I'm never going back to tube amps. I used to play on an Ampeg SVT-2 Pro with a 8x10" cabinet. I only had troubles: sloppy sound, expensive maintenance, and heavy AF. I got myself a solid state Ampeg and the 4x10 cabinet and have never been happier.
I played one of those through a orange 4x12 at Sweetwater. I was guitar shopping and was really surprised how great it sounded for metal. It sounded really good with the alpha and omega pickups.
If Schuldiner, Abbott and Windstein could make a career with transistors, then having tubes is just a matter of preference. ;) But on a serious note, a great player can make anything work.
Orange has been killing it in the solid state game for a while, and the Super Crush 100 just cements their position on top in my opinion. I can see so many people picking this up as their first "big-boy" head, and just holding on to it forever because of how freaking great it sounds.
@@0xptomaine forgive me if this seems disrespectful, but I thought you were going to say your Orange survived as well. Glad your family is okay though.
Whenever a Solid State conversation comes up, besides the usual suspects, I always tip my hat to the guy who recorded 4 of the greatest CD's ever, with a tone that everyone, in one way or another, has chased. Ty Tabor of King's X
Allan Holdsworth used the Yamaha DG130 for some of his tours, same thing with Greg Howe & Tony MacAlpine using solid-state technology for their tours._.
I really like King's X, "Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" album, and I even have a Lab 11 amp- but never, not once; have I sought that tone. I do like some SS amps a lot, (like my '68 Acoustic model 260) and I routinely use a Yamaha THRII 30, but tube amps are far from dead.
Yes, but his tone is really extreme. I love it, but I wouldn't wanna have it as my own tone. But there's also other, less obvious examples. Iron Maiden played solid states on Somewhere in Time.
He did…. I feel like I saw an interview with Terry Date who said Dime would try different things in the studio though, and he’d always come back to his SS amps.
When I stopped gigging I switched from an Orange Dark Terror to a Boss Katana. Between that and the Super Crush, I don't see a need to ever go back to tubes tbh
I've got 2 100 watt 1×12 and I have them in stereo. I play with a drummer for fun and it's nice to have one for home and 2 for when I jam. It's the perfect rig
Love the Katana. Cant believe how cheap they are as far as cost! Get over the whole "solid state vs tube" thing and it's a great amp. Would buy another. Or this Orange Supercrush.
@@FunKaYxxD1sCO Honestly a really great portable amp would be the Yamaha THR series. I had the THR30II and it's tube I believe or a hybrid of given with the app you can control it and access tons of other options. Different effects and change those up. You can also save settings and change how it sounds in regards to what speakers given it uses different IRs. So you could do like a 1x12 or 2x12 or 4x12 kind of sound. Then also switch the kind of speaker being like a Vintage 30 or Creamback or what have you. You also don't have to tweak much to get it to sound great. The battery is rechargeable so you can take it with you. It has a USB out for recording and a left and right out to plug into an external speaker. It's also Bluetooth enabled making so you can use it as a speaker or to play along with songs. You can also save your presets and use it as a bass amp as well. If you get the Line 6 wireless receiver it'll charge it when it's plugged into the Amp rather than your guitar. The Thr10ii does similar things but you can't save your presets and its solid state. But it's till a really great amp with basically the same customization. I believe it's the 5 that doesn't have Bluetooth or wireless capabilities. For all of them though you can get a pedal controller. Or at least I believe for all of them. As for the Katana MKII 50 which is what I currently have. It's absolutely fantastic. You can switch how much wattage you push. Either .5, 25, or 50. If you plug it into your computer through USB you can record as well use the Software on the PC to edit things. It has a very deep customization. It's almost as deep as the Helix. You have a big array of different effects to choose from like Acoustic simulation or changing humbuckers to single coils and vice versa. Different kinds of delay as well as deep editing the delay. You can also have access to an 8 band eq for your tone. As well as different pedal options for boosters and distortion and so forth. You don't have to do much to get great sound out of it. But the options are definitely there. So far it's my favorite. However, I wish I would've got my THR30II back. But it is what it is. The Yamaha is $500 and the Katana is about $250 I believe. I got mine used at Guitar Center for $180 or so.
I've been a tuba amp guy for 40-years (since I was a little child). I hated solid state until around 10-years ago when they began to sound acceptable for some applications. But now, I cannot believe how far that technology has advanced in my lifetime. I had my Engl for the studio and I would have a few cheap amps for rehearsal, or practice. Unsure about this amp, but I bought a Blackstar solid state, as I am a fam of their tube amps, and it just sounds fantastic and I use that in the studio too now. So easy to work with. Nice video dude. Thanks.
@@Jin-lj5mk Just find what you like. Do not worry about what it i called. Some of the most successful bands and guitarists used solid state and some of them used it wayyyy back when it was awful. Just use what works for you. Have a good one.
Sounds great. Problem with this is always the same though. It sounds great in a video, you buy and go home and suddenly all the glory is gone, when listening to the pure speaker output. Many amps sound great on a recording ^^ I learned this lesson already way too often to order anything ive never really heard in a standard 2x12 speaker or something.
I think it sounds amazing! Plus the reliability of being Solid State, not to mention how cheap they are! For new guitarists who don't want to overspend on gear, this is awesome.
I think the solid state game is creating a lot more competition for tubes. The ability to better replicate that "tube" sound without the need for all the glass is happening in spades. I bought a Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 a few years ago and haven't considered a tube amp since.
I have a CR120H and a TH100. I love both. My tube driven TH100 has the benefit of more headroom for different/louder situations. The CR120H allows me to jam and record at times I need to keep more quiet, and have used it in some situations that didnt involve huge bass amps and drums, and worked well. Application and knowing what to do with an amp is important. That being said, Orange makes the best solid state and tube amp for me, and I plan to score the Super Crush 100 as well. Thanks for the killer demo !🤘
I need to try one of these in person. But I can tell you one thing I have learned in decades of playing guitar. The hard thing isn't making an SS amp sound good. Plenty of SS amps have sounded really good. The hard part is making it feel good. Playing through an SS amp is a completely different feel from tube amps. There is none of the give, squish, breath, elasticity or however you want to describe the feel that you get from a tube amp and it's tube power section. Not that it's a good or bad thing. It's just different.
For around $50 you can get an ART tube mic preamp; put it in the effects loop... You will be amazed at how you suddenly have that feeling, reaction, and the nuanced tonality of the valve, as well as increased volume output! It's been one of the greatest hacks I've discovered.
I was about to say something quite similar. Have to try it in person. It's hard to describe, I call it tonal depth and the way a tube amp responds to my playing. To be fair, not all tubes amps have that depth and response either and may as well be solid state. Another thing for me (again, hard to describe) is where your drive/dist and notes/chords respond as one, opposed to sounding as two separate signals combined and the latter I don't like. Tube amps can have that dual sound and especially SS amps. Quality of speakers and cabinet plays a huge role too. I tried a popular brand name tube head with it's matching cab, was unimpressed. Plugged that head into a different cab and it was, oh, there it is, sounds great!. It's a tricky equation, I've heard some quite convincing SS amps but still falls short. Claim after claim over the years, a company claims to have nailed it with SS. If they did, they've shot themselves in the foot with their tube line. Even high end amp modelers that sound usably very good, to me, still falls just short. I'm a tough sell, my ears are tuned to many years of that defining sound I chase....but can't afford LOL....I get very close with my rig. If there's a SS amp that'll cut it, I'm onboard, replacing tubes and filter caps etc is expensive.
If I didn't already have the Rocker 15 terror I'd be seriously interested in this. Solid state preamps have come a long way with the Revv G series pedals also sounding absolutely killer. The solid state Friedman stuff as well.
Have you ever checked out the Peavey Bandit family? Anything from 1989 through now is great, with the '94-99 and '00-'04 models at the top of the food chain. They nailed it. The Super Crush is killer too, especially if the Orange tone rustles your jimmies.
@@TheKLeifheit13 never had one but have heard them online and they are indeed awesome. It seems like development of SS amps just died in the early 00s in favour of digital. Glad to see people going back to SS designs again and really showing what they're capable of.
The selling point about this amplifier should not be the cost. It should be the dependability of solid-state and the sound. You will never have to worry about tubes going bad and it will always sound great..... every time you turn it on!!!! I have the CR 120 and I'm really looking forward to the Super Crush. I have a JCM900 and a Dual Rectifier ..... I don't use them anymore
Very nice demo Pete. I've heard different players get many great tones from this amp. Most of what I do isn't as heavy as what you did here. I'm thinking that this amp will give me what I need for just about any style I want to play. Cheers Pete!
This sounds very familiar to what I remember my rocker-verb sounded like, curious on how it takes pedals. I’m happy that the myth of transistors amps sounding bad is getting debunked, between this, fender tone masters and roland amps there’s plenty of inexpensive and reliable options
Will I give up my tube amp?....no. would I happily use this at a gig? Yes. I like what I have but I'm ready for a new backup amp, which is typically solid state and one of these would be a great choice.
I got my super crush 100 about six months ago along with a marshall origin 212a vertical cab, with celestion 70/80 speakers and omfg this amp absolutely is a tube amp killer, tube amps are really really good but considering the price difference between this and a big boy tube amp, i prefer this amp above all else. This amp gets insanely loud and holds up really nicely, doesnt fall apart when pushed and can sounds really good at low volumes, you could seriously play anything through the super crush 100, absolute steal in my honest opinion.
I think it sounds absolutely fantastic, every single demo I've heard of it sounds great and I 100% guarantee that if you covered the front panel and told people it was the new Rockerverb Mk4 it would be universally praised by people who would turn their noses up once they realise it's solid state. A good amp is a good amp and this is deffo a good amp.
Good shit, Pete! I have one of these, I run a Boss GE-7 thru the effects loop... acts like a super charger! I don't think it's gonna be the end of tube amps, but, they do sound good... cheers!
That was chunky as all hell! If you did a blind test on several heads through the same cabinet, I would guess that 90 percent would not be able to tell the difference...based on this track!
I'm guessing play feel will be different than a tube amp. Plus, in a recording context, maaaayyyybeee you'd hear a difference, but especially for a live scenario, I dont see why you'd spend a grand more for the Rockerverb
You outta try one of these with a Boss SD-1, it tightens up a lot of that loose low end from the amp, but it also makes it sound even beefier and lets you push the gain on the amp a little bit more to get more saturation from the preamp! Really cool little combination I feel like would blow everybody away.
You got it right that solid state amps kick ass and they are cheaper. However the service to fix them when they break and they always break is why the tube is a better choice if you like solid equipment. The difference in sound is hard to tell apart. Tube amps will never die.
Solid States honestly work just as well for a lot of higher gain genres. I really need to get a cab for my teeny Micro Dark, though I wouldn't mind getting a decent Doom flavoured Solid State amp like an old Sunn Beta Lead
There's just some "thing" about solid state ones. Also he could've substituted Black Sabbath riff in the place of Sleep riff and it would've get the point across.
Iommi and Butler both hated those early Oranges at the Beat Club! Too clean and way middy. Later on like 72 or ,73 Orange began making amps alot dirtier than the early ones.
I saw this playing in my feed a while back, I never watched but YT counted it, second video watch! Damn your playing is fun and also killerAF not basic but human feelings connection and melodies, so it all feels like natural music we want to hear, not a musical assault, but a tonal assault and I love it dude!!
I bought this a week ago. It’s better than a 100 watt blackstar tube head I bought so I’m selling the blackstar. This Orange sounds especially good for punk if you put the high at 6, the mid at 3,and the low at 7 with the gain at 7 or 8. Very easy to dial up and sounds amazing
Ok so dime used both .. the krankenstein was a 100 all tube beast.. the dime amp dean made was solid state .. he also used a mix of tube Marshall's and solid state Randle... so like its been said its all about the tone your looking for .. this orange is a beast for sure . Reminds me of the crate stealth to be honest with that nasty chug it has.
Thanks for the killer video I just ordered mine I won't get it until November I can't wait to get my combo I been looking for a great solid Amp for a long time I tried a Fender tone Master that didn't work I tried a Boss Katana it wasn't bad I tried Crate not bad and I had a Roland Jazz chorus and I loved it but it was a beast to load up by my self so now I think I found the Holy Grail I own a 1982 Mesa Boogie Mark 2 B and I love it to death but I am 61 with a bad back and I just can't lift my Mesa Boogie anymore so I think my new Orange Crush Super 100 is going to work for me and it only weighs like 40 pounds thank you 🍊 Orange😎🎸🤘🍊
Blackstar makes killer solid state amps, and so does randall, most people think solid state means line 6 spyder but there are so many great ones out there and im adding this one to my stable.
Guys from KATALEPSY - russian slamming brutal death with 8strings, also using solid-state Oranges, search them on youtube when they show how they reach their sound. Orange is LOVE
If you want headroom and real distortion/overdrive, never heard anything that beat tube amps! Of course, there are pretty good solutions in pedals and in transistors heads, but to me, nothing beats a good tube amp. Not there yet.
headroom has nothing to do with either it is tube or not. For headroom you just need to have enough clean power to avoid clipping. But when we need that classical saturated tone with sparkles, when both preamp and poweramp tubes are overdriven, then yes - don't get that with transistor amp. For that tone on a budged I would go for digital amps then, not transistor.
@@paulosalgado9171 it is not my experience, it is just technical fact. But yes, wattage should be different. Tube amps can go way beyond the linear range of the tubes resulting in compression and added harmonics. Transistors can sound unpleasent outside the linear range (depends on scheme), so if we want to built two similarly sounding clean amps, solid state one should have higher output wattage, which is not a problem as doing 150W class D is usually even cheaper than making 15 of tube class AB. But don't forget, that headroom is also part of the design! Some tube amps have clos to zero headroom for clean tone as they are designed to sound dirty. Some Roland Jazz Chorus will have more headroom than many tube amps. Depends on models. You cannot just compare two random amps and make a conclusion about the whole technology based on that. You need to know all the parameters.
I have been glass free for years. This amp sounds killer. I use a ISP Theta preamp into a Quilter Tone Block into a Marshall 4x12 with 1990’s era V30’s. I have a Marshall mono bloc 100/100 el34’s. I have A/B the Marshall/ Quilter. I prefer the Quilter.
This actually sounds incredible! Is it really that tight sounding? What’s your signal chain? Any overdrive or boost? Was it all IR or any mic’d up cabinet tones? I absolutely love it great video! 🤘
It is, indeed! I currently use a Crush Pro 60 watt 1x12" combo! My settings are Gain 7, Bass 3, Mids 5, Treble 8, boosted with a MXR GT-OD (Tubescreamer copy), and sounds F'ing amazing. It is indeed an amazing amp... Now I just wonder... do I really need to spend on a tube amp? Maybe not... This is a fantastic amp, and it has speaker outputs, so I can add a 4x12 extension cabinet for live gigs if needed.
@@pedrogarciarobleto the amp in the video is the new Super Crush. It's very different, totally re-done in the preamp sections using JFET instead of OP-amps. Not that the Crush Pro is bad, but it's not at all the same thing.
I've seen plenty of demo of this amp, and you are the first one to make it sound good. All the others sounded dull, not enough gain, fizzy at times. But this sounds killer.
I really want to hear this VS a real rockerverb through the same cab and mic position. I suspect the differences would be well within "matter of taste"
Do you think that this amp could get 80's Thrash Metal and 90's Punk tones? I have seen demos where it gets a really good punk rock tone, but have yet to see any do a thrash tone with it. Fingers crossed Kyle Bull gets a demo on it at some point 🤞.
I think it would be awesome if you explained it detail your awesome looking set up behind you. I’m old school , and don’t understand any of it , but I want to. And that amp sounds great.
Assuming you manufacture the beats yourself (?) to accompany your metal riffs..... PLEASE (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) consider doing a futurue video where you incorporate some 80's-90's drum kit RIDE HITS into the beat, but still play using your fave metal distortion, just jam some (melodic) grunge/sludge metal chords over the beat 💓😀
Got.. (cool ..GOT) mine last week. I used to play my lovely Marshall 6101 for about 5 years and really know my tone. But the Supercrush is absolutelly killer.
It seems to have more gain then the crush pro ? I have the pro and can get close to this tone with a good over drive. The argument I make is if you’re playing true doom with a serious fuzz pedal like a darkarts tone work pedal you need tubes to bring out the flavor of the pedal. This sounds great for pure death / melotic metal
Sounds awesome. Did you need to use an od/boost to get pick attack? I own a crush pro head and it needs an overdrive to get it to chug. Wondering if its worth the upgrade.
I did, it’s got a Precision Drive in front of it. But it does have a good amount of gain, not on the level of a 5150 or 6505 but enough to chug. The ‘Sleep’ style riff was without the OD so that’s what it sounds like with everything on 10 haha. Thanks for watching! :)
I generally leave the Master down. On Orange amps pushing the Master tends to push the Mids and low Mids a lot which I don’t like too much. But others for sure will love that sound, especially as it’s louder :)
Sounds sick! Had a mid-90's Crate GX-130C for awhile and finally got the Boss Katana 100 MKII 2x12 combo, solid state is honestly really... well, solid!
I feel like every orange owner should know how to play Dragonaut, it’s simple with a little bluesy riff to it and just powerful wall of sound. Throw a 308 proco rat pedal in the mix and an orange amp just comes alive. Huge wall of sound
It sounded great, but it was missing some aggressiveness for riffing imo. But that'd likely be easy to fix with a tube screamer or an SD-1, and that'd still be way cheaper than a similar high gain 100 watt tube head, which usually also need a boost or overdrive in front.
Nah, I'll keep using my Mesa Dual Rec and 4x12. I have a Katana and a Crush and they don't even come close. It is my preference. I could "make" the solid-state work but, I don't want to.
I dunno. I have to try it. Recorded, a Fender champ sounds huge, play it in room it’s amazing in its own way but it does not sound as it is represented in a recording. This amp definitely sounds badass recorded though! Especially with your playing!
$500 😳, I got my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100 and a 900 for about $500 maybe even a little cheaper if memory serves me correctly 🤔. There are some Solid states that sound pretty good in videos but there are still lacking that little extra a tube amp gives. My son and I actually started with a solid state but the one day I personally tried a tube amp I immediately sold the solid state and found a Peavey 6505 + for $350 and that began our tube journey. We've had an Ampeg GVT-15, Bugera 333XL, Hughes and Kettner Tubemeister 18, Marshall JCM 2000 TSL 60, Vox AC15, Vox AC 30, and currently my son plays a Badcat Cub 40 and I play a Marshall JCM 900 Dual Reverb 50w and a JCM 2000 DSL 100.
These clips are much tighter sounding than what I've heard in other youtube demos. Were you shaping it at all by boosting with an overdrive in front? My fear with Orange high gain is always that it will get "hairy" and fuzzy sounding as the gain goes up. Not a bad thing if that's what you like (especially for doom metal) but I prefer a really tight gain sound with my band/recordings. I've very close to picking one of these up.
Yes, I used an OD pedal and noise gate in front of this to tighten it up. And I agree, Orange amps can sound fuzzier than most other high gain amps. It has plenty of gain but I wouldn’t say it’s ‘modern’ sounding. If you prefer the tight sound of something like a 6505 I don’t think this would be for you. It can do it, just not as easily as a more modern sounding amp. Thanks for watching! :)
Are Tube Amps dead, what do you think? :)
Check out the amp here: bit.ly/3F3OhcB
They're not dead, because there will always be people who refuse to believe that solid state can sound as good ;)
The last show I was at I couldn't see any amps. It sounded badass.. on stage, I would miss that speaker push
I'm never going back to tube amps. I used to play on an Ampeg SVT-2 Pro with a 8x10" cabinet. I only had troubles: sloppy sound, expensive maintenance, and heavy AF. I got myself a solid state Ampeg and the 4x10 cabinet and have never been happier.
No. Other things are just getting way better. And it's fucking great!
No
I played one of those through a orange 4x12 at Sweetwater. I was guitar shopping and was really surprised how great it sounded for metal. It sounded really good with the alpha and omega pickups.
If Schuldiner, Abbott and Windstein could make a career with transistors, then having tubes is just a matter of preference. ;)
But on a serious note, a great player can make anything work.
And Dimebag
@@mr.meeseeks6090 Might wanna look up Dimebag's surname bruh.
@@panic_chords oh shiiiit *sips dumbf*ck juice*
@@mr.meeseeks6090 😂
@@mr.meeseeks6090 Lol
10 seconds into that track and I forgot all about the amp. That was one of your best ever Pete! Rock on man!!!!!
it's a classic of his at this point
Orange has been killing it in the solid state game for a while, and the Super Crush 100 just cements their position on top in my opinion. I can see so many people picking this up as their first "big-boy" head, and just holding on to it forever because of how freaking great it sounds.
DHL just delivered the Super Crush 100 to me this morning! I've played it now for a couple of hours, and damn. It chuggs!
My parents and brother got into a car accident today, everyone is alive, I am in great shock, but this song calmed me down, thank you Pete
@@NicoDoesLP thanks!
Sending my best wishes, mate!
Sorry to hear about this, hoping everyone is okay! :)
@@peteplaysmusic they are =)
@@0xptomaine forgive me if this seems disrespectful, but I thought you were going to say your Orange survived as well. Glad your family is okay though.
Whenever a Solid State conversation comes up, besides the usual suspects, I always tip my hat to the guy who recorded 4 of the greatest CD's ever, with a tone that everyone, in one way or another, has chased. Ty Tabor of King's X
Eddie Van Halen's big solo with Michael Jackson was played & recorded with a solid-state amp ;)
Allan Holdsworth used the Yamaha DG130 for some of his tours, same thing with Greg Howe & Tony MacAlpine using solid-state technology for their tours._.
I really like King's X, "Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" album, and I even have a Lab 11 amp- but never, not once; have I sought that tone.
I do like some SS amps a lot, (like my '68 Acoustic model 260) and I routinely use a Yamaha THRII 30, but tube amps are far from dead.
Ty is actually using this exact amp now too...
didn't dimebag make a career out of solid state squealy amps? and for once i like the sound of an orange amp. nice mix!!
He did. On the end of his career he was warming up to tubes, however.
So did George Lynch. Dime and Lynch used the Randall’s
Yes, but his tone is really extreme. I love it, but I wouldn't wanna have it as my own tone.
But there's also other, less obvious examples. Iron Maiden played solid states on Somewhere in Time.
He did…. I feel like I saw an interview with Terry Date who said Dime would try different things in the studio though, and he’d always come back to his SS amps.
It sucks he got shot before he got to record a record with tubes. Taken too soon
So glad you didn't show us 'the unboxing'... It's such a hackneyed, played-out, dull and empty ritual that we can all do without on RUclips now!
When I stopped gigging I switched from an Orange Dark Terror to a Boss Katana. Between that and the Super Crush, I don't see a need to ever go back to tubes tbh
I've got 2 100 watt 1×12 and I have them in stereo. I play with a drummer for fun and it's nice to have one for home and 2 for when I jam. It's the perfect rig
@@StaySic4Ever i have spider tube amp its bitchin amp but i gota admit ss are getting really close. so much its more of fell thing than anything.
Love the Katana. Cant believe how cheap they are as far as cost! Get over the whole "solid state vs tube" thing and it's a great amp. Would buy another. Or this Orange Supercrush.
@@saltpeter7429 How is the Katana? I was actually ordering a EVH 5150 combo amp. I might check the Katana at guitar center in person.
@@FunKaYxxD1sCO Honestly a really great portable amp would be the Yamaha THR series. I had the THR30II and it's tube I believe or a hybrid of given with the app you can control it and access tons of other options. Different effects and change those up. You can also save settings and change how it sounds in regards to what speakers given it uses different IRs. So you could do like a 1x12 or 2x12 or 4x12 kind of sound. Then also switch the kind of speaker being like a Vintage 30 or Creamback or what have you.
You also don't have to tweak much to get it to sound great. The battery is rechargeable so you can take it with you. It has a USB out for recording and a left and right out to plug into an external speaker. It's also Bluetooth enabled making so you can use it as a speaker or to play along with songs. You can also save your presets and use it as a bass amp as well.
If you get the Line 6 wireless receiver it'll charge it when it's plugged into the Amp rather than your guitar.
The Thr10ii does similar things but you can't save your presets and its solid state. But it's till a really great amp with basically the same customization.
I believe it's the 5 that doesn't have Bluetooth or wireless capabilities. For all of them though you can get a pedal controller. Or at least I believe for all of them.
As for the Katana MKII 50 which is what I currently have.
It's absolutely fantastic. You can switch how much wattage you push. Either .5, 25, or 50. If you plug it into your computer through USB you can record as well use the Software on the PC to edit things. It has a very deep customization.
It's almost as deep as the Helix. You have a big array of different effects to choose from like Acoustic simulation or changing humbuckers to single coils and vice versa. Different kinds of delay as well as deep editing the delay.
You can also have access to an 8 band eq for your tone. As well as different pedal options for boosters and distortion and so forth.
You don't have to do much to get great sound out of it. But the options are definitely there.
So far it's my favorite. However, I wish I would've got my THR30II back. But it is what it is.
The Yamaha is $500 and the Katana is about $250 I believe. I got mine used at Guitar Center for $180 or so.
I've been a tuba amp guy for 40-years (since I was a little child). I hated solid state until around 10-years ago when they began to sound acceptable for some applications. But now, I cannot believe how far that technology has advanced in my lifetime. I had my Engl for the studio and I would have a few cheap amps for rehearsal, or practice. Unsure about this amp, but I bought a Blackstar solid state, as I am a fam of their tube amps, and it just sounds fantastic and I use that in the studio too now. So easy to work with. Nice video dude. Thanks.
Model of the blackstar amp ?
@@Jin-lj5mk Silverline. You can pick the best one up for like 200 bucks tops used.
@@Jin-lj5mk Just find what you like. Do not worry about what it i called. Some of the most successful bands and guitarists used solid state and some of them used it wayyyy back when it was awful. Just use what works for you. Have a good one.
@@billhillard
Damn it sounds so good
I'm looking for this amp
Thank u brother
Sounds great. Problem with this is always the same though. It sounds great in a video, you buy and go home and suddenly all the glory is gone, when listening to the pure speaker output. Many amps sound great on a recording ^^ I learned this lesson already way too often to order anything ive never really heard in a standard 2x12 speaker or something.
My thought is quite the opposite. Listening to amp recordings have never sound as good as hearing it live.
I love the way that Orange sounds. I want to buy one myself. I like your track Pete
Thanks! :)
Wow.
This is what I was looking for.
I need simplicity, no tubes. Great sound.
I think it sounds amazing! Plus the reliability of being Solid State, not to mention how cheap they are! For new guitarists who don't want to overspend on gear, this is awesome.
I think the solid state game is creating a lot more competition for tubes. The ability to better replicate that "tube" sound without the need for all the glass is happening in spades. I bought a Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 a few years ago and haven't considered a tube amp since.
I have a CR120H and a TH100. I love both. My tube driven TH100 has the benefit of more headroom for different/louder situations. The CR120H allows me to jam and record at times I need to keep more quiet, and have used it in some situations that didnt involve huge bass amps and drums, and worked well. Application and knowing what to do with an amp is important. That being said, Orange makes the best solid state and tube amp for me, and I plan to score the Super Crush 100 as well. Thanks for the killer demo !🤘
I need to try one of these in person. But I can tell you one thing I have learned in decades of playing guitar. The hard thing isn't making an SS amp sound good. Plenty of SS amps have sounded really good. The hard part is making it feel good. Playing through an SS amp is a completely different feel from tube amps. There is none of the give, squish, breath, elasticity or however you want to describe the feel that you get from a tube amp and it's tube power section. Not that it's a good or bad thing. It's just different.
This man gets it
For around $50 you can get an ART tube mic preamp; put it in the effects loop... You will be amazed at how you suddenly have that feeling, reaction, and the nuanced tonality of the valve, as well as increased volume output! It's been one of the greatest hacks I've discovered.
Someone make a sag pedal asap
I was about to say something quite similar. Have to try it in person. It's hard to describe, I call it tonal depth and the way a tube amp responds to my playing. To be fair, not all tubes amps have that depth and response either and may as well be solid state. Another thing for me (again, hard to describe) is where your drive/dist and notes/chords respond as one, opposed to sounding as two separate signals combined and the latter I don't like. Tube amps can have that dual sound and especially SS amps. Quality of speakers and cabinet plays a huge role too. I tried a popular brand name tube head with it's matching cab, was unimpressed. Plugged that head into a different cab and it was, oh, there it is, sounds great!. It's a tricky equation, I've heard some quite convincing SS amps but still falls short. Claim after claim over the years, a company claims to have nailed it with SS. If they did, they've shot themselves in the foot with their tube line. Even high end amp modelers that sound usably very good, to me, still falls just short. I'm a tough sell, my ears are tuned to many years of that defining sound I chase....but can't afford LOL....I get very close with my rig. If there's a SS amp that'll cut it, I'm onboard, replacing tubes and filter caps etc is expensive.
@@elihue_redneckreview i can't find many people talking about this online. is there anyone documenting this?
Great job as always Pete. I think there's a time and a place for tube and solid state amps. On this occasion, you nailed it. Awesome tune brother.
If I didn't already have the Rocker 15 terror I'd be seriously interested in this. Solid state preamps have come a long way with the Revv G series pedals also sounding absolutely killer. The solid state Friedman stuff as well.
Revv g3 is my main dirty tone, and at 10% the price of the big boy, it’s a win win in my book
@@adrianvoelzke7518 Yeah the whole line sounds killey through basically any poweramp or IR.
Or in front of an amp for that matter.
Have you ever checked out the Peavey Bandit family? Anything from 1989 through now is great, with the '94-99 and '00-'04 models at the top of the food chain. They nailed it.
The Super Crush is killer too, especially if the Orange tone rustles your jimmies.
@@TheKLeifheit13 never had one but have heard them online and they are indeed awesome. It seems like development of SS amps just died in the early 00s in favour of digital. Glad to see people going back to SS designs again and really showing what they're capable of.
The selling point about this amplifier should not be the cost. It should be the dependability of solid-state and the sound. You will never have to worry about tubes going bad and it will always sound great..... every time you turn it on!!!! I have the CR 120 and I'm really looking forward to the Super Crush. I have a JCM900 and a Dual Rectifier ..... I don't use them anymore
Very nice demo Pete. I've heard different players get many great tones from this amp. Most of what I do isn't as heavy as what you did here. I'm thinking that this amp will give me what I need for just about any style I want to play. Cheers Pete!
This sounds very familiar to what I remember my rocker-verb sounded like, curious on how it takes pedals. I’m happy that the myth of transistors amps sounding bad is getting debunked, between this, fender tone masters and roland amps there’s plenty of inexpensive and reliable options
Will I give up my tube amp?....no. would I happily use this at a gig? Yes. I like what I have but I'm ready for a new backup amp, which is typically solid state and one of these would be a great choice.
All that time playing Halo with Agufish is rubbing off on your riffs 😄
I got my super crush 100 about six months ago along with a marshall origin 212a vertical cab, with celestion 70/80 speakers and omfg this amp absolutely is a tube amp killer, tube amps are really really good but considering the price difference between this and a big boy tube amp, i prefer this amp above all else. This amp gets insanely loud and holds up really nicely, doesnt fall apart when pushed and can sounds really good at low volumes, you could seriously play anything through the super crush 100, absolute steal in my honest opinion.
They did the right thing sending it to you, that demo is going to convince a lot of people to get one
That mix was Sick! Friggin loved it man!
I think it sounds absolutely fantastic, every single demo I've heard of it sounds great and I 100% guarantee that if you covered the front panel and told people it was the new Rockerverb Mk4 it would be universally praised by people who would turn their noses up once they realise it's solid state. A good amp is a good amp and this is deffo a good amp.
can I use this song for one of my videos on review Orange amps for the Spanish community?
sounds pretty sick for a solid state amp
Good shit, Pete! I have one of these, I run a Boss GE-7 thru the effects loop... acts like a super charger! I don't think it's gonna be the end of tube amps, but, they do sound good... cheers!
That was chunky as all hell!
If you did a blind test on several heads through the same cabinet, I would guess that 90 percent would not be able to tell the difference...based on this track!
I'm guessing play feel will be different than a tube amp. Plus, in a recording context, maaaayyyybeee you'd hear a difference, but especially for a live scenario, I dont see why you'd spend a grand more for the Rockerverb
You outta try one of these with a Boss SD-1, it tightens up a lot of that loose low end from the amp, but it also makes it sound even beefier and lets you push the gain on the amp a little bit more to get more saturation from the preamp!
Really cool little combination I feel like would blow everybody away.
it cuts through a mix sooo nicely
You got it right that solid state amps kick ass and they are cheaper. However the service to fix them when they break and they always break is why the tube is a better choice if you like solid equipment. The difference in sound is hard to tell apart. Tube amps will never die.
Solid States honestly work just as well for a lot of higher gain genres.
I really need to get a cab for my teeny Micro Dark, though I wouldn't mind getting a decent Doom flavoured Solid State amp like an old Sunn Beta Lead
There's just some "thing" about solid state ones.
Also he could've substituted Black Sabbath riff in the place of Sleep riff and it would've get the point across.
Iommi doesn't play Orange amps tho, he uses Laney heads.
@@Nestorglass ruclips.net/video/qRcYjJQ0JHg/видео.html
@@ZombiedustXXX he could’ve rejected them …. But didn’t
Iommi and Butler both hated those early Oranges at the Beat Club! Too clean and way middy. Later on like 72 or ,73 Orange began making amps alot dirtier than the early ones.
@@ZombiedustXXX on that note this OP is 4 weeks old I don’t care anymore
I saw this playing in my feed a while back, I never watched but YT counted it, second video watch! Damn your playing is fun and also killerAF not basic but human feelings connection and melodies, so it all feels like natural music we want to hear, not a musical assault, but a tonal assault and I love it dude!!
When I think of Orange Amps I think of Andy Powell in Wishbone Ash from the 70's and later, Ty Tabor in Kings X. But then I'm older than you.
Every video you do is so good and I think the great consistency is guaranteed.
That is such a sick riff.... MORE!
I bought this a week ago. It’s better than a 100 watt blackstar tube head I bought so I’m selling the blackstar. This Orange sounds especially good for punk if you put the high at 6, the mid at 3,and the low at 7 with the gain at 7 or 8. Very easy to dial up and sounds amazing
Man, your riffs are so good \m/
Ok so dime used both .. the krankenstein was a 100 all tube beast.. the dime amp dean made was solid state .. he also used a mix of tube Marshall's and solid state Randle... so like its been said its all about the tone your looking for .. this orange is a beast for sure . Reminds me of the crate stealth to be honest with that nasty chug it has.
Thanks for the killer video I just ordered mine I won't get it until November I can't wait to get my combo I been looking for a great solid Amp for a long time I tried a Fender tone Master that didn't work I tried a Boss Katana it wasn't bad I tried Crate not bad and I had a Roland Jazz chorus and I loved it but it was a beast to load up by my self so now I think I found the Holy Grail I own a 1982 Mesa Boogie Mark 2 B and I love it to death but I am 61 with a bad back and I just can't lift my Mesa Boogie anymore so I think my new Orange Crush Super 100 is going to work for me and it only weighs like 40 pounds thank you 🍊 Orange😎🎸🤘🍊
Blackstar makes killer solid state amps, and so does randall, most people think solid state means line 6 spyder but there are so many great ones out there and im adding this one to my stable.
Guys from KATALEPSY - russian slamming brutal death with 8strings, also using solid-state Oranges, search them on youtube when they show how they reach their sound. Orange is LOVE
If you want headroom and real distortion/overdrive, never heard anything that beat tube amps! Of course, there are pretty good solutions in pedals and in transistors heads, but to me, nothing beats a good tube amp. Not there yet.
and thats your opinion . i have mine and its completely different pal .
@@peteytwofinger sorry! 😂
headroom has nothing to do with either it is tube or not. For headroom you just need to have enough clean power to avoid clipping. But when we need that classical saturated tone with sparkles, when both preamp and poweramp tubes are overdriven, then yes - don't get that with transistor amp. For that tone on a budged I would go for digital amps then, not transistor.
@@SergeiVlassov it’s your experience! My 15w all tube amp has more headroom than my 100w transistor head! Facts.
@@paulosalgado9171 it is not my experience, it is just technical fact. But yes, wattage should be different. Tube amps can go way beyond the linear range of the tubes resulting in compression and added harmonics. Transistors can sound unpleasent outside the linear range (depends on scheme), so if we want to built two similarly sounding clean amps, solid state one should have higher output wattage, which is not a problem as doing 150W class D is usually even cheaper than making 15 of tube class AB. But don't forget, that headroom is also part of the design! Some tube amps have clos to zero headroom for clean tone as they are designed to sound dirty. Some Roland Jazz Chorus will have more headroom than many tube amps. Depends on models. You cannot just compare two random amps and make a conclusion about the whole technology based on that. You need to know all the parameters.
I have been glass free for years. This amp sounds killer. I use a ISP Theta preamp into a Quilter Tone Block into a Marshall 4x12 with 1990’s era V30’s. I have a Marshall mono bloc 100/100 el34’s. I have A/B the Marshall/ Quilter. I prefer the Quilter.
How was the demo track recorded with cab and microphones or direct in ? Good shit
This actually sounds incredible! Is it really that tight sounding? What’s your signal chain? Any overdrive or boost? Was it all IR or any mic’d up cabinet tones? I absolutely love it great video! 🤘
It is, indeed! I currently use a Crush Pro 60 watt 1x12" combo! My settings are Gain 7, Bass 3, Mids 5, Treble 8, boosted with a MXR GT-OD (Tubescreamer copy), and sounds F'ing amazing. It is indeed an amazing amp... Now I just wonder... do I really need to spend on a tube amp? Maybe not... This is a fantastic amp, and it has speaker outputs, so I can add a 4x12 extension cabinet for live gigs if needed.
@@pedrogarciarobleto the amp in the video is the new Super Crush. It's very different, totally re-done in the preamp sections using JFET instead of OP-amps. Not that the Crush Pro is bad, but it's not at all the same thing.
I've seen plenty of demo of this amp, and you are the first one to make it sound good. All the others sounded dull, not enough gain, fizzy at times. But this sounds killer.
Fizzy isn’t the word brother. You mean Fuzzy Orange amps are known for the fuzzy tone. Fizzy and fuzz is totally different homie
Great Song, that deserves vocals!! Thank you!!
What was your signal path? Did you boost?
Sounds great! The riffs at the end are chuggy greatness
What kind of cab/IR did you use? (Sorry if you mentioned it and I missed it)
has those early static x vibes i'm digging it.
Great playing!
I really want to hear this VS a real rockerverb through the same cab and mic position. I suspect the differences would be well within "matter of taste"
Could one use one of these Orange head units with a Fender 100XL amp safely?
is this recorded with the D.I output or with a microphone in the cabnet?
I know the riffs from slipknot and mastodon, but this is a sneaky way to make me patreon. U got me good 🤘🤩🤘
Great job. I dont think the tube amps are as needed as used to be.
I've got a small boss amp that shreds 200$ !
Boss katana right?
That track was awesome. The amp is nice, but I love the track
Did you have an overdrive pedal in front of the amp? Sounded killer!
Do you think that this amp could get 80's Thrash Metal and 90's Punk tones? I have seen demos where it gets a really good punk rock tone, but have yet to see any do a thrash tone with it.
Fingers crossed Kyle Bull gets a demo on it at some point 🤞.
One question: how does it respond to a boost pedal like a tubescreamer etc?
AMAZING! I boost a Crush Pro CR60C combo with a MXR GT-OD, and the tones there are sick!
Is this mix anywhere on Spotify? Or just the vid?
I think it would be awesome if you explained it detail your awesome looking set up behind you. I’m old school , and don’t understand any of it , but I want to. And that amp sounds great.
That didn’t sound like sleep at all but fucking gnarly nonetheless LOL. Good shit.
Can I use it straight into my audio interface or do I need a cab mandatory?
So when does this amp get released? I see no date yet
Assuming you manufacture the beats yourself (?) to accompany your metal riffs.....
PLEASE (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) consider doing a futurue video where you incorporate some 80's-90's drum kit RIDE HITS into the beat, but still play using your fave metal distortion, just jam some (melodic) grunge/sludge metal chords over the beat 💓😀
Got.. (cool ..GOT) mine last week. I used to play my lovely Marshall 6101 for about 5 years and really know my tone. But the Supercrush is absolutelly killer.
Ty Tabor from King’s X has been using the Crush amps for the past 6 years it seems like and his tone has been incredible.
He also know how to find the exact sweet spot ;-) He has golden ears.
@@christianboddum8783 he's absolutely sick. The guy made Yamaha guitars sound great!
You sold me buddy. Just ordered one!
If you look up Killer Solid State tones in the dictionary, there's a large picture of Ty Tabor there.
It seems to have more gain then the crush pro ? I have the pro and can get close to this tone with a good over drive. The argument I make is if you’re playing true doom with a serious fuzz pedal like a darkarts tone work pedal you need tubes to bring out the flavor of the pedal. This sounds great for pure death / melotic metal
Sounds awesome. Did you need to use an od/boost to get pick attack? I own a crush pro head and it needs an overdrive to get it to chug. Wondering if its worth the upgrade.
I did, it’s got a Precision Drive in front of it. But it does have a good amount of gain, not on the level of a 5150 or 6505 but enough to chug. The ‘Sleep’ style riff was without the OD so that’s what it sounds like with everything on 10 haha. Thanks for watching! :)
do you do master volume up, channel volume down or the opposite?
I generally leave the Master down. On Orange amps pushing the Master tends to push the Mids and low Mids a lot which I don’t like too much. But others for sure will love that sound, especially as it’s louder :)
Sounds sick! Had a mid-90's Crate GX-130C for awhile and finally got the Boss Katana 100 MKII 2x12 combo, solid state is honestly really... well, solid!
Had lots of success with carvin"s sx line ...a combo and 100 watt head. Still have them 20 yrs later
I feel like every orange owner should know how to play Dragonaut, it’s simple with a little bluesy riff to it and just powerful wall of sound. Throw a 308 proco rat pedal in the mix and an orange amp just comes alive. Huge wall of sound
It sounded great, but it was missing some aggressiveness for riffing imo. But that'd likely be easy to fix with a tube screamer or an SD-1, and that'd still be way cheaper than a similar high gain 100 watt tube head, which usually also need a boost or overdrive in front.
Let's be honest, you would probably use a tube screamer on most amps regardless
Nah, I'll keep using my Mesa Dual Rec and 4x12. I have a Katana and a Crush and they don't even come close. It is my preference. I could "make" the solid-state work but, I don't want to.
Your playing would probably make any amp sound good...but that amp is impressive. Im sold.
How does it feel with a 4x12 cab?
Love it, awesome playing, my fav utube guitarist.
Cool demo and sounds good, but would good to be compared to a tube amp of similar cost, maybe the marshall DSL
I dunno. I have to try it. Recorded, a Fender champ sounds huge, play it in room it’s amazing in its own way but it does not sound as it is represented in a recording. This amp definitely sounds badass recorded though! Especially with your playing!
How does it sound playing metal in good old fashioned 440?
In a mix is really where it shines. Sounds very similar to a tube amp. Seems hard to beat for $500.
$500 😳, I got my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100 and a 900 for about $500 maybe even a little cheaper if memory serves me correctly 🤔. There are some Solid states that sound pretty good in videos but there are still lacking that little extra a tube amp gives. My son and I actually started with a solid state but the one day I personally tried a tube amp I immediately sold the solid state and found a Peavey 6505 + for $350 and that began our tube journey. We've had an Ampeg GVT-15, Bugera 333XL, Hughes and Kettner Tubemeister 18, Marshall JCM 2000 TSL 60, Vox AC15, Vox AC 30, and currently my son plays a Badcat Cub 40 and I play a Marshall JCM 900 Dual Reverb 50w and a JCM 2000 DSL 100.
hey pete do you play/practice daily?
makes me want a Chapman guitar
These clips are much tighter sounding than what I've heard in other youtube demos. Were you shaping it at all by boosting with an overdrive in front? My fear with Orange high gain is always that it will get "hairy" and fuzzy sounding as the gain goes up. Not a bad thing if that's what you like (especially for doom metal) but I prefer a really tight gain sound with my band/recordings. I've very close to picking one of these up.
Yes, I used an OD pedal and noise gate in front of this to tighten it up. And I agree, Orange amps can sound fuzzier than most other high gain amps. It has plenty of gain but I wouldn’t say it’s ‘modern’ sounding. If you prefer the tight sound of something like a 6505 I don’t think this would be for you. It can do it, just not as easily as a more modern sounding amp. Thanks for watching! :)
Well time to fall asleep to soothing pantera
Helps my insomnia
Dimebag was playing a solid state amp and sounded killer.
I picked up this amp used and is well worth the $$$!