Premier Guitar features affiliate links to help support our content. We may earn a commission on any affiliated purchases.

Orange Launches the Limited-Edition Dual Dark 100

Orange Launches the Limited-Edition Dual Dark 100

With two channels of 100% valve versatility, selectable output wattage, and footswitchable attenuator.


When released, the original Dual Dark 100 was completely different to any other Orange amp in terms of both gain and voicing, with its tight bottom end and a percussive nature to its attack. The original Channel A was a completely new design with a voicing that revealed a fat and powerful EQ with strong open mids and a tight response. While Channel B, took the amp into the territory of the high-gain, heavy-metal Thunderverb 200. It was this duality of voicing that made the amp so appealing to a wide range of guitarists.

Channel A can still be dialed up to any tone from clean, classic rock through to bone-shaking metal with its powerful 3-band EQ, while Channel B continues to reflect the Thunderverb’s scooped, pronounced mids and mellow highs. Each channel has independent gain and master controls to allow players to move from cleans to death at the stomp of the footswitch. True simplicity!

The amp has selectable output wattage; 100w to 70w, 50w to 30w to switch down the gain from the power amp valves and it can be taken even lower with the footswitchable attenuator. Alternatively, use the attenuator for rhythm volume or turn it off for a lead boost. Engineered to be played, the Limited Edition Dual Dark 100 White is frighteningly close to being the perfect amp for the darkest tones.

For more information, please visit orangeamps.com.

Dual Dark 100 White

Duane Betts enjoys a control set modification that was preferred by his father, the late, legendary Dickey Betts.

Duane Betts and reader Steve Nowicki join the PG staff to discuss their favorite ways to customize their setups.

Question: What’s your favorite guitar mod?

Read MoreShow less

The series features three distinct models—The Bell,The Dread, and The Parlor—each built to deliver rich, resonant acoustic sound with effortless amplification.

Read MoreShow less

Mooer Prime Minimax M2 Intelligent Pedal boasts 194 effects models, 80 preset slots, MNRS and third-party sample file compatibility, an 80-minute looping module, internal drum machine, high-precision tuner, Bluetooth support, and a rechargeable lithium battery.

Read MoreShow less

With Is, My Morning Jacket turned to an outside producer, Brendan O’Brien, who has worked with Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and many others.

Evolutionary, rocking, anthemic, psychedelic, and free—the band’s guitarists share the story of the making of MMJ’s visceral, widescreen new album.

ā€œTime is such a fun thing to think about, how elastic it is and how strange it is,ā€ muses My Morning Jacket singer and guitarist Jim James. For a band that’s weathered more than a quarter-century together, that elasticity and strangeness feel particularly poignant. After a period of uncertainty and creative fatigue that left fans, and the members themselves, questioning the group’s future, My Morning Jacket has over the past several years emerged reinvigorated.

Read MoreShow less