Valves are DEAD 💀 Long Live Super Crush! | Orange Super Crush 100
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Who needs valves when solid-state amps can sound this good?
The Super Crush 100 utilises a JFET preamp design and the 100W Class A/B power amp from an Orange Pedal Baby 100 to generate Rockerverb-like tones at a fraction of the cost and weight.
This really is a no compromise Solid-State amplifier for the gigging guitarist.
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Who needs valves when solid-state amps can sound this good?
The Super Crush 100 utilises a JFET preamp design and the 100W Class A/B power amp from an Orange Pedal Baby 100 to generate Rockerverb-like tones at a fraction of the cost and weight.
This really is a no compromise Solid-State amplifier for the gigging guitarist.
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I love your Channel! I've learned a LOT of the technical stuff of making music thanks to you. I have a #TATA, though. Can you use a Solid state AMP without a Cab plugged at all? Say use only the line out to an interface for recording, not plugging the cab at all. I know that Valve amps are doomed if that is done.
Thanks and Greetings from Costa Rica!!
Way to hyperbole
I want the super crush 1,0000
Except the guy that designed it, only plays valve amps.
As Allan Holdsworth famously said, "Tubes, solid state, digital---what's the difference as long as you get the sound you want."
After all, the mixing consoles are solid state anyways lol
@@BloodTributary How can you say that when thousands of guitarists have done just fine with solid state and digital rigs for decades? I saw Holdsworth back when he was still using Hartley Thompson SS amps live and he sounded fantastic both live and on record with them. And there must be a thousand jazz guitarists using SS rigs.
@@BloodTributary Tell that to Metallica who use nothing but digital Axe FX's with Class D Matrix amps for power...
@@BloodTributary sorry but it just sounds like you're parroting ideas of a bygone era. Ideas that even tube clinging, forum dweling boomers are starting to let go of. And I'm quite sure that Alan Holdsworth has more authority on this than anybody here including you.
At the end of the day it's all about music, everything else is just bullshit marketing directed at overly emotional would be bedroom rockstars.
@@moustachio334 this is very besides the point and has no relevance
Can't wait for the super duper crush 1000.
And the Super duper omega crush 9000 after that
1000...that'll be a bass amp. Bring it on, Orange.
Super Crush 200 Alpha 3
Love it! But for real, a 50 would be smart imo
Super Crush 100 Turbo
For years, I had the previous version, the Crush Pro 100 H. It was not QUITE the solid-state Rockerverb it was advertised to be, but it was still a GREAT HEAD. The next step? I want Orange to make a solid-state Dual Dark. Think about it. A Crush Dark 100. Orange, make this happen.
A 3 channel "Crush Dark 200" (with mid control for the clean channel) would be amazing af!
Yes.
That would be badass!
Definitely! ☯️
wasnt the previous version the cr120?
This should be the official review video for orange. Its way better than their actual official video for the amp. Someone make a petition!
You beat me to it. Colin should be the official speaker/reviewer for Orange.
Official reviews never has any criticism.
That's why they s*ck.
Same for the Boss HM-2.
Check out Dave Simpson's video!
This is commissioned by Orange. Note the paid promotion tags. Making it any more official than that would most certainly mean removing his slight criticisms toward the end, and that would be a bad thing. Video is fine as is.
My buddy bought this and I can confirm it keeps up with my 50w Tube Amp easily while not having weird tube issues that I'm constantly fighting at my house :D
Yep. You’ve done it again. Not that you convinced me that I need one of these, but your explanations were understandable and interesting. 👍🏻
Colin, you continue to blow my mind with how much info and explanation you push into a video - let alone video to video!
Hi Colin! Loving the demo, pulled the trigger on one of these off the back of this video! Has been delivered to my flat but I'm currently self isolating elsewhere. Can't wait to get back and get this beast powered up with my pedalboard in the front!
Keep up the awesome content 🤘
Dude you just absolutely killed this whole review... content, playing... I learned, I enjoyed... well done indeed
For a solid-state amp, this thing sounds really good. The Rockerverb still sounds better, but probably not enough to justify the huge price difference.
I mean you're not wrong, the Rockerverb is pretty pricy but it's night and day on how good they sound. The Rockerverb sounds amazing, this sounds OK.
@@adamtwelve agreed
@@adamtwelve I own the OG Crush Pro 120 and the Rockerverb blows that thing out of the water -- but I am surprised at how much better this does sound over the original version. Still not close enough to the RV yet, but for 499 compared to nearly 2 grand, I think it would be worth upgrading from the previous to the newer one. Only negative IMO is the cab sim not sounding usable in live situations (unless maybe running an EQ pedal between the cab sim out & mixer possibly?)
@@chriscarrillo967 yeah the price is the main selling point for sure, it's not a bad sounding amp at all I just think it doesn't sound Orangey enough lol.
I have a 100w mk3 and I'm getting this as a backup.
Brilliant. This is the best & most professional amp demo I've ever seen. If I was an amp manufacturer I'd be sending you amps hoping you'd do the same for them.
Old video but definitely a good watch I like the honesty when you speak about certain portions of the hardware. I really like that you drill down and talk about what will work and what doesn't.
Seems to me the absolute mandatory tool to use with any solid state amp is a quality EQ pedal. A lot of shortcomings can be corrected with a little eq.
Dude, most amps need EQ. Matchless being the exception.
and front end boost
I’m confused
Don’t amps have EQ knobs to adjust the bass and treble? What does an EQ pedal do differently?
@@Dankyjrthethird so on the amp you have treble, bass, mids, presence and resonance (if you're lucky) but with a 10-band EQ pedal you have ... 10 bands. You can cut problem frequencies, you can boost the right ones with much more precision. It can be the difference between everything sounding kinda shitty and lo fi to studio-quality every time, even live. Most underrated part of most rigs.
@@benjaminmuir1776
oh i see that makes sense, that does sounds useful tbh
That crazy segway at three minutes and 48 seconds is brilliant! I had to watch it a couple times ..... thanks for keeping the fun in it!
I heard everything I needed,when you said Class A/B power section. That pretty much has me sold with the J-fet.
Great demo! I have been thinking about one of these for a while and your video sold me!
FETs to me is the best of both worlds: it maintains the gain structure of a tubes but also has that aggressive edge characteristic of solid state circuitry. Finally FET schematics got noticed in the XXI century.
I own a Crush 2X12 Combo. Just a beast. Built like a tank. Also I've got the Pedal Baby 100. Just straight forward - not bells and whistles. - Orange always up their game. - Great presentation in the Vid. Thanks
You could also put a compressor pedal in the loop to get another level of tube feel, highly recommend
Holy smokes, you went a little bit Lynyrd Skynyrd in the play through and I love it
That was my thought exactly. Maybe it's the Gold Top's influence? Another great video!
I was thinking Zeppelin.
Finally found the amp that I trust to be good enough to replace my Marshall MG100 HDFX.
I like the reliability of a solid state as in it's less likely to fail on the road so that's why I go with solids.
Been looking for the perfect solid state head and this is it. Thanks for the video this helped me decide between this and a Boss Katana and I'm going with Orange.
Funny how they've discovered that JFETs sound more 'valve-like' than MOSFETS right in the middle of a worldwide MOSFET shortage...
Tbf they do though
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Congrats on being absolutely and completely informative with a thorough explanation of this great product while at the same time being completely confusing to a total newbie like myself LOL....All I know is it "has a great beat and you can dance to it" (for those ancient oldies like myself you get the Bandstand reference :) ). Keep up the good work my friend!
"Church of the cosmic skull" style intro riff. Most excellent.
very informative, the high frequency with high gain was very nice to learn. thanks.
The Wampler Catapulp, out of production but still available at very reasonable prices, is also a fantastic way to get the Orange Rockerverb sound on a budget.
That eq at 12:27 makes a huge difference. I plan on getting the combo for using live, and running the DI for our in ears. Adding this low pass would be perfect for that.
Loving the channel - Cheers from a fellow Scottish content creator! Not so active now, due to travel restrictions but still do guitar stuff when time allows. Solid State amps have come along way since the Seventy's and Eighty's when I used to rock an old Sound City 100w head then a Roost 100W combo with Twin Celestion 12" 100w ear bleeders (wish I still had that) The Boss Katana amps are great, I find they do have a lot of the valve type impulse response and dynamics that was always missing before. The 2 x12" 100w is great for gigging, loud and lighter than similar valve amps. I love that you can run them at 0.5w and still get great tone, unlike most valve amps ;0)
Pretty thorough review. Best I've seen on this so far.
Am I the only one who (and I'm not knocking it, I LOVE solid state as much as tube) instantly thought 'sounds like a solid state' the moment he started playing? Really does sound great! (which is all any of us should care about anyway)
I honestly think he still has the master too low. Getting those speakers working is a big part of the sound as well. I THINK that the something in the impedance curve from the speakers changes when you actually run them at high volumes.
@@GPaulTheThrashKing Impedance is a function of frequency. Whatever note you play on the guitar will determine how much resistance the power amp sees. The lower the note, the lower the resistance and the harder the amp has to work. Higer frequencies show the amp a higher level of resistance, and its an easier load on the amp. If you look at the specs on most amps, you'll see something like 100 watts into 8 ohms, 200 watts into 4 ohms, 400 watts into 2 ohms, or something similar. If you look at the 400 watt rating, you only get it at the lowest frequency the amp is rated to handle. As the frequency moves up, watts go down.
There's an exception to all this that you also need to know. Tube amps don't like wide swings in impedance. On almost all tube power amps, and a few solid state amps, an output transformer is placed after the power tubes or power transistors, and before the speakers. An output transformer acts like a buffer. It makes it so the amp sees a consistent load at all frequencies.
When you read this, keep in mind that I'm over simplifying things a great deal. I'm just trying to present the overall picture as to how this concept works. I don't want to overwhelm anyone with too much information.
@@GPaulTheThrashKingcan confirm this is true
Would love to see a dark crush 100. Same clean channel and power amp but with the micro dark preamp for the dirty channel.
I haven’t even finished this video and just want to say how superbly done it is and well explained. Bravo! The pedal baby bit was funny too!😂
There is room for tubes and solid state. Always has been. Solid state amps have really come a long way. Peavey Bandit, Roland JC120, Roland Blues Cube, Quilter, and the Orange Crush and Super Crush series to name a few. There are some really great SS amps out there. I play my Katanas quite a bit, but I still love my tube amps.
I was really close to buying a CR120C but I found a deal on a Laney GH30R-112 that I couldn't pass up. I still want one of these Orange SS amps though. They are pretty nice to be honest. The XLR DI out is a welcome addition.
I have the Crush Pro 120, the amp that this amp replaced. I’ll go as far as to say that these amps are absolutely on par with solid state amps that are much more expensive like the Hughes and Kettner Black Spirit 200. Killer amp that can get you some killer tones!
i have the cr120 as well. i like it better. to me sounds thicker and better and more massive and fuzzlike, while the super crush 100 sounds more trebley and fizzy to me.
Greatly surprised here. Sounds way better than I expected. You ain't tearing me away from me big old Marshall, though. OTOH, it'd be a good one to have as a backup or an alternative for tracking.
Only thing I wish you had done was compare the open vs closed back cab options on the IR.
Fantastic video as always!
It's a life saver for me I have a bad back and i can't lift my Mesa Boogie Mark 2 B combo anymore this is perfect 40 pounds I can handle that I just ordered my Orange Crush Super 100 I will get it in November thanks for the great video you Rock😎🎸🤘🎵🎶
The dual P90 Strat sounded epic. Gotta consider this amp.
Taynor TS-15/25B, Marshall Lead 12, etc ... oh, recently Milkman. I love how solid state can be good and how folks are finally getting it.
I wonder if we'll see cork-sniffing disagreements between A/B power -vs- D class power in the future ;)
Excellent job as always Collin sir !! :)
Even after adding cutting the highs the high gain XLR output sound could use a lot more work on the EQ, I would definitely want to use a different IR with that.
If it's anything like the Bassbreaker circuit, it uses basic analog filtering to simulate speaker roll-off - a poor choice in todays world of IR's etc.
First time on your channel. Was not expecting Pedal Baby…INSTANTLY SUBSCRIBED 😀
I had a 100w KMD with 4x10 cab(got it cheap, from Doc Brown), in the late early 90s and that thing was such a monster, it had to get its own place, because I couldn't keep it at home.
Now, my goto is a modded silver stripe Rage 158, with a Celestion Ten 30 and a cab jack. Mic'd up sounds like $500 of glass and pushing a 1x12 cab gets loud enough to get the cops called from the next street over.
When my favorite music store store announced the release of this, needless to say I was excited.
Best review ever! Amazing job Kyle.
Orange is honestly, for me, is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of having solid state amps that, sound just as good as valve, I just wish they’d come out with a solid state amp, with an emphasis on cleans, because oh boy can this amp even their CR120 do amazing clean tones, I understand orange isn’t the go to “clean amp” but they can definitely do it well and in their style
Great content Collin!
That into was fecken awesome. Real nice play. Cheers
Huh I was on to something... I won (! I never win anything) the Orange Baby last year and I've been having a lot of fun putting pre-amps (pedals/modelers) in front of it and I really love what I get out of it. In my modest room I only have room (acoustically and geometrically) for a 1x12 speaker, but so far I've been VERY impressed what I value I can get out of it!!
Just tried it yesterday. Sounds and feels great! I think it was best with the preamp completely cranked.
Thanks for the tips on how to get an ideal tone from a solid-state amp Colin.
i was a intrigued by the cab sim sound. it very obviously doesnt sound like a guitar cabinet speaker. so i saved the audio of this video and opened it my DAW, comparing 7:22 (recording) to 12:28 (cabinet simulation no eq).
i dialed the tone on the dry cabsim sound section with an analog style EQ software and was impressed at how convincing it sounds. the cabsim is INDEED a full range speaker emulation, and sounds great when shaped.
compared to the recording at 7:22 in this video, the cabsim sounds very close-mic. collin's recording has ambient sound of room and distance, which wouldnt be ideal for a cabsim that's meant to be sculpted with eq and maybe reverb.
in conclusion, i do prefer the way they handled their cabinet simulation, its very direct and versatile, and is what i will be using when i get my hands on this amp. for people who demand a more faithful guitar cabinet simulation model, buying a loadbox and giving it your impulse response of choice is FAR better than if this amp's built in cabsim had one generic guitar cabinet model. as guitarists, we want to choose our own sound.
I've heard a lot of people comparing this amp to the Rockerverb, even Orange themselves, and I can definitely hear it. Although to my ears, I hear a lot more of the OR100 in it. Regardless, I can't wait to get mine! I pre-ordered it back in September 2021, and I'm still waiting as of January 2022
The EVH Iconic still has no videos... I am only saying that it started presales 2 months ago.. this leaked a couple weeks back and here we are today. I think I am going with this as a backup.. I am really liking what I am hearing here and with Ty Tabors video.
On the other hand with the XLR output, sounds like if you crank everything, you could get a 100W HM-2!
Great vid tho, dug the tones on this unit!
Yeah, I was kind of thinking something along those lines..! :)
When it comes to tone i don't care what I'm playing through so long as it sounds good. But when it comes to the feel between myself and the amp tubes I've found interact with my playing really pleasantly. If orange can crack that sort of interaction between the player and the amp that would sell me on it.
Extra note: korg has been putting their nutube tech in some vox amps and i think of that tech can be expanded on it would be the future of amps or at least a component of it
I'm impressed with this amp for sure. Great demo! A little disappointed you didn't play "Supercrush" by Tiger Trap though.
Since the power section is clean you can take a signal without cab-sim straight from the effects loop.
Would love to see the difference between this super crush 100 and the crush pro 120
Specially on metal
Picked up a SC100 after watching your vid. Very happy with it! It's also become my favorite home recording amp, but I don't use the cab-sim DI out, I use the effect send and add an IR to it. By doing that I get better cab sim from the IR, and the ability to keep the master volume / room sound as quiet as I want while recording.
I've never thought of doing that. Sounds a great idea. Are there any videos showing how to do this?
@@LordBransty It's pretty straightforward as far as sending the effects loop "send" signal into your interface (1/4" line-in or via DI box to an XLR Mic Input)
If you search youtube for "Free VST Impulse response loader" there are a lot of guide videos that will show you how to add the impulse response to your recorded audio track made from the Crush's "send"
@@swmorgan515 Thank you very much for that!
i love your channel and content collin keep it up , nr 1 guitar and guitar related electrical stuff channel !
This amp sounds great! I wil argue solid state heads have been great from the start depending on what you get, I have amazing 80s Peavey stuff that sound just wonderful. $99 digital modeling/solid state amps for beginners give the "non-tube" technology a bad name it seems, just don't forget they can be reaaaaaaally really good too!
Agreed. I'm convinced that a lot of the negatives that players associate with "solid state" are actually a result of digital circuitry, and also left-over reputation from many of the very BAD, budget versions of analog solid state amps in the 70's to early 90's. And even in the 80's, countless legendary recordings across several genres with the Roland JC analog SS amps.
A good sounding analog amp is more about the circuitry than whether there's a glowing glass tube in that circuitry.
Wow!!!!!!! Great channel! you know your stuff!
So naturally this made me go back and watch the Pedalbaby video. My Idea for a TATA would be how to hookup a device like that in a combo along with cab sims and whatnot to ultimately not blow up your amp trying to use them
I love JaiFets. 😜 Excellent explanation and demo. Just purchased one.
Currently have a crush combo, excellent death metal tone from it with some tweaking and slapping an overdrive and noise gate on. Thinking of upgrading to this just because I love the character of orange
Great video…not an orange owner..yet! You spoke of how to push the preamp and keep power amp low. Could you explain , or if you have a video how the inverse happens on a tube amp? Do you keep the preamp low and turn master all the way up? Thanks
The amp is happening! I love the clean channel the best but that classic 70s rock sound with a Les Paul is nothing to sneeze at! It's. a great sound too!
I think those DIs very high frequency is nature of the beast. Good thing eqs can fix it quite nicely
Would I use it in a gig that plays soul music like my band? Fo' sho'!
I think you just sold me on this amp.....and I'm primarily a bassist/vocalist. 😎 This thing sounds incredible.
This guy knows his stuff! Solid amp head review!
Do you know if the send in the loop is the same signal as the line out sans Cab emulation. I run a silent system (ie amps through load boxes direct into my interface) and wondering if I can use this to full potential. I do not want the inbuilt cab emulation (I never know why amp brands don't put a bypass on line out cab emulation). Love the overdrive sound of this amp. Sounds like halfway between a rockerverb and an older SS orange thought slightly less chewy.
Adding an impulse response module could have been nice. I think that's pretty much standard practice these days. However, I understand the cost implications of that. I agree that the icing on the cake for this amp would have been a switch to turn off the emulation entirely. I suppose one could take the signal straight after the pedals in the effects loop, but you may then need a D.I. box or have an interface with padded inputs. You may also need a signal splitter too if you still want to power a cab live for monitoring without mic'ing. All in all, it's a sick amp and I want one.
Great video 👍
These really sound great. I might get one to back up my Marshall Origin 🎸
Here's a good hack... I run the effects send from my Orange Terror Stamp into the effects return on my Marshall Origin to bypass the Marshall preamp and essentially creates a 50 watt Dark Terror voicing. I'm pushing a Fender Bassbreaker 2x12 cab with the Terror Stamp and the vertical Origin 2x12 cab with the Origin head; the separation of the 2 cabs are perfect for really filling a room. Any modulation, delay, or reverb can still be attained through the loop by running the Origin send to the desired effects to the Terror Stamp return: while any wah, boost, overdrive, etc is still on the front end between the guitar and terror stamp input. I love experimenting with different setups to attain useable and inspiring tones, it's quite amazing how versatile gear actually is. Another affordable hack is to put an ART tube mic/instrument preamp into the effects loop of any amp (but start with input and output sensitivity on the ART turned all the way down and adjust to your liking), it's surprisingly good and super loud! I hope this gives someone some inspiration to experiment in ways that may have not yet been considered. Cheers
I saw Nick Bowcott's video for this, I've never been an Orange fan but this is probably the best solid state amp I've heard in ages.
I’d like to hear it with Ade’s new single cut 🤘🏽
Thank you for this video I've been looking to replace my blue voodoo 120 with a rockerverb but I think I may check this out instead
Thank you.There is always some shredder metaling it up.I like metal dont get me wrong,but im a classic rock guy.Again thank you for play something for us classic rock guys.
Cheap Amp Head, No Tubes, ALL THE GAIN
ALLTHEGAIIIIIN
Oh man, so I just bought a Pedal Baby 100 used for $300 a few weeks ago and def watched your vid on it as part of my research. Because I've never been into amp gain and have been obsessed with pedals it really is the perfect solution. That being said, when this whole 2 channel amp is $500 USD new VS $400 USD for the pedal baby, the value of the super crush 100 blows the pedal baby away! Damn... Bad timing.
Odd that I would need two single button footswitches for channel and reverb. Guess they got to make a few extra bucks somehow
Being that this is a 100W amp, it's safe to assume that Orange intended this to be giggable, so I'm curious to know just how well this amp cuts through a live mix. It's one thing to be able to get really loud, but it's another thing to be able to get really loud and maintain all the dynamics of the amps without it getting muddy. Another thing is, amps can sound punchy and thick when played by themselves, and then in a live mix the loss of dynamics make them sound thin and lost. I'm curious to hear some live musicians use this.
I owned and gigged the CR120H. I could cut through just fine. I never turned the master past 7 and my drummer was LOUD.
I have the 120w head and my other guitar player uses a 100w black star. We have to mic him and not me. I think I'm on maybe 3 when we play. It's loud and deep.
@@daveg4236 Are your heads tube or solid state? I know that there are plenty of 100W and even 50W tube heads that are fine live on their own, but sometimes solid state amps, even hi wattage one's can get lost... which was why I was curious about this particular solid state amp.
@@MartinAdrianoFlores Cool thanks,
I also gig the CR120. I don't think I've ever turned it all the way up at any point lol, it's plenty loud and that Orange mid range always cuts
I'd say the opposite of what you said at the end is true as well- it honestly sounds...not that great at low volume. I don't really use it at home, I just use amp sims. Turned up to band volume (and we mic up usually so still not crazy loud) is where it shines
I wonder, does that channel level master volume thing also apply to bass amps. I figure it probably does but doesn't hurt to ask
Always a good day when I get to watch a csguitars video even if it’s a year old
Came for the Orange but kept staring at that Laphroaig 10 tube the whole time. Best liquid on the planet. I'm actually glad it's a little expensive here in the states or I might develop a problem lol
Such a great video! Should be on the Orange site incase they havent already. I wanted to ask what pickups are in your Flying V? They sound glorious!
Cool amp, definitely. I want a metal demo like you did on the Rockerverb which sounded absolutely brutal! But wow that XLR out is a joke, the cab sim sounds bad and no, the soundguy at your local bar will not know how to EQ this. As the power section is super clean anyways (nothing to gain at this stage, pun intended) a humble splitter in the FX loop feeding an IR loader will do the trick here. Oooor you could try and happily void the warranty and bypass that stupid cabsim, modding the XLR out be direct. Lots of SMD parts but the circuit board still does not look very tightly packed so that should be an option for diy freaks like me. ****s sake now I got the GAS.
This reminds me of the weird valves-but-not-valves vox (I think?) developed. I know they use them in their mini amp heads (the mv50) and hughes&kettner used them (I think) in the black spirit as the tone generator or whatever they named that unit. There is also the nutube tube screamer. Potential video topic? It's interesting that noone uses them more widely when they claimed its the future of music gear.
Thank you
Can you record from the XLR output without a speaker cab attached, or does it need that speaker load to prevent damage?
Solid state amps usually do not require a speaker load
I am trying to choose between this and the pedal baby. I would only be using it for the clean channel since I have my distortion dialed in with pedals. Besides the reverb, is there any difference between the pedal baby and the super crush 100?
I'll be hanging onto my Rockerverb Mkiii 100. :)
My own amp is a Crush 12 but I've been eyeing up the Crush 35RT to get my hands on its effects loop.
love the sound of 'full-range'. wish more pedal and amp makers would make pedals designed to leave all that sparkly high end as is. i always end up using lots of exciter and eq boosting to get it back after cab sims.
Isn‘t that kinda pointless? Why do you use cab sim at all then? At that point you could use just the eq for shaping the raw amp sound
well you kind want a cab sim. hearing raw sound of pedal can little harsh in a daw. Unless you like raw harsh sound of pedal not going through a large speaker.
Sounds Killer 🤘🤘
Just got this amp and it sound excellent! Compared it to my ENGL fireball 100, and both tones are fine for recording an album.
I really like that tone fully played tune there at the start.
Great....and I just ordered a new amp 3 days ago!
I had to get rid of my combo a bit ago cause too much breaking down. I now have a victory thats 6 months old n needs to go to the shop. Im hoping its just a power tube (the only part not under warrant) im stuck with the catalyst for a bit. I may get one of those for my back up
It’s interesting because I’ve tried Orange’s tube amps, and there was always something about the sound that I didn’t like. But I’m really liking the sounds you were getting here.
They always sounded too muddy or dull to me. Even with a tube screamer boosting it i could never get the articulation or punch i get from say a 5150
This Orange amp sounds great, until you went to the cab sim...but, that's not what I would have it for anyway. I love all the little technical nerdy details you throw into your videos, you know your stuff and it shows. Thanks again for a great video.