With a power rating of 10 watts the Orange Crush 10 is the smallest member of the Orange Crush series. Appearances can be deceiving though! Do not let it's diminutive size fool you into overlooking this little wonder. With a rich variety of tones on offer, Orange Amlifiers have been praised for squeezing so much into such a conveniently portable package.

Orange Crush CR10
User Review

Features: 9
The Orange Crush-10 is a single channel 10W solid-state combo amp, with a three separate equalization controls (low, mid, high), a master volume control, and two separate gain controls. It also has a headphone out jack, which mutes the speaker when the headphones are plugged in. I bought this little amp mainly for practicing, and for that duty, it is very well suited. I suppose you could mike it if you really dug the sound that much - but for me, it's just an "office" unit - I got sick of hauling my big amp upstairs just to monkey around on the guitar a bit. The Orange Crush sound controls are simple to figure out, and easy to adjust. The aesthetics of the amplifier are hard to resist - cool orange case, vintage-style grill covering, neat-o Orange medallion. Best part of all is that the amp lives up to its legendary heritage. The sounds that you can procure from this little rig are downright amazing When I started playing back in '83, I had a Peavey Decade 10 practice amp, which compared to this Orange amp, sounded like a cheesy AM transistor radio. My, things have certainly come a long way since then.

Sound Quality: 9
The (2) guitars I play through this amp are an Epiphone Les Paul, which has a stock neck pick-up, and a DiMarzio AF Super Distortion on the bridge; and, a early 90's Japanese Fender Squier Strat with (3) stock single coils. The amp works well with both guitars, on both clean / dirty channels. On the Eppie, I can switch from a bright, hollow blues sound, to a nasty, snarling Zeppelin tone with relative ease. The Orange really sounds great with the Strat, esp. with a slightly distorted Stones-style sound (Jumpin' Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, etc.) If I were to say one thing about the sound, it would have to be that this little Orange does a convincing job of sounding less like a solid-state, and more like a little tube amp. It's very flexible in both clean and distorted settings.

Reliability: N/A
I've only had this amp for a couple weeks, so I'm not sure what the long-range forecast is. It seems well made. All I know is that like all musical equipment, if you take care of it, it'll take care of you. I'm planning on having this little rig a good, long time.

Customer Support: N/A
The one thing I can report here is that I had a tough time even finding a retail outlet that carried these little amps. I don't know what that translates into as far as support goes. However, the amp does come with a 1 year warranty, so you can rest easy.

Overall Rating: 10
I won't beat around the bush here, folks. For 100 clams, this little Orange amp is a gem. Great sound, great looks - just a out-and-out cool rig. I don't often come across products that flat-out perform like this amp does. The Crush-10 amp is a natch for beginning guitarists, and will surely please the ear of many seasoned players as well. If you need a good practice amp, then look no further. Orange has the best one out there!

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