonderful Orange tube tone. The tone is really alive with tons of unique character. I've had many many people, including audience members and other musicians complement the tone I get out of this thing. The onboard tone knob lets you mold your sound from warmer to brighter. I prefer it slightly on the warmer side. This thing cranks out tons of power. I can blow the doors off the smaller venues that play if I want to, although when I play solo I don't have a drummer, so I can't vouch for it's ability to overcome a loud drummer. I feel like it should be able to based on the volume I get out of this thing. You can use the gain knob to get some crunchy distorted sounds, although I don't do that in my music. I keep the gain low and get any distortion i need from my effects pedal. Still, I've played around with it and I can vouch for the fact that this thing can push some epic and huge crunchy tones when you dial the gain up. The clean tone is as I described above. Warm, alive, with tons of character. Overall, this thing is amazing. It blows the doors off of similarly priced heads. I have a fender champion 40w combo, and I'll take the micro terror and bugera cab over that thing any day. This thing is $150, I believe the Bugera cab is around $150. So for $300 you can get a pretty amazing sound. I don't really see any other products that can compete with this at this price point.

I love this little thing. I even use it at rehearsal an practice some nights. It has great volume. I play in a 6 piece band with a horn section, we pump out some volume and this holds its own! With the 12ax7 in the preamp those warm punchy tones really come alive. The first time I saw it I thought "OMG it's a toy" after playing through it, it's FAR from a toy. I travel a lot playing and this works fantastic for late night practice. I plug my phone into the aux and it blends perfect through the head phones when learning new stuff. It makes learning new songs a breeze. I even use it in the bedroom and it doesn't bother my wife lol. Yes she's a heavy sleeper an the sound of an electric guitar not plugged in doesn't wake her but if I had it plugged into an open amp she wouldn't let me live if I had it turned down to even one lol. Look this thing is a great tool. It has all the warmth, tone, bite, smooth sweet sounds of an amp 10 times the size and price! You know the ole saying, size really doesn't matter? That couldn't apply more than here with this amp. Its a gr8 travel companion in that on the road in hotel rooms every night and I can play all night as loud as I want and not get kicked out. That alone is worth the price!

It's difficult to find much wrong with this amp- especially at this price point. I purchased this amp so I would not have to lug over my expensive Marshall and Fender amps to my friends house to practice. It performs this function very nicely and I combine it with a Marshall 1x12 cabinet (Marshall MX112). As others have noted, it is incredibly small and lightweight. Honestly, I sort of laughed at it when I first received it- until he heard it. The tone is very good an can produce a nice range of clean and distortion sounds. Even more impressive is the volume this little amp can obtain. It's remarkable! This would be a near-perfect practice amp if it had (even a simple) reverb, but of course that would increase the cost, complexity, and perhaps size of the amp. The Aux input is a nice added feature as this comes in handy for practicing songs. Overall, I highly recommend this little amp. It would not be my primary amp to gig with, but then again that's probably not really what this amp is intended to do. It could however function as an emergency backup amp, and is certainly worthy of a practice amp or when jamming with friends.

The guitar player in a band I recently shared a gig with was using this tiny little Orange head with a much larger twin cabinet. It sounded pretty good, just straight in, no effects, reverb etc. I bought one to try, figuring it could be set up like a low-fi rig. I added a Moskey reverb pedal with a 9V power adapter and it sounded really good clean and with gain, but It was making quite a bit of hum/ hiss if I turned it up. That ended up being caused by the power supply I was using on the reverb pedal. I moved the reverb to the end of my pedal chain and powered it with the pedal board power supply and the hum/ hiss was gone. Now hooked up the pedals, it sounded great, low noise, great clean sound, awesome overdrive and it takes the pedals really well. I first tried a larger 12" Celestion with it, but ended up using that with another amp, so I got the Orange 8" speaker/ cab. It sounds great, much fuller and open sounding than other small amp/ speaker set ups. So, I'm very happy with the head and speaker and the price was very affordable for a 20 watt and with a tube pre-amp.

Update: Both plugs (1/4" and 3.5mm) have already crapped out. 1/4" needs sideways pressure on it to make contact. the 3.5mm won't maintain contact. Now I have to go inside and either replaced or adjust if possible. I've only used it maybe 20 times, less on the 3.5mm. On the upside: I bought a MXR overdrive pedal and (when the Micro's plug is working) it screams. Hot hot hot and both head and pedal need to be at halfway settings or it's too much! Great little amp. Plenty of power, I have it hooked up to a 4x12 cabinet and play it with volume on 1. It's nice for quick practice sessions when I don't want to heat up and cool down my bigger all tube amp. It has a nice warm sound, you need an overdrive or distortion pedal for metal songs, but don't need anything for bluesy or good 'ol Rock-n-Roll. Also nice because it weigh's next to nothing, as opposed to my tube head which is like 45#. It's so small it looks like a toy, but it's definitely not playing around. I use my android phone with the app Backing Track Play Music plugged into the accessory input 3.5mm to jam along with. Would make an excellent backup amp for gigs, but to tell the truth I'd probably just use it as the main as well. Keep from lugging tons of gear in. You could literally carry 4 of these in a small school backpack. I would definitely recommend, especially at such a cheap price.

Great low budget amp head for practice without using a speaker. Very small, light and portable. Love the sound of the preamp tube. The sound is different than my older 35 watt Orange solid state amp that also has a great tone. I use both on my Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars. Considering buying a speaker for the new Orange amp head. Love the sound of Orange amps.

This amp head is amazing! It can chug it can doom, it handles pedals like a champ. I couldn't ask more for the price. It doesn't have the amount of tone control that the fullsize head that it based after does but thats nothing a pedal or two can't fix, and it will still come out cheaper than buying the full size imo. I feel like this a great amp head for beginners or people who don't want to worry too much and break the bank. If you want a nice metal sound and an amp head that can handle pedals but won't explode if you're experimenting with cabs and speakers etc this one is a gem.

This is the best sounding amp i've ever played. It has an amazing range of tones. Plenty of headroom on clean and really good distortion with the gain pumped up. I am not kidding when I say this amp is the best sounding amp I ever played. It sounds better than amps that cost 5 times the price. Don't be fooled by the cost it is not a budget amp. It is solid metal build. It is small. VERY SMALL. Somehow it is still loud. I mean really really loud. I play it trough a Fender Hot Rod 212 cabinet and it gives a full rich loud sound. If the gain is up I can't get the volume past 2 without it being insanely loud. This tiny little thing can absolutely be used live with a band. It is loud enough to play over drums with ease. I can't say enough about how amazing this amp is. Don't get it with the tiny Orange speaker that they sell as a package. The orange speaker cabinets are junk and you won't get as good a sound. Get yourself a big 1x12 or 2x12 speaker cabinet to play this through and it will blow your mind.

Bought as a gift for my boyfriend combined with the Orange Amp- PPC108 1c8 Closed Back Speaker Cabinet. He loved it. He mostly plays metal so I was a little concerned about how this amp would do for the sound that he likes, but he says it sounds great. He recently bought a reverb pedal to go with it, and says it sounds amazing. This little amp combo has an amazing bang for its buck, and I would strongly recommend it if you want something that sounds amazing but wont break your bank account of take up too much space.

Absolutely brilliant , sounds great / looks great and really lovely warm sound.Used two different guitars with it so far and found that humbuckers sounded the best with it.I have a Marshall and a Katana but this is my first go with a valve amp and i am now a converted fan of Orange amps.Just be careful to make sure that you have your power supply and cabinet or headphones plugged in first before you turn on as this can damage the amp.You tube videos that i watched reminded you of this.Really looks that it could withstand a lot of heavy use.Overall i am really pleased with it.

Eu só uso para estudar em casa.

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Perfecto amplificador, en mi caso lo he acompañado con la pantalla Orange y suena espectacular. Puedes tocar una amplia gama de estilos con tan solo jugar con el tono y ganancia. Como pega decir que al quitar la ganancia para el acústico se toca a mucho menos volumen. Perfecto para espacios pequeños