Dominick, thanks for showing the blues side of this amp. So many videos of folks shredding with these. I'm not a metal guy and I'm looking at one of these tomorrow with a Telecaster. Now I'll know how to set it to get a more classic sound out of it.
Best review I’ve watched so far for this amp. One thing that wasn’t mentioned I think was the weight, this amp only weighs 44lbs as opposed to my tube combos that weight near 70lbs. For guys my age (63) that’s a HUGE plus. Thanks Dominick ☮️
@@rdesjean Thanks for the watch I appreciate it. Yeah the weight is a good point. Probably a little heavy for a Solid State seeing a Katana or Catalyst only weighs 25lbs but definitely lighter than an old tube amp for sure. I contribute the weight due to the heavy duty cabinet. Orange did not skimp out on the cabinet and kept specs inline with their $1000+ combos
I appreciate the blues tones in your demo. Great playing, by the way! This is the demo I was looking for. I've had this amp for a couple of years already but am just now starting to explore its range and potential. Thanks!
Thanks. This is exactly the tone range I wanted to know about, since I play jazz and classic blues. No need for the Katana’s patches, just need a simple control setter home practice and the occasional small club gig.
Orange owes you another T-shirt! Your review made the difference! I've been looking for the perfect amp for my needs. I play a cigar box guitar and the tones coming out of this one are exactly what I'm looking for. Other requirements were playability at bedroom volume while capable of handling a jam with a full band, good clean and crunch tones, onboard reverb, ease of use. The only drawback is the weight but it's not too bad. As I walked in the store, I found out it was on special! :)
Thanks for the watch my friend. Glad to hear I helped ya out. I'm still using this amp on the daily and now looking to get the updated version called the The Super Crush 100 Combo 😉
@@DominickArena No worries! Happy to support good content. One last question Dom, is the 60 loud enough to gig with? my band plays grunge style with frequent distortion and our drummer hits hard often. Thanks!
@@Chariots4010 Definitely can gig with it! I have played numerous shows with mine. 60 watts Solid State is about equal to 20 watts Tubed as far as volume goes. So think Fender Blues Jr volumes. But if you are a guy who likes to scoop mids and the drummer is a basher then may need to mic it up. Other wise if the mids are present it gets quite loud
Excellent review and nice playing! I own this amp and one of the things I sometimes forget is how good the cleans and built-in reverb are. Dirty channel is super versatile. I have used a kongpressor in front of this and that also adds some nice fatness to it. Nice work! Good to see the CR60C getting some love.
I am finding myself in a similar situation where I'm leaning toward solid state again; I own a Red Knob Twin (77 lbs!) and my Princeton Reverb Bordeaux 12 is great, but it does not distort. Your presentation and explanations are incredible, dude! Clarity to the max. What a teacher you are, and I know these things. I can't thank you enough. You take it seriously, are to the point, and don't seem to feel the need to put on a comedy show, which gets so tiresome, dull, and boring. I appreciate what you did here. It is a great help to me and I may go with the CR60C. Cheers!
I actually owned this and the Rocker 15 at the same time. I kept the Crush. The tone was almost identical after dialing them in, and while the Rocker is great it's a lot harder to dial the tone and volume live fiddling with the attenuator on the back. With the crush it's a breeze, AND it comes with an awesome built-in reverb. I wish the 60 came with a 10-inch speaker option (I'm in the minority, I prefer 10-inch speakers) but other than that it's my gigging amp. Love the thing. It's so versatile you really don't need a pedalboard, almost everything you can need is in there.
You're absolutely right with the fiddling of the attenuator. I hate that live. I too love a good 10 inch. As a matter of fact I've been playing a lot of Pro Jrs lately live and practice cause I can dial in a great tone without blowing the windows out. Then mic it live. I still have the CR60C and play it all the time.
Appreciate it! I always saw this amp as a solid state Rockerverb and gear'd towards classic rock and hard rock but the metal heads found it and seems to be mostly used for metal. I wanted to show a low gain side to the amp. I still own it and it gets played quite frequently. Thanks for the watch!
Great review. Loved the informal, honest style. You told me everything I needed to know and nothing I didn't. Finger is hovering over the button for one of these. Think I'm going to buy it based on your video. Thanks
@@DominickArena true to my word. Just dropped the cash. Looking forward to putting it through its paces. All being good the CR60C will enjoy and long and happy life being lugged around to pubs and clubs and blasting out everything from The Beatles to Metallica. Rock on mate 🤘
I’m new to guitar and actually picked up the crush pro not knowing what I was doing…after a year of learning I’ve come to realize my first instincts aren’t so shabby!
When I think of Orange I think of the same, I’m late to the Cr Solid state range but getting this amp for similar reasons to yourself, Cool Video Bro, your quality of upload deserves more subs imo ✌🏼🏴🇬🇧
Man thats an awesome amp. Im looking for my first good amp thats not a practice amp. I love the tone of this little amp, but I truly love your guitar playing!! I could listen to that all day long!! Great vid my friend 👍 keep up the great work!! I think I'm going to order one of these guys.
This is quite possibly the best review I have ever seen on an amplifier! This young man knows the amp well and knows its capabilities and is intelligent enough to relate them to the people listening to him. I've owned this amp for several years, and everything he says is spot on. I'm an old hell dog musician now, with many years behind me playing. I'm so thankful when I see younger people like this young man who understands equipment and has a good grasp on music. Good job young man, help carry it on after all of us old guys are gone. God bless
Litterally played a gig last October, we had to turn down our amps stupid low for the venue and we are a hard rock band. I turned around the next day ordered a crush pro series problem solved. Oh the next gig that I played with my tube amp I blew a tube and luckily had my orange as a backup, perks of solid state is reliability, I plugged a terror stamp into the front end of the amp and it sounds like my rockerverb!!
@@benjaminfowler4513 yes or to the return of the crush’s fx loop just depends on how u wanna use it. Personally it sounds better sending the terror to the fx return.
@@benjaminfowler4513 I’m still finding different ways to use it as a boost pedal to a amp through the fx, to a stand alone amp etc, Orange impressed me. I’m just hoping we get a two channel gain version of the stamp down the road vs the two volume level that it offers now. But back to the crush series especially the cr60 it will always impress me being that it’s solid state, it’s a great amp. It’s shocking the tone you can get out of a crush. Dave Simpson has many vids on the crush series and it will blow your mind what tones he can achieve out of his crush amp.
Awesome Demo ! Experimenting with Different speakers ( I have a thoroughly "Well played -Broken in" Celestion vintage 30 in it ) makes it even Better ( Smoother gain structure & presence ) !
Was originally gonna settle for a tube amp as my first for an electric guitar (Vox's AC15C1X and Blackstar's HT Club 40 MkII "Black and Blue" Edition were my top choices), but the more I kept looking into Orange's solid state Crush CR60C the more it REALLY started making sense for me both practically and financially. After watching this demo, my mind is pretty much made up now. Besides, only those who can truly afford to have tubes replaced when they go bad should be looking into tube-based amps PERIOD. Definitely will be on the lookout for the black version of this Orange amp as it would pair up nicely with my black Orange Crush Bass 50 I got for my 1974 Gibson EB-3L well over a year ago. When it comes to solid state, Orange hasn't let me down yet! >;-)
Glad to hear! I absoulety love tubes but this has been the best soild state ive ever owned. I plan to do a better recorded sound demo in the near future. Thanks for watching!
@@DominickArena Yup, I'm already pondering whether or not to get a 1x12 "closed-back" Orange cabinet to pair up with this combo amp and swap out both stock speakers for the higher-end UK Celestions ("dirtier" Vintage 30 for the cabinet extension, "cleaner" Neo Creamback for the CR60C) to get a tonal palette that's more tailored to my personal tastes. Should I wind up just sticking with the CR60C instead, I'll go ahead and get the UK Vintage 30 as an eventual replacement for the 'VOTW' stock speaker when the time finally does come. And yeah, these amps might be made in China but UNDER strict Orange guidelines and it shows:::wink:::wink:::! ;-D
I had a guy trade me one of these for my Fender Mustang GTX 100 with the Fender EXP-1 pedal. I took the Orange amp right away. I have a Helix and can switch channels with it. The tone is way better on these. Love it.
I purchased two of the CR120 heads 6 years ago. They replaced all my tube amps. I keep a 212 and a 412 depending on the venue size. Easy. Don't miss tubes
Vice Review. Bought the CR60 over a Fender Princeton / Deluxe Reverb Black Face or Vox AC 15. The CR60 uses JFETS to duplicate the Reverb Rocket circuit and the clean channel is proof of that with the nice breakup. +1 on Clean Channel demo - clean volume max and control volume with the master. Works great. Sometimes I push the amp with an old Fulldrive 2 or an MXR Timmy. Both work wonders with this amp. +1 on the Loop. I use an old Danelectro eq pedal in it, and it sounds fantastic. Sometimes I have to slap the pedal to behave cause it starts howling. +1 on a speaker upgrade. After awhile, with the Voice of the World speaker, the amp started to sound like it had a blanket over it. The honeymoon was officially over. So, I replaced it with a V-30. [ At the time, the V30 was in many of new Orange amps, so I went with it ] This change totally opened the amp up. The amp became more fun to play ......... and both channels had better response. Totally worth it. If I ever replace the speaker again, there are several Emmence [ Ragun Cajun, Cannabis Rex are a couple ] and Celestion speakers that I'd be interested in trying.
The thing is that any amp is as good as its parts. A cheap pos tube amp will still be a bad amp. Likewise a high end solid state properly built will be as good as a tube amp. The stigma against ss stems from cheap practice amps. But back in the day before they were made to be that they had some solid hits with ss amps. The peavey range certainly springs to mind and the bandits up till the red stripe were all amazing. Marshall had some epic ss offerings like the 2199 and the later master leads in the 80s. Fender and yamaha had ss amps designed by Paul Rivera and they kicked ass. The only one really left is the roland jc which is more of a pedal amp imo. The digital crap does not sound analog either. Thing is with the price of tube amps these days theres a real demand to bring good solid state back again. The orange cr60 is probably the spiritual successor to the bandit. But hiwatt now has their leeds series out, randall is still around too. Ss amps when done right are just as good as anything else with added reliability. Vox had some epic ss amps back in the day too and keef used an ss vox on cant you hear me knocking. Companies should look to properly reissue some of these amps the right way. An mia peavey bandit solo w the scorpion is a must, a marshall 2199 is a must, vox has the super beatle and other ss stuff from the 60s they could do. The rivera fenders shit on any tonemaster and they could work with him to make solid recreations of super reverbs and bassmans rather than this digital stuff. Orange is doing it right with the crush series of amps and they’re leading the market place in a different direction. Most definitely hiwatt and blackstar followed them into this market and i suspect more will follow.
Thanks so much. The pickups are Classic Vibe 1950's with Alnico 3 magnets. The 3 magnets are very low output and have a heavy bass on the neck but dont distort as easy as ceramic. So for heavy gain stuff I would have used my 2016 Strat which has high output Ceramic pickups
Detailed, Informative Review.😎😎😎BITCHING about SPEAKER, TOTALLY SILLY, SPINAL TAP RUBBISH.😂🤣😂SPEAKER WORKS FINE. NO one in my Audience has ever come up to me and said you NEED to change THAT SPEAKER MATE.
Totally 2 different beasts. If it's pristine cleans you want and good pedal platform you'll probably like the Jazz Chorus better. Only thing is the Jazz Chorus gain section is horrible in my opinion. The dirty channel on the orange is more tube like and great for blues and hard rock. And No I have not changed the speaker. Decided to keep this particular amp stock. I've swapped speakers in my tubes amps and an old Roland Cube 30x
@@DominickArena it"s for playing blues and rock. I think I'm goibg to go with the Orange. Again, great video, it really help me. Thanks from Argentina.
Great review. Very practical. Just bought one based on your review so thank you. Great riffs by the way! Quest: if I add the extra 1x12 cab does that increase the volume or just spread the sound? David#
Thanks my man! Glad I could help. Adding the extra cab will increase the volume. You are moving alot more air. A great example is when you hook up a 5 watt head to a 4 12 cabinet. Makes ot sound huge!
It depends. You will probably get some volume increase, but not a lot. The main difference will be increased bandwidth at further distances. Aside from that, I would want to listen to the new speaker first, before committing to a purchase. An additional speaker will alter your tone (its subjective, could be good or bad), and the power output of your amp. Tube amps use output transformers. They act as a buffer between the tubes and the speaker, so that the impedance the amp sees is always equal to the same value, like 8 or 16 ohms. Solid state amps don't use output transformers, so the amount of power the amp puts out depends on frequency and resistance. Its constantly changing. Because of that, you only get the 60 watts the amp is rated for at one particular frequency, or note. As you play higher frequencies, the speaker shows the amp more resistance. Assuming, for example, the 60 watt amp in the Orange is rated at 8 ohms, at 16 ohms, its literally a 30 watt amp, and at 4 ohms it should be a 120 watt amp. I say should be because low impedance loads are much harder for the amp to drive. Most amps can't fully double, so I would realistically expect the Orange to be somewhere between 60 and 120 watts at 4 ohms. The last thing you have to worry about is how the new cabinet connects to the amp. If you currently have an 8ohm speaker in your amp and you add another cabinet with an 8 ohm speaker, and it connects in series, your total resistance is now 16 ohms for the circuit. If you connect the new cabinet in parallel the total resistance is now 4 ohms, A 4 ohm load will be much more difficult for the amp to drive. The harder the amp has to work, the higher the distortion. I'm telling you all this because when you push a tube amp hard enough to distort, it sounds good because it produces even order harmonics. When SS amps distorts, odd order harmonics are produces, and they sound horrible. That's why its so difficult to make a solid state amp that sounds like a tube amp. The way it works to get them to sound good is the complete opposite. Clean sounds are easy because you don't need your tubes or transistors to distort for good sound. Since sound quality is so unpredictable with solid state, just make sure you can either get a demo or are able to return whatever it is you are buying. There are so many variables, you just have to do some listening. Keep in mind that I'm giving you the most basic information. There are tons of details that could never go in a post like this.
I have the orange CR 35 with spring reverb and its really good for a small amp. And I can get that sound also where it breaks up and it sounds like a tube amp. I'm thinking about getting the orange crush CR 120 Pro for a steal of 400 and the footswitch. But how many amps does one man need? LOL
I had the 35 for awhile but couldn't gig with it. It's still a great amp. The new version of this amp the 100 watt combo is even better!! Uses JFETS in the dirty channel and is very tubelike. May pick one up in the near future
@@LetArtsLive That's the PRS Tube Amp. Never had the pleasure of playing one myself but when it comes to tubes I really like the American tones myself. I have a Hot Rod Deluxe that's heavily modified, a USA made Pro Jr and a Blues Jr. I like the Marshall amps for Brit Tones. The Marshall Origin 20 was surprisingly good for money! Plexi style tones for around $650
Yes it has that feedback howl more than a squeal. I dont use high gain much so it's pretty damn good. When I do use high gain I actually use a pedal in the clean section and most my pedals have some kind of feedback protection
Very giggable. I have gigged with this no problem. BUT if you like to scoop the mids then it may struggle a bit with a drummer. Nothing mic'ing it up wont fix
@@tradbowseven Yeah I hear that. Sometimes thou as time goes by and the speaker relaxes they sound better than new or in some small cases worse. Frequencies can change and sound darker with time as the cone and surrounds relax and break in. Only reason I would change this speaker is to get a little more headroom outta it. It's a decent speaker don't get me wrong! But the speaker itself breaks up before the amp does. Throwing in a 75 or 100 watt rated speaker will eliminate that.
The new Super Crush is slightly better in my opinion. It's use of JFETs for gain gives it real tube like feel and sound. Also has a better speaker! BUT the Older Crush Pro can be found cheaper now in the used Market. So if you have the money go for the new Super Crush but if ya wanna save roughly $200 you won't be disappointed with the CR60C. 😉
@@DominickArena yea played on at my local guitar center for 349! Sounds so damn good!! 😊 gives me that blues rock thing with my Harley Benton gold top Les Paul copy! Definitely going to grab it! It took pedals like a champ
Thanks for the watch my man. And Yes! I bring this amp as a back up all the time if tube problem or lower volume situation where I can get the tubes cookin 😉
@@danielhartman5086 I have! Both mic'd up and not. On its own it can hang with a drummer as long as your drummer isn't a skin basher! Sounds excellent mic'd up thou thru the house PA
Revisiting this review after several months and I have to say you have done the most intelligent and useful CR60 review on the internet. Congrats.
Thanks so much. That means alot! I plan on doing some more reviews in the future. Just non bias no frills kinda stuff.
Dominick, thanks for showing the blues side of this amp. So many videos of folks shredding with these. I'm not a metal guy and I'm looking at one of these tomorrow with a Telecaster. Now I'll know how to set it to get a more classic sound out of it.
Best review I’ve watched so far for this amp. One thing that wasn’t mentioned I think was the weight, this amp only weighs 44lbs as opposed to my tube combos that weight near 70lbs. For guys my age (63) that’s a HUGE plus. Thanks Dominick ☮️
@@rdesjean Thanks for the watch I appreciate it. Yeah the weight is a good point. Probably a little heavy for a Solid State seeing a Katana or Catalyst only weighs 25lbs but definitely lighter than an old tube amp for sure. I contribute the weight due to the heavy duty cabinet. Orange did not skimp out on the cabinet and kept specs inline with their $1000+ combos
Great video ,just bought this amp you explained more than the other vids do. Awesome playing.
Thanks so much for the view!
Thanks for all the background explanations. I found the demonstration of the stroke dynamics interesting and important!
Thanks for the watch! Much Appreciated
Owned it for 5 years, still in love with it.
Very nice man! I'm still enjoying mine too
I appreciate the blues tones in your demo. Great playing, by the way! This is the demo I was looking for. I've had this amp for a couple of years already but am just now starting to explore its range and potential. Thanks!
Thanks for the watch! Appreciate you 👊 😎
Thanks. This is exactly the tone range I wanted to know about, since I play jazz and classic blues. No need for the Katana’s patches, just need a simple control setter home practice and the occasional small club gig.
Glad ya dug the video. Thanks for watching 👊😎
Picked up one of these on the cheap a few months back. I am not disappointed. It can do anything
Orange owes you another T-shirt! Your review made the difference! I've been looking for the perfect amp for my needs. I play a cigar box guitar and the tones coming out of this one are exactly what I'm looking for. Other requirements were playability at bedroom volume while capable of handling a jam with a full band, good clean and crunch tones, onboard reverb, ease of use. The only drawback is the weight but it's not too bad. As I walked in the store, I found out it was on special! :)
Thanks for the watch my friend. Glad to hear I helped ya out. I'm still using this amp on the daily and now looking to get the updated version called the The Super Crush 100 Combo 😉
Subscribed 10 minutes in, this is like meeting the one dude at your local music store who actually talks from experience, great review
Thanks so much! Appreciate it alot. I need to get off my ass and start doing more vids again 😉
@@DominickArena No worries! Happy to support good content. One last question Dom, is the 60 loud enough to gig with? my band plays grunge style with frequent distortion and our drummer hits hard often. Thanks!
@@Chariots4010 Definitely can gig with it! I have played numerous shows with mine. 60 watts Solid State is about equal to 20 watts Tubed as far as volume goes. So think Fender Blues Jr volumes.
But if you are a guy who likes to scoop mids and the drummer is a basher then may need to mic it up. Other wise if the mids are present it gets quite loud
@@DominickArena Appreciate the feedback, look forward to the next video
Excellent review and nice playing! I own this amp and one of the things I sometimes forget is how good the cleans and built-in reverb are. Dirty channel is super versatile. I have used a kongpressor in front of this and that also adds some nice fatness to it. Nice work! Good to see the CR60C getting some love.
Thanks so much and thanks for watching. Still one of my go to amps today
@@DominickArena Agree. I've got a modest collection of amps--mostly tube--but this one holds its own. Does just about anything you'd want it to.
I am finding myself in a similar situation where I'm leaning toward solid state again; I own a Red Knob Twin (77 lbs!) and my Princeton Reverb Bordeaux 12 is great, but it does not distort. Your presentation and explanations are incredible, dude! Clarity to the max. What a teacher you are, and I know these things. I can't thank you enough. You take it seriously, are to the point, and don't seem to feel the need to put on a comedy show, which gets so tiresome, dull, and boring. I appreciate what you did here. It is a great help to me and I may go with the CR60C. Cheers!
Thanks my man! Appreciate it alot. I need to get back in making videos again. Been awhile and day job consumes so much of my time
That amp sounds great how could anyone deny it
Thanks for the watch my man!
great review. thank you. Nice job Crystal!
I actually owned this and the Rocker 15 at the same time. I kept the Crush. The tone was almost identical after dialing them in, and while the Rocker is great it's a lot harder to dial the tone and volume live fiddling with the attenuator on the back. With the crush it's a breeze, AND it comes with an awesome built-in reverb. I wish the 60 came with a 10-inch speaker option (I'm in the minority, I prefer 10-inch speakers) but other than that it's my gigging amp. Love the thing. It's so versatile you really don't need a pedalboard, almost everything you can need is in there.
You're absolutely right with the fiddling of the attenuator. I hate that live. I too love a good 10 inch. As a matter of fact I've been playing a lot of Pro Jrs lately live and practice cause I can dial in a great tone without blowing the windows out. Then mic it live. I still have the CR60C and play it all the time.
Great informative no-nonsense review. Thanks so much.
Good video on getting best out of this amp, playing tasteful blues, not mindless shredding,really showing great tones that can be achieved
Appreciate it! I always saw this amp as a solid state Rockerverb and gear'd towards classic rock and hard rock but the metal heads found it and seems to be mostly used for metal. I wanted to show a low gain side to the amp. I still own it and it gets played quite frequently. Thanks for the watch!
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Lol. Good deal my man! Hope you dig it
Great review. Loved the informal, honest style. You told me everything I needed to know and nothing I didn't. Finger is hovering over the button for one of these. Think I'm going to buy it based on your video. Thanks
Thanks for watching. Glad I could help. Much appreciated
@@DominickArena true to my word. Just dropped the cash. Looking forward to putting it through its paces. All being good the CR60C will enjoy and long and happy life being lugged around to pubs and clubs and blasting out everything from The Beatles to Metallica. Rock on mate 🤘
I’m new to guitar and actually picked up the crush pro not knowing what I was doing…after a year of learning I’ve come to realize my first instincts aren’t so shabby!
Great review man thinking about picking one of these up now,
Thanks for watching. Still to this day think it's one of the best solid states amp out there
When I think of Orange I think of the same, I’m late to the Cr Solid state range but getting this amp for similar reasons to yourself, Cool Video Bro, your quality of upload deserves more subs imo ✌🏼🏴🇬🇧
Thanks so much for the watch. Glad I could help ya make a purchasing decision. 👊😎
@@DominickArena Very helpful, thanks also bro
Man thats an awesome amp. Im looking for my first good amp thats not a practice amp. I love the tone of this little amp, but I truly love your guitar playing!! I could listen to that all day long!! Great vid my friend 👍 keep up the great work!! I think I'm going to order one of these guys.
Thanks so much! Much Appreciated. I still love the amp and still is my favorite solid state in my Arsenal. Hope you dig it.
This is quite possibly the best review I have ever seen on an amplifier! This young man knows the amp well and knows its capabilities and is intelligent enough to relate them to the people listening to him. I've owned this amp for several years, and everything he says is spot on. I'm an old hell dog musician now, with many years behind me playing. I'm so thankful when I see younger people like this young man who understands equipment and has a good grasp on music. Good job young man, help carry it on after all of us old guys are gone. God bless
I love my cr60!❤️
Still love mine to this day and gets used quite often. Thanks for watching my man 👊😎
Litterally played a gig last October, we had to turn down our amps stupid low for the venue and we are a hard rock band. I turned around the next day ordered a crush pro series problem solved. Oh the next gig that I played with my tube amp I blew a tube and luckily had my orange as a backup, perks of solid state is reliability, I plugged a terror stamp into the front end of the amp and it sounds like my rockerverb!!
You can out the terror stamp into the crush input?
@@benjaminfowler4513 yes or to the return of the crush’s fx loop just depends on how u wanna use it. Personally it sounds better sending the terror to the fx return.
@@dimensionalencounter3689 so it's an amp but it truly does function like a pedal then? I had no idea lol that's awesome
@@benjaminfowler4513 I’m still finding different ways to use it as a boost pedal to a amp through the fx, to a stand alone amp etc, Orange impressed me. I’m just hoping we get a two channel gain version of the stamp down the road vs the two volume level that it offers now. But back to the crush series especially the cr60 it will always impress me being that it’s solid state, it’s a great amp. It’s shocking the tone you can get out of a crush. Dave Simpson has many vids on the crush series and it will blow your mind what tones he can achieve out of his crush amp.
Awesome Demo ! Experimenting with Different speakers ( I have a thoroughly "Well played -Broken in" Celestion vintage 30 in it ) makes it even Better ( Smoother gain structure & presence ) !
Thanks! Appreciate the watch. I like the Vintage 30 myself. Its a great speaker
The best review for this amp on UA-cam, hands down.
Is this amp a good pedal platform for overdrive/distortion pedals etc?
Thanks my man! Yeah I have ran a few dirt pedals on the clean channel. Sounds pretty good. Tube screamer works great
Awesome video ‼️🔥🎸
Thanks so much! Glad you dug it
I love mine!
Only Solid State I have left in my arsenal. Sold a ton of gear but kept this along with 2 tube amps 😉
Great video, love my Orange 35rt but will upgrade to 60 or 100, hard to choose🤘🤘🎸
Was originally gonna settle for a tube amp as my first for an electric guitar (Vox's AC15C1X and Blackstar's HT Club 40 MkII "Black and Blue" Edition were my top choices), but the more I kept looking into Orange's solid state Crush CR60C the more it REALLY started making sense for me both practically and financially. After watching this demo, my mind is pretty much made up now. Besides, only those who can truly afford to have tubes replaced when they go bad should be looking into tube-based amps PERIOD. Definitely will be on the lookout for the black version of this Orange amp as it would pair up nicely with my black Orange Crush Bass 50 I got for my 1974 Gibson EB-3L well over a year ago. When it comes to solid state, Orange hasn't let me down yet!
>;-)
Glad to hear! I absoulety love tubes but this has been the best soild state ive ever owned. I plan to do a better recorded sound demo in the near future. Thanks for watching!
@@DominickArena Yup, I'm already pondering whether or not to get a 1x12 "closed-back" Orange cabinet to pair up with this combo amp and swap out both stock speakers for the higher-end UK Celestions ("dirtier" Vintage 30 for the cabinet extension, "cleaner" Neo Creamback for the CR60C) to get a tonal palette that's more tailored to my personal tastes. Should I wind up just sticking with the CR60C instead, I'll go ahead and get the UK Vintage 30 as an eventual replacement for the 'VOTW' stock speaker when the time finally does come. And yeah, these amps might be made in China but UNDER strict Orange guidelines and it shows:::wink:::wink:::!
;-D
I had a guy trade me one of these for my Fender Mustang GTX 100 with the Fender EXP-1 pedal. I took the Orange amp right away. I have a Helix and can switch channels with it. The tone is way better on these. Love it.
Thanks, I got one after watching this. Great amp!
Awesome! Glad I could help.
I purchased two of the CR120 heads 6 years ago. They replaced all my tube amps. I keep a 212 and a 412 depending on the venue size. Easy. Don't miss tubes
Thinking about getting me that head also to run on a custom 2x12 cab 😉
Really great video!
Thanks so much! Appreciate the watch
Vice Review. Bought the CR60 over a Fender Princeton / Deluxe Reverb Black Face or Vox AC 15.
The CR60 uses JFETS to duplicate the Reverb Rocket circuit and the clean channel is proof of that with the nice breakup.
+1 on Clean Channel demo - clean volume max and control volume with the master. Works great. Sometimes I push the amp with an old Fulldrive 2 or an MXR Timmy. Both work wonders with this amp.
+1 on the Loop. I use an old Danelectro eq pedal in it, and it sounds fantastic. Sometimes I have to slap the pedal to behave cause it starts howling.
+1 on a speaker upgrade. After awhile, with the Voice of the World speaker, the amp started to sound like it had a blanket over it. The honeymoon was officially over. So, I replaced it with a V-30. [ At the time, the V30 was in many of new Orange amps, so I went with it ] This change totally opened the amp up. The amp became more fun to play ......... and both channels had better response. Totally worth it.
If I ever replace the speaker again, there are several Emmence [ Ragun Cajun, Cannabis Rex are a couple ] and Celestion speakers that I'd be interested in trying.
The thing is that any amp is as good as its parts. A cheap pos tube amp will still be a bad amp. Likewise a high end solid state properly built will be as good as a tube amp. The stigma against ss stems from cheap practice amps. But back in the day before they were made to be that they had some solid hits with ss amps. The peavey range certainly springs to mind and the bandits up till the red stripe were all amazing. Marshall had some epic ss offerings like the 2199 and the later master leads in the 80s. Fender and yamaha had ss amps designed by Paul Rivera and they kicked ass. The only one really left is the roland jc which is more of a pedal amp imo. The digital crap does not sound analog either. Thing is with the price of tube amps these days theres a real demand to bring good solid state back again. The orange cr60 is probably the spiritual successor to the bandit. But hiwatt now has their leeds series out, randall is still around too. Ss amps when done right are just as good as anything else with added reliability. Vox had some epic ss amps back in the day too and keef used an ss vox on cant you hear me knocking. Companies should look to properly reissue some of these amps the right way. An mia peavey bandit solo w the scorpion is a must, a marshall 2199 is a must, vox has the super beatle and other ss stuff from the 60s they could do. The rivera fenders shit on any tonemaster and they could work with him to make solid recreations of super reverbs and bassmans rather than this digital stuff. Orange is doing it right with the crush series of amps and they’re leading the market place in a different direction. Most definitely hiwatt and blackstar followed them into this market and i suspect more will follow.
I have had some crap ss inthe 80s and graduated to fenders and a pedal board in the 2000 i have had/used some good stuff i like
I think this is the best no bs demo I’ve seen. That clean sounds impressive with the Strat. What kind of pickups are in there?
Thanks so much. The pickups are Classic Vibe 1950's with Alnico 3 magnets. The 3 magnets are very low output and have a heavy bass on the neck but dont distort as easy as ceramic. So for heavy gain stuff I would have used my 2016 Strat which has high output Ceramic pickups
@@DominickArena nice! I have a strat with '65 Pure Vintage and they would probably pair well with this amp
lmaoooo you call talking for 13 minutes before attempting to use the amp no BS
Awesome video. I just scored a like new one for $270. I’m super pumped for it to come in. Edit: I got scammed. Now looking for another
Sucks
What happened?
Detailed, Informative Review.😎😎😎BITCHING about SPEAKER, TOTALLY SILLY, SPINAL TAP RUBBISH.😂🤣😂SPEAKER WORKS FINE. NO one in my Audience has ever come up to me and said you NEED to change THAT SPEAKER MATE.
Great review. I'm trying to choose between this one and a Jazz Chorus 40. What's your opinion on that?
Also. Have you change the speaker?
Totally 2 different beasts. If it's pristine cleans you want and good pedal platform you'll probably like the Jazz Chorus better. Only thing is the Jazz Chorus gain section is horrible in my opinion. The dirty channel on the orange is more tube like and great for blues and hard rock. And No I have not changed the speaker. Decided to keep this particular amp stock. I've swapped speakers in my tubes amps and an old Roland Cube 30x
@@DominickArena it"s for playing blues and rock. I think I'm goibg to go with the Orange. Again, great video, it really help me. Thanks from Argentina.
@@panchopan3 So glad I can help!
Great review. Very practical. Just bought one based on your review so thank you. Great riffs by the way! Quest: if I add the extra 1x12 cab does that increase the volume or just spread the sound? David#
Thanks my man! Glad I could help. Adding the extra cab will increase the volume. You are moving alot more air. A great example is when you hook up a 5 watt head to a 4 12 cabinet. Makes ot sound huge!
It depends. You will probably get some volume increase, but not a lot. The main difference will be increased bandwidth at further distances. Aside from that, I would want to listen to the new speaker first, before committing to a purchase. An additional speaker will alter your tone (its subjective, could be good or bad), and the power output of your amp. Tube amps use output transformers. They act as a buffer between the tubes and the speaker, so that the impedance the amp sees is always equal to the same value, like 8 or 16 ohms.
Solid state amps don't use output transformers, so the amount of power the amp puts out depends on frequency and resistance. Its constantly changing. Because of that, you only get the 60 watts the amp is rated for at one particular frequency, or note. As you play higher frequencies, the speaker shows the amp more resistance. Assuming, for example, the 60 watt amp in the Orange is rated at 8 ohms, at 16 ohms, its literally a 30 watt amp, and at 4 ohms it should be a 120 watt amp. I say should be because low impedance loads are much harder for the amp to drive. Most amps can't fully double, so I would realistically expect the Orange to be somewhere between 60 and 120 watts at 4 ohms.
The last thing you have to worry about is how the new cabinet connects to the amp. If you currently have an 8ohm speaker in your amp and you add another cabinet with an 8 ohm speaker, and it connects in series, your total resistance is now 16 ohms for the circuit. If you connect the new cabinet in parallel the total resistance is now 4 ohms, A 4 ohm load will be much more difficult for the amp to drive. The harder the amp has to work, the higher the distortion. I'm telling you all this because when you push a tube amp hard enough to distort, it sounds good because it produces even order harmonics. When SS amps distorts, odd order harmonics are produces, and they sound horrible. That's why its so difficult to make a solid state amp that sounds like a tube amp. The way it works to get them to sound good is the complete opposite. Clean sounds are easy because you don't need your tubes or transistors to distort for good sound.
Since sound quality is so unpredictable with solid state, just make sure you can either get a demo or are able to return whatever it is you are buying. There are so many variables, you just have to do some listening. Keep in mind that I'm giving you the most basic information. There are tons of details that could never go in a post like this.
I'll like and sub just for the orange alone.
Cool review man. Have seen the new Super crush 100 amps.
As a matter of fact I just saw them. I'm interested in playing on it
Sounds good with a built-in speaker?
I have the orange CR 35 with spring reverb and its really good for a small amp. And I can get that sound also where it breaks up and it sounds like a tube amp. I'm thinking about getting the orange crush CR 120 Pro for a steal of 400 and the footswitch. But how many amps does one man need? LOL
I had the 35 for awhile but couldn't gig with it. It's still a great amp. The new version of this amp the 100 watt combo is even better!! Uses JFETS in the dirty channel and is very tubelike. May pick one up in the near future
@@DominickArena my friend has the archon 2014 with the speaker but that's a little beyond my price range right now is that a good amp?
@@LetArtsLive That's the PRS Tube Amp. Never had the pleasure of playing one myself but when it comes to tubes I really like the American tones myself. I have a Hot Rod Deluxe that's heavily modified, a USA made Pro Jr and a Blues Jr. I like the Marshall amps for Brit Tones. The Marshall Origin 20 was surprisingly good for money! Plexi style tones for around $650
@@DominickArena I played a fender Tweed at the music store it was amazing. You probably need more than one 4 different sound
Does this amp squeal at high gain? My katana does that it drives me crazy
Yes it has that feedback howl more than a squeal. I dont use high gain much so it's pretty damn good. When I do use high gain I actually use a pedal in the clean section and most my pedals have some kind of feedback protection
Was wondering if anyone thinks if this amp is giggable? How loud does it get?
Very giggable. I have gigged with this no problem. BUT if you like to scoop the mids then it may struggle a bit with a drummer. Nothing mic'ing it up wont fix
Never understood,”it’s a great amp!!!, but I’m going to change the speaker and mod it”. If it’s a great amp, leave it alone.
@@tradbowseven Yeah I hear that. Sometimes thou as time goes by and the speaker relaxes they sound better than new or in some small cases worse. Frequencies can change and sound darker with time as the cone and surrounds relax and break in. Only reason I would change this speaker is to get a little more headroom outta it. It's a decent speaker don't get me wrong! But the speaker itself breaks up before the amp does. Throwing in a 75 or 100 watt rated speaker will eliminate that.
This or the super crush 100 1x12
The new Super Crush is slightly better in my opinion. It's use of JFETs for gain gives it real tube like feel and sound. Also has a better speaker! BUT the Older Crush Pro can be found cheaper now in the used Market. So if you have the money go for the new Super Crush but if ya wanna save roughly $200 you won't be disappointed with the CR60C. 😉
@@DominickArena yea played on at my local guitar center for 349! Sounds so damn good!! 😊 gives me that blues rock thing with my Harley Benton gold top Les Paul copy! Definitely going to grab it! It took pedals like a champ
More cowbell
Always can use more cowbell! 😉
Ugh Jeezy
I have a Fender Blues Junior I play out with. But just incase of a tube problem. This amp would be perfect. Great job on the video.
Thanks for the watch my man. And Yes! I bring this amp as a back up all the time if tube problem or lower volume situation where I can get the tubes cookin 😉
@DominickArena Have you ever giged with just the orange cr 60with your band.
@@danielhartman5086 I have! Both mic'd up and not. On its own it can hang with a drummer as long as your drummer isn't a skin basher! Sounds excellent mic'd up thou thru the house PA
@@DominickArena Thank you