Dual Baby 100 - Intro with Ade Emsley

An introduction with Orange's amp designer and Technical Director Ade Emsley

When just one blistering lead channel isn’t enough, there’s the incredibly portable Orange Dual Baby. It’s a behemoth in a pint-sized package that offers two channels of lead-playing possibilities. Weighing only just over 3 kg and with a minimal footprint, Dual Baby can effortlessly power any monster cab.

This simple A and B channel design means duelling lead tones and/or alternating rhythm opportunities abound. Channel A mimics the rich and responsive tone of our flagship Rockerverb amps in a reliable solid-state design. From clean, to crunch, to full-on saturation, there’s no shortage of Orange mojo. There’s also a brand-new Tubby switch, which boosts the bottom-end early in the signal chain — ideal for creating a “rounder” tone when playing clean or when searching for just the right “dirty-clean” sound.

Channel B allows players to dial in exactly the desired level of grit, from clean to crunchy and everywhere in between, with ample saturation and a valve-like “edge-of-breakup” tone unheard of in any other solid-state unit. The Tight switch gives the amp spring and bounce at lower gain levels for players who really want to tighten up and shred. Tweak frequencies with the 3-band sweepable EQ and presence controls to add shimmer or dial in mids that sit perfectly in the mix.

Variable output options like a balanced DI XLR out for adding IRs later within your DAW along with dual speaker outputs for utilizing multiple cabs makes the Dual Baby super flexible.

[ToneNailer]

Only Ade should be doing the amp demos. The inflection of his voice is rad and the fact he is the engineer makes it proper.

[robertallen]

I have 4 of ade's handwired amps. I love tube amps. Ade you sold me on the tour baby. I'm ordering it today.

[gigifara]

thanks for keeping it completely analog!

[fastacesus]

Said this for a long time, the purests will hate. But a presence was missing on orange amps. This seems to be a great evolution of ideas. Dual for me.

[fuzzgod]

Cool :) I really like the Dual Baby. Two channels with full EQ – that's exactly what I was looking for! It would be great to see an identical concept but based on tubes.

[LeStraTele]

This is exactly what I need. New amp day coming soon.

[al]

Always happy to see more high quality amps in solid state. The world needs more of that, tubes are very overrated, imho. King Buzzo don’t need em, Andy Gill didn’t need em, what matters is if the amp is designed well, not if it has tubes in it. These amps seem to be designed very well.

[fmdangelo]

you should have Ty Tabor demo one of these..cool amp!

[heathbarnhart]

Jim Root switched to quad cortex...and I took offense to that. 😅 I love how this sounds.

[Mega_trav]

I would love to see a hybrid version. Tube preamp into Class AB power amp.

[FoundryStreetJason]

Holy Shit!!! this sounds amazing. I love this amp.

[shugo]

Is the high gain channel of the gain baby the same as one of these channels?

[andybarker]

Gonna combine this with my Micro Dark!

[johnnyhov]

Can I use it without cab connected and only use XLR for recording to PC? Or do I need a loadbox etc?

[alexanderwebb]

Love this! Are y’all going to offer a 112 cab that is more compatible? Your ppc112 is only 60watts at 16ohms. Can you run it without a cab plugged in or do you need a load box?

[cottonwhite]

So greasy request, would you try a demo utilizing the orange amp detonator with these babies? Doing a b and y especially the Y. Not to give the rest of the world my tricks of amp stacking but hey you get more folks on that glorious path that’s twice the gear bought 😅😅😅

[nagend]

Hi guys, why didn't you make stereo in & out with stereo fx loop?

[totalbender]

Would love to see this with higher wattage (200-300 watts) for those of us who love ridiculous headroom.

[georgewilkins]

So going by what they said, they got it wrong with the Super Crush.. No presence.. Anx Fixed IR on DI output, much prefer to use my own IR But the amp IR can't be switched... And it's not a very good IR. 5 out 10 for the Super Crush.. I'm disappointed with my super crush.. Thanks guys...