Published 27/5/09
What’s small, Orange and louder than it should be?
When choosing a bass cabinet, you have to go for the biggest baddest one, right? Not so, according to Orange, who think there’s another way. Their brand new Super Bass models “deliver more power and more volume than any other currently on the market”, and the smallest, the OBC210 (pictured) is roughly cube‑shaped and just 12 inches wide!
Orange use what’s known as an isobaric cabinet design to achieve extended bass response and a perceived volume increase in compact boxes. This involves the use of two front‑facing drivers — Eminence, no less — mounted one behind the other and wired in phase. This design allows the cabinet to reproduce frequencies that can only be made in single‑driver cabinets that are double the volume. Furthermore, its frequency response can extend half an octave lower than a single‑driver cabinet of the same size.
Sounds good in principle, so why not go and check it out for yourself? Orange Amplification are on stand G10 at the 2009 London International Music Show.
Also on display will be Orange’s compliment of guitar amps, as well as another new bass product that goes against the whole ‘small is the new big’ concept: the OBC 810, a whopping eight‑by‑ten cabinet!
Orange Amplification +44 (0)20 8905 2828
www.orangeamps.com
www.londoninternationalmusicshow.com
When choosing a bass cabinet, you have to go for the biggest baddest one, right? Not so, according to Orange, who think there’s another way. Their brand new Super Bass models “deliver more power and more volume than any other currently on the market”, and the smallest, the OBC210 (pictured) is roughly cube‑shaped and just 12 inches wide! Orange use what’s known as an isobaric cabinet design to achieve extended bass response and a perceived volume increase in compact boxes. This involves the use of two front‑facing drivers — Eminence, no less — mounted one behind the other and wired in phase. This design allows the cabinet to reproduce frequencies that can only be made in single‑driver cabinets that are double the volume. Furthermore, its frequency response can extend half an octave lower than a single‑driver cabinet of the same size.
Sounds good in principle, so why not go and check it out for yourself? Orange Amplification are on stand G10 at the 2009 London International Music Show.
Also on display will be Orange’s compliment of guitar amps, as well as another new bass product that goes against the whole ‘small is the new big’ concept: the OBC 810, a whopping eight‑by‑ten cabinet!
Orange Amplification +44 (0)20 8905 2828
www.orangeamps.com
www.londoninternationalmusicshow.com
