iGuitar Magazine Issue 9 Steve Morse Interview: Orange Signature 4 Jim Root Terror Amp Review

iGuitar Magazine Issue 9 Featuring Steve Morse- Steve Morse Interview - Steve Morse Guitar Lessons - Win a Steve Morse Y2D Music Man Guitar! Out Now! The Free online guitar magazine for guitarists the world over. We have a Randy Rhoads tribute including an unpublished interview and career overview! Reb Beach from Whitesnake talks with Tom Quayle and David Grissom talks with our very own Stuart Bull. In the Bassment we have an interview with the bass guitar legend - Doug Wimbish! Exclusive REVIEW this month is with Guthrie Govan - he demos the new Vigier Fretless guitar! Also reviewed in this issue; Orange Jim Root Signature #4 Valve /tube head and cab review Musicman Steve Morse Y2D guitar review Digitech - iStomp FX pedal review Peavey - Delta Blues 15 Combo amp review Morley Steve Vai 2 and Classic Wah pedal review TC Electronic Polytune Mini Pedal Review TC Electronic Flashback pedal Review with Steve Morse TonePrint Engl Powerball Valve/tube head review Yamaha - Pacifica 311 and 611 solid Body reviews Pedal Snake FX cable System review Hughes and Kettner 18 Watt Tubemeister review Bass Reviews this month include; 3leaf GR2 Envelope generator FX pedal Ermie Ball Cobalt bass strings review Ampeg Portaflex PF350 head & 115HE cab review Breedlove BJ350 CM4 Solo fretless and BJ350 Sme4 Studio Fretted electro acoustic guitar review Acoustic guitar reviews; Vintage Paul Brett 6 String & 12 String electro acoustic reviews Faith Venus FVGH - HEX Concert cutaway electro-acoustic review Tanglewood Sundance TW45 W 0P E This month learn how to play fast Andy James Part 3 Learn the Feel Factor with Michael Casswell Extend your Chord vocabulary with Rick Graham Michael Angelo Batio continues his Alternate picking lessons Tom Quayle shows you how to expand your chord voicings Stuart Bull continues his lessons teaching you how to play Hybrid Picking! Maneli Jamal continues to teach you how to play percussive guitar and Georgio Serci shows you how to play campanella technique on classical guitar!

REVIEWS_AMP REVIEW

It was one the surprise launches at this year’s NAMM show - Orange’s signature #4 Jim Root Terror head and cab. But Orange doesn’t do signature amps, does it? It certainly never has before, so what made Slipknot’s Root the lucky man? And what sets the Jim Root Terror apart from the pack? iGuitar got one of the first review samples and Rick Graham started asking the questions...

I was very surprised to learn that the UK’s Orange Amplification hasn’t produced a single signature model product in its forty plus years history and when you think of some of the legendary names who have used Orange you have to wonder why. Well, whatever the reason, that is now a thing of past following the introduction of the ‘Signature #4 Jim Root Terror Head’. Produced in conjunction Jim Root, the guitarist from Grammy-nominated band Stone Sour - and perhaps the more well known Grammy-Award winning band Slipknot! - this amplifier is an all tube/ valve mini head, in the familiar Terror style package - slated to be capable of a lot more than just high gain tones.

Based on the dirty channel of Jim Root’s own Orange Rockerverb 100 amp that he uses on tour and in the studio, the #4 is essentially a 15 Watt head that packs a pretty beefy punch. For this review we had it hooked up to its matching #4 Signature closed back 2x12 Orange cabinet with offset speakers and as a pair they both looked pretty beastly all in black. I say all in black but with a subtle dash of Orange in the right places!

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It’s also great to see a signature product associated with such a high profile player/ band that isn’t completely covered from head to foot in the band’s logo. Instead, a much more subtle approach has been opted for by the addition of a small signature on both the head and cab, resulting in a much classier looking product (both Slipknot and Stone Sour logos are visible are on the rear of the amp).

The Orange’s front panel is a relatively simple affair, with full three-band EQ controls, gain control and a power attenuation switch enabling the user to easily switch between 15 and 7 Watts. Turning to the rear of the amp we have multi speaker outputs and a very handy tube driven FX-Loop, should you wish to take your tone in a different direction.

As the #4 has been marketed as being a highly versatile amp and not just a firebreathing Heavy Metal dragon, I was very keen to get it plugged in, powered up and switched on, so I could sample some of the clean tones on offer- which is something I’m guessing most of the targeted demographic may not be all that interested in! But it was

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