Should I try an Orange Super Crush 100?

[markal]

I had other versions of the Orange Crush line, a 35rt and then a CR60c. I liked them both for their clean and crunchy sounds, but I felt both were quite bad at edge of breakup - you know, pretty clean until you dig in with pick attack. I know this is a typical weakness for SS but some are good at it. Those Crush amps I had, IMO, were very bad for that sound.

I like that Orange tone but can’t see buying a Rockerverb, so my question is: is the new Super Crush 100 better at edge of break up than the previous Crush models or about the same?

 

[dukewellington]

I tried one last week locally. I get what you’re saying about the edge. Rolling the treble back helped a lot, using a bright pickup. Also had some success keeping the amp’s EQ bands up a little higher and rolling the tone knob around on the guitar. I’d recommend trying one first, if you’re unsure, but I thought it was a great amplifier. It certainly gets loud.

 

[sk8g0at]

I believe Dave Simpson (check him out on youtube) uses an Orange Crush Pro 120 for his crunchy/clean sound. He runs the amp pretty clean and uses pedals to get his sound, but the results are pretty amazing. He's sometimes made me rethink my choices in amps. He's all into SS type amps, plus he's a great player.

 

[stormsedge]

I am really enjoying my Joyo Oxford Sound pedal. Sounds like an Orange amp to me. I was out of room for any more amps. I'll let myself out .

 

[chris m.]

Having watched just about all the YouTube videos on the Super Crush 100 I'm definitely a fan boy and am sorely tempted to get one and give it a try. I also know from experience that you can't really trust YouTube videos to know what something truly sounds like, so caveat emptor and all that. I would be sure to buy where I know I can easily return it, losing out only on some postage/handling costs at worst. I would be buying just the head, not the combo, but even so the postage and handling costs would not be trivial.

 

[tubeToaster]

I have a Super Crush 100 head and it does the edge of break up very well. Very dynamic , much like a tube amp. You can definitely go from clean to crunch just with how hard you dig in . And there is a smooth transition between distortion and clean as the the volume from your guitar starts to fade.

 

[Jakedog]

My crush 35RT freakin KILLS at that sound. It does not however, do it at low volume if that’s what you’re after. It’s not the way I usually play, but if you crank the clean channel wide open and use your volume knob, it’ll do pretty much anything you want. Of course at that point even the 35 it too loud for most small club gigs if you go wide open with it. But it sure sounds nice. If the new 100 is better, I want one.

For reference- I play Engl and Mesa amps at the edge of breakup all the time, and I don’t really think the orange is missing much, if anything. It’s just darker sounding. Which can be good sometimes.