Orange Crush 20RT 1x8" 20-watt Combo Amp - Black Reviews
A killer combo guitar amplifier at a real-world price point, the Orange Crush 20RT brings you gut-punching tones with highly responsive overdrive and levels of detailed saturation that will absolutely blow your mind. Featuring two footswitchable channels, the Crush 20RT's 4-stage preamp provides you with enormous, wide-ranging tones that will take you back to the heady days of no-nonsense, old school analog guitar amplifiers. On top of that, you get Orange's innovative CabSim circuit that faithfully emulates the muscle of an Orange 4 x 12" cabinet through the Crush 20RT's headphone/line output, as well as an onboard tuner and reverb. The guitarists here at Sweetwater are huge fans of Orange guitar amplifiers, and we're really stoked about the Crush 20RT combo!
Highest Rated Reviews
Perfect bedroom amp.
I'm just learning guitar, so I don't need to play over a drummer at this point. This amp is plenty loud for my needs. I love the tone with drive as well as clean. The tuner is handy as well.
Best solid state combo amp
I love this amp. It's small but powerful and provides brilliant tone. The two channel split provides a nice source of control over your sound. Moreover, the volume/gain controls for overdrive give you a nice ability to get more granular about the tone you want.
Built in reverb is also well balanced
Orange crush 20 watt amplifier
Very nice personal amplifier. Seems to work well
Orange Crush 20RT Black
Great amp, especially at the price! I was looking for a practice amp with a respectable "clean" channel, for roots jazz and blues. Perfect for me. Sweetwater did it again.
Orange crush 20 RT
I ordered this amp just for a small practice amp thinking because of its size that"s all it would be good for but I was pleasantly surprised by how great it sounds and for the price it would be hard to beat. I would recommend this amp and of course Sweetwater is always great.
Great amp, Great service
If there was a 6 I would give Sweetwater a 6. Amp arrived in a timely manner and was everything it was advertised to be. But the real rating is for Sweetwater themselves. This is the fourth item I have purchased from them and at only 189.00 was the most expensive. The only company I can compare Sweetwater to are car companies. I can't imagine anyone else out there who offers as much follow-up service as Sweetwater. They make you feel as if every little thing they do is of the utmost importance. Thanks Sweetwater and my next guitar is coming from you guys too!
Orange Delight
I picked one of these up that was barely used . It is truly a great value. The gain/dirty channel is a screamer. Clean tones are excellent. Reverb works well.
Great Practice Amp
I am not a gigging professional by any means, so this practice amp is perfect for me. It sounds awesome - both clean and dirty. The reverb is a nice touch and would definitely recommend the feature for those who are on the fence - it is worth a few extra bucks. If all you want to do is jam out around the house (it is quite loud for 20 watts) then I highly recommend this amp. It is working out fantastically for me. Thank you Sweetwater, Steven, and Orange!
Discover a New Galaxy of Sound
Orange resides in it's own galaxy; or a parallel universe of sound, of some kind.
Orange WOW
The Orange Crush 20RT is the perfect amp for your home and very small gigs. Very clean, I use my IPAD for for a backup band and run into the amp.
The sound is great with plenty of volume. I play a Vinny Bass set up with custom strings. When I pulgged in the bass the sound was true to my bass as made.
Great little beauty
Overall this is a great little amp. Little on size and weight, but not little on output or range. I have a tube Bugera V5amp, but it gets muddy and washy a lot when cranked, no such problems here on the SS Orange. (The Bugera is still a beautiful clean amp BTW). I don't play gigs, and am not by any means a professional, but I love to practice all I can, and jam out at home.
I'll start by saying having 2 channels is a great feature, It's probably going to make my overdrive pedal redundant for the most part, as there's so many ways of getting dirty on the Crush 20RT.
The Clean channel is a little bit on the nasal side, but a lot of that can be worked out with EQ settings. It's nice to have an amp that can do both with a flick of a switch and a bit of quick dialling in.
I've had it a few days now, and with Delay and Fuzz pedals. I've played with levels and had everything from The Beach Boys, to The Cramps, to Motörhead out of this amp.
I won't say I wouldn't ever get anything but an Orange, but to be honest, this impressed me so much that it certainly would be my first manufacturer of choice from now on. I have the Crush Mini too, which is fun for running to the shed to practice with, or travelling.
Good little practice amp for the price
Bought this to use at home for practice when my main amp is at church (a Suhr Bella head and matching 1x12 cabinet).
Pros:
No muss, no fuss little amp that packs a lot of volume!
Has reverb (digital)
Has clean and overdrive channels with separate volume and gain
Decent sound on both channels, especially the drive. Gets some good crunch tones!
Optional footswitch to switch from clean to dirty channel.
Built in tuner
Aux in to run your MP3 player through it.
Headphone jack
Seems solidly built and nice looking (in black)
Cons:
Well.....it’s an inexpensive little solid state amp. It ain’t gonna sound like a big tube amp. But ya know that going in so,....
Reverb is not great, but at least it has reverb!
Built in tuner is ok. Not always accurate.
Footswitch not included
No cover
Seriously, the cons are certainly acceptable with an amp at this price point, and with all the other positive things it has going for it. I knocked off a half-star for the cons, but I wouldn’t hesitate to buy this amp again for what I need it for.
Overall, I’m very happy with this amp. It suits my needs just fine. I could see it being used in a small coffee house kind of gig with a small, not loud, band.
Nice sound
it has a nice smooth sound if adjust just right.
Small but sounds big
This is a great amp to travel to small venues. It has e great sound and some small but useful features. It is definitely what one would expect from an Orange product.
Kind,of OK
I am just learning to play. Got this as a practice amp. After a few weeks I decided to get something with a sound I could live with long term. (Quilter Aviator Cub) The clean channel sounds pretty good. The overdrive just sounds like buzzing from a bad amplifier transistor. Nothing pleasant about it. I should have bought a real amp to start with. Not sure what I am going to do with this. Can't see it getting much use.
Weak flat pre amp
The clean and dirty channels sound good playing my guitar. But the pre amp sounds bad playing back channel through it. Very disappointed with the sound of the pre amp, back channels sound flat, sort of what you would get from a very cheap radio. At this price range, come on guys...at least stick a better sounding more dynamic pre amp in the thing. I've got a dirt cheap squire entry level amp, that plays better sounding back tracks. About as bad sounding and cheap sound as it can get. I'm surprised other people reviewing this amp totally missed this flaw.