Orange Super Crush 100 - 100-watt Solid-state Head, Black Reviews
Orange's Super Crush 100 Amplifier Head is a solid-state workhorse packing 100 watts of tube-emulated power. Building off their successful Crush Pro, the Super Crush 100 compact design features a 2-channel JFET preamp and a 100-watt power amp that pair to make it sound like you're really wailing on a giant tube amp. Equipped with four stages of gain, a passive 3-band EQ, and Orange's aggressive Dirty Channel, the Super Crush gives you plenty of headroom on your clean tones while shaping your overdrive to just the right level of classic Orange grit. Sweetwater guitarists are blown away by the Super Crush's CabSim speaker emulation, an analogue filter with the potential to bestow the sound of a 2 x 12-inch cabinet on your unsuspecting audience. Switch into Cab Back mode to select between an open- or closed-back cab sound, and get creative with your sound projection by running an 8-ohm/16-ohm cab into one speaker output, or run your 16-ohm cab through both speaker outputs. Add a bit of Orange's built-in reverb and a fully buffered FX loop, and the Super Crush 100 will deliver your ideal British-flavored tones.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Best deal out there!
I got tired of hauling an extremely heavy tube head years ago and had been using an Orange lunchbox head. Loved the tone so I bought this Super Crush 100 (in black to match my Marshall cab). Clean and dirty are both killer! I don't run any pedals besides a tuner and Crybaby so all tone is on board. Really warm tube-like sound. Great for rock/punk and hard rock. Crunchier than a hippie in a tent. And the price can't be beat. Highly recommended!
Orange Super Crush 100 Solid State Head
A pleasant surprise, with this solid State amp, has a very nice clean channel, and lush expressive Reverb at lower levels it still sounds natural ;
I have a Friedman 20 watt tube amp and love the clean and driven tones of that amp ,
I'm very careful dialing up to much treble mids , and use more bass in the Orange driven channel , and rely on my guitar tone and volume knobs which gives a delightful lead and crunch tone . The loop works well with delay or echo ,
It's refreshing to have the best of both worlds playing through tube or solid state amps ;
This amp is good for any genre of music , for the money an extremely good amp , considering a boutique pedal could cost as much
a bargain musical amp that's a joy to play through.
Had the orange at studio , had to fade to black at home
Best solid state in years, this coming from a tube snob, I own a triple rec ,6505, jsx, and a evh 5150. Does it sound like a tube amp, No, but it is the best sounding solid state amp amp I have heard in years! You get a great clean and a great high gain distortion/ some may have to use a overdrive to get what they want. But honestly it does have enough gain on tap.
Hardcore for the real lore
The gain is really here in spades, clipping will occur @ 75 % of channel being open.
Tone is amazing, crank it and reverb it to the max, it's a goldmine all by itself,
throw a pedalchain or a processor in front of it and even more possibilities explode.
I avoid the loop, and am using footswitching for channel and reverb.
Best solid state I've ever used, including Lab Series, Yamaha, Roland JC120 etc....
Well worth the price of admission, and will drive a full 8 speaker stack with ease.
Still love my tube amps but this fills a void in sheer power and volume I wouldn't normally
have access to. Get it in get it up get it on and begone!
Orange Super Crush 100
Simply Love it
One Great Amp
This thing absolutely has a great clean channel for pedals. All of mine sound great thru it. The dirty channel provides plenty of grit as well. Be sure the gain is up on the dirty channel as you will not hear any sound no matter if the volume is up on the master I am also using a Marshall latching footswitch from another amp to control the channel switching and it works great. Great amp no regrets. Get one.
As advertised
Coming from the SuperCrush 100 Combo this is exactly what I expected. Very solidly made and has plenty of power and so easy to operate.
The hype is warranted...
Surprisingly good, not only does it sound great, it feels great to play. I won't say it's a "tube amp killer" but it's darn close. Takes pedals really well, would make a great pedal platform. Has a really pleasing clean channel that stays clean unless you push it really hard, but doesn't sound sterile either. Drive channel is surprisingly versatile, and the eq is actually usable through it's whole range depending on what tone you're looking for, so don't be afraid to dime the knobs if you feel the need. Covers everything from country/blues to hard rock (and everything in between) without help, can do metal with an OD pedal in front. Overall, it doesn't break the bank or your back, and has that "fun factor" that makes you want to keep playing. I wish we had SS amps this good when I started playing 25+ years ago...
Fantastic Amp
This thing is a monster. Well built, looks incredible, sounds great. Clean channel is essentially an Orange Pedal Baby. Sounds fantastic, takes pedals incredibly well. I've never had fuzzes sound so massive. Dirty channel is killer, totally does the orange midrange thing. It has a lot of gain on tap, but I do wish it had a smidge more. It's all usable though and I reckon it would suit 90% of players. My only real complaint is that the cab sim from the DI out isn't great. A bit fizzy. Would love if they would include the option to turn off the cab sim in an updated model. That being said, you truly can't do better for the price. My tube amps are getting no love lately thanks to this thing. I'm running it through a 2x12 with a creamback and a vintage 30. Would recommend.
Super crush, worth your time?
I believe you get more out of the amp than the price tag. I've personally only been able to compare it to a few high end valve amps, but in comparison it behaved as expected. So overall sound is a bit thin, but can be enhanced with a eq, pedal for body and fullness. Past three o'clock is really unusable gain but that's way more dial than most high gain amps. Solid state gain gets mashy messy pushed too far so I feel this amp is voiced for hard rock but can approach metal tones cutting back gain , adding a overdrive in front. The eq tones are pleasant to work with and the clean channel provides quite a bit of versatility with a high volume breakeup and the spring reverb I preferred over many other reverbs I have heard. What it lacks of valve amps characteristics I believe it makes up in the convenient features. Also the DI is excellent and where I finally found satisfying gratitude through high fidelity speaker's and even paired with a cabinet balanced.
DIED AFTER 1 YEAR
It was a great amp but it died after 1 year of extremely light use. This amp was the only solid state anything Ive ever had bite the dust in my 70 years on this planet! I loved the tone and liked it enough to purchase it again but im just really gun shy about Orange products right now.
