Orange Amplification held a “Golden Ticket” promotion at this year’s MusikMesse music conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Visitors lucky enough to find a golden ticket in their Orange bag received a Dark Terror guitar amplifier.

However, after searching and extending the deadline, Orange was unable to recover two missing tickets. After asking Facebook Fans for suggestions, Orange created two competitions to give away the remaining Dark Terrors and a bonus Micro Terror.

Orange asked Facebook fans to recreate their iconic Orange logo. The result was over 500 pieces of totally unique artwork. After much time and consideration, Orange has chosen the finalists and will be making each design their logo for their Website Homepage and Facebook for a day.

All the Finalists’ designs are already posted on Facebook where fans are “liking” their favourite to vote for the winner. The winning design will be showcased on OrangeAmps.com further and the artist will be rewarded with a Micro Terror and a Dark Terror signed by Orange’s Founder and CEO, Cliff Cooper.

You can still win a Dark Terror even if you didn’t submit a design! At the end of the competition, one lucky Facebook fan that has engaged with the competition (sharing, commenting or liking), will be given a Dark Terror.

Click here to vote now on the Orange Amps Facebook!

In 2005 Orange Amplification created the first “lunchbox amp,” the Tiny Terror. Since then the Terror range has become one of the most popular among guitar players. The Dark Terror is a menacingly loud metal machine, perfect for hard rock and metal. The Micro Terror is the newest addition to the Terror range, boasting 20 Watts in a phone-sized package.

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Orange Amplification held a “Golden Ticket” promotion at this year’s MusikMesse music conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Each day – for four days – one lucky winner would find a ticket in their merch bag entitling them to a Dark Terror Guitar Amp Head.

Only two of the four tickets were claimed so now Orange Amplification can announce two competitions to win the remaining Dark Terrors, plus an extra Micro Terror as well:

1) Design Your Own Orange Amplification Logo!

This year marks the 45th anniversary of Orange Amplification. Our infamous bubble-letter logo has been redesigned many times over the years. Now we want to see how YOU would redesign it!

Follow the instructions posted on the Orange Amplification website and Facebook page to submit your original version of the Orange Amplification logo. We’ve provided you with some assets to get you started, but feel free to do whatever you’d like!

The top (5) five designs will be featured as a main banner on the homepage of OrangeAmps.com and Facebook.com/OrangeAmps, where fans will be voting for their favorite.

PRIZE: One winning design will receive a special Dark Terror signed by our Founder and CEO, Cliff Cooper, and a Micro Terror Head!

2) Just ‘like’ or ‘share’ our posts:

Simply “share” and “like” posts from our Facebook Fan Page (posts must be related to this contest). You can do it as many times as you want.

PRIZE: One lucky Facebook fan will win a Dark Terror from a random draw.

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*UPDATE* We’re now looking for suggestions on our Facebook page here: www.facebook.com/orangeamps

Orange gave away four golden tickets at this year’s Musikmesse on the 10-13th April 2013. However, 2 golden tickets are still at large and Orange is looking for them! Each golden ticket entitles the bearer to a free Orange Dark Terror.

If you were lucky enough to have found a golden ticket , Orange has extended the deadline to return these tickets until 12PM GMT this Friday. Contact us with your unique ticket ID at info@omec.com. Please put, “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket!” in the subject field.

After Friday, Orange will be searching for suggestions on how to give any remaining Dark Terror amplifiers away via their Facebook Page.

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Click the image above to head over to our Facebook page and watch as Orange Amps MD Damon Waller gives an impromptu demonstration of the fantastic new Crush CR60C at Frankfurt Musikmesse.

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Orange Amplifiers will once again be attending the 2013 Musikmesse in Frankfurt.

Visit us at Hall 4.0 Stand F60 where we will be exhibiting brand new additions to the Orange Range including the CR60C and CR120H as well as arguably one of the most innovative products to come into the field of valve technology in years: The VT1000 valve tester.

Other new products being exhibited are the British made Custom Shop 50 and our flagship OR100 – described by Guitarist Magazine as, “A world beating pro head.”

All visitors to the Orange stand have the chance to win a Dark Terror in our fantastic Golden Ticket give-away. Each day of Musikmesse, one bag will contain a special Golden Ticket. If you are lucky enough to find one, return it to the Orange stand before 5pm that day where it will be exchanged for a brand new Orange Dark Terror.

Don’t forget to check back here for regular updates during Musikmesse April 10-13th 2013 for photos and news.

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Orange Amplification is extending its best-selling Crush amps range with the launch of three new professional level products: the CR60C 60 Watt 1 x 12 Combo, CR120C 120 Watt 2 x 12 Combo and CR120H 120 Watt Head. Designed without compromise, these new products deliver quality sound and build at a price, which is superb value for money.

The new additions to the Crush range are the first solid-state professional amps to be launched by Orange since the late 70’s. Working on the brand philosophy ‘simple is better’, the Orange engineers have created a pre-amplifier based on the highly prestigious and respected Rockerverb range which delivers warm and rich tonal characteristics using solid-state technology.

The new Crush amplifiers contain both a clean and dirty channel, which are foot switchable. With both channels based on the Rockerverb series, the clean channel uses two stages of gain, which provide a wonderfully warm clean tone which begins to break up when cranked. The dirty channel’s four stages of gain give the Crush the overdriven sound guitarist’s lust for in an Orange amplifier. Also on-board the amplifiers are a new natural sound digital reverb, which gives the player the choice of spring, plate or hall. For those wishing the amplifiers to be used in a variety of situations and playing styles a super transparent FX loop is included which operates in a similar manner to that used in the brand’s valve models.

Only the best quality components have been specified, the combos include Orange’s ‘Voice of the World’ 60 Watt speaker, which are the same as those found in our larger Orange products. This brings a high level of sensitivity to these new amplifiers giving them that distinct Orange warm midrange tone on the overdrive channel and a super sparkly clean tone.

Continuing with the no compromise design ethos, these amplifiers have the look of the flagship Orange products. Using the Orange basket-weave Tolex, woven speaker grille, beading, hieroglyphs and of course the Orange signature picture frame edging. The combo cabinets and the head sleeve are made from 18mm plywood making them solid, rugged and durable.

The new products extend the Crush range out of the practice amp market offering a product that is perfect for band rehearsals and small to medium size gigs. The CR60C (£349 Inc. VAT) and CR120C (£479 Inc. VAT) Combo’s and CR120H head (£299 Inc. VAT) debut on the Orange booth Hall 4.0 F60 at the forthcoming Musikmesse and will be shipping Summer 2013.

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Orange Amplification has been creating innovative products since 1968 and as Orange celebrates their 45th year of service to musicians, visitors at this years Musikmesse have the unique chance to meet the developers, our founder and CEO, Cliff Cooper and to try out their unique range of guitar amplifiers and products.

Orange will be giving away four Dark Terror amplifiers at this year’s Musikmesse on the 10-13th April 2013. The multi-award winning amp is described by MusicRadar.com as a ‘metal-friendly high gain addition to the best known lunchbox amp range… unapologetically badass’.

Hidden inside one giveaway bag available to all visitors at the Orange Amps booth (F60 in Hall 4.0) will be a golden ticket, which when returned to the Orange Booth before 5pm that day, entitles the lucky holder to a free Dark Terror amplifier head. One Dark Terror will be given away every day of Musikmesse.

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Everyone at Orange is delighted that the Micro Terror has been named Instrument Amplifier of the Year at The Music & Sound Retailer Awards. Our thanks go out to Music and Sound Retailer.

Pictured below is Orange Amplification’s Founder and CEO Cliff Cooper receiving the award from Dan Ferrisi, Editor of The Music & Sound Retailer.

The full list of winners in all categories can be found here:

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Orange Amplification is delighted to be the headline sponsor of the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards for the second consecutive year.

The 2013 awards promise to be even bigger & better, with more explosive live performances and heavy metal mayhem.

The Orange Amplification Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2013 takes place on the 17th June 2013 at the IndigO2 with Motörhead, one of the world’s most seminal rock bands headlining what will be their most intimate show in years. Motörhead states, “It’s awesome to be headlining our first ever award show. It’s an honour to play some kick ass rock’n’roll at the Golden Gods Awards.’

Orange Amps endorsees are set to dominate this year’s annual homage to metal with twelve of them nominated for awards. Bleed From Within and Bury Tomorrow are up for the Best New Band award, While She Sleeps, Asking Alexandria and Kvelertak compete for the Breakthrough award and Bring Me The Horizon look for votes as the Best UK Band. Deftones, Stone Sour and Down are challenging each other for the Best International Band award, Clutch and Limp Bizkit are rivals for the Best Live Act award and Jason Newsted’s Return are going for the Metal As F**k award. With Orange Amps, the amp of choice for metal guitarists everywhere, these awards could be an orange ‘whitewash’. Vote for your favourite bands and be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets that money cannot buy.

‘Orange Amps are an integral part of the new hard rock and heavy metal scene’ commented Damon Waller, Managing Director, ‘being here championing the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, which are designed to celebrate metal’s real success stories, shows that Orange Amps care and will be setting the tone for years to come.’

To find out more about the Orange gear and their artists nominated for this year’s awards visit www.orangeamps.com. For more about the Golden Gods awards, vote for your favourite bands and be in with a chance to win free tickets go to goldengods.metalhammer.co.uk

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One of the visitors was Orange Endorser and MusicRadar’s Young Guitarist of the Year Finalist Callum Williams who tried some of Orange’s newest products such as the Micro Terror.

Thanks to everyone to visited our booth and check back at www.orangeamps.com in the near future for news about our next show, Musikmesse in Frankfurt where we’ll be again showcasing Orange innovations along with some new and special announcements.

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