Orange Child 100 Sequence Amplifiers | Evaluation

MSRP (every): (UK) £459 / (US) £599

Searching for a compact, gig-ready amp head full of basic Orange tones? The brand new Child collection from Orange could be simply what you want. Introducing the Acquire Child 100, Twin Child 100, and Tour Child 100—a trio of British-designed solid-state mini amp heads constructed for critical musicians who want energy and portability. Whether or not you favor pristine cleans, tight fashionable distortion, or something in between, these amps supply a flexible basis on your results. Compact sufficient to slot in a rack but highly effective sufficient to carry its personal towards even the loudest drummers, the Child collection is a perfect answer for guitarists who wish to journey gentle with out compromising on sound. Right here’s Sam Bell to inform us extra.



Orange are well-known for his or her crushing British rock tones by means of their vary of fire-breathing valve amps. On this situation of Guitar Interactive, I had the pleasure of trying out a brand new vary of compact transistor amps from Orange. While these could be small and have the title Child, these amps pack a hell of a punch.

There are three amps within the Child vary, every of them 100-watt transistor amps with an A/B channel, FX loop, XLR out, and weighing in at solely 3kg—full with a comfortable case. It’s arduous to say which of the three amps got here first; nonetheless, all of them have distinctive combos of channels. Let’s check out each:

Tour Child 100:

This contains a pristine clear channel with a easy Bass/Treble management and built-in compression. The clear channel has tons of headroom, making it nice for pedals—tremendous clear and punchy. Orange have among the nicest clear tones within the business! The B channel is a crunchy/basic rock channel with loads of maintain. The Bass, Mid, and Treble controls are tremendous interactive, permitting customers to form their tone.

Twin Child 100:

The A channel on that is based mostly on Orange’s Rockerverb amp—it picks up the place the Tour Child‘s channel B left off, with a bit extra maintain and a novel Tubb swap which, to my ears, tweaks the midrange a bit. The B channel is a high-gain beast, with a Tight swap permitting customers to get basic and fashionable tones with a fantastic natural edge.

Acquire Child 100:

I’m unsure why that is referred to as the Acquire Child, nevertheless it appears to characteristic the clear A channel of the Tour Child and the high-gain channel of the Twin Child—the perfect of each worlds!

These combos will attraction to many various gamers. For arduous rockers, the Twin Child’s two shades of grit might be an excellent bedrock for his or her tone. The Tour Child could be an excellent pedal amp for the musician searching for all-round versatility. The Acquire Child affords the extremes of each super-clean and super-dirty sounds, which might attraction to gamers of different/progressive genres and past!

I wasn’t positive what to anticipate. I really like a very good valve amp, and I additionally recognize nice digital gear. On the subject of making a speaker transfer and taking part in with an amp as a part of the instrument, I’ve all the time thought valves had been the place it’s at. Nonetheless, these new Child Orange transistor amps not solely sound phenomenal and pack an enormous punch in a small package deal, however additionally they reply extremely musically. Rolling the quantity down on my Strat on a gainy sound cleans up fantastically. Orange amps have an excellent spherical punch and bloom, with a novel treble vary that cuts and a very distinctive midrange—and these amps have that in spades.

100 watts could be very loud! Loads of headroom to play with a full band. I think about these will actually attraction to frequently gigging guitarists searching for one thing light-weight, great-sounding, and dependable. Studio musicians aren’t going to overlook out both—at decrease volumes, the Child amps retain their punch, and you may even take a line out the again by way of XLR for silent recording and use with IRs, and so on. Superb stuff.

I’m excited to see these on extra phases. I’m fortunate to assessment some superb gear, and there’s plenty of sensible stuff on the market, however I’m personally very excited by these tiny but highly effective amps, filled with perspective! Strive one out!

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