Nope, not normally! Like the Graphics it normally had just the two preamp valves. With the extreme high volume levels more than making up for lower gain gain, well these amps plain rock!īTW Aspen Pittman in his 'Tube Amp Book' said that the OR120M had an extra gain stage. The maximum gain levels are low by modern standards, but you don't need high gain for great sounds. Big, fat, aggressive, these amps are designed with one thing in mind - loud distortion. But for guitar or bass the tones from these amps (and the OTR I'd imagine too) are unique and just plain killer. I use the amp for bass so instead of being a silly loud amp for modern stages it actually struggles a bit on clean headroom for bass. But going below say 8/10 on the volume front does start to strip the guts out of the sound. The MV is basic (one of the if not the first master volume circuit on a UK amp) and is effective for losing a bit of volume while retaining decent tone. To sound really good though you do need to get them up to high working volumes.
OR80s or OR120s are just silly loud guitar amps.
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I have played graphics briefly but not full throttle so I can't really say too much on that, but if true (which I can believe) than that is just plain scary. Though I often read people say that the older graphics had it on the out and out volume front. In theory the MV version with the MV set full open and just using the gain as the volume control gets pretty similar results to the non MV Graphics. Or should i say, 'a more modern gain character'I don't think there is even that difference. i'm led to believe the OR120M has a bit more gain.
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