Super Crush 100 - 100-watt Solid-state Head - Orange Review

Smiles (and sounds) for days!

I bought this for my husband, and here's what he has to say about this amp; "This is a 'Players amp'... No nonsense straight forward features for the player... Just the basics, the way it originally began, when you'd plug a guitar into an amp and 'play'... without spending hours searching through 'special effects' and digital amp modeling, etc., With this amp, the sounds come from… read more your 'fingers' as it should be. Two channels, 'clean' for playing nice, or 'dirty' for playing hard, some sweet classic reverb, and the rest is up to you and your hands." The best amp on the market right now. Period. Solid State or not, this amp marks the beginning of what some of of us never could have... a killer amp head worthy of playing gigs, or a lifetime of personal home jamming, or both! Thank you Orange! Thank you Sweetwater! Thank you Rebecca! And especially, Thank the Lord. It's time to play music again! - Paul Cordero

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Orange juice with the pulp

If you are looking for the Rockerverb sound this is it but with a much better clean channel. The amp is loud and as mean as the Rockerverb with a really great built in digital reverb. The clean is really nice and warm and with a high channel volume gets some nice breakup. The reverb is really really good so leave those reverb pedals at home. The clean Takes pedals really well to… read more due to it not having a built in bright cap. It takes overdrives beautifully as well as time based effects in front. The gain channel is really interesting because you can go from a nice crystal clean to searing high gain on each end of the spectrum due to it having 4 gain stages. The channel really comes to live with a booster pedal in front too. With the gain at about 75% I use an Xotic EP booster at minimum gain into a Fortin 33 at half gain and it really drives the amp into this perfectly stacked distortion. It sounds like something you would hear on a polished modern metal album. This amp is truly great and an excellent option for an all tube amp and in all reality could replace many out there.

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Best amp under a grand

I own lots of amps and I have the old cr-120 .. The crush pro has a useable dirty channel that will go from zztop to cannibal corpse and it's not near as noisey as the OG crush. It even does "a thing" like a tube amp when you go past 1 o'clock it starts to get fat and bloom like tubes. It's all in the j-fet transistors. The clean channel is chimey and sparkles really well. It's… read more not as loud as the old crush but way better tone but for sure loud enough.. I own tube amps and vintage Peavey solid state amps in 5 min this amp became my favorite because of price and versatility. I cranked it wide open for 30 min it was hardly warm . If you want a great amp and not blow a ton of cash this is the one!!!!

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My new favorite

Ive been playing the crush pro 120 head for a couple years, this amp is entirely different to my ears, so other than being an orange solid state amp thats all there is. it sounds different in a lot of ways! It seems to have more balls and fuller sounding than the crush pro 120. I will still keep the crush pro 120 but this is going to be my main amp head for years to come or until… read more orange improves this version lol! Also i do have tube amps and hate to compare because in all honesty tubes are tubes and solid state is solid state. This will be a great addition to any amp head user!

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I am having a hard time with this amp.

Let me explain I have a bunch of high end tube amps all of them have their voice. This amp is solid state and gives me a real tube feel and dynamics. I don't get how it works but it does. I have it paired with an Orange PPC 112 cabinet with a Celestion G12 Cream back A little underpowered for a 100 watt amp but I don't play really loud it just screams tone. I think I will be gigging… read more with this little gem. Low maintenance and superior tone.

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