ORANGE SUPER CRUSH 100 COMBO
Rock solid state?
Photography Phil Barker
1
GAIN & BOOST
The valve-like single-ended JFET preamp design comprises independent Clean and Dirty channels (foot/panel switch controlled).
2 SPEAKER
Orange have fitted this amp with a single 12-inch G12K-150 – Celestion’s “monster of rock”.
3
EQ
The Clean and Dirty channels feature separate Treble and Bass knobs while the latter also boasts a Middle EQ control.
You have to love Orange. Firmly seated in the rock ’n’ roll pantheon of Great British amp builders alongside Marshall and Vox they remain a family-run business after all these years. The roots of Orange were laid down in London’s West End during the late 60s when CEO Cliff Cooper set up his secondhand musical instrument store, the Orange Shop. Regular punters would hang out, play some cool guitars, and check out Cliff’s amps – including a young Peter Green, whose band Fleetwood Mac helped launch Orange amplifiers.