NAD! Orange Crush 35RT

Well I did it. Bought an Orange Crush 35RT with no box at a mom & pop shop. Another player was there with me as I was trying to negotiate a deal and offered to use his tax number to help. Had hustled the price down some then this nice fellow offered to help. I gave him my cash. He bought the amp and used his tax I.D. and handed me back $10 from what I gave him. He handed me the amp and a copy of the receipt. That deal saved my $91 off the regular price! I was beside myself! The guy that helped me was amazing. Never met him, and he just wanted to lend me a hand in getting the amp.

Got it home and plugged in my Epi 339 and wow! The tone block is super responsive. Cut coils with a mid bump sings. Full buckers and a slight mid cut and punching the Dirty Channel in gave instant sonic bombast with Full Bluntal Nugety! It friggin' rocks! And cranking the Clean Channel above 7, approaching 9 it gets hairy! Really great compressed overdrive with tons of attitude! I played for 20 minutes in my little house and staggered outside feeling like a landmine had gone off next to me! I swear it's got tubes hidden in it...

Effects loop is dead quiet. Great circuitry here. A dirtbox or two in front of the input is as expected, badass! Ok.... Now I've got a great amp. I suppose a new solidbody will be next...
Its all somebody's fault. Y'all draw straws and pick who to blame. Can't be me, I'm innocent.

Good amp guys. Well worth the close to a C note off the regular sale price! Snicker snicker!:roflmao :bonk:spin:

You know the rules, Old Ranger: Without pics it didn't happen! :laughing:

Happy NAD!

I don't know how to do pics.

I tried but it didn't work. I suck at this computer stuff. Always have....
So no pics guys. Can't do it.... I really do hate computers.
Gonna go clean a weapon and regain my self respect.

fer a solid body I'd suggest either a tele or an SG. better yet, both.

Pretty impressive sounding from the vids I watched. Have fun with that thang!

Solidbody, hummmmm. I'm feeling a 24 fret Jackson Dinky with a Rose... :hmm
Or perhaps a Mustang? But leaning towards the Dinky.:hmm
And yeah, this Orange is really incredible. With a Carbon Copy delay and a DigiTech CR-7 chorus, along with a T Rex Whirlyverb in the fx loop, oh my! Such lush stuff clean. Was playing the Doors' The End with the 339. Sonic bliss.... I could see the UH 1Ds and smell the napalm....
Oh! Y'all weren't supposed to hear that! Ha! I'm fine. No flashbacks! Really... I always call for artillery support when having breakfast.:biglaugh:

But yeah, I keep sniffing around for the smell of hot tubes, but its all just remarkable analog circuits brilliantly executed in this amp. The OD is dynamic and with a full range of useable energy. With or without my hearing aids, it sounds supurb.
And that smell. It smells like.... Victory. Orange amp victory! :smile:

Flash! Orange update.....

Sold it today. Everyday side by side with the Marshall, well the Orange got squished.....
Marshall: chimes with clean. Sings with OD. Orange: dull clean. Boxey and limited dirty.

After close comparison of the two, the Marshall was clearly a superior amp and the Orange was dull and boring. So I packed it up and sold it. Bye bye Orange.:ola

I’ve had gear like that. I had a Hughes and Kettner solid state. On its on it was fine, but when I got it around other amps, I grew to dislike it.

In my own humble experience, these smaller solid state amps are mainly for study/home use.

That's what I use my own Orange crush for.

People record stuff with them, I know, and they actually are good enough for -very- small venues if you got a civilized drummer.

But that's about it.

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Originally Posted by Sérgio

if you got a civilized drummer.

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Isn't that an oxymoron? Maybe my response belongs in the Musician Jokes thread?

It appears that I have to keep this short because the site is not allowing any lengthy verbiage. So, here's the short skinny. The orange amp was fine if all I wanted to do was rock my brains out. It was just a little too one-dimensional. The Marshall, on the other hand, has an enormous versatility that I simply could not overlook. In short it is a Rolls-Royce compared to a 48 Dodge. And right now that Rolls-Royce is really singing. I like single 10 inch amps very much.