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I didn't find a dedicated topic for this amp, so I decided to start one! Inform me if there is a topic or you want this removed!

So... Tell me all about it!

I'm not necessarily in the market for a new amp, but became kinda curious about these Oranges. My amp at the moment is double the price of these amps (I have a Music Man RD100 head) and got kind of spooked by it. In my current setup, I play Jazzmasters and Jaguars with a lot of fuzz and reverb. Amp is always clean, sparkly and loud!

So have any of you used single coils with the Super Crush 100? Is the clean channel good for Fender-y tones/more bright and clean genres? Is it loud? What do you think about it, what is it good for?

I don’t have any experience with the clean channel. But on the drive side it’s very immediate, like lots of xister amps.
It sounds fine, more or less like one would expect an orange to. If you run the gain channel with little to no actual drive, you have a lil’ more eq shaping available, with the mids control. I’d venture to call it pretty decent and versatile, but I don’t know how discerning your ears might be.
I’d rock it, no question.

It's very Orangey, really close to their valve amp thing. Loud.

If you're looking for exact Fendery cleans, it's not for you imho. Especially if you're not in a hurry for an amp. Maybe you should try those new Beta Leads.

distressed wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:26 am

It's very Orangey, really close to their valve amp thing. Loud.

If you're looking for exact Fendery cleans, it's not for you imho. Especially if you're not in a hurry for an amp. Maybe you should try those new Beta Leads.

Yeah, I was just kind of toying with the idea. Cool to hear that it's so close to other amps in their catalog, I could see myself rocking an Orange one day. I like sludgey sounds. My dream setup would be a Fender-y clean amp handling the high end and reverb stuff, paired with something that could turn the lower frequencies into sludge.

And on the subject, I have been looking into those Sunns! My Music Man does double duty as a bass amp too, so I wouldn't mind owning the Beta Bass. I hear that the originals are pretty much the same between regular Lead and Bass, with bass only having more low end. I don't know how true that is, but could be cool to run my Jaguar into a bass-heavy amp with heaps of fuzz.

...but I'm curious, is the Beta Lead then closer to Fenders in terms of their frequency content and clean sounds? I know Sunn made PA stuff, so it would track that their amps could do high-headroom, broad frequency-spectrum stuff. I just know them from their distortion sounds. Who doesn't!

The Sunns (while kinda affordable for what they are) are still somewhat out of my price point atm and the attraction to the Orange came from its price. You can get them for 300-400€ used where I live, so that was what drew me towards them.

Vibramate wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:25 am

...but I'm curious, is the Beta Lead then closer to Fenders in terms of their frequency content and clean sounds? I know Sunn made PA stuff, so it would track that their amps could do high-headroom, broad frequency-spectrum stuff. I just know them from their distortion sounds. Who doesn't!

For me it's closer than Orange, but I know folks who doesn't like its cleans. I have that old Beta Lead head in my band, and my main amp is Bassman 135, and I've gigged and recorded with both, through Marshall 1960, with very satisfying results. You've gotta try it yourself.

Just curious, adding to the thread...

How is the poweramp-sound in the Super Crush?

I am under the assumption that the poweramp is the same as the Pedal Baby 100, so I don't know if running a separate preamp would be cool. (There's a Kuro Exegol for sale pretty close to me, so I have some bad, bad, bad ideas)

Any experiences with the Pedal Baby 100 and how it compares to Super Crush's poweramp? Would it be insane to use the Super Crush just as a poweramp?