Orange Crush
Pro CR120H
Though pedal enthusiasts will
find an awful lot to love about
Orange’s Crush Pro CR120H head
and its sparkling, high headroom
cleans, they might find themselves
abandoning a few of the dirt pedals
on their board after checking out
its dirty channel. The CR120H
offers a true breakthrough in
solid-state grind, providing a
dynamic gut punch that ranges
from gentle, smooth clipping to a
terrifyingly throaty roar. Its sounds
are reportedly based on the valvepowered Rockerverb 100, and the
Orange R&D team obviously put
great effort into capturing this amp’s
characteristics in a transistor-based
circuit. The result is an extremely
affordable (selling new for around
450 bucks) 120-watt head that
handily competes with tube amps
that cost four or five times as much.
Stompbox stompers who don’t give
a lick about tube “mojo” and just
want an inexpensive, marvelous
sounding, highly versatile head in
which to feed pedals should look
no further.
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