I love the tone of my new Orange but I find, particularly at gig volumes, it seems to distort at relatively low gain settings. This works for some stuff I play but I would like to be able to get a slightly cleaner or at least less aggressive tone easily. I think part of the issue is that I have been gigging it with my Lakland 5502 which seems to have a fair amount of oomf.
Would changing the preamp valves help? Switch them for something more prone to warm chunky tones rather than really gritty rock, if so what would folk recommend?
The other option I assume is cutting back the signal, turning down on the bass or adding something in my chain that allows me to tame teh volume just a tad.
suggestions people?