FROM THE
BUILDER’S MIND
ORANGE
GETAWAY DRIVER
The Orange Getaway Driver was designed
to sound like an old Orange “pics only”
OR100 that I modified back in the mid ‘80s.
This turned out to be one of my favorite
sounding heads at the time as it had a
really cool saturation character and used to
destroy all my other old Oranges and Plexi
Marshall 45s, 50s and 100s.
This amp had more gain but still screamed
the cool ‘70s tones rather than modern
sounding high-gain tones. That’s what I really
liked about it!
I set about to try to put the essence of
this character into a pedal design. I ended
up using three single-ended, class-A JFET
gain stages with the third stage trying to
reproduce what the output stage of the
original amp was doing.
I wanted the pedal to have very low output
impedance—even in bypass—but I also had
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